Hybrid/Remote Machine Learning Job Trends

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 74 80
Rank change year-on-year -35 +6 +20
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 349 722 719
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.28% 4.18% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 4.50% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 246 398 466
10th Percentile £45,625 £45,000 £41,845
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,855 £90,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £100,000 £101,842
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.90% +2.67% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Machine Learning 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 13,541 16,057 18,863
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.44% 92.92% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8,650 9,686 15,144
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,918 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Machine Learning
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Machine Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Machine Learning over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Machine Learning salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Machine Learning
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 20 (5.73%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (2.01%) Apache Solr
5 7 (2.01%) CMS
6 5 (1.43%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (1.15%) Confluence
8 3 (0.86%) Apache
9 2 (0.57%) Luigi
10 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.29%) Kinematics
Applications
1 6 (1.72%) Chatbot
1 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.86%) Trello
4 2 (0.57%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.57%) Sketch
4 2 (0.57%) Weka
5 1 (0.29%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.29%) Blender
Business Applications
1 6 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.86%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.57%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.57%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 176 (50.43%) Azure
2 115 (32.95%) AWS
3 64 (18.34%) GCP
4 44 (12.61%) Power Platform
5 31 (8.88%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (7.45%) Entra ID
6 26 (7.45%) SaaS
7 23 (6.59%) Azure Machine Learning
8 19 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (4.87%) Serverless
10 14 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.72%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.72%) Microsoft Purview
12 12 (3.44%) GitHub
13 11 (3.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (3.15%) Snowflake
14 10 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (2.87%) dbt
15 9 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.43%) Broadband
2 3 (0.86%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.57%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.29%) Modbus
4 1 (0.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.89%) Power BI
2 29 (8.31%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (4.87%) NoSQL
3 17 (4.87%) Tableau
4 15 (4.30%) SQL Server
5 13 (3.72%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (3.15%) Metadata
8 10 (2.87%) MySQL
9 9 (2.58%) Big Data
9 9 (2.58%) Looker
10 7 (2.01%) BigQuery
10 7 (2.01%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.72%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.43%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.43%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.15%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 19 (5.44%) Git
2 11 (3.15%) MLflow
3 7 (2.01%) JIRA
4 4 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.57%) ERwin
6 2 (0.57%) Selenium
6 2 (0.57%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.57%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.29%) GitLab
General
1 97 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 91 (26.07%) Finance
3 56 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.31%) Marketing
5 24 (6.88%) Retail
6 22 (6.30%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.30%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.01%) Games
8 11 (3.15%) Law
9 10 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.58%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.29%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.72%) Legal
14 5 (1.43%) Back Office
14 5 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.15%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.15%) Automotive
15 4 (1.15%) Banking
15 4 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (13.75%) Senior
2 44 (12.61%) Lead
3 39 (11.17%) Data Engineer
4 25 (7.16%) Developer
4 25 (7.16%) Software Engineer
5 24 (6.88%) Architect
6 23 (6.59%) Data Scientist
7 18 (5.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 16 (4.58%) Consultant
9 14 (4.01%) Analyst
10 11 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (2.87%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 10 (2.87%) Operations Engineer
11 10 (2.87%) Product Owner
12 9 (2.58%) Applications Engineer
13 8 (2.29%) Azure Data Engineer
13 8 (2.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (2.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 8 (2.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 8 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.60%) Kafka
2 25 (7.16%) TensorFlow
3 24 (6.88%) Node.js
4 23 (6.59%) PyTorch
4 23 (6.59%) React
5 22 (6.30%) gRPC
6 21 (6.02%) RESTful
7 19 (5.44%) REST
8 17 (4.87%) scikit-learn
9 13 (3.72%) Spring
9 13 (3.72%) WebSockets
10 12 (3.44%) FastAPI
10 12 (3.44%) Pandas
10 12 (3.44%) Spring Boot
11 11 (3.15%) Hugging Face
12 10 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (2.58%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.29%) NumPy
14 8 (2.29%) OAuth
14 8 (2.29%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.19%) Product Ownership
2 45 (12.89%) Cloud Native
3 30 (8.60%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (7.74%) Algorithms
5 23 (6.59%) AI Agents
6 11 (3.15%) Reinsurance
7 8 (2.29%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.01%) Low-Code
8 7 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.72%) Augmented Reality
9 6 (1.72%) CUDA
9 6 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.72%) Mobile Games
9 6 (1.72%) Sports Betting
10 5 (1.43%) Educational Technology
11 4 (1.15%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.86%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.44%) Windows
2 17 (4.87%) Android
3 15 (4.30%) Linux
4 8 (2.29%) Apple iOS
5 7 (2.01%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.86%) Unix
7 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.29%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (80.80%) AI
2 143 (40.97%) Analytics
3 105 (30.09%) Data Science
4 101 (28.94%) DevOps
5 97 (27.79%) Agile
6 88 (25.21%) CI/CD
7 82 (23.50%) Roadmaps
8 62 (17.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 61 (17.48%) Software Engineering
10 57 (16.33%) Decision-Making
10 57 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (16.05%) LLM
12 51 (14.61%) Computer Science
13 50 (14.33%) Business Intelligence
14 47 (13.47%) Data Pipeline
15 45 (12.89%) Data Engineering
16 44 (12.61%) Containerisation
17 41 (11.75%) Coaching
17 41 (11.75%) Microservices
17 41 (11.75%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 175 (50.14%) Python
2 90 (25.79%) SQL
3 38 (10.89%) Java
4 27 (7.74%) Bash
5 26 (7.45%) PowerShell
6 25 (7.16%) R
7 22 (6.30%) Go
8 20 (5.73%) JavaScript
9 16 (4.58%) C++
9 16 (4.58%) TypeScript
10 15 (4.30%) PHP
11 13 (3.72%) Scala
12 10 (2.87%) C#
13 8 (2.29%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.43%) T-SQL
15 4 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (1.15%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.86%) Bicep
17 2 (0.57%) C
18 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (20.92%) Degree
2 29 (8.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (8.02%) Security Cleared
4 26 (7.45%) SC Cleared
5 15 (4.30%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.29%) PhD
7 6 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.43%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.15%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.86%) ACCA
10 3 (0.86%) CIMA
10 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.86%) PMP
11 2 (0.57%) CFA
11 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.57%) OSCE
11 2 (0.57%) OSCP
11 2 (0.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.02%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.72%) GDPR
3 7 (2.01%) QA
4 4 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.15%) EU AI Act
4 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.57%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.57%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.29%) HL7
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 50 (14.33%) Docker
2 18 (5.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (3.15%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.57%) Ceph
5 2 (0.57%) Lustre
5 2 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (16.05%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.74%) Terraform
3 18 (5.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (4.01%) Ansible
5 8 (2.29%) SCCM
6 2 (0.57%) Argo
6 2 (0.57%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.57%) Puppet
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
7 1 (0.29%) Istio
7 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 59 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.32%) Databricks
3 18 (5.16%) Google
4 14 (4.01%) OpenAI
5 11 (3.15%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.43%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.43%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.43%) Nokia
6 5 (1.43%) SAP
6 5 (1.43%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.15%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.15%) Genesys
7 4 (1.15%) HubSpot
7 4 (1.15%) Talend
7 4 (1.15%) Zoho
8 3 (0.86%) Adobe
8 3 (0.86%) Dell
8 3 (0.86%) Mercator
8 3 (0.86%) Palantir
9 2 (0.57%) Murex