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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 36 71
Rank change year-on-year -36 +35 +22
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 847 1,073 860
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.42% 6.48% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 6.92% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 547 230 494
10th Percentile £46,500 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,262 £56,250 £55,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £136,750 £132,500 £102,500
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 20,031 15,502 19,983
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.96% 93.59% 87.98%
Number of salaries quoted 14,302 8,471 11,957
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,913 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,245 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,300 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% -2.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,300
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 28 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 (2.60%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.13%) Apache
3 17 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.71%) SAS
6 5 (0.59%) Confluence
7 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.12%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (1.30%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Blender
3 3 (0.35%) Maya
4 2 (0.24%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.12%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 365 (43.09%) Azure
2 241 (28.45%) AWS
3 183 (21.61%) Azure AI
4 116 (13.70%) GCP
5 101 (11.92%) GitHub
6 89 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
6 89 (10.51%) Snowflake
7 78 (9.21%) GitHub Copilot
8 56 (6.61%) Power Platform
9 48 (5.67%) Azure Machine Learning
10 47 (5.55%) Amazon Bedrock
11 46 (5.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 44 (5.19%) SaaS
13 41 (4.84%) Anthropic Claude
13 41 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
14 27 (3.19%) Microsoft Purview
15 21 (2.48%) Azure Databricks
16 20 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (2.13%) Amazon S3
17 18 (2.13%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 53 (6.26%) Broadband
2 30 (3.54%) Internet
3 12 (1.42%) Firewall
4 9 (1.06%) 5G
5 5 (0.59%) Kerberos
5 5 (0.59%) Network Security
6 4 (0.47%) VPN
7 3 (0.35%) BGP
7 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.35%) LAN
7 3 (0.35%) OSPF
7 3 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.35%) WAN
8 2 (0.24%) ATM
8 2 (0.24%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.24%) DNS
8 2 (0.24%) VLAN
8 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.24%) WireGuard
8 2 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (19.24%) MongoDB
2 155 (18.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 52 (6.14%) Power BI
4 48 (5.67%) Metadata
5 47 (5.55%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
7 29 (3.42%) Big Data
8 25 (2.95%) SQL Server
9 20 (2.36%) Data Lake
9 20 (2.36%) Delta Lake
10 18 (2.13%) Tableau
11 17 (2.01%) Data Vault
12 16 (1.89%) NoSQL
13 12 (1.42%) Looker
14 10 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (1.18%) BigQuery
15 9 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (0.83%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.83%) Relational Database
16 7 (0.83%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 39 (4.60%) Claude Code
2 37 (4.37%) Git
3 21 (2.48%) MLflow
4 13 (1.53%) JIRA
5 9 (1.06%) GitLab
6 8 (0.94%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.59%) Poetry
7 5 (0.59%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.35%) Appium
9 3 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.35%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.24%) Selenium
11 1 (0.12%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.12%) Mocha
11 1 (0.12%) NUnit
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 270 (31.88%) Finance
2 146 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 112 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (10.98%) Banking
5 84 (9.92%) Marketing
6 47 (5.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (4.37%) Retail
8 36 (4.25%) Law
8 36 (4.25%) Public Sector
9 35 (4.13%) Games
10 33 (3.90%) Advertising
11 31 (3.66%) Legal
12 16 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.53%) Aerospace
14 11 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.18%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.18%) Legal Technology
15 10 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.83%) Electronics
16 7 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 215 (25.38%) Developer
2 148 (17.47%) .NET Developer
3 135 (15.94%) Senior
4 116 (13.70%) Architect
5 105 (12.40%) Data Scientist
6 95 (11.22%) Lead
7 54 (6.38%) Senior Data Scientist
7 54 (6.38%) Software Engineer
8 47 (5.55%) Data Engineer
8 47 (5.55%) Finance Manager
9 46 (5.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 38 (4.49%) Data Architect
10 38 (4.49%) Lead Data Scientist
11 37 (4.37%) Enterprise Architect
12 30 (3.54%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 28 (3.31%) Consultant
14 24 (2.83%) Senior Developer
15 23 (2.72%) Data Manager
16 21 (2.48%) Lead Developer
17 19 (2.24%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (20.31%) .NET
2 149 (17.59%) .NET Core
3 148 (17.47%) ASP.NET
3 148 (17.47%) ASP.NET Core
3 148 (17.47%) ML.NET
4 115 (13.58%) RESTful
5 106 (12.51%) React
6 97 (11.45%) Blazor
7 90 (10.63%) CSS
8 87 (10.27%) HTML
9 77 (9.09%) PyTorch
10 72 (8.50%) TensorFlow
11 68 (8.03%) LangChain
12 64 (7.56%) Terraform
13 46 (5.43%) LangGraph
14 31 (3.66%) PySpark
15 28 (3.31%) Node.js
16 26 (3.07%) Hugging Face
17 21 (2.48%) scikit-learn
18 19 (2.24%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 115 (13.58%) Cloud Native
2 78 (9.21%) AI Agents
3 67 (7.91%) Blog
4 56 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
5 47 (5.55%) Algorithms
6 37 (4.37%) Video\Live Streaming
7 36 (4.25%) Hedge funds
7 36 (4.25%) Product Ownership
8 31 (3.66%) Mobile App
9 29 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
10 28 (3.31%) Social Media
11 24 (2.83%) Low-Code
12 21 (2.48%) Credit Risk
13 19 (2.24%) BBC
13 19 (2.24%) Digital TV
14 17 (2.01%) iPhone
15 15 (1.77%) Onboarding
15 15 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
16 12 (1.42%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.36%) Android
2 15 (1.77%) Linux
3 7 (0.83%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.71%) Windows
5 3 (0.35%) Unix
6 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (86.66%) AI
2 245 (28.93%) Data Science
3 237 (27.98%) CI/CD
4 222 (26.21%) Agile
5 217 (25.62%) Roadmaps
6 210 (24.79%) Analytics
7 192 (22.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 165 (19.48%) Software Engineering
9 146 (17.24%) DevOps
10 140 (16.53%) LLM
11 126 (14.88%) Generative AI
12 121 (14.29%) Mentoring
13 97 (11.45%) Technical Leadership
14 95 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
15 92 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 91 (10.74%) Fintech
17 90 (10.63%) Data Engineering
18 88 (10.39%) Infrastructure as Code
18 88 (10.39%) Validation
19 87 (10.27%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 350 (41.32%) Python
2 337 (39.79%) SQL
3 180 (21.25%) C#
4 124 (14.64%) JavaScript
5 46 (5.43%) TypeScript
6 40 (4.72%) Java
7 32 (3.78%) Go
8 23 (2.72%) Scala
9 21 (2.48%) PowerShell
10 19 (2.24%) Bicep
11 16 (1.89%) R
12 12 (1.42%) C++
13 10 (1.18%) C
14 9 (1.06%) Rust
15 7 (0.83%) Swift
16 6 (0.71%) Bash
16 6 (0.71%) PHP
17 5 (0.59%) Ada
18 3 (0.35%) Ruby
18 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (10.04%) Degree
2 77 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 53 (6.26%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.01%) DV Cleared
5 18 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.89%) SnowPro
7 15 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.53%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.18%) PhD
10 9 (1.06%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.94%) CISSP
12 5 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.47%) CCNP
14 3 (0.35%) CCDP
15 2 (0.24%) GIAC
15 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (11.22%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.60%) QA
4 19 (2.24%) GDPR
5 11 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.47%) COPPA
8 4 (0.47%) SLA
9 3 (0.35%) IFRS
9 3 (0.35%) IFRS 17
9 3 (0.35%) MIL-STD-1553
9 3 (0.35%) NIST
9 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) JTAG
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 126 (14.88%) Docker
2 22 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.71%) Firmware
5 4 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) NFS
Systems Management
1 120 (14.17%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.77%) Grafana
3 11 (1.30%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.71%) Ansible
5 5 (0.59%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.35%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.35%) Istio
6 3 (0.35%) linkerd
6 3 (0.35%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.35%) Puppet
7 2 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.24%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 2 (0.24%) Podman
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 252 (29.75%) Microsoft
2 123 (14.52%) Databricks
3 57 (6.73%) Google
4 35 (4.13%) Facebook
5 20 (2.36%) Yahoo!
6 18 (2.13%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.89%) Apple
7 16 (1.89%) Sony
8 13 (1.53%) Adobe
9 12 (1.42%) Foundry
10 10 (1.18%) SAP
11 5 (0.59%) New Relic
11 5 (0.59%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.47%) HighQ
12 4 (0.47%) Legatics
12 4 (0.47%) Oracle
12 4 (0.47%) Splunk
12 4 (0.47%) VMware
13 3 (0.35%) Perforce
13 3 (0.35%) SonicWALL