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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 66
Rank change year-on-year -2 +59 +22
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,503 2,562 1,271
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.87% 15.78% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.39% 16.86% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,598 723 830
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £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 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,295 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.59% -5.29% -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 17,396 15,199 29,273
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.50% 93.62% 88.90%
Number of salaries quoted 12,715 9,007 22,430
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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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 7 July 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 60 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 41 (1.64%) Confluence
3 39 (1.56%) CMS
4 19 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.56%) Apache
7 12 (0.48%) WordPress
8 11 (0.44%) SAS
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.12%) Camunda
10 3 (0.12%) JBoss
10 3 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.080%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.080%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.080%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.040%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.040%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (1.84%) UserZoom
2 26 (1.04%) Chatbot
3 23 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (0.64%) Adobe After Effects
6 14 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 12 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
7 12 (0.48%) InDesign
7 12 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.16%) CapCut
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.12%) Productboard
11 3 (0.12%) Sketch
11 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.12%) Trello
12 2 (0.080%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.040%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (0.96%) Cloudability
2 13 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.16%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.080%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.040%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.040%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.040%) HFM
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.040%) Shopify
6 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 750 (29.96%) Azure
2 446 (17.82%) AWS
3 249 (9.95%) Azure AI
4 245 (9.79%) SaaS
5 210 (8.39%) GCP
6 193 (7.71%) Adobe Analytics
7 178 (7.11%) GitHub
8 176 (7.03%) Power Platform
9 162 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
10 116 (4.63%) GitHub Copilot
11 108 (4.31%) Figma
12 102 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
13 101 (4.04%) Snowflake
14 98 (3.92%) Serverless
15 90 (3.60%) Azure Machine Learning
16 79 (3.16%) Anthropic Claude
17 77 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 72 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
19 71 (2.84%) Contentsquare
20 57 (2.28%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 339 (13.54%) Broadband
2 32 (1.28%) Internet
3 31 (1.24%) VPN
4 28 (1.12%) Firewall
5 15 (0.60%) DNS
6 13 (0.52%) HTTP
7 11 (0.44%) VoIP
8 10 (0.40%) DHCP
9 9 (0.36%) Network Security
10 8 (0.32%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.28%) CTI
11 7 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.28%) Wireless
11 7 (0.28%) WPA
12 6 (0.24%) 5G
13 5 (0.20%) DMZ
13 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.20%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.20%) VLAN
13 5 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (8.75%) MongoDB
2 177 (7.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 111 (4.43%) SQL Server
4 101 (4.04%) Power BI
5 84 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
6 77 (3.08%) Metadata
7 59 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (1.76%) Tableau
9 41 (1.64%) Big Data
10 32 (1.28%) NoSQL
11 31 (1.24%) BigQuery
11 31 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
12 29 (1.16%) Data Lake
12 29 (1.16%) Redis
13 24 (0.96%) Delta Lake
14 22 (0.88%) MySQL
14 22 (0.88%) Relational Database
15 21 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
16 17 (0.68%) Pinecone
17 13 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 83 (3.32%) Git
2 50 (2.00%) Claude Code
3 44 (1.76%) JIRA
4 34 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.00%) Snyk
6 18 (0.72%) GitLab
7 15 (0.60%) MLflow
8 13 (0.52%) Selenium
9 11 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.32%) Postman
11 6 (0.24%) Maven
11 6 (0.24%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.20%) JUnit
12 5 (0.20%) Mockito
12 5 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.20%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.12%) Appium
13 3 (0.12%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.12%) Metasploit
General
1 644 (25.73%) Social Skills
2 461 (18.42%) Finance
3 279 (11.15%) Games
4 267 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
5 266 (10.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 262 (10.47%) Marketing
7 154 (6.15%) Legal
8 153 (6.11%) Law
9 143 (5.71%) Public Sector
10 84 (3.36%) Retail
11 74 (2.96%) Banking
12 67 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
13 55 (2.20%) Advertising
14 51 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
15 40 (1.60%) Automotive
16 38 (1.52%) Legal Technology
17 29 (1.16%) Manufacturing
17 29 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
18 20 (0.80%) Telecoms
19 12 (0.48%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 479 (19.14%) Senior
2 378 (15.10%) Lead
3 377 (15.06%) Developer
4 234 (9.35%) Architect
5 170 (6.79%) .NET Developer
6 162 (6.47%) Software Engineer
7 108 (4.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 104 (4.16%) Engineering Manager
9 103 (4.12%) Analyst
10 95 (3.80%) Consultant
11 85 (3.40%) Designer
12 80 (3.20%) Data Engineer
13 76 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
14 66 (2.64%) Data Scientist
14 66 (2.64%) Full-Stack Developer
14 66 (2.64%) Python Engineer
15 62 (2.48%) Product Manager
16 60 (2.40%) Senior Software Engineer
17 59 (2.36%) Data Manager
18 58 (2.32%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (9.63%) .NET
2 231 (9.23%) React
3 169 (6.75%) ASP.NET
4 163 (6.51%) .NET Core
5 162 (6.47%) ASP.NET Core
5 162 (6.47%) RESTful
6 159 (6.35%) ML.NET
7 141 (5.63%) CSS
8 134 (5.35%) HTML
9 116 (4.63%) Blazor
10 100 (4.00%) Node.js
11 80 (3.20%) REST
12 70 (2.80%) LangChain
13 65 (2.60%) PyTorch
14 57 (2.28%) TensorFlow
15 49 (1.96%) Vue
16 46 (1.84%) FastAPI
17 44 (1.76%) Next.js
18 33 (1.32%) LangGraph
19 32 (1.28%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 238 (9.51%) Social Media
2 226 (9.03%) Cloud Native
3 156 (6.23%) AI Agents
4 135 (5.39%) Product Ownership
5 98 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
6 75 (3.00%) Onboarding
7 64 (2.56%) Low-Code
7 64 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
8 58 (2.32%) Algorithms
9 57 (2.28%) Video\Live Streaming
10 54 (2.16%) Mobile App
11 52 (2.08%) Virtual Team
12 47 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.64%) Data Centre
14 36 (1.44%) Security Posture
15 35 (1.40%) Management Information System
16 32 (1.28%) Podcast
16 32 (1.28%) Social Network
17 30 (1.20%) Public Cloud
18 27 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 56 (2.24%) Windows
2 52 (2.08%) Android
3 46 (1.84%) Linux
4 27 (1.08%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.56%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.48%) VMS
7 9 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.080%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 745 (29.76%) Agile
2 661 (26.41%) Machine Learning
3 625 (24.97%) Roadmaps
4 624 (24.93%) Analytics
5 531 (21.21%) CI/CD
6 386 (15.42%) Software Engineering
7 379 (15.14%) Mentoring
8 366 (14.62%) Full-Stack Development
9 352 (14.06%) Decision-Making
10 344 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 336 (13.42%) Customer Experience
12 335 (13.38%) DevOps
13 330 (13.18%) LLM
14 301 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
15 246 (9.83%) Generative AI
16 243 (9.71%) Product Roadmap
17 237 (9.47%) Technical Leadership
18 220 (8.79%) Storytelling
19 213 (8.51%) Data Science
20 208 (8.31%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 584 (23.33%) Python
2 456 (18.22%) SQL
3 263 (10.51%) C#
4 227 (9.07%) JavaScript
5 161 (6.43%) TypeScript
6 112 (4.47%) Java
7 66 (2.64%) Go
8 53 (2.12%) PowerShell
9 48 (1.92%) Bash
10 42 (1.68%) Bicep
11 36 (1.44%) C++
12 25 (1.00%) Scala
13 20 (0.80%) R
14 18 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
15 16 (0.64%) PHP
16 14 (0.56%) C
17 11 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 8 (0.32%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.32%) Rust
19 7 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 198 (7.91%) Degree
2 118 (4.71%) Security Cleared
3 77 (3.08%) SC Cleared
4 53 (2.12%) ACCA
5 44 (1.76%) Azure Certification
6 43 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (1.48%) AWS Certification
8 35 (1.40%) DV Cleared
9 32 (1.28%) CISSP
10 31 (1.24%) CIMA
10 31 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 30 (1.20%) PhD
12 27 (1.08%) Master's Degree
13 25 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 25 (1.00%) DBS Check
14 24 (0.96%) CISM
15 20 (0.80%) A+ Certification
15 20 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
16 10 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
17 9 (0.36%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (11.67%) Accessibility
2 138 (5.51%) Data Quality
3 81 (3.24%) QA
4 80 (3.20%) GDPR
5 71 (2.84%) WCAG
6 55 (2.20%) GRC
7 33 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (1.24%) NIST
9 23 (0.92%) IFRS
10 22 (0.88%) SLA
11 15 (0.60%) PMO
12 14 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (0.52%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 8 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.24%) NCSC
18 5 (0.20%) JSP 440
19 4 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
19 4 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 195 (7.79%) Docker
2 91 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
3 57 (2.28%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.48%) vSphere
7 6 (0.24%) Firmware
7 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 183 (7.31%) Kubernetes
2 114 (4.55%) Terraform
3 37 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.76%) Ansible
5 17 (0.68%) Grafana
6 16 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.32%) Argo
7 8 (0.32%) Kubeflow
8 7 (0.28%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.16%) Puppet
11 3 (0.12%) Istio
11 3 (0.12%) Nmap
12 2 (0.080%) linkerd
12 2 (0.080%) Podman
12 2 (0.080%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.080%) Salt
13 1 (0.040%) CASB
13 1 (0.040%) Cilium
13 1 (0.040%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 632 (25.25%) Microsoft
2 253 (10.11%) Adobe
3 142 (5.67%) Databricks
4 121 (4.83%) Google
5 82 (3.28%) OpenAI
6 75 (3.00%) Cisco
7 62 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.04%) Dell
9 47 (1.88%) Apple
10 45 (1.80%) Salesforce
11 38 (1.52%) Facebook
11 38 (1.52%) Foundry
12 31 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (1.12%) HubSpot
14 27 (1.08%) Palo Alto
14 27 (1.08%) Tenable
15 23 (0.92%) Oracle
15 23 (0.92%) VMware
16 22 (0.88%) Yahoo!
17 20 (0.80%) CyberArk