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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 33 108
Rank change year-on-year -27 +75 -11
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 891 1,166 696
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.99% 7.02% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 7.55% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 573 255 511
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,350 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,000 £137,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +3.45%

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 18,510 15,440 22,079
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.99% 92.97% 87.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13,413 9,132 16,008
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £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 3 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 (2.81%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.23%) Apache
4 10 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.67%) SAS
6 4 (0.45%) Confluence
7 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.34%) Blender
2 3 (0.34%) Maya
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) HFM
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 413 (46.35%) Azure
2 250 (28.06%) AWS
3 226 (25.36%) Azure AI
4 140 (15.71%) GCP
5 94 (10.55%) Azure DevOps
6 91 (10.21%) GitHub
6 91 (10.21%) Snowflake
7 87 (9.76%) Azure Machine Learning
8 79 (8.87%) GitHub Copilot
9 74 (8.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 60 (6.73%) Power Platform
11 45 (5.05%) Azure Data Factory
12 37 (4.15%) SaaS
13 23 (2.58%) Amazon Bedrock
14 22 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
15 21 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
16 20 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
17 19 (2.13%) Amazon S3
17 19 (2.13%) Power Automate
17 19 (2.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 120 (13.47%) Broadband
2 30 (3.37%) Internet
3 13 (1.46%) Firewall
4 7 (0.79%) 5G
4 7 (0.79%) Kerberos
4 7 (0.79%) Network Security
5 2 (0.22%) ATM
5 2 (0.22%) BGP
5 2 (0.22%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.22%) DNS
5 2 (0.22%) LAN
5 2 (0.22%) OSPF
5 2 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.22%) UWB
5 2 (0.22%) VLAN
5 2 (0.22%) VPN
5 2 (0.22%) WAN
5 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.22%) WireGuard
5 2 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (19.98%) MongoDB
2 174 (19.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 59 (6.62%) SQL Server
4 58 (6.51%) Power BI
5 46 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (4.15%) Metadata
7 33 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (2.69%) Big Data
9 18 (2.02%) Delta Lake
10 16 (1.80%) Data Lake
11 14 (1.57%) Tableau
12 12 (1.35%) Data Vault
13 9 (1.01%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.01%) Looker
14 8 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (0.90%) NoSQL
15 7 (0.79%) Relational Database
16 6 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
17 4 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 32 (3.59%) Git
2 17 (1.91%) MLflow
3 16 (1.80%) Claude Code
4 12 (1.35%) JIRA
5 11 (1.23%) GitLab
6 6 (0.67%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.34%) Appium
8 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.22%) Selenium
8 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.11%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.11%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.11%) Mocha
9 1 (0.11%) NUnit
9 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 231 (25.93%) Finance
2 162 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 104 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (8.08%) Marketing
5 63 (7.07%) Banking
6 40 (4.49%) Games
7 38 (4.26%) Public Sector
8 37 (4.15%) Advertising
9 34 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (3.82%) Law
10 31 (3.48%) Legal
11 24 (2.69%) Retail
12 21 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.12%) Legal Technology
14 9 (1.01%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.79%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.67%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 253 (28.40%) Developer
2 158 (17.73%) .NET Developer
3 147 (16.50%) Senior
4 101 (11.34%) Lead
5 100 (11.22%) Data Scientist
6 91 (10.21%) Architect
7 59 (6.62%) Software Engineer
8 51 (5.72%) Senior Data Scientist
9 49 (5.50%) Data Engineer
10 45 (5.05%) Data Manager
10 45 (5.05%) Finance Manager
11 43 (4.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 41 (4.60%) Engineering Manager
13 40 (4.49%) Lead Data Scientist
14 39 (4.38%) Data Architect
15 34 (3.82%) Senior Developer
16 31 (3.48%) Consultant
17 27 (3.03%) Lead Developer
17 27 (3.03%) Python Engineer
18 26 (2.92%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (21.21%) .NET
2 164 (18.41%) .NET Core
3 156 (17.51%) ASP.NET
3 156 (17.51%) ASP.NET Core
3 156 (17.51%) ML.NET
4 120 (13.47%) React
4 120 (13.47%) RESTful
5 104 (11.67%) Blazor
5 104 (11.67%) CSS
6 101 (11.34%) HTML
7 79 (8.87%) PyTorch
8 69 (7.74%) TensorFlow
9 59 (6.62%) LangChain
10 36 (4.04%) gRPC
10 36 (4.04%) Node.js
11 35 (3.93%) LangGraph
12 27 (3.03%) Hugging Face
12 27 (3.03%) PySpark
13 25 (2.81%) scikit-learn
14 24 (2.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 110 (12.35%) Cloud Native
2 86 (9.65%) Video\Live Streaming
3 84 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
4 53 (5.95%) AI Agents
5 49 (5.50%) Algorithms
6 46 (5.16%) Product Ownership
7 42 (4.71%) Over-the-Top Content
8 40 (4.49%) Blog
9 32 (3.59%) Low-Code
10 29 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (3.25%) Social Media
11 27 (3.03%) Mobile App
12 20 (2.24%) Digital TV
13 18 (2.02%) BBC
14 17 (1.91%) iPhone
15 16 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
16 12 (1.35%) Hedge funds
16 12 (1.35%) Life Science
16 12 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.35%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.13%) Android
2 13 (1.46%) Linux
3 5 (0.56%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 736 (82.60%) AI
2 282 (31.65%) Agile
3 272 (30.53%) CI/CD
4 246 (27.61%) Data Science
5 226 (25.36%) Roadmaps
6 216 (24.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 202 (22.67%) Software Engineering
8 194 (21.77%) Analytics
9 161 (18.07%) DevOps
10 140 (15.71%) Mentoring
11 138 (15.49%) LLM
12 130 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
13 126 (14.14%) Data Engineering
14 124 (13.92%) Generative AI
15 104 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
16 102 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 102 (11.45%) Data Governance
17 99 (11.11%) Decision-Making
18 94 (10.55%) Data Architecture
19 93 (10.44%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 381 (42.76%) Python
2 346 (38.83%) SQL
3 196 (22.00%) C#
4 138 (15.49%) JavaScript
5 77 (8.64%) Go
6 59 (6.62%) TypeScript
7 57 (6.40%) Scala
8 41 (4.60%) Java
9 28 (3.14%) PowerShell
10 15 (1.68%) Bicep
11 12 (1.35%) R
12 9 (1.01%) C++
13 8 (0.90%) C
13 8 (0.90%) PHP
14 7 (0.79%) Bash
14 7 (0.79%) Rust
15 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.34%) Ada
17 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (9.88%) Degree
2 62 (6.96%) Security Cleared
3 39 (4.38%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.14%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.24%) PhD
6 18 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 17 (1.91%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.46%) DBS Check
8 13 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.23%) SnowPro
10 9 (1.01%) CISSP
11 7 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.22%) CCDP
13 2 (0.22%) CCNP
13 2 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.63%) Data Quality
2 26 (2.92%) QA
3 23 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.02%) GDPR
5 6 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.34%) IFRS
7 3 (0.34%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.34%) SLA
7 3 (0.34%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.22%) JTAG
9 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 154 (17.28%) Docker
2 55 (6.17%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.45%) Firmware
5 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 112 (12.57%) Kubernetes
2 45 (5.05%) Terraform
3 8 (0.90%) Grafana
4 7 (0.79%) Kubeflow
4 7 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.34%) Ansible
6 3 (0.34%) Istio
6 3 (0.34%) linkerd
6 3 (0.34%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.34%) Puppet
7 2 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.22%) Podman
8 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 304 (34.12%) Microsoft
2 129 (14.48%) Databricks
3 66 (7.41%) Google
4 38 (4.26%) Facebook
5 36 (4.04%) Typelevel
6 21 (2.36%) Yahoo!
7 19 (2.13%) Adobe
8 17 (1.91%) Apple
8 17 (1.91%) Foundry
8 17 (1.91%) Sony
9 14 (1.57%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.01%) SAP
11 5 (0.56%) Oracle
11 5 (0.56%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.45%) HighQ
12 4 (0.45%) Legatics
13 2 (0.22%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.22%) Cisco
13 2 (0.22%) New Relic
13 2 (0.22%) SonicWALL