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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 34 78
Rank change year-on-year -26 +44 +19
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 913 1,078 821
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.87% 6.66% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 7.16% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 585 243 515
10th Percentile £46,350 £46,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,900
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +9.74% +8.00%
75th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £132,500 £104,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

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 19,307 15,056 20,685
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.85% 92.97% 87.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,921 8,679 13,447
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 6 September 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 23 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.41%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.75%) Apache
4 14 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.66%) SAS
6 5 (0.55%) Confluence
7 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 13 (1.42%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) Blender
3 3 (0.33%) Maya
4 2 (0.22%) Weka
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) HFM
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 409 (44.80%) Azure
2 256 (28.04%) AWS
3 227 (24.86%) Azure AI
4 128 (14.02%) GCP
5 110 (12.05%) Snowflake
6 100 (10.95%) GitHub
7 92 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (8.87%) Azure Machine Learning
9 80 (8.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 80 (8.76%) GitHub Copilot
10 63 (6.90%) Power Platform
11 48 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 39 (4.27%) SaaS
13 38 (4.16%) Amazon Bedrock
14 32 (3.50%) Anthropic Claude
15 26 (2.85%) Microsoft Purview
16 23 (2.52%) Amazon S3
17 21 (2.30%) Azure Databricks
18 20 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 93 (10.19%) Broadband
2 30 (3.29%) Internet
3 12 (1.31%) Firewall
4 7 (0.77%) 5G
5 5 (0.55%) Kerberos
5 5 (0.55%) Network Security
6 4 (0.44%) VPN
7 3 (0.33%) BGP
7 3 (0.33%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.33%) LAN
7 3 (0.33%) OSPF
7 3 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.33%) WAN
8 2 (0.22%) ATM
8 2 (0.22%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.22%) DNS
8 2 (0.22%) VLAN
8 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.22%) WireGuard
8 2 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (19.39%) MongoDB
2 173 (18.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 60 (6.57%) Power BI
4 58 (6.35%) SQL Server
5 48 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (4.49%) Metadata
7 39 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (2.85%) Big Data
9 20 (2.19%) Delta Lake
10 18 (1.97%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.86%) Data Vault
12 16 (1.75%) NoSQL
12 16 (1.75%) Tableau
13 13 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (1.10%) Looker
15 8 (0.88%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.77%) Apache Iceberg
16 7 (0.77%) Semantic Layer
17 6 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
17 6 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (3.94%) Git
2 28 (3.07%) Claude Code
3 17 (1.86%) MLflow
4 13 (1.42%) JIRA
5 9 (0.99%) GitLab
6 8 (0.88%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.55%) Poetry
8 4 (0.44%) Appium
8 4 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
8 4 (0.44%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.33%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.33%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.22%) Selenium
11 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.11%) Mocha
11 1 (0.11%) NUnit
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 287 (31.43%) Finance
2 153 (16.76%) Social Skills
3 117 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (9.31%) Banking
5 84 (9.20%) Marketing
6 41 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (4.27%) Games
8 35 (3.83%) Advertising
9 34 (3.72%) Public Sector
10 32 (3.50%) Law
11 28 (3.07%) Retail
12 26 (2.85%) Legal
13 22 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.31%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.10%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.10%) Legal Technology
15 10 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.77%) Electronics
16 7 (0.77%) Military
17 6 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 239 (26.18%) Developer
2 156 (17.09%) .NET Developer
3 149 (16.32%) Senior
4 112 (12.27%) Architect
5 102 (11.17%) Data Scientist
6 100 (10.95%) Lead
7 61 (6.68%) Software Engineer
8 60 (6.57%) Finance Manager
9 54 (5.91%) Senior Data Scientist
10 49 (5.37%) Data Engineer
11 46 (5.04%) Data Manager
12 43 (4.71%) Data Architect
13 42 (4.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 40 (4.38%) Engineering Manager
14 40 (4.38%) Lead Data Scientist
15 32 (3.50%) Senior Developer
16 29 (3.18%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 28 (3.07%) Enterprise Architect
18 27 (2.96%) Consultant
19 22 (2.41%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (20.48%) .NET
2 163 (17.85%) .NET Core
3 156 (17.09%) ASP.NET
3 156 (17.09%) ASP.NET Core
3 156 (17.09%) ML.NET
4 118 (12.92%) RESTful
5 114 (12.49%) React
6 103 (11.28%) Blazor
7 100 (10.95%) CSS
8 97 (10.62%) HTML
9 83 (9.09%) PyTorch
10 73 (8.00%) TensorFlow
11 69 (7.56%) LangChain
12 56 (6.13%) Terraform
13 45 (4.93%) LangGraph
14 34 (3.72%) PySpark
15 33 (3.61%) Node.js
16 27 (2.96%) Hugging Face
17 26 (2.85%) scikit-learn
18 24 (2.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 114 (12.49%) Cloud Native
2 70 (7.67%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (7.23%) AI Agents
4 64 (7.01%) Blog
5 63 (6.90%) Video\Live Streaming
6 55 (6.02%) Algorithms
7 43 (4.71%) Product Ownership
8 32 (3.50%) Mobile App
9 31 (3.40%) Low-Code
10 29 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (3.18%) Social Media
11 27 (2.96%) Hedge funds
12 24 (2.63%) Over-the-Top Content
13 20 (2.19%) Credit Risk
13 20 (2.19%) Digital TV
14 18 (1.97%) BBC
15 17 (1.86%) iPhone
15 17 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
16 15 (1.64%) Onboarding
17 12 (1.31%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.19%) Android
2 15 (1.64%) Linux
3 7 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.55%) Windows
5 3 (0.33%) Unix
6 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 778 (85.21%) AI
2 276 (30.23%) Agile
3 255 (27.93%) CI/CD
4 249 (27.27%) Data Science
5 244 (26.73%) Roadmaps
6 212 (23.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 209 (22.89%) Analytics
8 193 (21.14%) Software Engineering
9 156 (17.09%) DevOps
10 145 (15.88%) LLM
11 133 (14.57%) Data Engineering
12 129 (14.13%) Generative AI
13 128 (14.02%) Mentoring
14 121 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
15 107 (11.72%) Data Governance
16 102 (11.17%) Data Architecture
17 101 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 101 (11.06%) Technical Leadership
18 96 (10.51%) Decision-Making
19 94 (10.30%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 378 (41.40%) SQL
2 376 (41.18%) Python
3 194 (21.25%) C#
4 137 (15.01%) JavaScript
5 56 (6.13%) Go
5 56 (6.13%) TypeScript
6 40 (4.38%) Java
6 40 (4.38%) Scala
7 26 (2.85%) PowerShell
8 18 (1.97%) Bicep
9 13 (1.42%) C++
10 12 (1.31%) R
11 10 (1.10%) C
12 9 (0.99%) Rust
13 7 (0.77%) Swift
14 6 (0.66%) Bash
14 6 (0.66%) PHP
15 5 (0.55%) Ada
16 3 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 92 (10.08%) Degree
2 70 (7.67%) Security Cleared
3 47 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.72%) DV Cleared
5 21 (2.30%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.19%) Azure Certification
6 20 (2.19%) PhD
7 18 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.75%) SnowPro
9 15 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.77%) CISSP
12 6 (0.66%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.33%) CCDP
14 3 (0.33%) CCNP
14 3 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.22%) GIAC
15 2 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (9.64%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.18%) QA
3 27 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.20%) GDPR
5 9 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.44%) IFRS
7 4 (0.44%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.44%) SLA
7 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.33%) MIL-STD-1553
9 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.22%) JTAG
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 144 (15.77%) Docker
2 55 (6.02%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.66%) Firmware
4 3 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 119 (13.03%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.20%) Grafana
3 7 (0.77%) Kubeflow
3 7 (0.77%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.66%) Ansible
5 5 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.33%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.33%) Istio
6 3 (0.33%) linkerd
6 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.33%) Puppet
7 2 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 2 (0.22%) Podman
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 304 (33.30%) Microsoft
2 148 (16.21%) Databricks
3 64 (7.01%) Google
4 38 (4.16%) Facebook
5 21 (2.30%) Yahoo!
6 18 (1.97%) Adobe
6 18 (1.97%) Typelevel
7 17 (1.86%) Apple
7 17 (1.86%) OpenAI
7 17 (1.86%) Sony
8 15 (1.64%) Foundry
9 11 (1.20%) SAP
10 5 (0.55%) Oracle
10 5 (0.55%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.44%) HighQ
11 4 (0.44%) Legatics
12 3 (0.33%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.33%) Perforce
12 3 (0.33%) SonicWALL
12 3 (0.33%) VMware