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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 84 100
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 -7
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 513 493 914
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.98% 3.81% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 4.02% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 321 303 676
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £115,000 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £128,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.90% +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 14,365 12,253 29,055
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.40% 94.79% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,024 8,885 23,521
10th Percentile £31,788 £32,500 £33,769
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,000 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -10.57%

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 9 April 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 (5.46%) Apache Spark
2 19 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.36%) CMS
5 5 (0.97%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.78%) Apache
7 3 (0.58%) Confluence
7 3 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) Kinematics
Applications
1 7 (1.36%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.78%) Trello
3 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.39%) Weka
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.95%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.39%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 258 (50.29%) Azure
2 183 (35.67%) AWS
3 128 (24.95%) GCP
4 103 (20.08%) Azure Machine Learning
5 79 (15.40%) Azure AI
6 72 (14.04%) Snowflake
7 64 (12.48%) Power Platform
8 59 (11.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 22 (4.29%) SaaS
10 21 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (3.51%) Vertex AI
12 16 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (2.73%) Amazon SageMaker
14 13 (2.53%) Amazon S3
14 13 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (2.53%) GitHub
15 12 (2.34%) dbt
15 12 (2.34%) Power Automate
15 12 (2.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 87 (16.96%) Broadband
2 4 (0.78%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.78%) Network Security
3 3 (0.58%) Firewall
4 2 (0.39%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.19%) LTE
5 1 (0.19%) Modbus
5 1 (0.19%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (13.26%) SQL Server
2 58 (11.31%) Power BI
3 38 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 32 (6.24%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (5.07%) Tableau
6 21 (4.09%) Metadata
7 20 (3.90%) MongoDB
8 16 (3.12%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (2.73%) BigQuery
10 14 (2.73%) Looker
11 13 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (2.53%) Data Lake
12 11 (2.14%) Delta Lake
12 11 (2.14%) NoSQL
13 10 (1.95%) Pinecone
13 10 (1.95%) Weaviate
14 9 (1.75%) Apache Iceberg
15 7 (1.36%) Big Data
16 6 (1.17%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 19 (3.70%) MLflow
2 14 (2.73%) Git
3 8 (1.56%) JIRA
4 5 (0.97%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.78%) GitLab
6 3 (0.58%) Selenium
6 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.39%) ERwin
7 2 (0.39%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.39%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.19%) Appium
8 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
General
1 139 (27.10%) Finance
2 131 (25.54%) Social Skills
3 76 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (5.46%) Retail
5 25 (4.87%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.68%) Marketing
7 21 (4.09%) Banking
8 19 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (3.31%) Law
9 17 (3.31%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.92%) Games
10 15 (2.92%) Legal
10 15 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.14%) Publishing
12 8 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.17%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.97%) Advertising
15 5 (0.97%) Back Office
16 4 (0.78%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 106 (20.66%) Senior
2 67 (13.06%) Lead
3 65 (12.67%) Developer
4 46 (8.97%) Data Engineer
5 42 (8.19%) Software Engineer
6 41 (7.99%) Engineering Manager
7 40 (7.80%) Data Manager
8 39 (7.60%) Architect
9 36 (7.02%) Data Scientist
10 33 (6.43%) Finance Manager
11 30 (5.85%) Scala Engineer
12 25 (4.87%) Consultant
13 24 (4.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 22 (4.29%) Data Architect
15 19 (3.70%) Analyst
15 19 (3.70%) Operations Engineer
16 17 (3.31%) .NET Developer
16 17 (3.31%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 17 (3.31%) Senior Developer
17 15 (2.92%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.89%) gRPC
2 50 (9.75%) PyTorch
3 44 (8.58%) TensorFlow
4 43 (8.38%) React
5 33 (6.43%) .NET
6 29 (5.65%) REST
7 28 (5.46%) RESTful
8 25 (4.87%) Kafka
9 23 (4.48%) .NET Core
10 20 (3.90%) CSS
10 20 (3.90%) HTML
10 20 (3.90%) Node.js
11 17 (3.31%) LangChain
12 15 (2.92%) JSON
13 14 (2.73%) OAuth
14 13 (2.53%) ASP.NET
14 13 (2.53%) ASP.NET Core
14 13 (2.53%) Blazor
14 13 (2.53%) ML.NET
15 12 (2.34%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 65 (12.67%) Distributed Systems
1 65 (12.67%) Video\Live Streaming
2 50 (9.75%) Over-the-Top Content
3 49 (9.55%) Cloud Native
4 48 (9.36%) Product Ownership
5 38 (7.41%) Algorithms
6 28 (5.46%) AI Agents
7 14 (2.73%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (2.14%) Data Structures
9 11 (2.14%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.95%) FMCG
11 6 (1.17%) Blog
11 6 (1.17%) Educational Technology
11 6 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.17%) Social Media
12 5 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.97%) Mobile Payment
13 4 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.92%) Android
2 9 (1.75%) Linux
3 5 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.78%) Windows
5 3 (0.58%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (74.85%) AI
2 165 (32.16%) Agile
3 162 (31.58%) Data Science
4 154 (30.02%) CI/CD
5 142 (27.68%) Analytics
6 137 (26.71%) Roadmaps
7 116 (22.61%) Data Engineering
7 116 (22.61%) Software Engineering
8 95 (18.52%) DevOps
9 91 (17.74%) Data Governance
10 90 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
11 86 (16.76%) Microservices
12 80 (15.59%) Clean Code
13 79 (15.40%) Data Architecture
13 79 (15.40%) Decision-Making
14 78 (15.20%) Containerisation
15 75 (14.62%) Mentoring
16 74 (14.42%) Generative AI
16 74 (14.42%) LLM
17 72 (14.04%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 244 (47.56%) Python
2 171 (33.33%) SQL
3 89 (17.35%) Go
4 63 (12.28%) Scala
5 45 (8.77%) Java
6 39 (7.60%) C#
7 36 (7.02%) JavaScript
8 32 (6.24%) TypeScript
9 16 (3.12%) R
10 15 (2.92%) Bash
10 15 (2.92%) PowerShell
11 13 (2.53%) C++
12 12 (2.34%) PHP
13 6 (1.17%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.17%) Rust
14 5 (0.97%) Bicep
14 5 (0.97%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.19%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 91 (17.74%) Degree
2 27 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 27 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 22 (4.29%) PhD
4 21 (4.09%) Master's Degree
5 19 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.73%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.95%) ACCA
7 10 (1.95%) CIMA
7 10 (1.95%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.78%) CISA
10 3 (0.58%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.58%) CISSP
10 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.39%) OSCE
11 2 (0.39%) OSCP
11 2 (0.39%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.46%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.48%) GDPR
3 17 (3.31%) QA
4 8 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.78%) EU AI Act
6 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.39%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.19%) SLA
8 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 96 (18.71%) Docker
2 57 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.78%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.39%) Ceph
4 2 (0.39%) Lustre
4 2 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (9.16%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.90%) Terraform
3 5 (0.97%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.58%) Ansible
4 3 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 127 (24.76%) Microsoft
2 97 (18.91%) Databricks
3 45 (8.77%) Typelevel
4 28 (5.46%) Google
5 12 (2.34%) Adobe
5 12 (2.34%) Palantir
5 12 (2.34%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.14%) OpenAI
7 10 (1.95%) Foundry
8 5 (0.97%) Ericsson
8 5 (0.97%) Mavenir
8 5 (0.97%) Nokia
8 5 (0.97%) SAP
9 4 (0.78%) Facebook
10 3 (0.58%) Mercator
11 2 (0.39%) Apple
11 2 (0.39%) Informatica
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle
11 2 (0.39%) Sony
11 2 (0.39%) Yahoo!