Hybrid/Remote Data Science Job Trends

Data Science
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Data Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 137 108
Rank change year-on-year +13 -29 -33
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 385 382 887
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.09% 2.63% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 2.76% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 206 220 633
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,438 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.25% +6.67% -13.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £86,563 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £71,991 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.77% +10.76% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Science 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 15,280 13,822 29,655
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.76% 95.02% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,821 8,823 23,459
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +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% -9.84%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Science and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Science job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Science
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Science

Data Science
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Science over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Data Science salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Science
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 36 (9.35%) Apache Spark
2 27 (7.01%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.38%) Apache
4 9 (2.34%) SAS
5 5 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.26%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.26%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 128 (33.25%) AWS
2 103 (26.75%) Azure
3 90 (23.38%) GCP
4 35 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 30 (7.79%) Azure Machine Learning
6 20 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (4.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (4.42%) SaaS
9 16 (4.16%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (4.16%) Dagster
9 16 (4.16%) Serverless
10 15 (3.90%) Snowflake
11 14 (3.64%) Amazon S3
11 14 (3.64%) dbt
12 13 (3.38%) Amazon SageMaker
12 13 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (3.38%) GitHub
13 9 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (2.34%) Vertex AI
14 6 (1.56%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 87 (22.60%) Broadband
2 11 (2.86%) 4G
2 11 (2.86%) BGP
2 11 (2.86%) Cisco IOS
2 11 (2.86%) Ethernet VPN
2 11 (2.86%) IOS XR
2 11 (2.86%) MPLS
3 6 (1.56%) 5G
4 2 (0.52%) Firewall
5 1 (0.26%) Internet
5 1 (0.26%) LTE
5 1 (0.26%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (10.13%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (8.57%) Power BI
3 27 (7.01%) Data Lake
4 25 (6.49%) Metadata
5 24 (6.23%) BigQuery
6 21 (5.45%) Delta Lake
7 20 (5.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 18 (4.68%) Elasticsearch
8 18 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (4.42%) Tableau
10 14 (3.64%) NoSQL
11 13 (3.38%) Looker
12 11 (2.86%) Big Data
12 11 (2.86%) Relational Database
13 10 (2.60%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (2.60%) Pinecone
14 9 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (2.34%) DynamoDB
14 9 (2.34%) Weaviate
15 8 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (11.43%) Git
2 20 (5.19%) MLflow
3 6 (1.56%) GitLab
4 3 (0.78%) JIRA
5 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 96 (24.94%) Social Skills
2 78 (20.26%) Finance
3 65 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.12%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.86%) Retail
8 9 (2.34%) Law
9 8 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.82%) Legal
11 6 (1.56%) Banking
11 6 (1.56%) Health Technology
11 6 (1.56%) Marketing
12 5 (1.30%) French Language
13 4 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.04%) Publishing
13 4 (1.04%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.52%) Advertising
14 2 (0.52%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 114 (29.61%) Data Scientist
2 102 (26.49%) Senior
3 64 (16.62%) Data Engineer
4 60 (15.58%) Senior Data Scientist
5 46 (11.95%) Lead
6 44 (11.43%) Software Engineer
7 31 (8.05%) Developer
8 30 (7.79%) Scala Engineer
9 21 (5.45%) Python Engineer
10 19 (4.94%) Consultant
11 18 (4.68%) Senior Data Engineer
12 15 (3.90%) Lead Data Scientist
12 15 (3.90%) Scala Developer
12 15 (3.90%) Scala Software Engineer
13 12 (3.12%) Data Consultant
13 12 (3.12%) Senior Consultant
14 11 (2.86%) Architect
14 11 (2.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 11 (2.86%) Network Engineer
14 11 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (12.21%) gRPC
2 44 (11.43%) PyTorch
3 40 (10.39%) TensorFlow
4 21 (5.45%) React
5 17 (4.42%) Kafka
6 16 (4.16%) PySpark
7 13 (3.38%) RESTful
8 12 (3.12%) REST
8 12 (3.12%) scikit-learn
9 11 (2.86%) FastAPI
9 11 (2.86%) Jinja
9 11 (2.86%) NETCONF
9 11 (2.86%) Pandas
9 11 (2.86%) YANG
10 10 (2.60%) Hugging Face
11 9 (2.34%) Faiss
11 9 (2.34%) LangChain
11 9 (2.34%) vLLM
12 8 (2.08%) Flask
12 8 (2.08%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 59 (15.32%) Video\Live Streaming
2 51 (13.25%) Over-the-Top Content
3 48 (12.47%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (7.79%) Algorithms
5 21 (5.45%) Product Ownership
6 19 (4.94%) Social Media
7 13 (3.38%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.86%) AI Agents
9 10 (2.60%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.82%) Clustering
11 6 (1.56%) Anti-Piracy
11 6 (1.56%) CUDA
11 6 (1.56%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.56%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
13 2 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (48.57%) Machine Learning
2 156 (40.52%) AI
3 135 (35.06%) CI/CD
4 119 (30.91%) Analytics
5 97 (25.19%) Clean Code
5 97 (25.19%) Software Engineering
6 96 (24.94%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (19.74%) Coaching
8 75 (19.48%) Data Pipeline
9 72 (18.70%) Mentoring
10 66 (17.14%) Agile
10 66 (17.14%) Containerisation
11 65 (16.88%) ETL
12 62 (16.10%) Data Engineering
13 60 (15.58%) Personalization
14 57 (14.81%) Data Modelling
14 57 (14.81%) Roadmaps
15 56 (14.55%) Microservices
16 53 (13.77%) DevOps
17 50 (12.99%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 246 (63.90%) Python
2 124 (32.21%) SQL
3 77 (20.00%) Scala
4 60 (15.58%) Go
5 34 (8.83%) Java
6 27 (7.01%) R
7 21 (5.45%) C++
8 10 (2.60%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.34%) Bash
9 9 (2.34%) VBA
10 8 (2.08%) JavaScript
11 7 (1.82%) C#
12 6 (1.56%) C
13 3 (0.78%) Bicep
13 3 (0.78%) Groovy
14 1 (0.26%) Cypher
14 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 67 (17.40%) Degree
2 38 (9.87%) Security Cleared
3 21 (5.45%) DV Cleared
4 16 (4.16%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.64%) Master's Degree
7 12 (3.12%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.86%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.30%) PhD
10 2 (0.52%) CISSP
10 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.52%) GIAC
10 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.52%) SANS
11 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.34%) GDPR
3 4 (1.04%) QA
4 3 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.52%) IFRS
5 2 (0.52%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.52%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 70 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (7.79%) Terraform
2 27 (7.01%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.56%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.52%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (0.52%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 1 (0.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 58 (15.06%) Databricks
2 45 (11.69%) Typelevel
3 13 (3.38%) Microsoft
4 11 (2.86%) Cisco
5 10 (2.60%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.34%) Google
6 9 (2.34%) Palantir
7 6 (1.56%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.52%) Civica
8 2 (0.52%) ESRI
8 2 (0.52%) Northgate
8 2 (0.52%) Orchard
9 1 (0.26%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle