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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 35 80
Rank change year-on-year -25 +45 +15
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 921 1,080 841
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.84% 6.65% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 7.15% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 588 242 516
10th Percentile £46,425 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,013 £81,250 £73,950
Median % change year-on-year -7.68% +9.87% +9.56%
75th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £138,250 £132,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

All Process & 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 19,633 15,114 20,558
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.88% 93.04% 87.64%
Number of salaries quoted 14,127 8,686 12,990
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £40,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 11 September 2026.

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 22 (2.39%) Apache Spark
1 22 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.74%) Apache
3 14 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.65%) SAS
5 5 (0.54%) Confluence
6 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 12 (1.30%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) Blender
3 3 (0.33%) Maya
4 2 (0.22%) Weka
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.11%) HFM
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 413 (44.84%) Azure
2 263 (28.56%) AWS
3 227 (24.65%) Azure AI
4 131 (14.22%) GCP
5 114 (12.38%) Snowflake
6 101 (10.97%) GitHub
7 92 (9.99%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (8.79%) Azure Machine Learning
8 81 (8.79%) GitHub Copilot
9 80 (8.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 63 (6.84%) Power Platform
11 47 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
12 41 (4.45%) Amazon Bedrock
13 40 (4.34%) SaaS
14 35 (3.80%) Anthropic Claude
15 26 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
16 24 (2.61%) Amazon S3
17 21 (2.28%) Azure Databricks
18 19 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
18 19 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 90 (9.77%) Broadband
2 30 (3.26%) Internet
3 12 (1.30%) Firewall
4 9 (0.98%) 5G
5 5 (0.54%) Kerberos
5 5 (0.54%) Network Security
6 4 (0.43%) VPN
7 3 (0.33%) BGP
7 3 (0.33%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.33%) LAN
7 3 (0.33%) OSPF
7 3 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.33%) WAN
8 2 (0.22%) ATM
8 2 (0.22%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.22%) DNS
8 2 (0.22%) VLAN
8 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.22%) WireGuard
8 2 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (19.22%) MongoDB
2 172 (18.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 60 (6.51%) Power BI
4 59 (6.41%) SQL Server
5 50 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (4.67%) Metadata
7 40 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (3.04%) Big Data
9 20 (2.17%) Delta Lake
10 19 (2.06%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.85%) Data Vault
11 17 (1.85%) NoSQL
11 17 (1.85%) Tableau
12 13 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.09%) Looker
14 8 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.87%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.76%) Hadoop
15 7 (0.76%) Relational Database
15 7 (0.76%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 36 (3.91%) Git
2 32 (3.47%) Claude Code
3 17 (1.85%) MLflow
4 13 (1.41%) JIRA
5 9 (0.98%) GitLab
6 8 (0.87%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.54%) Poetry
7 5 (0.54%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.33%) Appium
9 3 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.33%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.33%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.22%) Selenium
11 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.11%) Mocha
11 1 (0.11%) NUnit
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 296 (32.14%) Finance
2 152 (16.50%) Social Skills
3 117 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (9.88%) Banking
5 85 (9.23%) Marketing
6 43 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (4.23%) Games
8 36 (3.91%) Advertising
9 35 (3.80%) Public Sector
10 34 (3.69%) Law
11 31 (3.37%) Retail
12 28 (3.04%) Legal
13 20 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (1.41%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.09%) Legal Technology
15 10 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.76%) Electronics
16 7 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 237 (25.73%) Developer
2 156 (16.94%) .NET Developer
3 145 (15.74%) Senior
4 117 (12.70%) Architect
5 102 (11.07%) Data Scientist
6 101 (10.97%) Lead
7 63 (6.84%) Finance Manager
7 63 (6.84%) Software Engineer
8 54 (5.86%) Senior Data Scientist
9 52 (5.65%) Data Engineer
10 46 (4.99%) Data Manager
11 44 (4.78%) Data Architect
12 43 (4.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 40 (4.34%) Lead Data Scientist
14 39 (4.23%) Engineering Manager
15 31 (3.37%) Enterprise Architect
15 31 (3.37%) Senior Developer
16 30 (3.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 28 (3.04%) Consultant
18 22 (2.39%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (20.20%) .NET
2 162 (17.59%) .NET Core
3 156 (16.94%) ASP.NET
3 156 (16.94%) ASP.NET Core
3 156 (16.94%) ML.NET
4 118 (12.81%) RESTful
5 115 (12.49%) React
6 103 (11.18%) Blazor
7 99 (10.75%) CSS
8 96 (10.42%) HTML
9 83 (9.01%) PyTorch
10 73 (7.93%) TensorFlow
11 70 (7.60%) LangChain
12 59 (6.41%) Terraform
13 46 (4.99%) LangGraph
14 34 (3.69%) PySpark
15 33 (3.58%) Node.js
16 27 (2.93%) Hugging Face
16 27 (2.93%) scikit-learn
17 23 (2.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 118 (12.81%) Cloud Native
2 70 (7.60%) AI Agents
2 70 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (7.17%) Blog
4 61 (6.62%) Video\Live Streaming
5 54 (5.86%) Algorithms
6 43 (4.67%) Product Ownership
7 31 (3.37%) Mobile App
8 30 (3.26%) Hedge funds
8 30 (3.26%) Low-Code
9 29 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
9 29 (3.15%) Social Media
10 22 (2.39%) Over-the-Top Content
11 20 (2.17%) Credit Risk
11 20 (2.17%) Digital TV
12 19 (2.06%) BBC
13 17 (1.85%) iPhone
14 16 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
15 15 (1.63%) Onboarding
16 12 (1.30%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.17%) Android
2 15 (1.63%) Linux
3 7 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.54%) Windows
5 3 (0.33%) Unix
6 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 787 (85.45%) AI
2 275 (29.86%) Agile
3 255 (27.69%) CI/CD
4 254 (27.58%) Data Science
5 246 (26.71%) Roadmaps
6 212 (23.02%) Full-Stack Development
7 211 (22.91%) Analytics
8 195 (21.17%) Software Engineering
9 155 (16.83%) DevOps
10 148 (16.07%) LLM
11 134 (14.55%) Data Engineering
12 131 (14.22%) Generative AI
13 129 (14.01%) Mentoring
14 120 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
15 110 (11.94%) Data Governance
16 104 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
17 103 (11.18%) Data Architecture
18 100 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
19 96 (10.42%) Decision-Making
20 95 (10.31%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 379 (41.15%) Python
1 379 (41.15%) SQL
2 194 (21.06%) C#
3 138 (14.98%) JavaScript
4 56 (6.08%) TypeScript
5 55 (5.97%) Go
6 43 (4.67%) Java
7 39 (4.23%) Scala
8 25 (2.71%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.95%) Bicep
10 13 (1.41%) C++
10 13 (1.41%) R
11 10 (1.09%) C
12 9 (0.98%) Rust
13 7 (0.76%) Swift
14 6 (0.65%) Bash
14 6 (0.65%) PHP
15 5 (0.54%) Ada
16 3 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 92 (9.99%) Degree
2 74 (8.03%) Security Cleared
3 50 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.69%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 20 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (1.95%) PhD
8 16 (1.74%) SnowPro
9 15 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.98%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.87%) CISSP
13 5 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
14 4 (0.43%) CCNP
15 3 (0.33%) CCDP
16 2 (0.22%) GIAC
16 2 (0.22%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (9.99%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.04%) Accessibility
2 28 (3.04%) QA
3 14 (1.52%) GDPR
4 9 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 4 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.43%) IFRS
6 4 (0.43%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.43%) SLA
6 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.33%) MIL-STD-1553
8 2 (0.22%) COPPA
8 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.22%) JTAG
9 1 (0.11%) GRC
9 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 143 (15.53%) Docker
2 55 (5.97%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.65%) Firmware
4 3 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 120 (13.03%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.41%) Grafana
3 9 (0.98%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.65%) Ansible
4 6 (0.65%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.33%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.33%) Istio
6 3 (0.33%) linkerd
6 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.33%) Puppet
7 2 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 2 (0.22%) Podman
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 304 (33.01%) Microsoft
2 152 (16.50%) Databricks
3 64 (6.95%) Google
4 38 (4.13%) Facebook
5 21 (2.28%) Yahoo!
6 17 (1.85%) Adobe
6 17 (1.85%) Apple
6 17 (1.85%) OpenAI
6 17 (1.85%) Sony
6 17 (1.85%) Typelevel
7 15 (1.63%) Foundry
8 11 (1.19%) SAP
9 5 (0.54%) Oracle
9 5 (0.54%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.43%) HighQ
10 4 (0.43%) Legatics
11 3 (0.33%) Cisco
11 3 (0.33%) Forcepoint
11 3 (0.33%) Juniper
11 3 (0.33%) SonicWALL