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

 6 months to
18 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 68 66
Rank change year-on-year +64 -2 +46
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,028 753 947
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 19.95% 3.85% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.77% 4.34% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 816 441 503
10th Percentile £24,570 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £39,220 £51,500 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £91,563 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £110,000 £109,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.67% +7.14%

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 13,910 17,357 20,597
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.63% 88.77% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,713 10,295 16,664
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,813
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 18 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 33 (1.09%) SharePoint
2 26 (0.86%) Confluence
3 22 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (0.73%) CMS
4 17 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.43%) Apache Solr
7 11 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 10 (0.33%) Apache
9 6 (0.20%) JBoss
9 6 (0.20%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.20%) WordPress
10 4 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.099%) Luigi
12 2 (0.066%) Mendix
13 1 (0.033%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.033%) IIS
Applications
1 1,643 (54.26%) Chatbot
2 77 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
4 11 (0.36%) Photoshop
5 7 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
6 5 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.099%) InDesign
7 3 (0.099%) Notion
7 3 (0.099%) Simulink
7 3 (0.099%) Sketch
8 2 (0.066%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.066%) Civil 3D
8 2 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.066%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.066%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.066%) Revit
8 2 (0.066%) Weka
Business Applications
1 14 (0.46%) NetSuite
1 14 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.099%) SAP SCM
6 2 (0.066%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.066%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.066%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.066%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.066%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.066%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.066%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.066%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.066%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.066%) Shopify
7 1 (0.033%) Magento
7 1 (0.033%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.033%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 403 (13.31%) Azure
2 243 (8.03%) AWS
3 183 (6.04%) SaaS
4 176 (5.81%) Power Platform
5 126 (4.16%) GCP
6 101 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (3.14%) GitHub
8 82 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
9 56 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
10 55 (1.82%) Snowflake
11 41 (1.35%) Entra ID
12 35 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 35 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
13 34 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
14 30 (0.99%) dbt
14 30 (0.99%) Serverless
15 27 (0.89%) Power Automate
16 23 (0.76%) Copilot Studio
17 21 (0.69%) Azure AI
17 21 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.53%) Broadband
2 13 (0.43%) Internet
3 7 (0.23%) WAN
3 7 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (0.20%) InfiniBand
4 6 (0.20%) Network Security
5 5 (0.17%) VoIP
5 5 (0.17%) VPN
6 4 (0.13%) DHCP
6 4 (0.13%) DNS
6 4 (0.13%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.13%) Wireless
7 3 (0.099%) DOCSIS
7 3 (0.099%) DSL
7 3 (0.099%) HTTP
7 3 (0.099%) IPv4
7 3 (0.099%) IPv6
7 3 (0.099%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.099%) PPP
7 3 (0.099%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (3.57%) Power BI
2 72 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (1.45%) Tableau
4 43 (1.42%) NoSQL
5 39 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 38 (1.25%) MongoDB
7 32 (1.06%) Big Data
8 31 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (0.96%) MySQL
10 28 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
11 26 (0.86%) Data Lake
12 25 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
14 15 (0.50%) Metadata
14 15 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (0.46%) BigQuery
15 14 (0.46%) Redis
16 10 (0.33%) DynamoDB
16 10 (0.33%) Looker
16 10 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 64 (2.11%) JIRA
2 56 (1.85%) Git
3 17 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (0.26%) GitLab
6 6 (0.20%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.20%) ERwin
7 5 (0.17%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.17%) GitBook
8 4 (0.13%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.13%) Selenium
8 4 (0.13%) Subversion
9 3 (0.099%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.099%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.066%) JMeter
10 2 (0.066%) JUnit
10 2 (0.066%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.066%) MLflow
10 2 (0.066%) Vite
General
1 822 (27.15%) Analytical Skills
2 509 (16.81%) Social Skills
3 420 (13.87%) Finance
4 307 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 217 (7.17%) Marketing
6 125 (4.13%) Public Sector
7 121 (4.00%) Retail
8 103 (3.40%) Legal
9 86 (2.84%) Law
10 58 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
11 40 (1.32%) Telecoms
12 33 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
13 31 (1.02%) Banking
14 28 (0.92%) Aerospace
15 24 (0.79%) Games
15 24 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
16 22 (0.73%) Advertising
16 22 (0.73%) Manufacturing
17 20 (0.66%) Agriculture
18 18 (0.59%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,624 (53.63%) Trainer
2 189 (6.24%) Senior
3 177 (5.85%) Content Editor
4 171 (5.65%) Developer
5 121 (4.00%) Architect
6 107 (3.53%) Customer Support Specialist
6 107 (3.53%) Support Specialist
7 100 (3.30%) Research Scientist
8 89 (2.94%) Lead
9 88 (2.91%) Analyst
10 67 (2.21%) Sales Executive
11 63 (2.08%) Microsoft Specialist
12 60 (1.98%) Consultant
13 53 (1.75%) Corporate Sales Executive
14 48 (1.59%) Software Engineer
15 47 (1.55%) Biostatistician
16 46 (1.52%) Data Engineer
17 42 (1.39%) Customer Service Representative
18 41 (1.35%) Solutions Architect
19 37 (1.22%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (2.61%) React
2 70 (2.31%) .NET
3 50 (1.65%) REST
4 48 (1.59%) Node.js
5 40 (1.32%) Kafka
5 40 (1.32%) RESTful
6 29 (0.96%) Next.js
7 26 (0.86%) GraphQL
8 25 (0.83%) HTML
9 24 (0.79%) OAuth
10 23 (0.76%) OAuth2
10 23 (0.76%) Spring
11 22 (0.73%) FastAPI
12 21 (0.69%) gRPC
12 21 (0.69%) PyTorch
12 21 (0.69%) TensorFlow
13 20 (0.66%) SOAP
14 19 (0.63%) CSS
14 19 (0.63%) Django
15 17 (0.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 121 (4.00%) Molecular Biology
2 116 (3.83%) Cloud Native
3 100 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 75 (2.48%) Blog
5 57 (1.88%) Onboarding
6 54 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 53 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
8 49 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 42 (1.39%) AI Agents
10 36 (1.19%) Algorithms
11 34 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
12 31 (1.02%) Data Centre
13 30 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (0.99%) Virtual Team
14 27 (0.89%) Low-Code
15 26 (0.86%) Management Information System
15 26 (0.86%) Social Media
16 23 (0.76%) Reinsurance
17 18 (0.59%) Educational Technology
17 18 (0.59%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.06%) Windows
2 30 (0.99%) Linux
3 23 (0.76%) Android
4 19 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.099%) OpenWrt
7 3 (0.099%) Unix
8 1 (0.033%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.033%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.033%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,660 (54.82%) Conversational UI
2 621 (20.51%) Chemistry
3 344 (11.36%) Agile
4 292 (9.64%) Analytics
5 280 (9.25%) Roadmaps
6 267 (8.82%) Machine Learning
7 237 (7.83%) Content Writing
8 233 (7.69%) DevOps
9 232 (7.66%) Mathematics
10 227 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
11 209 (6.90%) CI/CD
12 202 (6.67%) Customer Service
13 196 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 182 (6.01%) Physics
15 166 (5.48%) Computer Science
16 163 (5.38%) Software Engineering
17 162 (5.35%) Decision-Making
18 156 (5.15%) Customer Experience
19 139 (4.59%) Business Intelligence
20 135 (4.46%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 302 (9.97%) Python
2 244 (8.06%) SQL
3 98 (3.24%) TypeScript
4 96 (3.17%) JavaScript
5 79 (2.61%) Java
6 42 (1.39%) PowerShell
7 31 (1.02%) C#
8 27 (0.89%) Bash
9 26 (0.86%) C++
10 21 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 21 (0.69%) Kotlin
11 20 (0.66%) PHP
12 18 (0.59%) R
13 15 (0.50%) C
13 15 (0.50%) Go
13 15 (0.50%) Swift
14 12 (0.40%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.40%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.36%) Scala
16 10 (0.33%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,898 (62.68%) Degree
2 969 (32.00%) Master's Degree
3 951 (31.41%) PhD
4 65 (2.15%) Security Cleared
5 56 (1.85%) SC Cleared
6 42 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (0.83%) ACCA
9 20 (0.66%) PMP
10 17 (0.56%) DBS Check
11 16 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (0.46%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.40%) Azure Certification
13 12 (0.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 8 (0.26%) CISA
14 8 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.20%) CISM
15 6 (0.20%) CISSP
16 5 (0.17%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (1.49%) Accessibility
2 38 (1.25%) GDPR
3 34 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 28 (0.92%) QA
5 20 (0.66%) GAAP
6 19 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 18 (0.59%) IFRS
8 17 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.26%) EU AI Act
11 7 (0.23%) NIST
11 7 (0.23%) WCAG
12 5 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.13%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.099%) GRC
14 3 (0.099%) NCSC
14 3 (0.099%) PMO
14 3 (0.099%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (2.48%) Docker
2 22 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
3 18 (0.59%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.17%) Lustre
6 4 (0.13%) Firmware
7 3 (0.099%) GPFS
7 3 (0.099%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.099%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.066%) Ceph
9 1 (0.033%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (2.41%) Kubernetes
1 73 (2.41%) Terraform
2 19 (0.63%) Ansible
2 19 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.26%) SCCM
6 5 (0.17%) Grafana
7 3 (0.099%) Argo
8 2 (0.066%) Control-M
8 2 (0.066%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.066%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.066%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.066%) Puppet
9 1 (0.033%) AppManager
9 1 (0.033%) Cilium
9 1 (0.033%) Kibana
9 1 (0.033%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.033%) logstash
9 1 (0.033%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 1,625 (53.67%) PayPal
2 419 (13.84%) Microsoft
3 94 (3.10%) Cisco
4 73 (2.41%) Google
5 66 (2.18%) Dell
6 59 (1.95%) Adobe
7 52 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 45 (1.49%) Blue Prism
9 44 (1.45%) Databricks
10 41 (1.35%) Oracle
11 37 (1.22%) Apple
12 24 (0.79%) Palo Alto
13 23 (0.76%) HubSpot
14 21 (0.69%) SAP
15 17 (0.56%) OpenAI
16 15 (0.50%) ServiceNow
17 14 (0.46%) Foundry
18 12 (0.40%) IBM
19 11 (0.36%) Alteryx
19 11 (0.36%) VMware
3,274 hybrid/remote AI jobs