Hybrid/Remote AI Job Trends

AI
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 33 75
Rank change year-on-year +22 +42 +14
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,832 987 1,223
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.64% 7.68% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.75% 8.10% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,019 653 792
10th Percentile £24,570 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,219 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +5.95% -13.79%
75th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £104,925
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -3.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

AI falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,363 12,178 28,842
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.42% 94.80% 91.63%
Number of salaries quoted 10,040 8,855 23,360
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -10.57%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AI job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

AI
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AI

AI
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AI over the 6 months to 8 April 2026.

AI salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 39 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.97%) CMS
3 31 (1.69%) Confluence
4 24 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.71%) JBoss
5 13 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 10 (0.55%) Apache
7 9 (0.49%) WordPress
8 8 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.22%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) Mendix
11 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.055%) Kinematics
Applications
1 61 (3.33%) Chatbot
2 56 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.64%) UserZoom
4 21 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
6 4 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.22%) CapCut
7 3 (0.16%) Sketch
8 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.11%) Weka
9 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.87%) NetSuite
2 11 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.27%) Cloudability
6 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.11%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 492 (26.86%) Azure
2 329 (17.96%) AWS
3 217 (11.84%) SaaS
4 160 (8.73%) Adobe Analytics
5 159 (8.68%) GCP
6 140 (7.64%) GitHub
7 127 (6.93%) Power Platform
8 97 (5.29%) Snowflake
9 94 (5.13%) Azure Machine Learning
10 90 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
11 89 (4.86%) GitHub Copilot
12 86 (4.69%) Azure AI
13 84 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 79 (4.31%) Figma
15 60 (3.28%) Serverless
16 56 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
17 49 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
18 45 (2.46%) Contentsquare
19 38 (2.07%) Microsoft Copilot
20 32 (1.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 229 (12.50%) Broadband
2 17 (0.93%) Firewall
2 17 (0.93%) HTTP
3 11 (0.60%) Unified Communications
4 7 (0.38%) Network Security
4 7 (0.38%) VPN
5 6 (0.33%) DMZ
5 6 (0.33%) RTP
5 6 (0.33%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.33%) VoIP
5 6 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.27%) DHCP
7 4 (0.22%) Modbus
8 3 (0.16%) DNS
8 3 (0.16%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.16%) DSL
8 3 (0.16%) GPON
8 3 (0.16%) Internet
8 3 (0.16%) PPP
8 3 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.91%) SQL Server
2 83 (4.53%) Power BI
3 56 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (2.78%) Metadata
5 49 (2.67%) MongoDB
6 39 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 39 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (2.07%) Tableau
8 32 (1.75%) NoSQL
9 31 (1.69%) Big Data
10 28 (1.53%) Data Lake
11 22 (1.20%) BigQuery
12 18 (0.98%) Looker
13 17 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (0.93%) Redis
14 15 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 13 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.66%) Delta Lake
17 11 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
18 10 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 47 (2.57%) Git
2 46 (2.51%) JIRA
3 21 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.04%) MLflow
5 16 (0.87%) Claude Code
5 16 (0.87%) GitLab
6 12 (0.66%) Cypress.io
7 11 (0.60%) Selenium
8 9 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (0.44%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.44%) Subversion
9 8 (0.44%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.38%) Snyk
10 7 (0.38%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.38%) WebDriver
11 6 (0.33%) Storybook
12 5 (0.27%) GitBook
13 4 (0.22%) ERwin
14 3 (0.16%) ESLint
14 3 (0.16%) JMeter
General
1 494 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 458 (25.00%) Finance
3 282 (15.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 277 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
5 196 (10.70%) Games
6 186 (10.15%) Marketing
7 164 (8.95%) Public Sector
8 153 (8.35%) Legal
9 133 (7.26%) Law
10 82 (4.48%) Retail
11 60 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
12 56 (3.06%) Banking
13 51 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
14 44 (2.40%) Telecoms
15 35 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
16 30 (1.64%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.15%) Automotive
18 13 (0.71%) Back Office
19 12 (0.66%) Advertising
19 12 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 330 (18.01%) Senior
2 273 (14.90%) Lead
3 167 (9.12%) Developer
4 153 (8.35%) Architect
5 84 (4.59%) Consultant
6 81 (4.42%) Software Engineer
7 72 (3.93%) Engineering Manager
8 65 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
9 62 (3.38%) Analyst
10 59 (3.22%) Designer
11 51 (2.78%) Data Engineer
12 45 (2.46%) Product Manager
13 43 (2.35%) Trainer
14 42 (2.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 42 (2.29%) Sales Executive
14 42 (2.29%) Senior Software Engineer
15 41 (2.24%) Corporate Sales Executive
15 41 (2.24%) Lead Designer
16 37 (2.02%) Data Manager
16 37 (2.02%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (6.77%) React
2 90 (4.91%) REST
3 74 (4.04%) .NET
4 69 (3.77%) Node.js
4 69 (3.77%) RESTful
5 50 (2.73%) PyTorch
6 47 (2.57%) CSS
7 44 (2.40%) HTML
8 43 (2.35%) TensorFlow
9 40 (2.18%) Kafka
10 34 (1.86%) OAuth
10 34 (1.86%) SOAP
10 34 (1.86%) Spring
11 31 (1.69%) Vue
12 28 (1.53%) LangChain
13 26 (1.42%) Next.js
13 26 (1.42%) OAuth2
14 25 (1.36%) FastAPI
14 25 (1.36%) React Native
15 23 (1.26%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 158 (8.62%) Social Media
2 138 (7.53%) Cloud Native
3 116 (6.33%) Blog
4 101 (5.51%) Product Ownership
5 88 (4.80%) Onboarding
6 59 (3.22%) AI Agents
7 49 (2.67%) Mobile App
7 49 (2.67%) Public Cloud
8 45 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
9 42 (2.29%) Low-Code
9 42 (2.29%) Virtual Team
10 37 (2.02%) Algorithms
11 35 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
12 26 (1.42%) Social Network
13 25 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
14 22 (1.20%) Podcast
15 21 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
15 21 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
16 20 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
17 17 (0.93%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 51 (2.78%) Android
2 33 (1.80%) Apple iOS
3 28 (1.53%) Linux
4 18 (0.98%) Windows
5 5 (0.27%) Unix
6 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.16%) OpenWrt
7 3 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.055%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (28.60%) Agile
2 484 (26.42%) Analytics
3 464 (25.33%) Roadmaps
4 382 (20.85%) Machine Learning
5 320 (17.47%) Customer Experience
6 318 (17.36%) CI/CD
7 296 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 243 (13.26%) Decision-Making
9 242 (13.21%) DevOps
10 239 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
11 222 (12.12%) Mentoring
12 220 (12.01%) Software Engineering
13 195 (10.64%) Product Roadmap
14 193 (10.53%) Storytelling
15 186 (10.15%) Generative AI
16 163 (8.90%) LLM
17 159 (8.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 154 (8.41%) Data Engineering
18 154 (8.41%) Digital Customer Experience
18 154 (8.41%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 342 (18.67%) Python
2 263 (14.36%) SQL
3 118 (6.44%) Java
4 93 (5.08%) TypeScript
5 81 (4.42%) JavaScript
6 70 (3.82%) C#
7 55 (3.00%) Go
8 28 (1.53%) C++
9 23 (1.26%) Bash
10 21 (1.15%) Kotlin
11 18 (0.98%) Apex Code
11 18 (0.98%) R
12 17 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 15 (0.82%) PHP
13 15 (0.82%) Scala
14 12 (0.66%) Bicep
15 9 (0.49%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.49%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.44%) Rust
16 8 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 284 (15.50%) Degree
2 56 (3.06%) Security Cleared
3 52 (2.84%) Master's Degree
4 48 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (2.46%) ACCA
6 44 (2.40%) PhD
7 36 (1.97%) DBS Check
8 35 (1.91%) SC Cleared
9 34 (1.86%) AWS Certification
10 27 (1.47%) Azure Certification
11 25 (1.36%) PMP
12 23 (1.26%) CIMA
13 19 (1.04%) DV Cleared
14 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 11 (0.60%) CISSP
17 8 (0.44%) CISA
17 8 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
18 5 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 5 (0.27%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (13.05%) Accessibility
2 61 (3.33%) WCAG
3 49 (2.67%) Data Quality
4 41 (2.24%) GDPR
4 41 (2.24%) QA
5 31 (1.69%) GRC
6 27 (1.47%) IFRS
6 27 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (0.66%) GAAP
8 12 (0.66%) NIST
8 12 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.60%) PMO
10 9 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 7 (0.38%) EU AI Act
12 6 (0.33%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.33%) NCSC
12 6 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.22%) ISO 26262
14 3 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 102 (5.57%) Docker
2 70 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.16%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.11%) Ceph
6 2 (0.11%) Lustre
6 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.055%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 81 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 64 (3.49%) Terraform
3 22 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (1.04%) Ansible
5 13 (0.71%) Grafana
6 12 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.38%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.27%) Argo
9 5 (0.27%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.11%) Puppet
10 2 (0.11%) Salt
11 1 (0.055%) Control-M
11 1 (0.055%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 357 (19.49%) Microsoft
2 206 (11.24%) Adobe
3 124 (6.77%) Databricks
4 72 (3.93%) Google
5 48 (2.62%) Dell
5 48 (2.62%) Salesforce
6 47 (2.57%) Cisco
7 39 (2.13%) PayPal
8 36 (1.97%) Oracle
9 32 (1.75%) Apple
10 28 (1.53%) OpenAI
11 21 (1.15%) ServiceNow
12 19 (1.04%) Foundry
13 18 (0.98%) SAP
14 14 (0.76%) Palantir
15 13 (0.71%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.60%) Hootsuite
16 11 (0.60%) Informatica
16 11 (0.60%) Instagram
16 11 (0.60%) Wrike
1,250 hybrid/remote AI jobs