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

 6 months to
21 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 68
Rank change year-on-year -3 +61 +22
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,328 2,469 1,341
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.52% 15.93% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.06% 16.86% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,430 687 886
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,601 £30,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £66,200 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% +1.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £117,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,274 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.62% -5.32% -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 16,563 14,642 30,856
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.97% 94.49% 88.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,008 8,523 23,828
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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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 21 June 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 55 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.63%) CMS
2 38 (1.63%) Confluence
3 21 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.56%) Apache
5 12 (0.52%) WordPress
6 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.43%) SAS
8 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.13%) JBoss
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.086%) Camunda
9 2 (0.086%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.086%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.086%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.043%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.043%) Umbraco
Applications
1 45 (1.93%) UserZoom
2 28 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.73%) Chatbot
5 14 (0.60%) Adobe After Effects
6 12 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 12 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.43%) InDesign
7 10 (0.43%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.17%) CapCut
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.13%) Productboard
10 3 (0.13%) Sketch
10 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.13%) Trello
11 2 (0.086%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.043%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (1.03%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.17%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.086%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.043%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.043%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.043%) HFM
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.043%) Shopify
6 1 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 655 (28.14%) Azure
2 434 (18.64%) AWS
3 240 (10.31%) SaaS
4 201 (8.63%) GCP
5 198 (8.51%) Azure AI
6 194 (8.33%) Adobe Analytics
7 165 (7.09%) Power Platform
8 145 (6.23%) GitHub
9 127 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
10 112 (4.81%) Figma
11 94 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
12 93 (3.99%) GitHub Copilot
13 92 (3.95%) Serverless
14 90 (3.87%) Azure Machine Learning
14 90 (3.87%) Snowflake
15 73 (3.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 70 (3.01%) Anthropic Claude
16 70 (3.01%) Contentsquare
17 67 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
18 36 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 339 (14.56%) Broadband
2 27 (1.16%) Firewall
3 24 (1.03%) VPN
4 22 (0.95%) Internet
5 15 (0.64%) HTTP
6 13 (0.56%) DNS
7 10 (0.43%) Network Security
7 10 (0.43%) Unified Communications
8 8 (0.34%) DHCP
9 6 (0.26%) 5G
9 6 (0.26%) DMZ
10 5 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.21%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.21%) VoIP
10 5 (0.21%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.21%) WPA
11 4 (0.17%) RTP
11 4 (0.17%) Wireless
12 3 (0.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (7.39%) MongoDB
2 129 (5.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 103 (4.42%) SQL Server
4 93 (3.99%) Power BI
5 79 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
6 67 (2.88%) Metadata
7 55 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (1.93%) Tableau
9 42 (1.80%) Big Data
10 34 (1.46%) BigQuery
11 32 (1.37%) NoSQL
12 30 (1.29%) Semantic Layer
13 26 (1.12%) Redis
14 24 (1.03%) Data Lake
15 22 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (0.95%) Relational Database
16 21 (0.90%) Delta Lake
16 21 (0.90%) MySQL
17 17 (0.73%) Pinecone
18 16 (0.69%) Looker
Development Applications
1 74 (3.18%) Git
2 44 (1.89%) Claude Code
3 37 (1.59%) JIRA
4 32 (1.37%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.07%) Snyk
6 19 (0.82%) GitLab
6 19 (0.82%) MLflow
7 11 (0.47%) Selenium
8 10 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.34%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.30%) Postman
11 6 (0.26%) Maven
11 6 (0.26%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.21%) JUnit
12 5 (0.21%) Mockito
12 5 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.21%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.13%) Appium
14 2 (0.086%) Terragrunt
14 2 (0.086%) TestRail
General
1 568 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 438 (18.81%) Finance
3 277 (11.90%) Games
4 267 (11.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 261 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
6 245 (10.52%) Marketing
7 137 (5.88%) Legal
8 136 (5.84%) Public Sector
9 122 (5.24%) Law
10 80 (3.44%) Retail
11 69 (2.96%) Banking
12 63 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
13 46 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
14 43 (1.85%) Advertising
15 39 (1.68%) Automotive
15 39 (1.68%) Legal Technology
16 28 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
17 26 (1.12%) Manufacturing
18 18 (0.77%) Telecoms
19 11 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 441 (18.94%) Senior
2 368 (15.81%) Lead
3 322 (13.83%) Developer
4 210 (9.02%) Architect
5 145 (6.23%) Software Engineer
6 121 (5.20%) .NET Developer
7 103 (4.42%) Analyst
8 102 (4.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 97 (4.17%) Engineering Manager
10 93 (3.99%) Consultant
11 85 (3.65%) Designer
12 80 (3.44%) Data Engineer
13 76 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
14 65 (2.79%) Python Engineer
15 64 (2.75%) Data Scientist
16 63 (2.71%) Full-Stack Developer
17 61 (2.62%) Product Manager
18 59 (2.53%) Data Manager
19 55 (2.36%) Senior Software Engineer
20 53 (2.28%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (8.51%) React
2 188 (8.08%) .NET
3 138 (5.93%) RESTful
4 122 (5.24%) .NET Core
5 119 (5.11%) ASP.NET
6 115 (4.94%) ASP.NET Core
7 113 (4.85%) CSS
8 112 (4.81%) ML.NET
9 106 (4.55%) HTML
10 95 (4.08%) Node.js
11 88 (3.78%) Blazor
12 79 (3.39%) REST
13 67 (2.88%) PyTorch
14 65 (2.79%) LangChain
15 57 (2.45%) TensorFlow
16 44 (1.89%) FastAPI
16 44 (1.89%) Vue
17 38 (1.63%) Next.js
18 31 (1.33%) Spring
19 28 (1.20%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 230 (9.88%) Social Media
2 212 (9.11%) Cloud Native
3 133 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 129 (5.54%) AI Agents
5 81 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
6 78 (3.35%) Onboarding
7 61 (2.62%) Low-Code
8 58 (2.49%) Video\Live Streaming
9 56 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
10 54 (2.32%) Algorithms
11 51 (2.19%) Virtual Team
12 48 (2.06%) Mobile App
13 41 (1.76%) Data Centre
14 36 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
14 36 (1.55%) Public Cloud
15 31 (1.33%) Security Posture
15 31 (1.33%) Social Network
16 30 (1.29%) Management Information System
17 28 (1.20%) Podcast
18 24 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 44 (1.89%) Android
2 43 (1.85%) Windows
3 39 (1.68%) Linux
4 27 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.34%) VMS
7 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.086%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.086%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 673 (28.91%) Agile
2 598 (25.69%) Roadmaps
3 596 (25.60%) Machine Learning
4 585 (25.13%) Analytics
5 479 (20.58%) CI/CD
6 356 (15.29%) Software Engineering
7 331 (14.22%) Customer Experience
8 328 (14.09%) Mentoring
9 320 (13.75%) Decision-Making
10 308 (13.23%) Full-Stack Development
11 299 (12.84%) LLM
12 293 (12.59%) DevOps
13 290 (12.46%) Continuous Improvement
14 277 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
15 247 (10.61%) Generative AI
16 242 (10.40%) Product Roadmap
17 220 (9.45%) Storytelling
18 215 (9.24%) Technical Leadership
19 204 (8.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
20 200 (8.59%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 552 (23.71%) Python
2 394 (16.92%) SQL
3 209 (8.98%) C#
4 186 (7.99%) JavaScript
5 145 (6.23%) TypeScript
6 110 (4.73%) Java
7 67 (2.88%) Go
8 47 (2.02%) PowerShell
9 45 (1.93%) Bash
10 35 (1.50%) Bicep
11 28 (1.20%) C++
12 22 (0.95%) Scala
13 20 (0.86%) R
14 15 (0.64%) PHP
15 14 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
16 11 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.39%) C
18 7 (0.30%) Ruby
19 6 (0.26%) Kotlin
19 6 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 185 (7.95%) Degree
2 104 (4.47%) Security Cleared
3 65 (2.79%) SC Cleared
4 53 (2.28%) ACCA
5 43 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 41 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (1.37%) DV Cleared
9 31 (1.33%) CIMA
10 27 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 27 (1.16%) PhD
11 26 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (1.07%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.52%) CISSP
14 10 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 8 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.26%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (12.24%) Accessibility
2 123 (5.28%) Data Quality
3 77 (3.31%) GDPR
4 72 (3.09%) WCAG
5 69 (2.96%) QA
6 54 (2.32%) GRC
7 32 (1.37%) NIST
8 31 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (1.03%) IFRS
10 22 (0.95%) SLA
11 14 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.60%) PMO
12 13 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.30%) NCSC
15 6 (0.26%) JSP 440
16 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 172 (7.39%) Docker
2 91 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (1.29%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.34%) vSphere
7 4 (0.17%) Firmware
7 4 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.13%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.043%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 152 (6.53%) Kubernetes
2 99 (4.25%) Terraform
3 19 (0.82%) Ansible
4 17 (0.73%) Grafana
5 16 (0.69%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.39%) Kubeflow
8 8 (0.34%) Argo
9 7 (0.30%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.17%) Puppet
12 3 (0.13%) Istio
13 2 (0.086%) linkerd
13 2 (0.086%) Nmap
13 2 (0.086%) Podman
13 2 (0.086%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.086%) Salt
14 1 (0.043%) Cilium
14 1 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.043%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 535 (22.98%) Microsoft
2 258 (11.08%) Adobe
3 134 (5.76%) Databricks
4 104 (4.47%) Google
5 71 (3.05%) OpenAI
6 68 (2.92%) Cisco
7 57 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.23%) Dell
9 48 (2.06%) Apple
10 44 (1.89%) Salesforce
11 33 (1.42%) Foundry
12 31 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
13 27 (1.16%) Facebook
13 27 (1.16%) HubSpot
13 27 (1.16%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.16%) Tenable
14 20 (0.86%) Oracle
15 19 (0.82%) VMware
16 17 (0.73%) SAP
17 13 (0.56%) Sony
1,411 hybrid/remote AI jobs