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 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 57
Rank change year-on-year -3 +53 +22
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,218 3,829 988
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.97% 22.80% 4.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.10% 24.30% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,028 708 530
10th Percentile £39,775 £28,200 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,188 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,063 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

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 19,983 15,760 19,273
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.57% 93.83% 88.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14,257 8,411 11,456
10th Percentile £33,900 £29,750 £35,134
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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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

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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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

AI salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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
1 103 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 55 (1.71%) Confluence
3 37 (1.15%) CMS
4 30 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (0.81%) Apache
6 21 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.37%) WordPress
9 10 (0.31%) SAS
10 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.12%) Camunda
12 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.093%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.062%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.062%) IIS
14 2 (0.062%) nginx
15 1 (0.031%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.031%) Moodle
Applications
1 81 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.65%) Chatbot
3 35 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.53%) UserZoom
6 15 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.47%) Photoshop
7 14 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.44%) InDesign
8 13 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
9 10 (0.31%) MS Visio
9 10 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.22%) Moqups
11 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
12 4 (0.12%) Trello
13 3 (0.093%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.093%) Notion
13 3 (0.093%) Productboard
13 3 (0.093%) Revit
13 3 (0.093%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 42 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.87%) Dynamics GP
3 19 (0.59%) Cloudability
4 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.16%) SAP PSCD
7 4 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.12%) Primavera
7 4 (0.12%) Sage 50
8 3 (0.093%) FastStats
8 3 (0.093%) FastStats PeopleStage
8 3 (0.093%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.093%) Shopify
9 2 (0.062%) Maximo
10 1 (0.031%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
10 1 (0.031%) Actimize
10 1 (0.031%) HFM
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 876 (27.22%) Azure
2 637 (19.79%) AWS
3 312 (9.70%) SaaS
4 293 (9.11%) Power Platform
5 283 (8.79%) GCP
6 255 (7.92%) GitHub
7 198 (6.15%) Azure AI
8 193 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
9 162 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
10 152 (4.72%) GitHub Copilot
11 148 (4.60%) Microsoft Copilot
12 142 (4.41%) Anthropic Claude
13 115 (3.57%) Snowflake
14 112 (3.48%) Entra ID
15 106 (3.29%) Serverless
16 81 (2.52%) Power Automate
17 78 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
18 67 (2.08%) Figma
19 65 (2.02%) Amazon Bedrock
20 55 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 131 (4.07%) Broadband
2 37 (1.15%) Internet
3 34 (1.06%) Firewall
3 34 (1.06%) VPN
4 33 (1.03%) Network Security
5 25 (0.78%) DNS
6 23 (0.71%) 5G
7 15 (0.47%) DHCP
8 14 (0.44%) HTTP
9 13 (0.40%) VoIP
10 11 (0.34%) CTI
11 9 (0.28%) Wireless
12 8 (0.25%) WAN
12 8 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.25%) WPA
13 6 (0.19%) DMZ
13 6 (0.19%) TCP/IP
14 5 (0.16%) BGP
14 5 (0.16%) Ethernet
14 5 (0.16%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (6.28%) MongoDB
2 191 (5.94%) Power BI
3 161 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 111 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 109 (3.39%) Metadata
6 81 (2.52%) SQL Server
7 80 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (1.77%) NoSQL
9 53 (1.65%) Tableau
10 51 (1.58%) Big Data
11 43 (1.34%) Data Lake
12 41 (1.27%) Relational Database
13 40 (1.24%) BigQuery
14 36 (1.12%) Redis
14 36 (1.12%) Semantic Layer
15 33 (1.03%) Delta Lake
16 28 (0.87%) MySQL
17 22 (0.68%) DynamoDB
18 21 (0.65%) Data Vault
18 21 (0.65%) Looker
Development Applications
1 126 (3.92%) Git
2 100 (3.11%) Claude Code
3 92 (2.86%) JIRA
4 41 (1.27%) Jenkins
5 39 (1.21%) GitLab
6 20 (0.62%) MLflow
6 20 (0.62%) Snyk
7 17 (0.53%) Selenium
8 15 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 15 (0.47%) Postman
9 14 (0.44%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (0.31%) JUnit
11 10 (0.31%) Maven
11 10 (0.31%) Mockito
12 6 (0.19%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.16%) Burp Suite
13 5 (0.16%) Metasploit
13 5 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
13 5 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,018 (31.63%) Social Skills
2 774 (24.05%) Finance
3 446 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 386 (12.00%) Marketing
5 369 (11.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 235 (7.30%) Public Sector
7 231 (7.18%) Legal
8 156 (4.85%) Law
9 155 (4.82%) Banking
10 121 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
11 120 (3.73%) Retail
12 118 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
13 114 (3.54%) Games
14 72 (2.24%) Advertising
15 55 (1.71%) Manufacturing
16 47 (1.46%) Telecoms
17 36 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (1.03%) Legal Technology
19 30 (0.93%) Financial Institution
20 28 (0.87%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 600 (18.65%) Senior
2 437 (13.58%) Developer
3 353 (10.97%) Lead
4 333 (10.35%) Architect
5 288 (8.95%) Software Engineer
6 163 (5.07%) Analyst
7 162 (5.03%) .NET Developer
8 153 (4.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 140 (4.35%) Consultant
10 101 (3.14%) Python Engineer
11 100 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
12 98 (3.05%) Data Engineer
13 87 (2.70%) Senior Manager
14 80 (2.49%) Full-Stack Developer
15 76 (2.36%) Data Scientist
16 71 (2.21%) Senior Developer
17 63 (1.96%) Enterprise Architect
17 63 (1.96%) Senior Analyst
18 62 (1.93%) Sales Executive
19 60 (1.86%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (8.79%) React
2 264 (8.20%) .NET
3 178 (5.53%) Terraform
4 161 (5.00%) Node.js
4 161 (5.00%) RESTful
5 160 (4.97%) ASP.NET
6 155 (4.82%) .NET Core
7 151 (4.69%) ASP.NET Core
8 148 (4.60%) ML.NET
9 137 (4.26%) CSS
10 128 (3.98%) HTML
10 128 (3.98%) REST
11 111 (3.45%) LangChain
12 110 (3.42%) Blazor
13 73 (2.27%) Next.js
14 71 (2.21%) LangGraph
15 56 (1.74%) Vue
16 55 (1.71%) PySpark
16 55 (1.71%) PyTorch
17 47 (1.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 290 (9.01%) AI Agents
2 273 (8.48%) Cloud Native
3 135 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 132 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
5 116 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
6 107 (3.33%) Social Media
7 102 (3.17%) Management Information System
8 100 (3.11%) Blog
9 83 (2.58%) Cyber Threat
10 81 (2.52%) Onboarding
11 73 (2.27%) Low-Code
12 68 (2.11%) Algorithms
13 62 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
14 61 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
15 55 (1.71%) Hedge funds
16 54 (1.68%) Data Centre
17 50 (1.55%) Virtual Team
18 49 (1.52%) Mobile App
19 43 (1.34%) Video\Live Streaming
20 42 (1.31%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 85 (2.64%) Windows
2 74 (2.30%) Linux
3 39 (1.21%) Android
4 23 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.37%) VMS
8 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.25%) Unix
10 5 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.093%) Debian
11 3 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.093%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.062%) AIX
12 2 (0.062%) Solaris
13 1 (0.031%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 721 (22.41%) Machine Learning
2 673 (20.91%) Analytics
3 672 (20.88%) Agile
4 641 (19.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 618 (19.20%) CI/CD
6 574 (17.84%) Software Engineering
7 528 (16.41%) Roadmaps
8 510 (15.85%) Mentoring
9 472 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
10 462 (14.36%) Decision-Making
11 437 (13.58%) LLM
12 419 (13.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 391 (12.15%) DevOps
14 368 (11.44%) Full-Stack Development
15 344 (10.69%) Cybersecurity
16 338 (10.50%) Coaching
17 335 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 279 (8.67%) Data Science
19 271 (8.42%) Technical Leadership
20 247 (7.68%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 771 (23.96%) Python
2 554 (17.22%) SQL
3 314 (9.76%) C#
4 292 (9.07%) JavaScript
5 243 (7.55%) TypeScript
6 153 (4.75%) Java
7 80 (2.49%) PowerShell
8 76 (2.36%) C++
9 55 (1.71%) Go
10 52 (1.62%) Bash
11 44 (1.37%) Bicep
12 40 (1.24%) R
13 33 (1.03%) Scala
14 23 (0.71%) PHP
15 22 (0.68%) C
16 20 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
17 19 (0.59%) Kotlin
17 19 (0.59%) Rust
18 18 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 12 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 275 (8.55%) Security Cleared
2 271 (8.42%) Degree
3 207 (6.43%) SC Cleared
4 82 (2.55%) CISSP
5 75 (2.33%) CISM
6 67 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 65 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 63 (1.96%) Azure Certification
9 55 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 54 (1.68%) A+ Certification
10 54 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
11 45 (1.40%) ACCA
12 40 (1.24%) DBS Check
13 35 (1.09%) CIMA
14 29 (0.90%) AWS Certification
15 21 (0.65%) Master's Degree
16 20 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 20 (0.62%) PhD
17 18 (0.56%) SnowPro
18 16 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (7.86%) Data Quality
2 171 (5.31%) Accessibility
3 158 (4.91%) GDPR
4 128 (3.98%) QA
5 74 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (1.80%) GRC
7 54 (1.68%) NIST
8 35 (1.09%) SLA
9 25 (0.78%) WCAG
10 21 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 15 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.47%) PMO
13 14 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 12 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.34%) IFRS
16 10 (0.31%) EU AI Act
16 10 (0.31%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.25%) COPPA
System Software
1 260 (8.08%) Docker
2 104 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.40%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.40%) vSphere
6 11 (0.34%) Firmware
7 3 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.093%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.062%) NFS
9 1 (0.031%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.031%) HDFS
9 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 223 (6.93%) Kubernetes
2 81 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (1.24%) Grafana
4 18 (0.56%) Ansible
4 18 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.25%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.16%) Istio
7 5 (0.16%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.16%) Nmap
8 4 (0.12%) Argo
8 4 (0.12%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.093%) Kibana
9 3 (0.093%) linkerd
9 3 (0.093%) Podman
9 3 (0.093%) Puppet
10 2 (0.062%) Cilium
11 1 (0.031%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.031%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.031%) Nessus
Vendors
1 781 (24.27%) Microsoft
2 186 (5.78%) Google
3 139 (4.32%) Databricks
4 122 (3.79%) YouTube
5 111 (3.45%) OpenAI
6 106 (3.29%) Adobe
7 79 (2.45%) Cisco
8 59 (1.83%) Apple
8 59 (1.83%) Salesforce
9 57 (1.77%) ServiceNow
10 55 (1.71%) CyberArk
11 51 (1.58%) SAP
12 45 (1.40%) Dell
12 45 (1.40%) HubSpot
13 42 (1.31%) Foundry
14 38 (1.18%) Oracle
15 35 (1.09%) Facebook
16 32 (0.99%) VMware
17 25 (0.78%) Sage
18 23 (0.71%) Palo Alto