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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 34 102
Rank change year-on-year -27 +68 -1
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 778 1,171 937
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.82% 7.49% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 7.93% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 486 259 721
10th Percentile £46,000 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +1.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £147,040 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -

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 16,752 14,764 30,098
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.21% 94.38% 88.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12,199 8,615 23,204
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,688 £75,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 26 June 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 24 (3.08%) Apache Spark
1 24 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.03%) Apache
4 6 (0.77%) SAS
5 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.13%) CMS
6 1 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.39%) Blender
2 3 (0.39%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.90%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) HFM
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 370 (47.56%) Azure
2 238 (30.59%) AWS
3 187 (24.04%) Azure AI
4 142 (18.25%) GCP
5 97 (12.47%) Azure Machine Learning
6 76 (9.77%) Snowflake
7 71 (9.13%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (8.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 66 (8.48%) GitHub
9 66 (8.48%) Power Platform
10 57 (7.33%) GitHub Copilot
11 39 (5.01%) SaaS
12 38 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
13 23 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
14 22 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
15 20 (2.57%) Power Automate
15 20 (2.57%) Vertex AI
16 19 (2.44%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (2.44%) OneDrive
16 19 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 135 (17.35%) Broadband
2 20 (2.57%) Internet
3 10 (1.29%) Firewall
4 7 (0.90%) 5G
5 6 (0.77%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.77%) Network Security
6 2 (0.26%) DNS
6 2 (0.26%) VLAN
6 2 (0.26%) VPN
6 2 (0.26%) WireGuard
7 1 (0.13%) 4G
7 1 (0.13%) LTE
7 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (18.12%) MongoDB
2 139 (17.87%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (7.97%) SQL Server
4 61 (7.84%) Power BI
5 43 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
6 35 (4.50%) Metadata
7 34 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (2.44%) Tableau
9 18 (2.31%) Big Data
10 16 (2.06%) BigQuery
10 16 (2.06%) Delta Lake
11 13 (1.67%) Looker
12 12 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.41%) Data Lake
14 10 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (1.03%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (1.03%) Relational Database
16 7 (0.90%) NoSQL
16 7 (0.90%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 18 (2.31%) MLflow
2 15 (1.93%) Git
3 10 (1.29%) GitLab
4 7 (0.90%) JIRA
5 6 (0.77%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.39%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.26%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) Appium
8 1 (0.13%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.13%) Mocha
General
1 184 (23.65%) Finance
2 160 (20.57%) Social Skills
3 97 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (6.30%) Banking
5 41 (5.27%) Marketing
6 35 (4.50%) Games
7 33 (4.24%) Public Sector
8 30 (3.86%) Retail
9 28 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (3.34%) Advertising
11 25 (3.21%) Law
12 21 (2.70%) Legal
13 13 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.03%) Publishing
16 7 (0.90%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.64%) Legal Technology
18 5 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
18 5 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 212 (27.25%) Developer
2 132 (16.97%) Senior
3 120 (15.42%) .NET Developer
4 104 (13.37%) Lead
5 88 (11.31%) Data Scientist
6 66 (8.48%) Architect
7 55 (7.07%) Software Engineer
8 54 (6.94%) Data Engineer
9 43 (5.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 43 (5.53%) Engineering Manager
10 42 (5.40%) Data Manager
11 41 (5.27%) Senior Data Scientist
12 34 (4.37%) Data Architect
13 33 (4.24%) Finance Manager
13 33 (4.24%) Lead Data Scientist
14 31 (3.98%) Consultant
15 30 (3.86%) Scala Engineer
15 30 (3.86%) Senior Developer
16 28 (3.60%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 27 (3.47%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (19.28%) .NET
2 129 (16.58%) .NET Core
3 117 (15.04%) ASP.NET
3 117 (15.04%) ASP.NET Core
3 117 (15.04%) ML.NET
4 97 (12.47%) RESTful
5 96 (12.34%) React
6 91 (11.70%) PyTorch
7 83 (10.67%) CSS
8 81 (10.41%) HTML
8 81 (10.41%) TensorFlow
9 79 (10.15%) Blazor
10 46 (5.91%) gRPC
11 45 (5.78%) LangChain
12 30 (3.86%) Node.js
13 26 (3.34%) Hugging Face
14 23 (2.96%) JSON
15 22 (2.83%) REST
15 22 (2.83%) scikit-learn
16 21 (2.70%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 102 (13.11%) Video\Live Streaming
2 92 (11.83%) Cloud Native
3 88 (11.31%) Distributed Systems
4 54 (6.94%) Over-the-Top Content
5 48 (6.17%) Product Ownership
6 41 (5.27%) Algorithms
7 35 (4.50%) AI Agents
7 35 (4.50%) Low-Code
8 26 (3.34%) Greenfield Project
9 24 (3.08%) Social Media
10 20 (2.57%) Mobile App
11 17 (2.19%) Digital TV
12 15 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.80%) BBC
13 14 (1.80%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.80%) iPhone
14 13 (1.67%) Blog
14 13 (1.67%) Social Network
15 11 (1.41%) Life Science
16 10 (1.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.80%) Android
2 9 (1.16%) Linux
3 3 (0.39%) Windows
4 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.26%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 606 (77.89%) AI
2 255 (32.78%) CI/CD
3 242 (31.11%) Agile
4 226 (29.05%) Data Science
5 197 (25.32%) Roadmaps
6 195 (25.06%) Software Engineering
7 177 (22.75%) Full-Stack Development
8 159 (20.44%) Analytics
9 140 (17.99%) DevOps
10 134 (17.22%) Mentoring
11 127 (16.32%) Data Engineering
12 126 (16.20%) Generative AI
13 119 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
14 109 (14.01%) LLM
15 99 (12.72%) Decision-Making
16 98 (12.60%) Data Governance
17 94 (12.08%) Technical Leadership
18 89 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
19 88 (11.31%) Infrastructure as Code
20 85 (10.93%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 363 (46.66%) Python
2 293 (37.66%) SQL
3 154 (19.79%) C#
4 115 (14.78%) JavaScript
5 96 (12.34%) Go
6 65 (8.35%) Scala
7 54 (6.94%) TypeScript
8 44 (5.66%) Java
9 27 (3.47%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.41%) Bicep
10 11 (1.41%) R
11 10 (1.29%) Bash
12 9 (1.16%) C++
12 9 (1.16%) PHP
12 9 (1.16%) Rust
13 5 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.39%) C
16 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (10.41%) Degree
2 42 (5.40%) Security Cleared
3 28 (3.60%) SC Cleared
4 20 (2.57%) PhD
5 18 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.06%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.67%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.03%) CISSP
10 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.90%) ACCA
11 7 (0.90%) CIMA
12 6 (0.77%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.51%) CISA
14 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
15 2 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.26%) GIAC
15 2 (0.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (7.07%) Data Quality
2 21 (2.70%) GDPR
3 19 (2.44%) QA
4 17 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.39%) IFRS
5 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.39%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 134 (17.22%) Docker
2 55 (7.07%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.39%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 82 (10.54%) Kubernetes
2 38 (4.88%) Terraform
3 9 (1.16%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.51%) Grafana
6 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.26%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 2 (0.26%) Istio
7 2 (0.26%) linkerd
7 2 (0.26%) Podman
7 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.26%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 255 (32.78%) Microsoft
2 106 (13.62%) Databricks
3 51 (6.56%) Google
4 45 (5.78%) Typelevel
5 27 (3.47%) Facebook
6 20 (2.57%) Adobe
7 17 (2.19%) Foundry
8 13 (1.67%) Apple
8 13 (1.67%) OpenAI
8 13 (1.67%) Sony
8 13 (1.67%) Yahoo!
9 9 (1.16%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.03%) Palantir
11 7 (0.90%) SAP
12 6 (0.77%) Oracle
13 4 (0.51%) HighQ
13 4 (0.51%) Legatics
13 4 (0.51%) ServiceNow
14 2 (0.26%) IBM
14 2 (0.26%) Informatica