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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 57 106
Rank change year-on-year -20 +49 -11
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 583 772 898
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.19% 5.43% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 5.71% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 355 291 714
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,750 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £135,750 £135,000 £102,125
UK median annual salary £78,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.30% +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 15,111 13,517 29,606
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.80% 95.05% 91.16%
Number of salaries quoted 10,669 8,801 23,474
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £33,756
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 8 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 (4.97%) Apache Spark
2 25 (4.29%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.20%) Apache
5 6 (1.03%) CMS
5 6 (1.03%) SAS
6 3 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) Kinematics
Applications
1 6 (1.03%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.72%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.34%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 265 (45.45%) Azure
2 203 (34.82%) AWS
3 131 (22.47%) GCP
4 102 (17.50%) Azure Machine Learning
5 91 (15.61%) Azure AI
6 76 (13.04%) Power Platform
7 72 (12.35%) Snowflake
8 60 (10.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 31 (5.32%) Azure Data Factory
10 27 (4.63%) SaaS
11 23 (3.95%) Azure Logic Apps
11 23 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
13 21 (3.60%) Power Automate
14 19 (3.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (3.26%) OneDrive
14 19 (3.26%) PowerApps
15 18 (3.09%) GitHub
15 18 (3.09%) Vertex AI
16 14 (2.40%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 117 (20.07%) Broadband
2 9 (1.54%) Firewall
3 7 (1.20%) 5G
4 6 (1.03%) Network Security
5 5 (0.86%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.34%) DNS
6 2 (0.34%) Internet
6 2 (0.34%) VLAN
6 2 (0.34%) VPN
6 2 (0.34%) WireGuard
7 1 (0.17%) 4G
7 1 (0.17%) LTE
7 1 (0.17%) Modbus
7 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.84%) Power BI
2 66 (11.32%) SQL Server
3 54 (9.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 47 (8.06%) MongoDB
5 32 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (4.29%) Tableau
8 20 (3.43%) Metadata
9 16 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (2.57%) Looker
11 14 (2.40%) BigQuery
12 13 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (2.23%) Delta Lake
13 12 (2.06%) Data Lake
14 11 (1.89%) NoSQL
14 11 (1.89%) Pinecone
15 10 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
15 10 (1.72%) Weaviate
16 9 (1.54%) Big Data
17 7 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (3.60%) MLflow
2 15 (2.57%) Git
3 5 (0.86%) Claude Code
3 5 (0.86%) GitLab
4 4 (0.69%) JIRA
5 3 (0.51%) Selenium
6 2 (0.34%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.34%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.17%) Appium
7 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
General
1 142 (24.36%) Finance
2 137 (23.50%) Social Skills
3 83 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (5.83%) Retail
5 25 (4.29%) Banking
6 23 (3.95%) Games
6 23 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (3.77%) Legal
7 22 (3.77%) Marketing
8 20 (3.43%) Law
9 19 (3.26%) Public Sector
10 14 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.40%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.89%) Publishing
12 10 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.20%) Advertising
13 7 (1.20%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.86%) Back Office
15 4 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 127 (21.78%) Senior
2 92 (15.78%) Developer
3 74 (12.69%) Lead
4 57 (9.78%) Data Scientist
5 46 (7.89%) Software Engineer
6 45 (7.72%) Data Manager
7 44 (7.55%) Architect
8 43 (7.38%) Data Engineer
9 41 (7.03%) Engineering Manager
10 33 (5.66%) Finance Manager
11 31 (5.32%) Consultant
12 30 (5.15%) Scala Engineer
13 29 (4.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 28 (4.80%) .NET Developer
15 27 (4.63%) Senior Developer
16 22 (3.77%) Data Architect
17 20 (3.43%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 20 (3.43%) Senior Data Scientist
18 18 (3.09%) Python Engineer
19 17 (2.92%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (9.78%) .NET
1 57 (9.78%) gRPC
1 57 (9.78%) PyTorch
2 50 (8.58%) TensorFlow
3 44 (7.55%) RESTful
4 43 (7.38%) .NET Core
5 42 (7.20%) React
6 36 (6.17%) CSS
6 36 (6.17%) HTML
7 26 (4.46%) REST
8 25 (4.29%) ASP.NET
8 25 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
8 25 (4.29%) ML.NET
9 24 (4.12%) Kafka
10 22 (3.77%) Node.js
11 21 (3.60%) JSON
11 21 (3.60%) LangChain
12 19 (3.26%) Blazor
12 19 (3.26%) Microsoft Graph
12 19 (3.26%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 81 (13.89%) Video\Live Streaming
2 75 (12.86%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (10.29%) Cloud Native
4 51 (8.75%) Over-the-Top Content
5 46 (7.89%) Product Ownership
6 40 (6.86%) Algorithms
7 29 (4.97%) Low-Code
8 28 (4.80%) AI Agents
9 15 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (2.40%) Social Media
11 11 (1.89%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.72%) FMCG
13 9 (1.54%) Cyberattack
13 9 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (1.20%) Blog
14 7 (1.20%) Clustering
15 6 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (1.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.89%) Android
2 6 (1.03%) Linux
3 4 (0.69%) Windows
4 3 (0.51%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (73.41%) AI
2 186 (31.90%) Data Science
3 180 (30.87%) Agile
4 177 (30.36%) CI/CD
5 146 (25.04%) Analytics
5 146 (25.04%) Roadmaps
6 141 (24.19%) Software Engineering
7 125 (21.44%) Data Engineering
8 99 (16.98%) DevOps
9 96 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
10 92 (15.78%) Data Governance
11 89 (15.27%) Generative AI
12 87 (14.92%) Microservices
13 86 (14.75%) Clean Code
13 86 (14.75%) Mentoring
14 80 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 78 (13.38%) LLM
16 76 (13.04%) Data Architecture
17 74 (12.69%) Coaching
18 73 (12.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 281 (48.20%) Python
2 196 (33.62%) SQL
3 103 (17.67%) Go
4 64 (10.98%) Scala
5 60 (10.29%) C#
6 55 (9.43%) JavaScript
7 45 (7.72%) Java
8 40 (6.86%) TypeScript
9 25 (4.29%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.74%) R
11 14 (2.40%) C++
12 12 (2.06%) Bash
13 9 (1.54%) Rust
14 7 (1.20%) Bicep
14 7 (1.20%) PHP
15 6 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.51%) T-SQL
18 2 (0.34%) C
19 1 (0.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 89 (15.27%) Degree
2 28 (4.80%) Security Cleared
3 20 (3.43%) PhD
4 19 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.09%) SC Cleared
6 16 (2.74%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.57%) DBS Check
8 12 (2.06%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.72%) ACCA
9 10 (1.72%) CIMA
10 9 (1.54%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.20%) CISSP
12 4 (0.69%) CISA
13 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.34%) GIAC
14 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.34%) SANS
15 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
15 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.35%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.60%) GDPR
3 20 (3.43%) QA
4 13 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.51%) IFRS
5 3 (0.51%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.51%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 98 (16.81%) Docker
2 55 (9.43%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (8.40%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.43%) Terraform
3 6 (1.03%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (0.34%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 2 (0.34%) Podman
6 1 (0.17%) Ansible
6 1 (0.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 154 (26.42%) Microsoft
2 99 (16.98%) Databricks
3 45 (7.72%) Typelevel
4 29 (4.97%) Google
5 21 (3.60%) Adobe
6 12 (2.06%) Palantir
6 12 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.89%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.72%) Foundry
9 6 (1.03%) Facebook
9 6 (1.03%) SAP
10 3 (0.51%) Apple
10 3 (0.51%) Ericsson
10 3 (0.51%) Mavenir
10 3 (0.51%) Nokia
10 3 (0.51%) Sony
10 3 (0.51%) Yahoo!
11 2 (0.34%) Civica
11 2 (0.34%) Informatica
11 2 (0.34%) Northgate