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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 72 84
Rank change year-on-year -43 +12 +12
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 352 707 742
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.33% 4.18% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 4.49% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 244 385 493
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,439
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,420 £90,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £100,000 £101,185
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.90% +2.67% +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 13,340 15,743 19,361
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.29% 93.10% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8,449 9,383 15,576
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £79,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 2 January 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 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 18 (5.11%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.99%) Apache Solr
5 7 (1.99%) CMS
6 5 (1.42%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (1.14%) Confluence
8 2 (0.57%) Apache
8 2 (0.57%) Luigi
9 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.28%) Kinematics
Applications
1 6 (1.70%) Chatbot
1 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.85%) Trello
4 2 (0.57%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.57%) Sketch
4 2 (0.57%) Weka
5 1 (0.28%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.28%) Blender
Business Applications
1 6 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.42%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.57%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.57%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 180 (51.14%) Azure
2 117 (33.24%) AWS
3 66 (18.75%) GCP
4 49 (13.92%) Power Platform
5 31 (8.81%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (7.67%) Azure Machine Learning
7 26 (7.39%) Entra ID
7 26 (7.39%) SaaS
8 18 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (4.83%) Serverless
10 14 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.69%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.69%) Microsoft Purview
12 12 (3.41%) GitHub
12 12 (3.41%) Snowflake
13 11 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (3.13%) dbt
14 10 (2.84%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (2.56%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.70%) Broadband
2 3 (0.85%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.57%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.28%) Modbus
4 1 (0.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (12.22%) Power BI
2 31 (8.81%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (5.97%) Tableau
4 17 (4.83%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 14 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (3.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (3.69%) Data Lake
8 12 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (3.13%) Metadata
10 10 (2.84%) Looker
10 10 (2.84%) MySQL
11 9 (2.56%) Big Data
11 9 (2.56%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.70%) Apache Iceberg
12 6 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.70%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.70%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.42%) Pinecone
13 5 (1.42%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (5.40%) Git
2 14 (3.98%) MLflow
3 7 (1.99%) JIRA
4 3 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.57%) ERwin
5 2 (0.57%) Selenium
5 2 (0.57%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.57%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.28%) GitLab
General
1 98 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 87 (24.72%) Finance
3 58 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (8.81%) Marketing
5 24 (6.82%) Retail
6 22 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.25%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.98%) Games
8 11 (3.13%) Law
9 10 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.99%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.70%) Legal
12 5 (1.42%) Back Office
12 5 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.42%) Publishing
13 4 (1.14%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.14%) Automotive
13 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (13.92%) Senior
2 46 (13.07%) Lead
3 40 (11.36%) Data Engineer
4 27 (7.67%) Software Engineer
5 25 (7.10%) Data Scientist
5 25 (7.10%) Developer
6 23 (6.53%) Architect
7 19 (5.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 16 (4.55%) Analyst
8 16 (4.55%) Consultant
9 11 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (3.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 11 (3.13%) Operations Engineer
10 10 (2.84%) Product Owner
11 9 (2.56%) Applications Engineer
12 8 (2.27%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 8 (2.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (2.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 8 (2.27%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 8 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.52%) Kafka
2 27 (7.67%) TensorFlow
3 26 (7.39%) PyTorch
4 24 (6.82%) Node.js
5 23 (6.53%) React
6 21 (5.97%) gRPC
7 20 (5.68%) RESTful
8 19 (5.40%) REST
9 16 (4.55%) scikit-learn
10 13 (3.69%) Spring
11 12 (3.41%) Pandas
11 12 (3.41%) Spring Boot
11 12 (3.41%) WebSockets
12 11 (3.13%) FastAPI
13 10 (2.84%) Hugging Face
14 9 (2.56%) AngularJS
14 9 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (2.27%) NumPy
15 8 (2.27%) OAuth
15 8 (2.27%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 54 (15.34%) Product Ownership
2 44 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 30 (8.52%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (8.24%) Algorithms
5 24 (6.82%) AI Agents
6 9 (2.56%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.56%) Reinsurance
7 8 (2.27%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.99%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.99%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.70%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.70%) Mobile Games
9 6 (1.70%) Sports Betting
10 5 (1.42%) Augmented Reality
10 5 (1.42%) Educational Technology
10 5 (1.42%) FMCG
10 5 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.14%) CUDA
11 4 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.40%) Windows
2 17 (4.83%) Android
3 15 (4.26%) Linux
4 8 (2.27%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.99%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.85%) Unix
7 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.28%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (80.40%) AI
2 142 (40.34%) Analytics
3 110 (31.25%) Data Science
4 99 (28.13%) DevOps
5 94 (26.70%) Agile
6 89 (25.28%) CI/CD
7 82 (23.30%) Roadmaps
8 64 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (17.90%) Software Engineering
10 57 (16.19%) Decision-Making
10 57 (16.19%) LLM
11 55 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
12 54 (15.34%) Business Intelligence
13 53 (15.06%) Computer Science
13 53 (15.06%) Data Pipeline
14 47 (13.35%) Data Engineering
15 44 (12.50%) Containerisation
16 42 (11.93%) Coaching
17 41 (11.65%) MLOps
18 40 (11.36%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 178 (50.57%) Python
2 93 (26.42%) SQL
3 41 (11.65%) Java
4 29 (8.24%) Bash
5 26 (7.39%) Go
5 26 (7.39%) PowerShell
5 26 (7.39%) R
6 20 (5.68%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.55%) C++
7 16 (4.55%) Scala
7 16 (4.55%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.98%) PHP
9 10 (2.84%) C#
10 8 (2.27%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.14%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.85%) Bicep
13 3 (0.85%) Rust
14 2 (0.57%) C
Qualifications
1 74 (21.02%) Degree
2 29 (8.24%) Computer Science Degree
2 29 (8.24%) Security Cleared
3 27 (7.67%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.98%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.27%) PhD
6 6 (1.70%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.70%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.42%) ACCA
7 5 (1.42%) CIMA
8 4 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.14%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.57%) CFA
10 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.57%) OSCE
10 2 (0.57%) OSCP
10 2 (0.57%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.67%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.41%) GDPR
3 6 (1.70%) QA
4 4 (1.14%) EU AI Act
4 4 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.57%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.57%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 50 (14.20%) Docker
2 18 (5.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.57%) Ceph
5 2 (0.57%) Lustre
5 2 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.66%) Terraform
3 18 (5.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (3.98%) Ansible
5 8 (2.27%) SCCM
6 3 (0.85%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.57%) Argo
7 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.57%) Puppet
8 1 (0.28%) Grafana
8 1 (0.28%) Istio
8 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 59 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.80%) Databricks
3 18 (5.11%) Google
4 15 (4.26%) OpenAI
5 13 (3.69%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.42%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.42%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.42%) Nokia
6 5 (1.42%) Palantir
6 5 (1.42%) SAP
6 5 (1.42%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.14%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.14%) Genesys
7 4 (1.14%) HubSpot
7 4 (1.14%) Talend
7 4 (1.14%) Zoho
8 3 (0.85%) Adobe
8 3 (0.85%) Dell
8 3 (0.85%) Mercator
9 2 (0.57%) Murex