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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 38 98
Rank change year-on-year -19 +60 -3
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 925 1,096 735
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.04% 6.62% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 7.12% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 586 250 525
10th Percentile £46,500 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +6.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £101,875 £92,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £135,000 £104,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +2.11%

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 18,880 15,403 21,595
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.36% 93.01% 87.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13,612 8,900 15,178
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 20 August 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 25 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.41%) Apache
4 11 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.65%) SAS
6 5 (0.54%) Confluence
7 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 9 (0.97%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.32%) Blender
3 3 (0.32%) Maya
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
4 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) HFM
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 409 (44.22%) Azure
2 256 (27.68%) AWS
3 226 (24.43%) Azure AI
4 134 (14.49%) GCP
5 102 (11.03%) Snowflake
6 95 (10.27%) GitHub
7 94 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
8 84 (9.08%) Azure Machine Learning
9 79 (8.54%) GitHub Copilot
10 78 (8.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 65 (7.03%) Power Platform
12 48 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
13 38 (4.11%) SaaS
14 32 (3.46%) Amazon Bedrock
15 26 (2.81%) Anthropic Claude
16 24 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
17 22 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (2.16%) Amazon S3
18 20 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
19 19 (2.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 104 (11.24%) Broadband
2 30 (3.24%) Internet
3 13 (1.41%) Firewall
4 7 (0.76%) 5G
5 6 (0.65%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.65%) Network Security
6 3 (0.32%) BGP
6 3 (0.32%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.32%) LAN
6 3 (0.32%) OSPF
6 3 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.32%) VPN
6 3 (0.32%) WAN
7 2 (0.22%) ATM
7 2 (0.22%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.22%) DNS
7 2 (0.22%) VLAN
7 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.22%) WireGuard
7 2 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (19.24%) MongoDB
2 174 (18.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (6.81%) Power BI
4 58 (6.27%) SQL Server
5 48 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (4.22%) Metadata
7 37 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (2.81%) Big Data
9 19 (2.05%) Data Lake
9 19 (2.05%) Delta Lake
10 16 (1.73%) Tableau
11 15 (1.62%) Data Vault
12 12 (1.30%) NoSQL
13 10 (1.08%) Looker
14 9 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (0.86%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.76%) Relational Database
16 7 (0.76%) Semantic Layer
17 6 (0.65%) Hadoop
18 5 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 38 (4.11%) Git
2 24 (2.59%) Claude Code
3 16 (1.73%) MLflow
4 13 (1.41%) JIRA
5 11 (1.19%) GitLab
6 8 (0.86%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.43%) Appium
7 4 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.32%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.32%) Mercurial
8 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.22%) Selenium
10 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.11%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.11%) Mocha
10 1 (0.11%) NUnit
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 275 (29.73%) Finance
2 159 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 120 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (9.08%) Marketing
5 75 (8.11%) Banking
6 42 (4.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (4.32%) Games
8 37 (4.00%) Public Sector
9 35 (3.78%) Advertising
10 34 (3.68%) Law
11 28 (3.03%) Legal
12 27 (2.92%) Retail
13 23 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.30%) Aerospace
15 11 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (1.08%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.08%) Legal Technology
17 7 (0.76%) Electronics
17 7 (0.76%) Military
18 6 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 246 (26.59%) Developer
2 157 (16.97%) .NET Developer
3 152 (16.43%) Senior
4 104 (11.24%) Architect
5 102 (11.03%) Lead
6 100 (10.81%) Data Scientist
7 63 (6.81%) Software Engineer
8 54 (5.84%) Finance Manager
8 54 (5.84%) Senior Data Scientist
9 49 (5.30%) Data Engineer
10 46 (4.97%) Data Manager
11 44 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 41 (4.43%) Data Architect
13 40 (4.32%) Engineering Manager
13 40 (4.32%) Lead Data Scientist
14 34 (3.68%) Senior Developer
15 27 (2.92%) Consultant
15 27 (2.92%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 26 (2.81%) Python Engineer
17 24 (2.59%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (20.54%) .NET
2 164 (17.73%) .NET Core
3 156 (16.86%) ASP.NET
3 156 (16.86%) ASP.NET Core
3 156 (16.86%) ML.NET
4 119 (12.86%) React
5 118 (12.76%) RESTful
6 103 (11.14%) Blazor
7 102 (11.03%) CSS
8 99 (10.70%) HTML
9 79 (8.54%) PyTorch
10 69 (7.46%) TensorFlow
11 64 (6.92%) LangChain
12 50 (5.41%) Terraform
13 41 (4.43%) LangGraph
14 35 (3.78%) Node.js
15 30 (3.24%) PySpark
16 27 (2.92%) gRPC
16 27 (2.92%) Hugging Face
17 25 (2.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 112 (12.11%) Cloud Native
2 78 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (7.89%) Video\Live Streaming
4 63 (6.81%) AI Agents
4 63 (6.81%) Blog
5 56 (6.05%) Algorithms
6 46 (4.97%) Product Ownership
7 33 (3.57%) Over-the-Top Content
8 32 (3.46%) Low-Code
8 32 (3.46%) Mobile App
9 29 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
9 29 (3.14%) Social Media
10 21 (2.27%) Hedge funds
11 20 (2.16%) Credit Risk
11 20 (2.16%) Digital TV
12 18 (1.95%) BBC
13 17 (1.84%) iPhone
13 17 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.51%) Onboarding
15 13 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.16%) Android
2 15 (1.62%) Linux
3 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.54%) Windows
4 3 (0.32%) Unix
5 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (84.00%) AI
2 283 (30.59%) Agile
3 262 (28.32%) CI/CD
4 250 (27.03%) Data Science
5 241 (26.05%) Roadmaps
6 217 (23.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 210 (22.70%) Analytics
8 202 (21.84%) Software Engineering
9 160 (17.30%) DevOps
10 148 (16.00%) LLM
11 131 (14.16%) Data Engineering
11 131 (14.16%) Mentoring
11 131 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
12 128 (13.84%) Generative AI
13 106 (11.46%) Data Governance
14 104 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 101 (10.92%) Decision-Making
16 100 (10.81%) Data Architecture
16 100 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
17 95 (10.27%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 387 (41.84%) Python
2 370 (40.00%) SQL
3 198 (21.41%) C#
4 140 (15.14%) JavaScript
5 67 (7.24%) Go
6 60 (6.49%) TypeScript
7 50 (5.41%) Scala
8 42 (4.54%) Java
9 27 (2.92%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.95%) Bicep
11 13 (1.41%) C++
11 13 (1.41%) R
12 10 (1.08%) C
13 9 (0.97%) Rust
14 8 (0.86%) PHP
15 6 (0.65%) Bash
16 5 (0.54%) Ada
16 5 (0.54%) Swift
17 4 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 95 (10.27%) Degree
2 71 (7.68%) Security Cleared
3 48 (5.19%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.68%) DV Cleared
5 23 (2.49%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.38%) PhD
7 19 (2.05%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.51%) SnowPro
11 13 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.86%) CISSP
13 7 (0.76%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
15 3 (0.32%) CCDP
15 3 (0.32%) CCNP
15 3 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.22%) GIAC
16 2 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (9.08%) Data Quality
2 32 (3.46%) QA
3 29 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.41%) GDPR
5 8 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.32%) MIL-STD-1553
8 3 (0.32%) SLA
9 2 (0.22%) JTAG
10 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 150 (16.22%) Docker
2 55 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.54%) Firmware
5 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 118 (12.76%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.08%) Grafana
3 7 (0.76%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.65%) Ansible
4 6 (0.65%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.32%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.32%) Istio
5 3 (0.32%) linkerd
5 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.32%) Puppet
6 2 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 2 (0.22%) Podman
7 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 304 (32.86%) Microsoft
2 141 (15.24%) Databricks
3 65 (7.03%) Google
4 38 (4.11%) Facebook
5 27 (2.92%) Typelevel
6 21 (2.27%) Yahoo!
7 19 (2.05%) Adobe
8 17 (1.84%) Apple
8 17 (1.84%) Sony
9 15 (1.62%) Foundry
9 15 (1.62%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.30%) SAP
11 5 (0.54%) Oracle
11 5 (0.54%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.43%) HighQ
12 4 (0.43%) Legatics
13 3 (0.32%) Cisco
13 3 (0.32%) Forcepoint
13 3 (0.32%) Juniper
13 3 (0.32%) SonicWALL