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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 74 87
Rank change year-on-year -46 +13 +4
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 356 751 747
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.33% 3.83% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 4.32% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 258 415 488
10th Percentile £45,875 £43,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £70,226
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +3.24% -3.14%
75th Percentile £100,938 £86,250 £87,419
90th Percentile £132,500 £101,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.90% +2.67% +7.14%

All Process and 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 13,987 17,399 20,381
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.56% 88.82% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,773 10,336 16,477
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 19 November 2025.

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 16 (4.49%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.25%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.97%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.12%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (1.12%) CMS
5 4 (1.12%) Confluence
6 3 (0.84%) Apache
6 3 (0.84%) SAS
7 2 (0.56%) Luigi
8 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 11 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.69%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.84%) Trello
5 2 (0.56%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.56%) Sketch
5 2 (0.56%) Weka
6 1 (0.28%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.28%) Blender
Business Applications
1 8 (2.25%) Adaptiv
2 6 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.56%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.28%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.28%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.28%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 161 (45.22%) Azure
2 110 (30.90%) AWS
3 55 (15.45%) GCP
4 34 (9.55%) Power Platform
5 30 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (7.30%) Entra ID
7 25 (7.02%) SaaS
8 19 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (5.06%) Serverless
10 16 (4.49%) Azure Machine Learning
11 14 (3.93%) Amazon S3
11 14 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.93%) GitHub
12 12 (3.37%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (3.09%) PaaS
14 10 (2.81%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (2.25%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.12%) Broadband
2 3 (0.84%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.56%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.71%) Power BI
2 26 (7.30%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (4.49%) NoSQL
4 14 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (3.93%) SQL Server
5 13 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (3.37%) Tableau
7 11 (3.09%) Big Data
7 11 (3.09%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.81%) MySQL
9 9 (2.53%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.25%) Metadata
11 7 (1.97%) Redis
11 7 (1.97%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.69%) Data Mining
12 6 (1.69%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.40%) Looker
14 4 (1.12%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 19 (5.34%) Git
2 8 (2.25%) JIRA
3 6 (1.69%) MLflow
4 4 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.84%) ER Studio
5 3 (0.84%) GitLab
5 3 (0.84%) RStudio
5 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.56%) ERwin
6 2 (0.56%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.28%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.28%) Vite
General
1 109 (30.62%) Social Skills
2 108 (30.34%) Finance
3 43 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.87%) Marketing
5 25 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.46%) Retail
7 20 (5.62%) Banking
8 18 (5.06%) Games
8 18 (5.06%) Telecoms
9 13 (3.65%) Law
10 10 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.81%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.97%) Automotive
12 6 (1.69%) Legal
12 6 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.12%) Billing
14 4 (1.12%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.84%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (12.92%) Lead
2 42 (11.80%) Senior
3 33 (9.27%) Data Engineer
4 29 (8.15%) Developer
5 26 (7.30%) Architect
6 23 (6.46%) Data Scientist
7 22 (6.18%) Analyst
8 20 (5.62%) Software Engineer
9 15 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 14 (3.93%) Consultant
11 10 (2.81%) Business Analyst
12 9 (2.53%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (2.53%) Product Owner
13 8 (2.25%) Applications Engineer
13 8 (2.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (2.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 8 (2.25%) Head of IT
13 8 (2.25%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 8 (2.25%) Python Engineer
13 8 (2.25%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.74%) Node.js
2 23 (6.46%) Kafka
2 23 (6.46%) React
2 23 (6.46%) TensorFlow
3 21 (5.90%) PyTorch
3 21 (5.90%) RESTful
3 21 (5.90%) scikit-learn
4 17 (4.78%) REST
5 16 (4.49%) gRPC
5 16 (4.49%) Pandas
6 13 (3.65%) .NET
6 13 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
6 13 (3.65%) Spring
7 12 (3.37%) Hugging Face
7 12 (3.37%) Spring Boot
8 9 (2.53%) FastAPI
8 9 (2.53%) NumPy
8 9 (2.53%) WebSockets
9 8 (2.25%) AngularJS
9 8 (2.25%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.92%) Product Ownership
2 38 (10.67%) Cloud Native
3 23 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (5.06%) Algorithms
5 16 (4.49%) AI Agents
6 11 (3.09%) Credit Risk
6 11 (3.09%) Reinsurance
7 9 (2.53%) Market Risk
8 8 (2.25%) Augmented Reality
8 8 (2.25%) Driving Licence
8 8 (2.25%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.97%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.69%) CUDA
10 6 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.69%) Mobile Games
10 6 (1.69%) Sports Betting
11 5 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.40%) Educational Technology
11 5 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.12%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.34%) Windows
2 15 (4.21%) Linux
3 12 (3.37%) Android
4 7 (1.97%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.84%) Unix
6 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (75.56%) AI
2 149 (41.85%) Analytics
3 95 (26.69%) Data Science
4 92 (25.84%) Agile
5 90 (25.28%) DevOps
6 77 (21.63%) Roadmaps
7 70 (19.66%) CI/CD
7 70 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (14.89%) Decision-Making
10 52 (14.61%) Software Engineering
11 51 (14.33%) LLM
12 47 (13.20%) Business Intelligence
13 46 (12.92%) ITIL
14 42 (11.80%) Natural Language Processing
15 41 (11.52%) Coaching
15 41 (11.52%) Computer Science
16 38 (10.67%) Data Engineering
16 38 (10.67%) Data Pipeline
17 36 (10.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 164 (46.07%) Python
2 82 (23.03%) SQL
3 42 (11.80%) Java
4 27 (7.58%) PowerShell
4 27 (7.58%) R
5 23 (6.46%) Bash
6 20 (5.62%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.78%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.49%) PHP
9 15 (4.21%) C++
10 11 (3.09%) C#
11 9 (2.53%) Go
11 9 (2.53%) Scala
11 9 (2.53%) T-SQL
12 8 (2.25%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.12%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.56%) Bicep
14 2 (0.56%) C
15 1 (0.28%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 68 (19.10%) Degree
2 23 (6.46%) Security Cleared
3 22 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (5.90%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.49%) Master's Degree
6 15 (4.21%) PMP
7 14 (3.93%) CFA
7 14 (3.93%) PMI Certification
8 8 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.97%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.97%) PhD
10 6 (1.69%) Postgraduate
11 5 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.84%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.56%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.56%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.46%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.65%) GDPR
3 6 (1.69%) QA
4 5 (1.40%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.12%) EU AI Act
5 4 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.56%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.56%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.28%) HL7
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 46 (12.92%) Docker
2 18 (5.06%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (3.09%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.56%) Ceph
5 2 (0.56%) Lustre
5 2 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.28%) Firmware
6 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (13.48%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.55%) Terraform
3 18 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (4.49%) Ansible
5 8 (2.25%) SCCM
6 2 (0.56%) Argo
6 2 (0.56%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.56%) Puppet
7 1 (0.28%) Grafana
7 1 (0.28%) Istio
7 1 (0.28%) Kibana
7 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.28%) logstash
Vendors
1 54 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.83%) Databricks
3 20 (5.62%) Google
4 14 (3.93%) Murex
5 12 (3.37%) OpenAI
6 8 (2.25%) FIS
7 7 (1.97%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.69%) SAP
9 5 (1.40%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.12%) Alteryx
10 4 (1.12%) Ericsson
10 4 (1.12%) Genesys
10 4 (1.12%) HubSpot
10 4 (1.12%) Mavenir
10 4 (1.12%) Nokia
10 4 (1.12%) Talend
10 4 (1.12%) Zoho
11 3 (0.84%) Dell
11 3 (0.84%) Mercator
12 2 (0.56%) Adobe