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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 71 66
Rank change year-on-year +67 -5 +54
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,947 806 937
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 19.28% 4.06% 4.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.22% 4.50% 4.72%
Number of salaries quoted 839 478 493
10th Percentile £21,600 £41,250 £46,306
25th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,000 £76,383
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.81% +9.12%

All Process and 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 13,887 17,901 19,845
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.86% 90.19% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,778 10,780 16,075
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,438
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 28 November 2025.

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 37 (1.26%) SharePoint
2 29 (0.98%) Confluence
3 26 (0.88%) CMS
4 22 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.44%) Apache Solr
8 12 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 9 (0.31%) Apache
9 9 (0.31%) JBoss
9 9 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.20%) WordPress
11 4 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.10%) Luigi
13 2 (0.068%) Mendix
13 2 (0.068%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.034%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.034%) IIS
Applications
1 1,533 (52.02%) Chatbot
2 77 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
4 8 (0.27%) Photoshop
5 7 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.10%) InDesign
8 3 (0.10%) Notion
8 3 (0.10%) Simulink
8 3 (0.10%) Sketch
9 2 (0.068%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.068%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.068%) Weka
10 1 (0.034%) Blender
10 1 (0.034%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.034%) Revit
Business Applications
1 14 (0.48%) NetSuite
1 14 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.14%) SAP SCM
5 2 (0.068%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.068%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.068%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.068%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.068%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.068%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.068%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.068%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.068%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.068%) Shopify
6 1 (0.034%) Magento
6 1 (0.034%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.034%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 417 (14.15%) Azure
2 248 (8.42%) AWS
3 185 (6.28%) SaaS
4 180 (6.11%) Power Platform
5 127 (4.31%) GCP
6 108 (3.66%) GitHub
7 107 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
8 84 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
9 65 (2.21%) GitHub Copilot
10 57 (1.93%) Snowflake
11 43 (1.46%) Entra ID
12 37 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
13 35 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 34 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
15 33 (1.12%) dbt
16 30 (1.02%) Power Automate
17 28 (0.95%) Serverless
18 24 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
19 23 (0.78%) Azure AI
19 23 (0.78%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.48%) Broadband
2 13 (0.44%) Internet
3 8 (0.27%) Network Security
4 7 (0.24%) WAN
4 7 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.20%) InfiniBand
6 5 (0.17%) DNS
6 5 (0.17%) HTTP
6 5 (0.17%) VoIP
6 5 (0.17%) VPN
7 4 (0.14%) DHCP
7 4 (0.14%) DMZ
7 4 (0.14%) Firewall
7 4 (0.14%) Intranet
7 4 (0.14%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.14%) Wireless
8 3 (0.10%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.10%) DSL
8 3 (0.10%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.10%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (3.80%) Power BI
2 72 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (1.59%) Tableau
4 43 (1.46%) NoSQL
5 40 (1.36%) SQL Server
6 36 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 35 (1.19%) Big Data
8 31 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 26 (0.88%) Data Lake
9 26 (0.88%) MySQL
10 24 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
12 16 (0.54%) BigQuery
12 16 (0.54%) Metadata
13 15 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (0.44%) Redis
15 11 (0.37%) Looker
16 9 (0.31%) Hadoop
16 9 (0.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 69 (2.34%) JIRA
2 58 (1.97%) Git
3 18 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
5 10 (0.34%) GitLab
6 8 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.20%) ERwin
8 6 (0.20%) Subversion
9 5 (0.17%) GitBook
9 5 (0.17%) Selenium
10 4 (0.14%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.10%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.068%) JMeter
12 2 (0.068%) JUnit
12 2 (0.068%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.068%) MLflow
12 2 (0.068%) Vite
General
1 775 (26.30%) Analytical Skills
2 508 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 433 (14.69%) Finance
4 317 (10.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 209 (7.09%) Marketing
6 137 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 121 (4.11%) Retail
8 105 (3.56%) Legal
9 88 (2.99%) Law
10 57 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
11 43 (1.46%) Telecoms
12 31 (1.05%) Banking
13 30 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
14 28 (0.95%) Aerospace
15 24 (0.81%) Games
15 24 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (0.81%) Manufacturing
16 20 (0.68%) Agriculture
16 20 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (0.61%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,514 (51.37%) Trainer
2 190 (6.45%) Senior
3 180 (6.11%) Developer
4 167 (5.67%) Content Editor
5 121 (4.11%) Architect
6 105 (3.56%) Customer Support Specialist
6 105 (3.56%) Support Specialist
7 99 (3.36%) Research Scientist
8 93 (3.16%) Lead
9 84 (2.85%) Analyst
10 65 (2.21%) Consultant
11 64 (2.17%) Sales Executive
12 63 (2.14%) Microsoft Specialist
13 52 (1.76%) Corporate Sales Executive
14 47 (1.59%) Software Engineer
15 46 (1.56%) Data Engineer
16 45 (1.53%) Biostatistician
17 44 (1.49%) Solutions Architect
18 41 (1.39%) Customer Service Representative
19 38 (1.29%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (2.71%) React
2 79 (2.68%) .NET
3 59 (2.00%) REST
4 52 (1.76%) Node.js
5 43 (1.46%) RESTful
6 40 (1.36%) Kafka
7 28 (0.95%) HTML
8 27 (0.92%) Next.js
9 26 (0.88%) OAuth
9 26 (0.88%) Spring
10 25 (0.85%) GraphQL
10 25 (0.85%) OAuth2
10 25 (0.85%) SOAP
11 23 (0.78%) CSS
12 22 (0.75%) FastAPI
12 22 (0.75%) gRPC
13 21 (0.71%) PyTorch
13 21 (0.71%) TensorFlow
14 20 (0.68%) Middleware
15 19 (0.64%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 123 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 119 (4.04%) Molecular Biology
3 97 (3.29%) Blog
4 96 (3.26%) Product Ownership
5 59 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 54 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 51 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
8 48 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 42 (1.43%) AI Agents
10 36 (1.22%) Algorithms
11 35 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
12 32 (1.09%) Low-Code
13 31 (1.05%) Data Centre
13 31 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
13 31 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 24 (0.81%) Management Information System
15 23 (0.78%) Reinsurance
16 21 (0.71%) Social Network
17 20 (0.68%) Social Media
18 18 (0.61%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.09%) Windows
2 29 (0.98%) Linux
3 26 (0.88%) Android
4 20 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.10%) OpenWrt
7 3 (0.10%) Unix
8 1 (0.034%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.034%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.034%) VMS
8 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,551 (52.63%) Conversational UI
2 566 (19.21%) Chemistry
3 350 (11.88%) Agile
4 293 (9.94%) Analytics
5 280 (9.50%) Roadmaps
6 267 (9.06%) Machine Learning
7 241 (8.18%) DevOps
8 228 (7.74%) Problem-Solving
9 225 (7.63%) Content Writing
10 222 (7.53%) CI/CD
11 214 (7.26%) Mathematics
12 210 (7.13%) Customer Service
13 205 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 177 (6.01%) Physics
15 170 (5.77%) Software Engineering
16 161 (5.46%) Decision-Making
17 158 (5.36%) Customer Experience
18 154 (5.23%) Computer Science
19 145 (4.92%) Coaching
20 141 (4.78%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 307 (10.42%) Python
2 256 (8.69%) SQL
3 102 (3.46%) JavaScript
4 98 (3.33%) TypeScript
5 84 (2.85%) Java
6 42 (1.43%) PowerShell
7 35 (1.19%) C#
8 28 (0.95%) C++
9 27 (0.92%) Bash
10 22 (0.75%) Kotlin
11 21 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 20 (0.68%) PHP
12 20 (0.68%) R
13 16 (0.54%) Go
14 15 (0.51%) C
14 15 (0.51%) Swift
15 13 (0.44%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.44%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.41%) Apex Code
17 11 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,809 (61.38%) Degree
2 892 (30.27%) Master's Degree
3 873 (29.62%) PhD
4 68 (2.31%) Security Cleared
5 58 (1.97%) SC Cleared
6 44 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (0.92%) ACCA
8 26 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (0.81%) PMP
10 21 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (0.41%) AWS Certification
12 12 (0.41%) Azure Certification
12 12 (0.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 8 (0.27%) CISA
13 8 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.20%) CISM
14 6 (0.20%) CISSP
15 5 (0.17%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (1.66%) Accessibility
2 39 (1.32%) GDPR
3 35 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 29 (0.98%) QA
5 23 (0.78%) GAAP
6 21 (0.71%) IFRS
7 20 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.31%) NIST
10 9 (0.31%) WCAG
11 8 (0.27%) EU AI Act
12 7 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 6 (0.20%) GRC
13 6 (0.20%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.17%) NCSC
15 4 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.14%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.10%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 77 (2.61%) Docker
2 22 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 20 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.17%) Lustre
6 4 (0.14%) Firmware
7 3 (0.10%) GPFS
7 3 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.068%) Ceph
9 1 (0.034%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (2.51%) Kubernetes
1 74 (2.51%) Terraform
2 19 (0.64%) Ansible
2 19 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.31%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.27%) SCCM
6 5 (0.17%) Grafana
7 3 (0.10%) Argo
8 2 (0.068%) Control-M
8 2 (0.068%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.068%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.068%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.068%) Puppet
9 1 (0.034%) AppManager
9 1 (0.034%) Cilium
9 1 (0.034%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.034%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.034%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 1,515 (51.41%) PayPal
2 425 (14.42%) Microsoft
3 83 (2.82%) Cisco
4 72 (2.44%) Google
5 63 (2.14%) Dell
6 53 (1.80%) Adobe
6 53 (1.80%) Salesforce
7 45 (1.53%) Blue Prism
8 42 (1.43%) Databricks
9 41 (1.39%) Oracle
10 37 (1.26%) Apple
11 24 (0.81%) Palo Alto
12 23 (0.78%) HubSpot
13 20 (0.68%) SAP
14 17 (0.58%) OpenAI
15 16 (0.54%) Foundry
16 15 (0.51%) ServiceNow
17 12 (0.41%) IBM
18 11 (0.37%) Alteryx
19 10 (0.34%) Pardot