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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 88 104
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 -11
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 549 472 896
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.03% 3.51% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 3.70% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 337 299 710
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £106,250 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £131,000 £101,375
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 15,007 12,750 29,718
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.73% 94.76% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,534 8,864 23,587
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,881
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +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 1 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 29 (5.28%) Apache Spark
2 25 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.28%) Apache
4 7 (1.28%) CMS
5 4 (0.73%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.18%) Confluence
7 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
Applications
1 7 (1.28%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.36%) Trello
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.82%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.36%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 254 (46.27%) Azure
2 193 (35.15%) AWS
3 132 (24.04%) GCP
4 102 (18.58%) Azure Machine Learning
5 79 (14.39%) Azure AI
6 72 (13.11%) Power Platform
7 71 (12.93%) Snowflake
8 60 (10.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 30 (5.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (4.19%) Azure Logic Apps
10 23 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
11 21 (3.83%) Power Automate
12 20 (3.64%) SaaS
13 19 (3.46%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (3.46%) OneDrive
13 19 (3.46%) PowerApps
14 18 (3.28%) Vertex AI
15 16 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (2.55%) Amazon SageMaker
16 14 (2.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 101 (18.40%) Broadband
2 9 (1.64%) Firewall
3 6 (1.09%) Network Security
4 5 (0.91%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.36%) DNS
5 2 (0.36%) VLAN
5 2 (0.36%) VPN
5 2 (0.36%) WireGuard
6 1 (0.18%) 4G
6 1 (0.18%) 5G
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) Modbus
6 1 (0.18%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.02%) SQL Server
2 65 (11.84%) Power BI
3 44 (8.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (5.28%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (4.92%) MongoDB
6 24 (4.37%) Tableau
7 22 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (3.83%) Metadata
9 16 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (2.73%) Looker
11 14 (2.55%) BigQuery
12 13 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (2.37%) Delta Lake
13 12 (2.19%) Data Lake
14 11 (2.00%) NoSQL
14 11 (2.00%) Pinecone
15 10 (1.82%) Apache Iceberg
15 10 (1.82%) Weaviate
16 8 (1.46%) Big Data
17 7 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (3.83%) MLflow
2 15 (2.73%) Git
3 6 (1.09%) JIRA
4 5 (0.91%) Claude Code
4 5 (0.91%) GitLab
5 3 (0.55%) Selenium
6 2 (0.36%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.36%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.18%) Appium
7 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 143 (26.05%) Finance
2 133 (24.23%) Social Skills
3 74 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (5.65%) Retail
5 25 (4.55%) Banking
6 22 (4.01%) Legal
6 22 (4.01%) Marketing
7 20 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.64%) Law
8 19 (3.46%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.73%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.55%) Games
10 14 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.00%) Publishing
12 10 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.28%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.91%) Advertising
14 5 (0.91%) Back Office
15 4 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.73%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 120 (21.86%) Senior
2 75 (13.66%) Developer
3 73 (13.30%) Lead
4 50 (9.11%) Data Scientist
5 46 (8.38%) Data Engineer
5 46 (8.38%) Software Engineer
6 42 (7.65%) Data Manager
7 41 (7.47%) Engineering Manager
8 38 (6.92%) Architect
9 33 (6.01%) Finance Manager
10 30 (5.46%) Consultant
10 30 (5.46%) Scala Engineer
11 25 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 23 (4.19%) Senior Developer
13 20 (3.64%) Data Architect
14 18 (3.28%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 18 (3.28%) Operations Engineer
14 18 (3.28%) Senior Data Scientist
15 17 (3.10%) Analyst
16 16 (2.91%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (10.75%) gRPC
2 57 (10.38%) PyTorch
3 50 (9.11%) TensorFlow
4 45 (8.20%) .NET
5 37 (6.74%) React
6 32 (5.83%) .NET Core
7 30 (5.46%) RESTful
8 29 (5.28%) CSS
8 29 (5.28%) HTML
9 27 (4.92%) REST
10 26 (4.74%) Kafka
11 23 (4.19%) Node.js
12 21 (3.83%) JSON
13 19 (3.46%) HTML5 Canvas
13 19 (3.46%) Microsoft Graph
13 19 (3.46%) SPFx
14 18 (3.28%) LangChain
15 14 (2.55%) OAuth
16 13 (2.37%) ASP.NET
16 13 (2.37%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 71 (12.93%) Video\Live Streaming
2 65 (11.84%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (9.65%) Cloud Native
4 51 (9.29%) Over-the-Top Content
5 48 (8.74%) Product Ownership
6 35 (6.38%) Algorithms
7 27 (4.92%) AI Agents
8 19 (3.46%) Low-Code
9 15 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.55%) Social Media
11 12 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (2.00%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.82%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.82%) FMCG
14 9 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.28%) Blog
16 6 (1.09%) Cyberattack
16 6 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
16 6 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
17 5 (0.91%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.00%) Android
2 6 (1.09%) Linux
3 4 (0.73%) Windows
4 3 (0.55%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (71.95%) AI
2 176 (32.06%) Data Science
3 167 (30.42%) Agile
4 164 (29.87%) CI/CD
5 146 (26.59%) Roadmaps
6 137 (24.95%) Analytics
7 129 (23.50%) Software Engineering
8 122 (22.22%) Data Engineering
9 95 (17.30%) DevOps
10 92 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
11 90 (16.39%) Data Governance
12 89 (16.21%) Microservices
13 85 (15.48%) Mentoring
14 80 (14.57%) Clean Code
14 80 (14.57%) Generative AI
15 75 (13.66%) Containerisation
15 75 (13.66%) Data Architecture
15 75 (13.66%) LLM
15 75 (13.66%) Migration
16 74 (13.48%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 261 (47.54%) Python
2 179 (32.60%) SQL
3 95 (17.30%) Go
4 64 (11.66%) Scala
5 48 (8.74%) C#
5 48 (8.74%) JavaScript
6 44 (8.01%) Java
7 40 (7.29%) TypeScript
8 25 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.91%) R
10 14 (2.55%) C++
11 12 (2.19%) Bash
12 9 (1.64%) Rust
13 8 (1.46%) PHP
14 7 (1.28%) Bicep
15 5 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.55%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.36%) C
18 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (15.85%) Degree
2 26 (4.74%) Security Cleared
3 21 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (3.83%) PhD
4 18 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 16 (2.91%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.73%) DBS Check
7 12 (2.19%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.82%) ACCA
8 10 (1.82%) CIMA
9 8 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.28%) CISSP
11 4 (0.73%) CISA
12 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.36%) GIAC
13 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.36%) SANS
14 1 (0.18%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.83%) GDPR
3 20 (3.64%) QA
4 10 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.55%) IFRS
5 3 (0.55%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.55%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 94 (17.12%) Docker
2 55 (10.02%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.64%) Terraform
3 6 (1.09%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.36%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (0.36%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 2 (0.36%) Podman
6 1 (0.18%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Grafana
Vendors
1 140 (25.50%) Microsoft
2 98 (17.85%) Databricks
3 45 (8.20%) Typelevel
4 27 (4.92%) Google
5 21 (3.83%) Adobe
6 12 (2.19%) Palantir
6 12 (2.19%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.00%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.82%) Foundry
9 5 (0.91%) SAP
10 4 (0.73%) Ericsson
10 4 (0.73%) Facebook
10 4 (0.73%) Mavenir
10 4 (0.73%) Nokia
11 2 (0.36%) Apple
11 2 (0.36%) Informatica
11 2 (0.36%) Northgate
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle
11 2 (0.36%) Sony
11 2 (0.36%) Yahoo!