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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 70
Rank change year-on-year +7 +53 +22
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,962 1,573 1,311
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.75% 11.06% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.98% 11.64% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,109 698 846
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,206 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +5.93% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

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 15,111 13,517 29,606
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.80% 95.05% 91.16%
Number of salaries quoted 10,669 8,801 23,474
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £33,756
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +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 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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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 8 May 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 52 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 46 (2.34%) CMS
3 39 (1.99%) Confluence
4 25 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.51%) Apache
6 10 (0.51%) SAS
6 10 (0.51%) WordPress
7 9 (0.46%) JBoss
7 9 (0.46%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
13 1 (0.051%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.051%) Moodle
Applications
1 41 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.94%) Chatbot
3 30 (1.53%) UserZoom
4 22 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.20%) CapCut
8 3 (0.15%) Sketch
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.051%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.051%) Productboard
10 1 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (1.02%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.10%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.10%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.10%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.10%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.051%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.051%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.051%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.051%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 497 (25.33%) Azure
2 360 (18.35%) AWS
3 210 (10.70%) SaaS
4 184 (9.38%) Adobe Analytics
5 168 (8.56%) GCP
6 127 (6.47%) GitHub
6 127 (6.47%) Power Platform
7 105 (5.35%) Figma
8 101 (5.15%) Azure AI
9 91 (4.64%) Azure Machine Learning
10 90 (4.59%) Snowflake
11 81 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
11 81 (4.13%) GitHub Copilot
12 69 (3.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 68 (3.47%) Serverless
14 66 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
15 55 (2.80%) Contentsquare
16 46 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
17 33 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
18 32 (1.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 289 (14.73%) Broadband
2 24 (1.22%) Firewall
3 19 (0.97%) HTTP
4 11 (0.56%) Unified Communications
5 9 (0.46%) Network Security
5 9 (0.46%) VPN
6 7 (0.36%) DNS
7 6 (0.31%) 5G
7 6 (0.31%) DMZ
8 5 (0.25%) DHCP
9 4 (0.20%) Modbus
9 4 (0.20%) RTP
9 4 (0.20%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.20%) VoIP
9 4 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.15%) WAN
10 3 (0.15%) Wireless
10 3 (0.15%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.10%) NGN
11 2 (0.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (4.18%) SQL Server
2 78 (3.98%) MongoDB
3 74 (3.77%) Power BI
4 56 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
5 51 (2.60%) Metadata
6 47 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
7 41 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 38 (1.94%) Tableau
9 33 (1.68%) Big Data
10 27 (1.38%) NoSQL
11 23 (1.17%) Data Lake
12 22 (1.12%) BigQuery
13 21 (1.07%) Redis
14 20 (1.02%) Looker
15 19 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (0.71%) Delta Lake
17 12 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
17 12 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
18 11 (0.56%) Pinecone
18 11 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 52 (2.65%) Git
2 37 (1.89%) JIRA
3 25 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.12%) Claude Code
5 21 (1.07%) MLflow
6 18 (0.92%) Snyk
7 14 (0.71%) GitLab
8 10 (0.51%) Selenium
9 9 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.46%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
11 7 (0.36%) SpecFlow
11 7 (0.36%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.31%) Storybook
13 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.25%) Subversion
14 4 (0.20%) Postman
15 3 (0.15%) Appium
15 3 (0.15%) ESLint
16 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 481 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 417 (21.25%) Finance
3 285 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 277 (14.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 248 (12.64%) Games
6 203 (10.35%) Marketing
7 154 (7.85%) Public Sector
8 136 (6.93%) Legal
9 112 (5.71%) Law
10 66 (3.36%) Retail
11 54 (2.75%) Banking
12 47 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
13 42 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (1.94%) Automotive
15 35 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (1.63%) Telecoms
17 25 (1.27%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.66%) Back Office
19 12 (0.61%) Advertising
20 8 (0.41%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 390 (19.88%) Senior
2 290 (14.78%) Lead
3 187 (9.53%) Developer
4 176 (8.97%) Architect
5 102 (5.20%) Software Engineer
6 89 (4.54%) Analyst
7 80 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
8 77 (3.92%) Consultant
8 77 (3.92%) Engineering Manager
9 72 (3.67%) Designer
10 55 (2.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 55 (2.80%) Data Engineer
11 54 (2.75%) Product Manager
12 49 (2.50%) Lead Designer
13 48 (2.45%) Senior Software Engineer
14 47 (2.40%) Data Manager
14 47 (2.40%) Data Scientist
14 47 (2.40%) Python Engineer
15 45 (2.29%) Sales Executive
16 44 (2.24%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (6.32%) React
2 89 (4.54%) .NET
3 88 (4.49%) RESTful
4 82 (4.18%) REST
5 72 (3.67%) Node.js
6 55 (2.80%) CSS
7 51 (2.60%) HTML
8 49 (2.50%) PyTorch
9 41 (2.09%) TensorFlow
10 33 (1.68%) .NET Core
10 33 (1.68%) LangChain
11 32 (1.63%) Vue
12 31 (1.58%) Kafka
13 30 (1.53%) FastAPI
13 30 (1.53%) Spring
14 29 (1.48%) Next.js
15 27 (1.38%) ASP.NET
15 27 (1.38%) ASP.NET Core
15 27 (1.38%) Blazor
15 27 (1.38%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 189 (9.63%) Social Media
2 149 (7.59%) Cloud Native
3 107 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 86 (4.38%) Onboarding
5 77 (3.92%) Blog
6 72 (3.67%) AI Agents
7 56 (2.85%) Virtual Team
8 55 (2.80%) Low-Code
8 55 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
9 53 (2.70%) Public Cloud
10 45 (2.29%) Mobile App
11 44 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
12 40 (2.04%) Algorithms
13 36 (1.83%) Video\Live Streaming
14 34 (1.73%) Data Centre
15 32 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
16 27 (1.38%) Social Network
17 21 (1.07%) Podcast
18 18 (0.92%) Management Information System
19 17 (0.87%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.19%) Android
2 27 (1.38%) Apple iOS
3 23 (1.17%) Linux
4 18 (0.92%) Windows
5 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.20%) Unix
7 3 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.15%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.051%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (27.98%) Agile
2 521 (26.55%) Analytics
3 499 (25.43%) Roadmaps
4 428 (21.81%) Machine Learning
5 345 (17.58%) CI/CD
6 324 (16.51%) Customer Experience
7 280 (14.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 253 (12.90%) Software Engineering
9 244 (12.44%) Mentoring
10 239 (12.18%) Decision-Making
11 238 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
12 236 (12.03%) DevOps
13 230 (11.72%) Product Roadmap
14 210 (10.70%) Storytelling
15 199 (10.14%) Generative AI
16 196 (9.99%) LLM
17 188 (9.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 178 (9.07%) Digital Customer Experience
19 177 (9.02%) Full-Stack Development
20 171 (8.72%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 395 (20.13%) Python
2 269 (13.71%) SQL
3 115 (5.86%) Java
4 102 (5.20%) TypeScript
5 92 (4.69%) C#
6 91 (4.64%) JavaScript
7 64 (3.26%) Go
8 30 (1.53%) C++
9 23 (1.17%) Bash
10 21 (1.07%) R
11 18 (0.92%) Scala
12 16 (0.82%) Bicep
13 14 (0.71%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.71%) PowerShell
14 12 (0.61%) PHP
15 9 (0.46%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.46%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.41%) Rust
17 7 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 240 (12.23%) Degree
2 71 (3.62%) Security Cleared
3 51 (2.60%) Master's Degree
4 50 (2.55%) ACCA
5 46 (2.34%) AWS Certification
6 43 (2.19%) SC Cleared
7 42 (2.14%) PhD
8 38 (1.94%) DBS Check
9 37 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (1.43%) CIMA
11 27 (1.38%) Azure Certification
12 24 (1.22%) DV Cleared
13 20 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 18 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.61%) CISSP
15 12 (0.61%) PMP
16 8 (0.41%) CISA
16 8 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
17 6 (0.31%) CISM
18 5 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (13.86%) Accessibility
2 71 (3.62%) WCAG
3 65 (3.31%) Data Quality
4 52 (2.65%) QA
5 49 (2.50%) GDPR
6 43 (2.19%) GRC
7 29 (1.48%) IFRS
8 23 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.71%) PMO
10 12 (0.61%) NIST
10 12 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.51%) GAAP
12 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 7 (0.36%) NCSC
12 7 (0.36%) SLA
13 6 (0.31%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 111 (5.66%) Docker
2 79 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (1.07%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.15%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.051%) Firmware
6 1 (0.051%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 89 (4.54%) Kubernetes
2 63 (3.21%) Terraform
3 19 (0.97%) Ansible
4 18 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.56%) Grafana
6 10 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.36%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.31%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.25%) Argo
10 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.10%) Podman
11 2 (0.10%) Puppet
11 2 (0.10%) Salt
Vendors
1 397 (20.23%) Microsoft
2 250 (12.74%) Adobe
3 123 (6.27%) Databricks
4 77 (3.92%) Google
5 50 (2.55%) Cisco
6 49 (2.50%) Apple
7 48 (2.45%) Dell
7 48 (2.45%) Salesforce
8 39 (1.99%) ServiceNow
9 38 (1.94%) OpenAI
10 22 (1.12%) Oracle
11 21 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
11 21 (1.07%) PayPal
12 20 (1.02%) Foundry
12 20 (1.02%) Palo Alto
13 19 (0.97%) HubSpot
13 19 (0.97%) SAP
13 19 (0.97%) Tenable
14 14 (0.71%) Palantir
15 11 (0.56%) Hootsuite