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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 69 95
Rank change year-on-year -39 +26 0
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 402 654 889
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.42% 4.52% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 4.75% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 248 310 666
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £112,600 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -

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 14,220 13,771 26,314
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.60% 95.19% 92.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,269 8,606 21,825
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £34,300
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 4 March 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 26 (6.47%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.74%) CMS
3 7 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.24%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.00%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.00%) Confluence
6 3 (0.75%) Apache
6 3 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) Kinematics
Applications
1 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.00%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.75%) Trello
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.50%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (2.49%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.50%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.25%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 187 (46.52%) Azure
2 142 (35.32%) AWS
3 96 (23.88%) GCP
4 53 (13.18%) Power Platform
5 42 (10.45%) Azure Machine Learning
6 25 (6.22%) SaaS
7 23 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (4.98%) Entra ID
9 16 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (3.98%) Serverless
10 15 (3.73%) Azure AI
10 15 (3.73%) Snowflake
11 14 (3.48%) Vertex AI
12 12 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.74%) Amazon S3
13 11 (2.74%) Amazon SageMaker
13 11 (2.74%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (2.49%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (2.24%) Dagster
15 9 (2.24%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 47 (11.69%) Broadband
2 5 (1.24%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.75%) Network Security
4 2 (0.50%) Firewall
4 2 (0.50%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.25%) LTE
5 1 (0.25%) Modbus
5 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (11.19%) Power BI
2 32 (7.96%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (6.22%) Tableau
4 18 (4.48%) Metadata
5 17 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (3.73%) SQL Server
7 14 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.23%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.99%) Data Lake
10 11 (2.74%) Apache Iceberg
10 11 (2.74%) Delta Lake
10 11 (2.74%) Looker
10 11 (2.74%) NoSQL
11 10 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (2.49%) Pinecone
11 10 (2.49%) Weaviate
12 9 (2.24%) Big Data
12 9 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (1.49%) Data Mining
14 5 (1.24%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (4.48%) MLflow
2 14 (3.48%) Git
3 5 (1.24%) Claude Code
3 5 (1.24%) JIRA
4 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.50%) ERwin
5 2 (0.50%) GitLab
5 2 (0.50%) Selenium
5 2 (0.50%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.50%) WebDriver
General
1 122 (30.35%) Social Skills
2 91 (22.64%) Finance
3 69 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.71%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.47%) Retail
6 23 (5.72%) Marketing
7 20 (4.98%) Telecoms
8 16 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.73%) Legal
10 13 (3.23%) Games
11 11 (2.74%) Publishing
12 10 (2.49%) Law
12 10 (2.49%) Manufacturing
13 9 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.74%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.49%) Banking
17 5 (1.24%) Back Office
18 4 (1.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 76 (18.91%) Senior
2 62 (15.42%) Lead
3 42 (10.45%) Data Engineer
4 39 (9.70%) Developer
5 38 (9.45%) Software Engineer
6 32 (7.96%) Data Scientist
7 26 (6.47%) Consultant
8 21 (5.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 20 (4.98%) Architect
10 19 (4.73%) Analyst
11 18 (4.48%) Operations Engineer
11 18 (4.48%) Scala Engineer
12 16 (3.98%) Data Analyst
13 15 (3.73%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 14 (3.48%) Data Consultant
15 13 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
16 10 (2.49%) Commercial Analyst
16 10 (2.49%) Commercial Data Analyst
16 10 (2.49%) Senior Consultant
17 9 (2.24%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (10.95%) PyTorch
1 44 (10.95%) TensorFlow
2 43 (10.70%) gRPC
3 35 (8.71%) React
4 27 (6.72%) Kafka
5 22 (5.47%) REST
5 22 (5.47%) RESTful
6 17 (4.23%) Node.js
7 15 (3.73%) AngularJS
8 14 (3.48%) LangChain
9 13 (3.23%) Spring
9 13 (3.23%) Spring Boot
10 12 (2.99%) .NET
11 11 (2.74%) OAuth
12 10 (2.49%) Symfony
13 9 (2.24%) Faiss
13 9 (2.24%) PySpark
13 9 (2.24%) vLLM
13 9 (2.24%) Vue
13 9 (2.24%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.69%) Distributed Systems
2 50 (12.44%) Product Ownership
3 48 (11.94%) Cloud Native
4 38 (9.45%) Video\Live Streaming
5 37 (9.20%) Algorithms
6 30 (7.46%) Over-the-Top Content
7 26 (6.47%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.74%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.49%) FMCG
10 8 (1.99%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.74%) Educational Technology
12 6 (1.49%) Low-Code
13 5 (1.24%) Mobile Games
13 5 (1.24%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.24%) Social Media
14 4 (1.00%) Augmented Reality
14 4 (1.00%) Blog
14 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (1.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.98%) Android
2 15 (3.73%) Linux
3 14 (3.48%) Windows
4 6 (1.49%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.75%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (0.75%) Unix
7 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (75.87%) AI
2 145 (36.07%) Analytics
3 142 (35.32%) Data Science
4 136 (33.83%) CI/CD
5 98 (24.38%) Agile
6 94 (23.38%) Software Engineering
7 93 (23.13%) DevOps
8 91 (22.64%) Roadmaps
9 73 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
10 71 (17.66%) Coaching
10 71 (17.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 66 (16.42%) Containerisation
12 65 (16.17%) Decision-Making
13 64 (15.92%) Clean Code
13 64 (15.92%) LLM
14 63 (15.67%) Mentoring
15 62 (15.42%) MLOps
16 61 (15.17%) Microservices
17 59 (14.68%) Data Pipeline
18 57 (14.18%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 213 (52.99%) Python
2 88 (21.89%) SQL
3 63 (15.67%) Go
4 49 (12.19%) Java
5 42 (10.45%) Scala
6 25 (6.22%) Bash
7 21 (5.22%) JavaScript
8 19 (4.73%) PowerShell
9 18 (4.48%) TypeScript
10 17 (4.23%) C#
10 17 (4.23%) C++
10 17 (4.23%) PHP
10 17 (4.23%) R
11 8 (1.99%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.49%) Rust
13 5 (1.24%) Bicep
14 3 (0.75%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.25%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 86 (21.39%) Degree
2 32 (7.96%) Security Cleared
3 28 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (6.22%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.23%) Master's Degree
5 13 (3.23%) PhD
6 10 (2.49%) ACCA
6 10 (2.49%) CIMA
6 10 (2.49%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.00%) CISA
9 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.50%) CISSP
10 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.50%) OSCE
10 2 (0.50%) OSCP
10 2 (0.50%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.97%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.22%) GDPR
3 7 (1.74%) QA
4 4 (1.00%) EU AI Act
5 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.50%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.50%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (18.91%) Docker
2 12 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (2.49%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.50%) Ceph
5 2 (0.50%) Lustre
5 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (12.44%) Kubernetes
2 30 (7.46%) Terraform
3 12 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.24%) Ansible
5 5 (1.24%) SCCM
6 3 (0.75%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.25%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) Grafana
8 1 (0.25%) Istio
8 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 62 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.71%) Databricks
3 27 (6.72%) Typelevel
4 21 (5.22%) Google
5 13 (3.23%) OpenAI
5 13 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.99%) Palantir
7 7 (1.74%) Foundry
8 5 (1.24%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.24%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.24%) Nokia
9 4 (1.00%) SAP
10 3 (0.75%) Dell
10 3 (0.75%) Mercator
11 2 (0.50%) Adobe
11 2 (0.50%) Civica
11 2 (0.50%) Northgate
11 2 (0.50%) Orchard
12 1 (0.25%) VMware
12 1 (0.25%) Yahoo!