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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 33 105
Rank change year-on-year -36 +72 -6
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 633 1,180 933
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.37% 8.08% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 8.50% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 385 258 734
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -6.40%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £123,969 £143,640 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.60% +10.00% -

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 15,563 13,877 29,569
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.79% 94.97% 90.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,091 8,168 23,322
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,648 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.59% +8.45% -9.84%

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 22 May 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 (4.11%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.95%) SAS
5 5 (0.79%) Apache
6 4 (0.63%) CMS
7 3 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.16%) Kinematics
Applications
1 7 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Blender
2 1 (0.16%) Maya
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.42%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) HFM
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 290 (45.81%) Azure
2 207 (32.70%) AWS
3 136 (21.48%) GCP
4 115 (18.17%) Azure AI
5 100 (15.80%) Azure Machine Learning
6 75 (11.85%) Power Platform
7 73 (11.53%) Snowflake
8 61 (9.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 36 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
10 31 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 31 (4.90%) SaaS
11 30 (4.74%) GitHub
12 23 (3.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 23 (3.63%) GitHub Copilot
12 23 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (3.32%) Power Automate
14 19 (3.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (3.00%) OneDrive
14 19 (3.00%) PowerApps
14 19 (3.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 121 (19.12%) Broadband
2 10 (1.58%) Firewall
3 7 (1.11%) 5G
3 7 (1.11%) Internet
3 7 (1.11%) Network Security
4 6 (0.95%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.32%) DNS
5 2 (0.32%) VLAN
5 2 (0.32%) VPN
5 2 (0.32%) WireGuard
6 1 (0.16%) 4G
6 1 (0.16%) LTE
6 1 (0.16%) Modbus
6 1 (0.16%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (12.16%) Azure SQL Database
2 68 (10.74%) MongoDB
2 68 (10.74%) Power BI
3 65 (10.27%) SQL Server
4 33 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (3.79%) Metadata
6 24 (3.79%) Tableau
7 17 (2.69%) Looker
8 16 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (2.37%) BigQuery
10 13 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (2.05%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.74%) Big Data
11 11 (1.74%) NoSQL
11 11 (1.74%) Pinecone
12 10 (1.58%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (1.58%) Weaviate
13 9 (1.42%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (3.63%) MLflow
2 14 (2.21%) Git
3 6 (0.95%) GitLab
4 5 (0.79%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.63%) JIRA
6 3 (0.47%) Selenium
7 2 (0.32%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.32%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.16%) Appium
8 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
General
1 152 (24.01%) Finance
2 143 (22.59%) Social Skills
3 85 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.06%) Retail
5 30 (4.74%) Banking
6 26 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (3.95%) Marketing
8 24 (3.79%) Law
8 24 (3.79%) Public Sector
9 23 (3.63%) Games
10 22 (3.48%) Legal
11 14 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.58%) Advertising
12 10 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.58%) Publishing
12 10 (1.58%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.95%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.79%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.47%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 125 (19.75%) Senior
2 119 (18.80%) Developer
3 79 (12.48%) Lead
4 64 (10.11%) Data Scientist
5 52 (8.21%) .NET Developer
5 52 (8.21%) Software Engineer
6 49 (7.74%) Architect
7 45 (7.11%) Data Engineer
8 43 (6.79%) Data Manager
9 41 (6.48%) Engineering Manager
10 34 (5.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 33 (5.21%) Finance Manager
12 31 (4.90%) Consultant
13 30 (4.74%) Scala Engineer
14 26 (4.11%) Senior Developer
15 24 (3.79%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 23 (3.63%) Data Architect
16 23 (3.63%) Senior Data Scientist
17 21 (3.32%) Python Engineer
18 17 (2.69%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (13.11%) .NET
2 66 (10.43%) .NET Core
3 64 (10.11%) PyTorch
4 58 (9.16%) TensorFlow
5 57 (9.00%) React
6 52 (8.21%) gRPC
6 52 (8.21%) RESTful
7 49 (7.74%) ASP.NET
7 49 (7.74%) ASP.NET Core
7 49 (7.74%) ML.NET
8 48 (7.58%) CSS
8 48 (7.58%) HTML
9 33 (5.21%) Blazor
10 30 (4.74%) LangChain
11 27 (4.27%) REST
12 25 (3.95%) Node.js
13 22 (3.48%) JSON
14 20 (3.16%) Kafka
15 19 (3.00%) HTML5 Canvas
15 19 (3.00%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 87 (13.74%) Video\Live Streaming
2 74 (11.69%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (9.32%) Cloud Native
4 52 (8.21%) Over-the-Top Content
5 47 (7.42%) Product Ownership
6 44 (6.95%) Algorithms
7 30 (4.74%) AI Agents
8 29 (4.58%) Low-Code
9 17 (2.69%) Social Media
10 16 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.90%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.74%) Blog
14 10 (1.58%) Cyberattack
14 10 (1.58%) Data Structures
15 9 (1.42%) Digital TV
15 9 (1.42%) FMCG
15 9 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
15 9 (1.42%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.26%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.90%) Android
2 9 (1.42%) Linux
3 4 (0.63%) Windows
4 3 (0.47%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (73.30%) AI
2 196 (30.96%) Data Science
3 195 (30.81%) CI/CD
4 192 (30.33%) Agile
5 158 (24.96%) Software Engineering
6 154 (24.33%) Roadmaps
7 146 (23.06%) Analytics
8 123 (19.43%) Data Engineering
9 108 (17.06%) DevOps
10 104 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
11 98 (15.48%) Generative AI
12 96 (15.17%) Full-Stack Development
13 92 (14.53%) Mentoring
14 91 (14.38%) Data Governance
15 88 (13.90%) Clean Code
16 83 (13.11%) LLM
17 82 (12.95%) Microservices
18 80 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
19 78 (12.32%) Decision-Making
20 77 (12.16%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 306 (48.34%) Python
2 218 (34.44%) SQL
3 99 (15.64%) Go
4 88 (13.90%) C#
5 73 (11.53%) JavaScript
6 63 (9.95%) Scala
7 48 (7.58%) Java
8 43 (6.79%) TypeScript
9 27 (4.27%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.37%) R
11 13 (2.05%) Bash
12 12 (1.90%) C++
13 10 (1.58%) Rust
14 8 (1.26%) PHP
15 6 (0.95%) Bicep
15 6 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.47%) C
17 3 (0.47%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (13.74%) Degree
2 30 (4.74%) Security Cleared
3 21 (3.32%) PhD
4 17 (2.69%) SC Cleared
5 16 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.05%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.90%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.90%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.42%) ACCA
9 9 (1.42%) CIMA
10 8 (1.26%) CISSP
11 4 (0.63%) CISA
12 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.32%) GIAC
13 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.32%) SANS
14 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.32%) GDPR
2 21 (3.32%) QA
3 14 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.47%) IFRS
4 3 (0.47%) IFRS 17
4 3 (0.47%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 106 (16.75%) Docker
2 55 (8.69%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.95%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (8.85%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.95%) Terraform
3 7 (1.11%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.32%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (0.32%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 2 (0.32%) Grafana
5 2 (0.32%) Podman
6 1 (0.16%) Ansible
6 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 182 (28.75%) Microsoft
2 98 (15.48%) Databricks
3 45 (7.11%) Typelevel
4 35 (5.53%) Google
5 21 (3.32%) Adobe
6 12 (1.90%) Foundry
6 12 (1.90%) Palantir
7 11 (1.74%) OpenAI
7 11 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.58%) Facebook
9 7 (1.11%) SAP
10 6 (0.95%) Apple
10 6 (0.95%) Sony
10 6 (0.95%) Yahoo!
11 5 (0.79%) Oracle
12 4 (0.63%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.32%) Civica
13 2 (0.32%) IBM
13 2 (0.32%) Informatica
13 2 (0.32%) Northgate