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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 55
Rank change year-on-year -3 +51 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,252 3,812 1,048
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.04% 22.60% 4.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.12% 24.09% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,048 693 540
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,700 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £105,250
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 20,176 15,827 19,811
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.92% 93.82% 88.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,403 8,473 11,816
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,225
25th Percentile £44,972 £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 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.93% -2.56%

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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 2 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
1 104 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.63%) Confluence
3 37 (1.14%) CMS
4 29 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (0.77%) Apache
6 22 (0.68%) Apache Spark
7 16 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.37%) WordPress
9 10 (0.31%) SAS
10 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.12%) Camunda
12 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.092%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.092%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.062%) IIS
14 2 (0.062%) nginx
15 1 (0.031%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.031%) Moodle
15 1 (0.031%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 81 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.66%) Chatbot
3 33 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.52%) UserZoom
6 15 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.46%) Photoshop
7 14 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.43%) InDesign
8 13 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
9 10 (0.31%) MS Visio
10 9 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
11 7 (0.22%) Moqups
12 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
12 5 (0.15%) Trello
13 3 (0.092%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.092%) Notion
13 3 (0.092%) Productboard
13 3 (0.092%) Revit
13 3 (0.092%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 41 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.86%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.74%) Cloudability
4 14 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.15%) SAP PSCD
7 4 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.12%) Primavera
7 4 (0.12%) Sage 50
8 3 (0.092%) Shopify
9 2 (0.062%) FastStats
9 2 (0.062%) FastStats PeopleStage
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%) Magento
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 902 (27.74%) Azure
2 640 (19.68%) AWS
3 309 (9.50%) SaaS
4 291 (8.95%) Power Platform
5 285 (8.76%) GCP
6 250 (7.69%) GitHub
7 219 (6.73%) Azure AI
8 192 (5.90%) Microsoft 365
9 164 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
10 148 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
11 143 (4.40%) Microsoft Copilot
12 137 (4.21%) Anthropic Claude
13 133 (4.09%) Snowflake
14 114 (3.51%) Entra ID
15 113 (3.47%) Serverless
16 79 (2.43%) Power Automate
17 78 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
18 69 (2.12%) Figma
19 64 (1.97%) Amazon Bedrock
20 57 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 131 (4.03%) Broadband
2 37 (1.14%) Internet
3 35 (1.08%) VPN
4 34 (1.05%) Firewall
5 33 (1.01%) Network Security
6 24 (0.74%) DNS
7 23 (0.71%) 5G
8 15 (0.46%) HTTP
9 14 (0.43%) DHCP
10 13 (0.40%) VoIP
11 11 (0.34%) CTI
12 9 (0.28%) Wireless
13 8 (0.25%) WAN
13 8 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.25%) WPA
14 6 (0.18%) DMZ
14 6 (0.18%) TCP/IP
15 5 (0.15%) BGP
15 5 (0.15%) Ethernet
15 5 (0.15%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (6.21%) MongoDB
2 189 (5.81%) Power BI
3 167 (5.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 110 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
5 104 (3.20%) Metadata
6 101 (3.11%) SQL Server
7 80 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (1.75%) NoSQL
9 54 (1.66%) Tableau
10 52 (1.60%) Big Data
11 44 (1.35%) Data Lake
12 42 (1.29%) Relational Database
13 39 (1.20%) BigQuery
14 36 (1.11%) Redis
14 36 (1.11%) Semantic Layer
15 33 (1.01%) Delta Lake
16 26 (0.80%) MySQL
17 22 (0.68%) DynamoDB
18 21 (0.65%) Data Vault
18 21 (0.65%) Looker
Development Applications
1 127 (3.91%) Git
2 94 (2.89%) Claude Code
2 94 (2.89%) JIRA
3 41 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.11%) GitLab
5 27 (0.83%) Snyk
6 20 (0.62%) MLflow
7 17 (0.52%) Selenium
8 15 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 15 (0.46%) Postman
9 14 (0.43%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (0.31%) JUnit
11 10 (0.31%) Maven
11 10 (0.31%) Mockito
12 5 (0.15%) Burp Suite
12 5 (0.15%) Metasploit
12 5 (0.15%) Poetry
12 5 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,014 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 795 (24.45%) Finance
3 446 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 386 (11.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 386 (11.87%) Marketing
5 237 (7.29%) Public Sector
6 233 (7.16%) Legal
7 165 (5.07%) Law
8 155 (4.77%) Banking
9 121 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
10 120 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
11 119 (3.66%) Retail
12 114 (3.51%) Games
13 68 (2.09%) Advertising
14 55 (1.69%) Manufacturing
15 47 (1.45%) Telecoms
16 38 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
17 36 (1.11%) Legal Technology
18 30 (0.92%) Financial Institution
19 27 (0.83%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 612 (18.82%) Senior
2 431 (13.25%) Developer
3 344 (10.58%) Architect
4 343 (10.55%) Lead
5 280 (8.61%) Software Engineer
6 168 (5.17%) Analyst
7 162 (4.98%) .NET Developer
8 148 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 136 (4.18%) Consultant
10 100 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
11 98 (3.01%) Python Engineer
12 95 (2.92%) Data Engineer
13 88 (2.71%) Senior Manager
14 83 (2.55%) Full-Stack Developer
15 77 (2.37%) Data Scientist
16 71 (2.18%) Senior Developer
17 70 (2.15%) Senior Analyst
18 68 (2.09%) Engineering Manager
19 64 (1.97%) Sales Executive
20 63 (1.94%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (8.76%) React
2 263 (8.09%) .NET
3 177 (5.44%) Terraform
4 162 (4.98%) RESTful
5 160 (4.92%) ASP.NET
5 160 (4.92%) Node.js
6 155 (4.77%) .NET Core
7 151 (4.64%) ASP.NET Core
8 148 (4.55%) ML.NET
9 136 (4.18%) CSS
10 127 (3.91%) HTML
10 127 (3.91%) REST
11 110 (3.38%) Blazor
12 109 (3.35%) LangChain
13 75 (2.31%) Next.js
14 67 (2.06%) LangGraph
15 56 (1.72%) Vue
16 55 (1.69%) PyTorch
17 54 (1.66%) PySpark
18 47 (1.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 287 (8.83%) AI Agents
2 276 (8.49%) Cloud Native
3 139 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 132 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
5 116 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 107 (3.29%) Social Media
7 103 (3.17%) Blog
8 100 (3.08%) Management Information System
9 81 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
10 77 (2.37%) Onboarding
11 74 (2.28%) Low-Code
12 67 (2.06%) Algorithms
13 65 (2.00%) Data Centre
14 61 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
15 60 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
16 50 (1.54%) Hedge funds
16 50 (1.54%) Mobile App
16 50 (1.54%) Virtual Team
17 43 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
18 42 (1.29%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 83 (2.55%) Windows
2 75 (2.31%) Linux
3 39 (1.20%) Android
4 21 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.37%) VMS
8 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.25%) Unix
10 5 (0.15%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.092%) Debian
11 3 (0.092%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.092%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.062%) AIX
12 2 (0.062%) Solaris
13 1 (0.031%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 746 (22.94%) Machine Learning
2 692 (21.28%) Agile
3 680 (20.91%) Analytics
4 639 (19.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 626 (19.25%) CI/CD
6 563 (17.31%) Software Engineering
7 558 (17.16%) Roadmaps
8 516 (15.87%) Mentoring
9 471 (14.48%) Decision-Making
10 466 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
11 434 (13.35%) LLM
12 413 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 395 (12.15%) DevOps
14 373 (11.47%) Full-Stack Development
15 353 (10.85%) Cybersecurity
16 339 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 333 (10.24%) Coaching
18 282 (8.67%) Data Science
19 273 (8.39%) Technical Leadership
20 247 (7.60%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 763 (23.46%) Python
2 569 (17.50%) SQL
3 313 (9.62%) C#
4 288 (8.86%) JavaScript
5 240 (7.38%) TypeScript
6 150 (4.61%) Java
7 77 (2.37%) PowerShell
8 76 (2.34%) C++
9 56 (1.72%) Go
10 52 (1.60%) Bash
11 45 (1.38%) Bicep
12 37 (1.14%) R
13 32 (0.98%) Scala
14 22 (0.68%) C
15 21 (0.65%) PHP
16 20 (0.62%) Kotlin
16 20 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
17 19 (0.58%) Rust
18 18 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 12 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 272 (8.36%) Degree
2 271 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 203 (6.24%) SC Cleared
4 82 (2.52%) CISSP
5 75 (2.31%) CISM
6 67 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 64 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 60 (1.85%) Azure Certification
9 54 (1.66%) A+ Certification
9 54 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 54 (1.66%) Network+ Certification
10 45 (1.38%) ACCA
11 39 (1.20%) DBS Check
12 35 (1.08%) CIMA
13 34 (1.05%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 23 (0.71%) Master's Degree
16 21 (0.65%) PhD
17 18 (0.55%) SnowPro
18 16 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 247 (7.60%) Data Quality
2 172 (5.29%) Accessibility
3 154 (4.74%) GDPR
4 126 (3.87%) QA
5 74 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 65 (2.00%) GRC
7 55 (1.69%) NIST
8 35 (1.08%) SLA
9 25 (0.77%) WCAG
10 21 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 16 (0.49%) PMO
13 15 (0.46%) PCI DSS
14 14 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 12 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 11 (0.34%) IFRS
17 10 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
17 10 (0.31%) EU AI Act
17 10 (0.31%) SOC 2
18 8 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 256 (7.87%) Docker
2 103 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.40%) vSphere
7 12 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.31%) Firmware
9 3 (0.092%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.092%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.062%) NFS
11 1 (0.031%) HDFS
11 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 224 (6.89%) Kubernetes
2 79 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (1.20%) Grafana
4 19 (0.58%) Ansible
4 19 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.25%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.15%) Istio
7 5 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.15%) Nmap
8 4 (0.12%) Argo
9 3 (0.092%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.092%) Kibana
9 3 (0.092%) linkerd
9 3 (0.092%) Podman
9 3 (0.092%) Puppet
10 2 (0.062%) Cilium
11 1 (0.031%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.031%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.031%) Nessus
Vendors
1 806 (24.78%) Microsoft
2 184 (5.66%) Google
3 160 (4.92%) Databricks
4 122 (3.75%) YouTube
5 112 (3.44%) OpenAI
6 110 (3.38%) Adobe
7 81 (2.49%) Cisco
8 62 (1.91%) ServiceNow
9 61 (1.88%) Apple
10 60 (1.85%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.69%) CyberArk
12 51 (1.57%) SAP
13 47 (1.45%) Dell
14 45 (1.38%) HubSpot
15 42 (1.29%) Foundry
16 39 (1.20%) Oracle
17 35 (1.08%) Facebook
18 32 (0.98%) VMware
19 30 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
19 30 (0.92%) Palo Alto