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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 37 90
Rank change year-on-year -22 +53 +8
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 921 1,087 762
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.95% 6.58% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 7.07% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 588 253 528
10th Percentile £46,425 £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% +6.62%
75th Percentile £105,313 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £131,500 £132,500 £104,125
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 19,122 15,365 21,270
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.96% 93.04% 87.61%
Number of salaries quoted 13,816 8,955 14,220
10th Percentile £34,750 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £44,106
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,077
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%

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 31 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 24 (2.61%) Apache Spark
1 24 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.52%) Apache
3 12 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.65%) SAS
5 5 (0.54%) Confluence
6 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 13 (1.41%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.76%) 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 3 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) HFM
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 414 (44.95%) Azure
2 255 (27.69%) AWS
3 227 (24.65%) Azure AI
4 129 (14.01%) GCP
5 107 (11.62%) Snowflake
6 97 (10.53%) GitHub
7 93 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
8 82 (8.90%) Azure Machine Learning
9 80 (8.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 80 (8.69%) GitHub Copilot
10 66 (7.17%) Power Platform
11 50 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
12 37 (4.02%) SaaS
13 35 (3.80%) Amazon Bedrock
14 29 (3.15%) Anthropic Claude
15 26 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
16 22 (2.39%) Azure Databricks
17 21 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
17 21 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
18 20 (2.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 94 (10.21%) Broadband
2 30 (3.26%) Internet
3 13 (1.41%) Firewall
4 7 (0.76%) 5G
5 6 (0.65%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.65%) Network Security
6 4 (0.43%) 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
1 178 (19.33%) MongoDB
2 174 (18.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (6.84%) Power BI
4 58 (6.30%) SQL Server
5 49 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (4.45%) Metadata
7 38 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (2.82%) Big Data
9 21 (2.28%) Delta Lake
10 19 (2.06%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.85%) Data Vault
12 16 (1.74%) NoSQL
12 16 (1.74%) Tableau
13 10 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.09%) Looker
14 8 (0.87%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.76%) Relational Database
15 7 (0.76%) Semantic Layer
16 6 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.65%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 37 (4.02%) Git
2 26 (2.82%) Claude Code
3 17 (1.85%) MLflow
4 13 (1.41%) JIRA
5 10 (1.09%) GitLab
6 8 (0.87%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.43%) Appium
7 4 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.33%) Mercurial
8 3 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.22%) Poetry
9 2 (0.22%) Selenium
10 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.11%) Mocha
10 1 (0.11%) NUnit
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 282 (30.62%) Finance
2 159 (17.26%) Social Skills
3 120 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (9.12%) Marketing
5 81 (8.79%) Banking
6 41 (4.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (4.34%) Games
8 35 (3.80%) Advertising
8 35 (3.80%) Public Sector
9 34 (3.69%) Law
10 28 (3.04%) Retail
11 27 (2.93%) Legal
12 22 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.30%) Aerospace
14 11 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.09%) Legal Technology
16 7 (0.76%) Electronics
16 7 (0.76%) Military
17 6 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 242 (26.28%) Developer
2 156 (16.94%) .NET Developer
3 152 (16.50%) Senior
4 110 (11.94%) Architect
5 101 (10.97%) Data Scientist
5 101 (10.97%) Lead
6 61 (6.62%) Software Engineer
7 57 (6.19%) Finance Manager
8 54 (5.86%) Senior Data Scientist
9 48 (5.21%) Data Engineer
10 46 (4.99%) Data Manager
11 43 (4.67%) Data Architect
12 42 (4.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 40 (4.34%) Engineering Manager
13 40 (4.34%) Lead Data Scientist
14 34 (3.69%) Senior Developer
15 29 (3.15%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 27 (2.93%) Consultant
17 25 (2.71%) Enterprise Architect
18 23 (2.50%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (20.52%) .NET
2 164 (17.81%) .NET Core
3 156 (16.94%) ASP.NET
3 156 (16.94%) ASP.NET Core
3 156 (16.94%) ML.NET
4 118 (12.81%) RESTful
5 117 (12.70%) React
6 103 (11.18%) Blazor
7 101 (10.97%) CSS
8 98 (10.64%) HTML
9 82 (8.90%) PyTorch
10 72 (7.82%) TensorFlow
11 68 (7.38%) LangChain
12 54 (5.86%) Terraform
13 44 (4.78%) LangGraph
14 34 (3.69%) Node.js
15 33 (3.58%) PySpark
16 27 (2.93%) Hugging Face
17 25 (2.71%) JSON
17 25 (2.71%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 117 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 70 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (6.95%) AI Agents
3 64 (6.95%) Blog
3 64 (6.95%) Video\Live Streaming
4 57 (6.19%) Algorithms
5 47 (5.10%) Product Ownership
6 34 (3.69%) Mobile App
7 32 (3.47%) Low-Code
8 29 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
8 29 (3.15%) Social Media
9 24 (2.61%) Hedge funds
9 24 (2.61%) Over-the-Top Content
10 20 (2.17%) Credit Risk
10 20 (2.17%) Digital TV
11 18 (1.95%) BBC
12 17 (1.85%) iPhone
12 17 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.52%) Onboarding
14 13 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.17%) Android
2 15 (1.63%) Linux
3 7 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.54%) Windows
5 3 (0.33%) Unix
6 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 783 (85.02%) AI
2 280 (30.40%) Agile
3 256 (27.80%) CI/CD
4 247 (26.82%) Data Science
5 244 (26.49%) Roadmaps
6 215 (23.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 211 (22.91%) Analytics
8 192 (20.85%) Software Engineering
9 159 (17.26%) DevOps
10 146 (15.85%) LLM
11 131 (14.22%) Data Engineering
12 130 (14.12%) Mentoring
13 128 (13.90%) Generative AI
14 122 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
15 106 (11.51%) Data Governance
16 105 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
17 104 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
18 102 (11.07%) Data Architecture
19 97 (10.53%) Data Modelling
19 97 (10.53%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 379 (41.15%) Python
2 377 (40.93%) SQL
3 197 (21.39%) C#
4 139 (15.09%) JavaScript
5 59 (6.41%) TypeScript
6 58 (6.30%) Go
7 42 (4.56%) Scala
8 41 (4.45%) Java
9 28 (3.04%) PowerShell
10 19 (2.06%) Bicep
11 13 (1.41%) C++
11 13 (1.41%) R
12 10 (1.09%) C
13 9 (0.98%) Rust
14 7 (0.76%) PHP
14 7 (0.76%) Swift
15 6 (0.65%) Bash
16 5 (0.54%) Ada
17 4 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 96 (10.42%) Degree
2 70 (7.60%) Security Cleared
3 47 (5.10%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.69%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.39%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.28%) Azure Certification
6 21 (2.28%) PhD
7 18 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.74%) SnowPro
10 13 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.87%) CISSP
12 7 (0.76%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.33%) CCDP
14 3 (0.33%) CCNP
14 3 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.22%) GIAC
15 2 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (9.45%) Data Quality
2 31 (3.37%) QA
3 29 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.30%) GDPR
5 9 (0.98%) 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%) SLA
7 4 (0.43%) 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
1 141 (15.31%) Docker
2 55 (5.97%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.65%) Firmware
5 3 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 119 (12.92%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.19%) Grafana
3 7 (0.76%) Kubeflow
3 7 (0.76%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.65%) Ansible
4 6 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.33%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.33%) Istio
5 3 (0.33%) linkerd
5 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.33%) 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%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 307 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 146 (15.85%) Databricks
3 64 (6.95%) Google
4 38 (4.13%) Facebook
5 21 (2.28%) Yahoo!
6 19 (2.06%) Adobe
7 18 (1.95%) Typelevel
8 17 (1.85%) Apple
8 17 (1.85%) OpenAI
8 17 (1.85%) Sony
9 15 (1.63%) Foundry
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 (0.33%) Cisco
13 3 (0.33%) Forcepoint
13 3 (0.33%) Juniper
13 3 (0.33%) SonicWALL