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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 83 100
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 -9
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 438 547 890
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.60% 4.01% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 4.21% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 259 313 676
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £54,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £88,125
90th Percentile £123,969 £118,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £76,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.32% +8.57% -

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 14,351 13,001 27,627
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.11% 95.27% 92.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,433 8,869 22,881
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%

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 16 March 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 28 (6.39%) Apache Spark
2 19 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.60%) CMS
5 5 (1.14%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.91%) Apache
6 4 (0.91%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.91%) Confluence
7 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.23%) Kinematics
Applications
1 5 (1.14%) Chatbot
1 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.68%) Trello
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.46%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (2.28%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.46%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 201 (45.89%) Azure
2 163 (37.21%) AWS
3 112 (25.57%) GCP
4 58 (13.24%) Power Platform
5 45 (10.27%) Azure Machine Learning
6 25 (5.71%) Azure AI
7 24 (5.48%) SaaS
8 20 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (4.11%) Vertex AI
10 17 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (3.42%) Snowflake
12 14 (3.20%) Entra ID
13 13 (2.97%) GitHub
13 13 (2.97%) Serverless
14 12 (2.74%) Amazon S3
14 12 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
15 11 (2.51%) Amazon SageMaker
15 11 (2.51%) Dagster
15 11 (2.51%) Microsoft Copilot
16 10 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 75 (17.12%) Broadband
2 5 (1.14%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.68%) Network Security
4 2 (0.46%) Firewall
4 2 (0.46%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.23%) LTE
5 1 (0.23%) Modbus
5 1 (0.23%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (11.42%) Power BI
2 35 (7.99%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (5.94%) Tableau
4 20 (4.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (4.34%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (4.11%) Metadata
6 18 (4.11%) MongoDB
7 15 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (3.42%) SQL Server
8 14 (3.20%) BigQuery
9 13 (2.97%) Data Lake
10 11 (2.51%) Apache Iceberg
10 11 (2.51%) Delta Lake
10 11 (2.51%) Looker
10 11 (2.51%) NoSQL
11 10 (2.28%) Big Data
11 10 (2.28%) Pinecone
11 10 (2.28%) Weaviate
12 6 (1.37%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 19 (4.34%) MLflow
2 15 (3.42%) Git
3 5 (1.14%) Claude Code
3 5 (1.14%) JIRA
4 3 (0.68%) GitLab
4 3 (0.68%) Selenium
4 3 (0.68%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.46%) ERwin
5 2 (0.46%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.46%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.23%) Appium
6 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
General
1 127 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 86 (19.63%) Finance
3 72 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (6.85%) Public Sector
5 26 (5.94%) Marketing
5 26 (5.94%) Retail
6 20 (4.57%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.42%) Games
8 15 (3.42%) Legal
9 12 (2.74%) Law
9 12 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.51%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.51%) Publishing
11 8 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.60%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.14%) Advertising
13 5 (1.14%) Back Office
13 5 (1.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (21.00%) Senior
2 67 (15.30%) Lead
3 57 (13.01%) Developer
4 47 (10.73%) Data Engineer
5 36 (8.22%) Software Engineer
6 33 (7.53%) Data Scientist
7 27 (6.16%) Consultant
8 24 (5.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 24 (5.48%) Scala Engineer
9 23 (5.25%) Architect
10 19 (4.34%) Analyst
10 19 (4.34%) Operations Engineer
11 16 (3.65%) .NET Developer
11 16 (3.65%) Data Analyst
11 16 (3.65%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 14 (3.20%) Data Consultant
13 12 (2.74%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
13 12 (2.74%) Scala Developer
13 12 (2.74%) Scala Software Engineer
14 11 (2.51%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (11.87%) gRPC
2 49 (11.19%) PyTorch
3 44 (10.05%) TensorFlow
4 34 (7.76%) React
5 27 (6.16%) Kafka
5 27 (6.16%) REST
6 26 (5.94%) RESTful
7 24 (5.48%) .NET
8 18 (4.11%) Node.js
9 17 (3.88%) LangChain
10 15 (3.42%) .NET Core
11 14 (3.20%) OAuth
12 13 (2.97%) AngularJS
12 13 (2.97%) CSS
12 13 (2.97%) HTML
13 12 (2.74%) ASP.NET
13 12 (2.74%) ASP.NET Core
13 12 (2.74%) Blazor
13 12 (2.74%) ML.NET
14 11 (2.51%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.24%) Distributed Systems
2 54 (12.33%) Video\Live Streaming
3 53 (12.10%) Product Ownership
4 52 (11.87%) Cloud Native
5 40 (9.13%) Algorithms
5 40 (9.13%) Over-the-Top Content
6 26 (5.94%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.97%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (2.51%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.28%) FMCG
10 10 (2.28%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.37%) Educational Technology
12 6 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.14%) Social Media
14 4 (0.91%) Linked Data
14 4 (0.91%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.42%) Android
1 15 (3.42%) Linux
2 12 (2.74%) Windows
3 5 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.68%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (0.68%) Unix
6 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (75.11%) AI
2 155 (35.39%) Data Science
3 149 (34.02%) CI/CD
4 144 (32.88%) Analytics
5 109 (24.89%) Agile
6 107 (24.43%) Software Engineering
7 94 (21.46%) DevOps
8 89 (20.32%) Roadmaps
9 85 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
10 79 (18.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 76 (17.35%) Decision-Making
12 75 (17.12%) Containerisation
13 73 (16.67%) LLM
14 72 (16.44%) Clean Code
14 72 (16.44%) Microservices
15 71 (16.21%) Coaching
16 69 (15.75%) Generative AI
16 69 (15.75%) Mentoring
17 63 (14.38%) Data Pipeline
18 62 (14.16%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 242 (55.25%) Python
2 103 (23.52%) SQL
3 78 (17.81%) Go
4 53 (12.10%) Scala
5 48 (10.96%) Java
6 29 (6.62%) C#
7 27 (6.16%) JavaScript
8 21 (4.79%) Bash
9 20 (4.57%) TypeScript
10 16 (3.65%) PHP
10 16 (3.65%) PowerShell
10 16 (3.65%) R
11 13 (2.97%) C++
12 7 (1.60%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.37%) Rust
14 5 (1.14%) Bicep
15 4 (0.91%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.23%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 89 (20.32%) Degree
2 28 (6.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (6.16%) Security Cleared
4 20 (4.57%) PhD
5 19 (4.34%) SC Cleared
6 18 (4.11%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.20%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.28%) ACCA
8 10 (2.28%) CIMA
8 10 (2.28%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.91%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.91%) CISA
10 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.46%) CISSP
11 2 (0.46%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.46%) OSCE
11 2 (0.46%) OSCP
11 2 (0.46%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.85%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.79%) GDPR
3 14 (3.20%) QA
4 5 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.91%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.46%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.46%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (20.55%) Docker
2 8 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.46%) Ceph
4 2 (0.46%) Lustre
4 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (11.87%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.16%) Terraform
3 9 (2.05%) Ansible
4 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.91%) Kubeflow
6 3 (0.68%) SCCM
7 2 (0.46%) Grafana
7 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) Argo
8 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 67 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.45%) Databricks
3 36 (8.22%) Typelevel
4 26 (5.94%) Google
5 12 (2.74%) Palantir
5 12 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.51%) OpenAI
7 10 (2.28%) Foundry
8 5 (1.14%) Adobe
8 5 (1.14%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.14%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.14%) Nokia
9 4 (0.91%) SAP
10 3 (0.68%) Dell
10 3 (0.68%) Facebook
10 3 (0.68%) Mercator
11 2 (0.46%) Civica
11 2 (0.46%) Northgate
11 2 (0.46%) Orchard
12 1 (0.23%) Yahoo!