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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 74 85
Rank change year-on-year -49 +11 +14
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 341 755 721
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.22% 3.96% 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 4.34% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 243 419 463
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,750 £45,751
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -0.82% -1.98%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,125 £89,375
90th Percentile £132,500 £100,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,000 £76,383
% change year-on-year +3.90% +0.81% +9.12%

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 13,815 17,389 19,463
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.14% 91.15% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,716 10,513 15,727
10th Percentile £29,675 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 5 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 18 (5.28%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.64%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (2.05%) Apache Solr
6 5 (1.47%) CMS
7 4 (1.17%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (1.17%) Confluence
8 3 (0.88%) Apache
9 2 (0.59%) Luigi
10 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.76%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.88%) Trello
4 2 (0.59%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.59%) Sketch
4 2 (0.59%) Weka
5 1 (0.29%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.29%) Blender
Business Applications
1 6 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.17%) Adaptiv
2 4 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.88%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.88%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.29%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.29%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.29%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.29%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.29%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.29%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.29%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.29%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 163 (47.80%) Azure
2 109 (31.96%) AWS
3 59 (17.30%) GCP
4 37 (10.85%) Power Platform
5 30 (8.80%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (7.62%) Entra ID
7 25 (7.33%) SaaS
8 18 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (4.99%) Azure Machine Learning
9 17 (4.99%) Serverless
10 14 (4.11%) Amazon S3
10 14 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.81%) Microsoft Purview
12 12 (3.52%) GitHub
13 11 (3.23%) PaaS
14 10 (2.93%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (2.93%) dbt
15 9 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (2.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.17%) Broadband
2 3 (0.88%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.59%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.29%) Network Security
4 1 (0.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.38%) Power BI
2 28 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (4.40%) Tableau
4 13 (3.81%) NoSQL
4 13 (3.81%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.52%) Data Lake
6 11 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.93%) Metadata
7 10 (2.93%) MySQL
8 9 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (2.35%) Big Data
10 7 (2.05%) Data Mining
10 7 (2.05%) Looker
10 7 (2.05%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.76%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.47%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.47%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.17%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 15 (4.40%) Git
2 8 (2.35%) JIRA
2 8 (2.35%) MLflow
3 4 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.59%) ERwin
5 2 (0.59%) GitLab
5 2 (0.59%) Selenium
5 2 (0.59%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.59%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 101 (29.62%) Social Skills
2 97 (28.45%) Finance
3 49 (14.37%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.92%) Marketing
4 27 (7.92%) Retail
5 23 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.57%) Telecoms
7 17 (4.99%) Games
8 13 (3.81%) Law
9 11 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.23%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.64%) Banking
11 7 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.47%) Legal
12 5 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.17%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.17%) Automotive
13 4 (1.17%) Billing
13 4 (1.17%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (13.20%) Lead
2 43 (12.61%) Senior
3 36 (10.56%) Data Engineer
4 25 (7.33%) Architect
5 24 (7.04%) Developer
6 23 (6.74%) Data Scientist
7 19 (5.57%) Software Engineer
8 17 (4.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 16 (4.69%) Analyst
10 15 (4.40%) Consultant
11 10 (2.93%) Product Owner
12 9 (2.64%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (2.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (2.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 8 (2.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 8 (2.35%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 8 (2.35%) Technical Manager
14 7 (2.05%) Applications Engineer
14 7 (2.05%) Operations Engineer
14 7 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.62%) Kafka
2 24 (7.04%) TensorFlow
3 22 (6.45%) PyTorch
4 20 (5.87%) Node.js
4 20 (5.87%) React
4 20 (5.87%) scikit-learn
5 18 (5.28%) gRPC
5 18 (5.28%) REST
5 18 (5.28%) RESTful
6 15 (4.40%) Pandas
7 13 (3.81%) Spring
8 12 (3.52%) Spring Boot
9 11 (3.23%) Hugging Face
9 11 (3.23%) WebSockets
10 10 (2.93%) FastAPI
11 9 (2.64%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (2.35%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.35%) Middleware
12 8 (2.35%) NumPy
13 7 (2.05%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.78%) Product Ownership
2 41 (12.02%) Cloud Native
3 26 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (5.87%) AI Agents
5 19 (5.57%) Algorithms
6 11 (3.23%) Reinsurance
7 8 (2.35%) Augmented Reality
7 8 (2.35%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.05%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.76%) Credit Risk
9 6 (1.76%) CUDA
9 6 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.76%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.76%) Mobile Games
9 6 (1.76%) Sports Betting
10 5 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.47%) Educational Technology
11 4 (1.17%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.87%) Windows
2 15 (4.40%) Android
3 14 (4.11%) Linux
4 8 (2.35%) Apple iOS
5 7 (2.05%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.88%) Unix
7 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (78.89%) AI
2 144 (42.23%) Analytics
3 98 (28.74%) Agile
4 96 (28.15%) Data Science
5 94 (27.57%) DevOps
6 78 (22.87%) Roadmaps
7 74 (21.70%) CI/CD
8 62 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 60 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (15.84%) Decision-Making
11 53 (15.54%) Software Engineering
12 52 (15.25%) LLM
13 45 (13.20%) Business Intelligence
14 44 (12.90%) Computer Science
15 42 (12.32%) Data Engineering
16 40 (11.73%) Coaching
16 40 (11.73%) Natural Language Processing
17 39 (11.44%) Mentoring
18 38 (11.14%) Data Pipeline
18 38 (11.14%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 163 (47.80%) Python
2 83 (24.34%) SQL
3 37 (10.85%) Java
4 27 (7.92%) PowerShell
5 25 (7.33%) R
6 24 (7.04%) Bash
7 18 (5.28%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.69%) C++
9 15 (4.40%) PHP
9 15 (4.40%) TypeScript
10 11 (3.23%) Go
11 10 (2.93%) Scala
12 8 (2.35%) C#
12 8 (2.35%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.47%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (1.17%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.59%) Bicep
15 2 (0.59%) C
16 1 (0.29%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 72 (21.11%) Degree
2 28 (8.21%) Security Cleared
3 26 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.99%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.05%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.05%) PhD
5 7 (2.05%) PMP
6 6 (1.76%) CFA
6 6 (1.76%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.47%) Postgraduate
8 4 (1.17%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.88%) ACCA
9 3 (0.88%) CIMA
9 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.59%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.62%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.23%) GDPR
3 6 (1.76%) QA
4 5 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.17%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.17%) EU AI Act
5 4 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.59%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.59%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.59%) 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 43 (12.61%) Docker
2 18 (5.28%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (3.23%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.59%) Ceph
5 2 (0.59%) Lustre
5 2 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.29%) Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (13.78%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.68%) Terraform
3 18 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (4.40%) Ansible
5 8 (2.35%) SCCM
6 2 (0.59%) Argo
6 2 (0.59%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.59%) Puppet
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
7 1 (0.29%) Istio
7 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 59 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.68%) Databricks
3 19 (5.57%) Google
4 13 (3.81%) OpenAI
5 11 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.76%) Murex
6 6 (1.76%) SAP
7 5 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.17%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.17%) Ericsson
8 4 (1.17%) FIS
8 4 (1.17%) Genesys
8 4 (1.17%) HubSpot
8 4 (1.17%) Mavenir
8 4 (1.17%) Nokia
8 4 (1.17%) Talend
8 4 (1.17%) Zoho
9 3 (0.88%) Adobe
9 3 (0.88%) Dell
9 3 (0.88%) Mercator