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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 80 100
Rank change year-on-year -21 +20 -9
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 441 548 892
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.62% 4.06% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 4.26% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 262 315 680
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £54,063 £55,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £123,969 £118,250 £102,500
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 14,333 12,855 27,649
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.00% 95.28% 92.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,435 8,787 22,895
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
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 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,949 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 18 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 28 (6.35%) Apache Spark
2 19 (4.31%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.81%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.59%) CMS
5 5 (1.13%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.91%) Apache
6 4 (0.91%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.91%) Confluence
7 3 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.23%) Kinematics
Applications
1 6 (1.36%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.68%) Trello
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.45%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (2.27%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.45%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 199 (45.12%) Azure
2 166 (37.64%) AWS
3 113 (25.62%) GCP
4 59 (13.38%) Power Platform
5 45 (10.20%) Azure Machine Learning
6 25 (5.67%) Azure AI
7 23 (5.22%) SaaS
8 18 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (4.08%) Vertex AI
9 16 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (3.40%) Serverless
10 15 (3.40%) Snowflake
11 13 (2.95%) Amazon S3
11 13 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (2.95%) GitHub
12 12 (2.72%) Amazon SageMaker
12 12 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.49%) Dagster
13 11 (2.49%) Entra ID
13 11 (2.49%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 76 (17.23%) Broadband
2 5 (1.13%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.68%) Network Security
4 2 (0.45%) Firewall
4 2 (0.45%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.23%) LTE
5 1 (0.23%) Modbus
5 1 (0.23%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (11.56%) Power BI
2 35 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (5.90%) Tableau
4 21 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (4.08%) Metadata
6 18 (4.08%) MongoDB
7 15 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (3.40%) SQL Server
8 14 (3.17%) BigQuery
9 13 (2.95%) Data Lake
10 11 (2.49%) Apache Iceberg
10 11 (2.49%) Delta Lake
10 11 (2.49%) Looker
10 11 (2.49%) NoSQL
11 10 (2.27%) Big Data
11 10 (2.27%) Pinecone
11 10 (2.27%) Weaviate
12 6 (1.36%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 19 (4.31%) MLflow
2 15 (3.40%) Git
3 5 (1.13%) Claude Code
3 5 (1.13%) JIRA
4 3 (0.68%) GitLab
4 3 (0.68%) Selenium
4 3 (0.68%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.45%) ERwin
5 2 (0.45%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.45%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.23%) Appium
6 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
General
1 128 (29.02%) Social Skills
2 85 (19.27%) Finance
3 73 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (6.80%) Public Sector
5 26 (5.90%) Marketing
5 26 (5.90%) Retail
6 20 (4.54%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.40%) Games
8 15 (3.40%) Legal
9 14 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.72%) Law
11 11 (2.49%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.49%) Publishing
12 8 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.59%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.36%) Banking
15 5 (1.13%) Advertising
15 5 (1.13%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 95 (21.54%) Senior
2 68 (15.42%) Lead
3 58 (13.15%) Developer
4 47 (10.66%) Data Engineer
5 37 (8.39%) Software Engineer
6 34 (7.71%) Data Scientist
7 27 (6.12%) Consultant
8 25 (5.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 24 (5.44%) Scala Engineer
10 23 (5.22%) Architect
11 19 (4.31%) Analyst
11 19 (4.31%) Operations Engineer
12 16 (3.63%) .NET Developer
12 16 (3.63%) Data Analyst
12 16 (3.63%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 14 (3.17%) Data Consultant
14 12 (2.72%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
14 12 (2.72%) Scala Developer
14 12 (2.72%) Scala Software Engineer
15 11 (2.49%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (11.79%) gRPC
2 49 (11.11%) PyTorch
3 44 (9.98%) TensorFlow
4 35 (7.94%) React
5 27 (6.12%) Kafka
5 27 (6.12%) REST
6 26 (5.90%) RESTful
7 25 (5.67%) .NET
8 19 (4.31%) Node.js
9 17 (3.85%) LangChain
10 16 (3.63%) .NET Core
11 14 (3.17%) CSS
11 14 (3.17%) HTML
11 14 (3.17%) OAuth
12 13 (2.95%) AngularJS
13 12 (2.72%) ASP.NET
13 12 (2.72%) ASP.NET Core
13 12 (2.72%) Blazor
13 12 (2.72%) ML.NET
14 11 (2.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.15%) Distributed Systems
2 54 (12.24%) Video\Live Streaming
3 52 (11.79%) Cloud Native
4 50 (11.34%) Product Ownership
5 40 (9.07%) Algorithms
5 40 (9.07%) Over-the-Top Content
6 26 (5.90%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.95%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (2.49%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.27%) FMCG
10 10 (2.27%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.36%) Educational Technology
12 6 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.13%) Social Media
14 4 (0.91%) Linked Data
14 4 (0.91%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.40%) Android
1 15 (3.40%) Linux
2 11 (2.49%) Windows
3 5 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.68%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (0.68%) Unix
6 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (74.83%) AI
2 156 (35.37%) Data Science
3 149 (33.79%) CI/CD
4 142 (32.20%) Analytics
5 109 (24.72%) Software Engineering
6 108 (24.49%) Agile
7 93 (21.09%) DevOps
8 87 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (19.73%) Roadmaps
9 77 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 77 (17.46%) Decision-Making
10 75 (17.01%) Containerisation
11 73 (16.55%) LLM
11 73 (16.55%) Microservices
12 72 (16.33%) Clean Code
12 72 (16.33%) Mentoring
13 70 (15.87%) Generative AI
14 68 (15.42%) Coaching
15 63 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
16 62 (14.06%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 242 (54.88%) Python
2 105 (23.81%) SQL
3 78 (17.69%) Go
4 53 (12.02%) Scala
5 48 (10.88%) Java
6 30 (6.80%) C#
7 29 (6.58%) JavaScript
8 22 (4.99%) TypeScript
9 19 (4.31%) Bash
10 16 (3.63%) PHP
10 16 (3.63%) R
11 14 (3.17%) C++
11 14 (3.17%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.59%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.36%) Rust
14 5 (1.13%) Bicep
15 4 (0.91%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.23%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 91 (20.63%) Degree
2 28 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (6.12%) Security Cleared
4 22 (4.99%) PhD
5 19 (4.31%) Master's Degree
5 19 (4.31%) SC Cleared
6 14 (3.17%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.27%) ACCA
7 10 (2.27%) CIMA
7 10 (2.27%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.13%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.91%) CISA
9 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.45%) CISSP
10 2 (0.45%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.45%) OSCE
10 2 (0.45%) OSCP
10 2 (0.45%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.80%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.76%) GDPR
3 14 (3.17%) QA
4 5 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.91%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.45%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (20.41%) Docker
2 7 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.45%) Ceph
5 2 (0.45%) Lustre
5 2 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (11.56%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.67%) Terraform
3 9 (2.04%) Ansible
4 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.91%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.45%) SCCM
6 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 67 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.39%) Databricks
3 36 (8.16%) Typelevel
4 26 (5.90%) Google
5 12 (2.72%) Palantir
5 12 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.49%) OpenAI
7 10 (2.27%) Foundry
8 6 (1.36%) Adobe
9 5 (1.13%) Ericsson
9 5 (1.13%) Mavenir
9 5 (1.13%) Nokia
10 4 (0.91%) SAP
11 3 (0.68%) Dell
11 3 (0.68%) Facebook
11 3 (0.68%) Mercator
12 2 (0.45%) Civica
12 2 (0.45%) Northgate
12 2 (0.45%) Orchard
13 1 (0.23%) Yahoo!