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

 6 months to
27 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 11 68
Rank change year-on-year +1 +57 +21
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,088 2,176 1,331
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.96% 14.99% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.20% 15.80% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,221 658 883
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £35,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £66,206 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +5.45% -10.31%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,037 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.42% -4.23% -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 15,823 13,768 29,697
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.03% 94.85% 90.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,289 8,032 23,418
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,826 £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 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -9.84%

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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 27 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 50 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.87%) Confluence
3 38 (1.82%) CMS
4 21 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 20 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.48%) Apache
6 10 (0.48%) SAS
6 10 (0.48%) WordPress
7 7 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.24%) JBoss
8 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.14%) Camunda
11 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.048%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.048%) Kinematics
12 1 (0.048%) Moodle
12 1 (0.048%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.048%) Umbraco
Applications
1 37 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.44%) UserZoom
3 25 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.86%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.43%) Adobe After Effects
7 7 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
8 5 (0.24%) InDesign
8 5 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.24%) Sketch
9 4 (0.19%) CapCut
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.14%) Productboard
10 3 (0.14%) Trello
11 2 (0.096%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (1.15%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.19%) Sage 50
6 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.096%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.096%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.048%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.048%) HFM
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.048%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 567 (27.16%) Azure
2 403 (19.30%) AWS
3 218 (10.44%) SaaS
4 184 (8.81%) GCP
5 183 (8.76%) Adobe Analytics
6 147 (7.04%) Power Platform
7 135 (6.47%) Azure AI
8 133 (6.37%) GitHub
9 116 (5.56%) Figma
10 96 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
11 91 (4.36%) Azure Machine Learning
12 88 (4.21%) Snowflake
13 87 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
14 83 (3.98%) Serverless
15 72 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
16 69 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 55 (2.63%) Contentsquare
18 49 (2.35%) Microsoft Copilot
19 48 (2.30%) Anthropic Claude
20 36 (1.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 296 (14.18%) Broadband
2 24 (1.15%) Firewall
3 16 (0.77%) HTTP
4 12 (0.57%) DNS
4 12 (0.57%) VPN
5 10 (0.48%) Unified Communications
6 9 (0.43%) Network Security
7 8 (0.38%) DHCP
8 7 (0.34%) Internet
9 6 (0.29%) 5G
9 6 (0.29%) DMZ
9 6 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.19%) Modbus
10 4 (0.19%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.14%) RTP
11 3 (0.14%) VoIP
11 3 (0.14%) VXLAN
11 3 (0.14%) Wireless
11 3 (0.14%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.14%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (4.93%) MongoDB
2 89 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 85 (4.07%) Power BI
4 66 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 64 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
6 54 (2.59%) Metadata
7 45 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
7 45 (2.16%) Tableau
8 42 (2.01%) Big Data
9 27 (1.29%) BigQuery
9 27 (1.29%) NoSQL
10 23 (1.10%) Data Lake
11 22 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (1.01%) Semantic Layer
13 19 (0.91%) Redis
14 18 (0.86%) Looker
15 17 (0.81%) Relational Database
16 14 (0.67%) Delta Lake
16 14 (0.67%) MySQL
16 14 (0.67%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 60 (2.87%) Git
2 37 (1.77%) JIRA
3 33 (1.58%) Claude Code
4 29 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.20%) Snyk
6 23 (1.10%) MLflow
7 15 (0.72%) GitLab
8 10 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.48%) Selenium
8 10 (0.48%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.29%) Maven
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.29%) SpecFlow
9 6 (0.29%) Storybook
9 6 (0.29%) WebDriver
10 5 (0.24%) JUnit
10 5 (0.24%) Mockito
10 5 (0.24%) Postman
10 5 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.14%) Subversion
General
1 492 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 432 (20.69%) Finance
3 270 (12.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 268 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
5 248 (11.88%) Games
6 210 (10.06%) Marketing
7 141 (6.75%) Public Sector
8 139 (6.66%) Legal
9 122 (5.84%) Law
10 76 (3.64%) Retail
11 58 (2.78%) Banking
12 50 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
13 49 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
14 39 (1.87%) Automotive
15 26 (1.25%) Advertising
15 26 (1.25%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 22 (1.05%) Telecoms
17 11 (0.53%) Back Office
18 8 (0.38%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 423 (20.26%) Senior
2 314 (15.04%) Lead
3 232 (11.11%) Developer
4 188 (9.00%) Architect
5 126 (6.03%) Software Engineer
6 96 (4.60%) Analyst
7 88 (4.21%) Consultant
8 85 (4.07%) Engineering Manager
9 80 (3.83%) Designer
10 74 (3.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 73 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
12 69 (3.30%) Data Engineer
13 61 (2.92%) Data Scientist
13 61 (2.92%) Product Manager
14 60 (2.87%) .NET Developer
15 55 (2.63%) Data Manager
16 53 (2.54%) Senior Software Engineer
17 52 (2.49%) Senior Architect
18 51 (2.44%) Python Engineer
19 49 (2.35%) Lead Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (7.57%) React
2 115 (5.51%) .NET
3 102 (4.89%) RESTful
4 91 (4.36%) REST
5 87 (4.17%) Node.js
6 75 (3.59%) CSS
7 67 (3.21%) HTML
8 63 (3.02%) .NET Core
9 55 (2.63%) ASP.NET
9 55 (2.63%) ASP.NET Core
10 54 (2.59%) ML.NET
10 54 (2.59%) PyTorch
11 47 (2.25%) Blazor
11 47 (2.25%) TensorFlow
12 45 (2.16%) LangChain
13 36 (1.72%) FastAPI
14 34 (1.63%) Next.js
14 34 (1.63%) Spring
15 31 (1.48%) Kafka
16 30 (1.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 202 (9.67%) Social Media
2 163 (7.81%) Cloud Native
3 126 (6.03%) Product Ownership
4 92 (4.41%) AI Agents
5 88 (4.21%) Onboarding
6 52 (2.49%) Low-Code
7 50 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
8 48 (2.30%) Algorithms
8 48 (2.30%) Mobile App
8 48 (2.30%) Public Cloud
9 45 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
10 43 (2.06%) Virtual Team
11 42 (2.01%) Video\Live Streaming
12 40 (1.92%) Data Centre
13 32 (1.53%) Blog
14 29 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
15 27 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
15 27 (1.29%) Social Network
16 25 (1.20%) Management Information System
17 20 (0.96%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 42 (2.01%) Android
2 30 (1.44%) Linux
3 27 (1.29%) Apple iOS
4 25 (1.20%) Windows
5 6 (0.29%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.19%) Unix
6 4 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (28.26%) Agile
2 545 (26.10%) Analytics
3 541 (25.91%) Roadmaps
4 494 (23.66%) Machine Learning
5 397 (19.01%) CI/CD
6 307 (14.70%) Customer Experience
7 288 (13.79%) Software Engineering
8 279 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 276 (13.22%) Mentoring
10 262 (12.55%) Decision-Making
11 259 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
12 248 (11.88%) DevOps
13 240 (11.49%) LLM
14 233 (11.16%) Product Roadmap
15 215 (10.30%) Full-Stack Development
16 212 (10.15%) Generative AI
16 212 (10.15%) Storytelling
17 190 (9.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 177 (8.48%) Digital Customer Experience
19 176 (8.43%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 456 (21.84%) Python
2 310 (14.85%) SQL
3 130 (6.23%) C#
4 123 (5.89%) JavaScript
5 119 (5.70%) TypeScript
6 115 (5.51%) Java
7 61 (2.92%) Go
8 33 (1.58%) Bash
9 30 (1.44%) PowerShell
10 27 (1.29%) C++
11 21 (1.01%) R
12 19 (0.91%) Bicep
13 18 (0.86%) Scala
14 14 (0.67%) PHP
15 11 (0.53%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.48%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.43%) C
17 9 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 177 (8.48%) Degree
2 93 (4.45%) Security Cleared
3 58 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 52 (2.49%) AWS Certification
5 51 (2.44%) ACCA
6 31 (1.48%) Azure Certification
6 31 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 30 (1.44%) CIMA
7 30 (1.44%) DBS Check
7 30 (1.44%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 23 (1.10%) PhD
10 17 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.57%) CISSP
12 8 (0.38%) CISA
12 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 8 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.29%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (13.22%) Accessibility
2 88 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.50%) WCAG
4 60 (2.87%) QA
5 57 (2.73%) GDPR
6 54 (2.59%) GRC
7 25 (1.20%) IFRS
8 24 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 22 (1.05%) NIST
10 14 (0.67%) PMO
11 13 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 12 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.57%) SLA
13 9 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.34%) NCSC
15 6 (0.29%) JSP 440
16 5 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.19%) Solvency II
18 3 (0.14%) GAAP
System Software
1 141 (6.75%) Docker
2 89 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.19%) Firmware
5 3 (0.14%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.096%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 115 (5.51%) Kubernetes
2 77 (3.69%) Terraform
3 19 (0.91%) Ansible
4 15 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.67%) Grafana
6 13 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.34%) Kubeflow
7 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.34%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.29%) Argo
9 3 (0.14%) Puppet
10 2 (0.096%) Podman
10 2 (0.096%) Salt
11 1 (0.048%) Istio
11 1 (0.048%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.048%) linkerd
11 1 (0.048%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 463 (22.17%) Microsoft
2 260 (12.45%) Adobe
3 123 (5.89%) Databricks
4 90 (4.31%) Google
5 59 (2.83%) Apple
6 57 (2.73%) OpenAI
7 54 (2.59%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.44%) Salesforce
9 50 (2.39%) Cisco
10 47 (2.25%) Dell
11 31 (1.48%) CrowdStrike
12 27 (1.29%) Oracle
12 27 (1.29%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.25%) Tenable
14 25 (1.20%) HubSpot
15 22 (1.05%) Foundry
16 18 (0.86%) SAP
17 13 (0.62%) Palantir
18 12 (0.57%) Facebook
19 11 (0.53%) Instagram
2,030 hybrid/remote AI jobs