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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 37 93
Rank change year-on-year -16 +56 +5
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 928 1,079 751
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.01% 6.52% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.87% 7.01% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 588 244 536
10th Percentile £46,500 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.04% +6.91%
75th Percentile £105,000 £103,125 £90,625
90th Percentile £131,500 £132,500 £103,125
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 19,038 15,384 21,698
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.21% 92.95% 87.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,740 8,914 14,935
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 August 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 25 (2.69%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.40%) Apache
4 11 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.65%) SAS
6 5 (0.54%) Confluence
7 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 11 (1.19%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.32%) Blender
3 3 (0.32%) Maya
4 2 (0.22%) Weka
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) HFM
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 411 (44.29%) Azure
2 261 (28.13%) AWS
3 227 (24.46%) Azure AI
4 135 (14.55%) GCP
5 106 (11.42%) Snowflake
6 96 (10.34%) GitHub
7 94 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
8 83 (8.94%) Azure Machine Learning
9 80 (8.62%) GitHub Copilot
10 79 (8.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 65 (7.00%) Power Platform
12 49 (5.28%) Azure Data Factory
13 38 (4.09%) SaaS
14 35 (3.77%) Amazon Bedrock
15 29 (3.13%) Anthropic Claude
16 25 (2.69%) Microsoft Purview
17 22 (2.37%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (2.16%) Amazon S3
18 20 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
19 19 (2.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 102 (10.99%) Broadband
2 30 (3.23%) Internet
3 13 (1.40%) Firewall
4 7 (0.75%) 5G
5 6 (0.65%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.65%) Network Security
6 4 (0.43%) VPN
7 3 (0.32%) BGP
7 3 (0.32%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.32%) LAN
7 3 (0.32%) OSPF
7 3 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.32%) WAN
8 2 (0.22%) ATM
8 2 (0.22%) DNS
8 2 (0.22%) UWB
8 2 (0.22%) VLAN
8 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.22%) WireGuard
8 2 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (19.18%) MongoDB
2 174 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (6.79%) Power BI
4 58 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 49 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (4.31%) Metadata
7 37 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (2.80%) Big Data
9 20 (2.16%) Delta Lake
10 19 (2.05%) Data Lake
11 16 (1.72%) Data Vault
11 16 (1.72%) Tableau
12 14 (1.51%) NoSQL
13 10 (1.08%) Looker
14 9 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (0.86%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.75%) Relational Database
16 7 (0.75%) Semantic Layer
17 6 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
17 6 (0.65%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 38 (4.09%) Git
2 26 (2.80%) Claude Code
3 17 (1.83%) MLflow
4 13 (1.40%) JIRA
5 11 (1.19%) GitLab
6 8 (0.86%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.43%) Appium
7 4 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.32%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.32%) Mercurial
8 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.22%) Selenium
10 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.11%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.11%) Mocha
10 1 (0.11%) NUnit
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 281 (30.28%) Finance
2 158 (17.03%) Social Skills
3 120 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (9.05%) Marketing
5 80 (8.62%) Banking
6 43 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (4.31%) Games
8 35 (3.77%) Advertising
8 35 (3.77%) Law
8 35 (3.77%) Public Sector
9 28 (3.02%) Retail
10 27 (2.91%) Legal
11 22 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.29%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.08%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.08%) Legal Technology
15 7 (0.75%) Electronics
15 7 (0.75%) Military
16 6 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 245 (26.40%) Developer
2 157 (16.92%) .NET Developer
3 152 (16.38%) Senior
4 109 (11.75%) Architect
5 102 (10.99%) Lead
6 101 (10.88%) Data Scientist
7 63 (6.79%) Software Engineer
8 57 (6.14%) Finance Manager
9 54 (5.82%) Senior Data Scientist
10 49 (5.28%) Data Engineer
11 46 (4.96%) Data Manager
12 43 (4.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 42 (4.53%) Data Architect
14 40 (4.31%) Engineering Manager
14 40 (4.31%) Lead Data Scientist
15 34 (3.66%) Senior Developer
16 29 (3.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 27 (2.91%) Consultant
18 25 (2.69%) Enterprise Architect
18 25 (2.69%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (20.47%) .NET
2 164 (17.67%) .NET Core
3 156 (16.81%) ASP.NET
3 156 (16.81%) ASP.NET Core
3 156 (16.81%) ML.NET
4 118 (12.72%) React
4 118 (12.72%) RESTful
5 103 (11.10%) Blazor
6 102 (10.99%) CSS
7 99 (10.67%) HTML
8 81 (8.73%) PyTorch
9 71 (7.65%) TensorFlow
10 67 (7.22%) LangChain
11 52 (5.60%) Terraform
12 44 (4.74%) LangGraph
13 35 (3.77%) Node.js
14 31 (3.34%) PySpark
15 27 (2.91%) Hugging Face
16 26 (2.80%) gRPC
17 25 (2.69%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 115 (12.39%) Cloud Native
2 78 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (7.76%) Video\Live Streaming
4 65 (7.00%) AI Agents
5 64 (6.90%) Blog
6 57 (6.14%) Algorithms
7 46 (4.96%) Product Ownership
8 33 (3.56%) Mobile App
9 32 (3.45%) Low-Code
9 32 (3.45%) Over-the-Top Content
10 29 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (3.13%) Social Media
11 24 (2.59%) Hedge funds
12 20 (2.16%) Credit Risk
12 20 (2.16%) Digital TV
13 18 (1.94%) BBC
14 17 (1.83%) iPhone
14 17 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
15 14 (1.51%) Onboarding
16 13 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.16%) Android
2 15 (1.62%) Linux
3 6 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.54%) Windows
5 3 (0.32%) Unix
6 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 781 (84.16%) AI
2 281 (30.28%) Agile
3 262 (28.23%) CI/CD
4 255 (27.48%) Data Science
5 244 (26.29%) Roadmaps
6 216 (23.28%) Full-Stack Development
7 212 (22.84%) Analytics
8 198 (21.34%) Software Engineering
9 160 (17.24%) DevOps
10 148 (15.95%) LLM
11 131 (14.12%) Data Engineering
11 131 (14.12%) Mentoring
12 129 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
13 128 (13.79%) Generative AI
14 106 (11.42%) Data Governance
15 104 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 102 (10.99%) Technical Leadership
17 101 (10.88%) Data Architecture
18 97 (10.45%) Decision-Making
19 96 (10.34%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 387 (41.70%) Python
2 373 (40.19%) SQL
3 198 (21.34%) C#
4 140 (15.09%) JavaScript
5 66 (7.11%) Go
6 59 (6.36%) TypeScript
7 50 (5.39%) Scala
8 41 (4.42%) Java
9 27 (2.91%) PowerShell
10 19 (2.05%) Bicep
11 13 (1.40%) C++
11 13 (1.40%) R
12 10 (1.08%) C
13 9 (0.97%) Rust
14 7 (0.75%) PHP
15 6 (0.65%) Bash
15 6 (0.65%) Swift
16 5 (0.54%) Ada
17 4 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 97 (10.45%) Degree
2 70 (7.54%) Security Cleared
3 47 (5.06%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.66%) DV Cleared
5 23 (2.48%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.37%) PhD
7 20 (2.16%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.62%) SnowPro
11 13 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.86%) CISSP
13 7 (0.75%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
15 3 (0.32%) CCDP
15 3 (0.32%) CCNP
15 3 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.22%) GIAC
16 2 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (9.16%) Data Quality
2 31 (3.34%) QA
3 29 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.29%) GDPR
5 9 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.43%) SLA
7 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.32%) MIL-STD-1553
9 2 (0.22%) JTAG
10 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 149 (16.06%) Docker
2 55 (5.93%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.65%) Firmware
4 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.32%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 119 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.19%) Grafana
3 7 (0.75%) Kubeflow
3 7 (0.75%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.65%) Ansible
4 6 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.32%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.32%) Istio
5 3 (0.32%) linkerd
5 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.32%) Puppet
6 2 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 2 (0.22%) Podman
7 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 305 (32.87%) Microsoft
2 146 (15.73%) Databricks
3 64 (6.90%) Google
4 38 (4.09%) Facebook
5 26 (2.80%) Typelevel
6 21 (2.26%) Yahoo!
7 19 (2.05%) Adobe
8 17 (1.83%) Apple
8 17 (1.83%) Sony
9 16 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 15 (1.62%) Foundry
11 12 (1.29%) SAP
12 5 (0.54%) Oracle
12 5 (0.54%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.43%) HighQ
13 4 (0.43%) Legatics
14 3 (0.32%) Palo Alto
14 3 (0.32%) Perforce
14 3 (0.32%) SonicWALL
14 3 (0.32%) VMware