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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 33 101
Rank change year-on-year -39 +68 -4
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 652 1,170 949
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.44% 8.04% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 8.48% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 393 252 751
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,600 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +15.38% -6.40%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £123,175 £145,920 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -

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 15,706 13,805 29,705
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.93% 94.87% 90.38%
Number of salaries quoted 11,181 8,074 23,429
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%

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 26 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 26 (3.99%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.83%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.92%) Apache
4 6 (0.92%) SAS
5 4 (0.61%) CMS
6 3 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.15%) Kinematics
Applications
1 7 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Blender
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.38%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) HFM
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 291 (44.63%) Azure
2 211 (32.36%) AWS
3 139 (21.32%) GCP
4 115 (17.64%) Azure AI
5 100 (15.34%) Azure Machine Learning
6 76 (11.66%) Power Platform
7 73 (11.20%) Snowflake
8 61 (9.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 36 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (4.91%) SaaS
11 31 (4.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (4.75%) GitHub
12 23 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
12 23 (3.53%) GitHub Copilot
12 23 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (3.22%) Power Automate
13 21 (3.22%) Vertex AI
14 19 (2.91%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (2.91%) OneDrive
14 19 (2.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 121 (18.56%) Broadband
2 10 (1.53%) Firewall
3 7 (1.07%) 5G
3 7 (1.07%) Internet
3 7 (1.07%) Network Security
4 6 (0.92%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.31%) DNS
5 2 (0.31%) VLAN
5 2 (0.31%) VPN
5 2 (0.31%) WireGuard
6 1 (0.15%) 4G
6 1 (0.15%) LTE
6 1 (0.15%) Modbus
6 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (11.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 69 (10.58%) MongoDB
2 69 (10.58%) Power BI
3 66 (10.12%) SQL Server
4 34 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (3.68%) Metadata
7 23 (3.53%) Tableau
8 17 (2.61%) Looker
9 16 (2.45%) Big Data
9 16 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (2.30%) BigQuery
11 13 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (1.99%) Delta Lake
12 11 (1.69%) NoSQL
12 11 (1.69%) Pinecone
13 10 (1.53%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (1.53%) Weaviate
14 9 (1.38%) Relational Database
15 8 (1.23%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 23 (3.53%) MLflow
2 15 (2.30%) Git
3 8 (1.23%) GitLab
4 5 (0.77%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.61%) JIRA
6 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.31%) Selenium
7 1 (0.15%) Appium
7 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 164 (25.15%) Finance
2 144 (22.09%) Social Skills
3 92 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (5.37%) Banking
5 32 (4.91%) Retail
6 26 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (3.83%) Law
7 25 (3.83%) Marketing
8 24 (3.68%) Games
8 24 (3.68%) Public Sector
9 22 (3.37%) Legal
10 14 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.53%) Advertising
11 10 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.53%) Publishing
12 9 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.07%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.77%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (19.94%) Developer
2 125 (19.17%) Senior
3 83 (12.73%) Lead
4 75 (11.50%) Data Scientist
5 53 (8.13%) Software Engineer
6 52 (7.98%) .NET Developer
7 51 (7.82%) Architect
8 49 (7.52%) Data Engineer
9 42 (6.44%) Data Manager
10 41 (6.29%) Engineering Manager
11 39 (5.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 33 (5.06%) Finance Manager
13 31 (4.75%) Consultant
14 30 (4.60%) Scala Engineer
15 28 (4.29%) Senior Data Scientist
16 27 (4.14%) Senior Developer
17 25 (3.83%) Machine Learning Engineer
18 24 (3.68%) Data Architect
19 21 (3.22%) Lead Data Scientist
19 21 (3.22%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (12.58%) .NET
2 70 (10.74%) PyTorch
3 66 (10.12%) .NET Core
4 64 (9.82%) TensorFlow
5 57 (8.74%) React
6 53 (8.13%) RESTful
7 51 (7.82%) gRPC
8 49 (7.52%) ASP.NET
8 49 (7.52%) ASP.NET Core
8 49 (7.52%) ML.NET
9 48 (7.36%) CSS
9 48 (7.36%) HTML
10 33 (5.06%) Blazor
10 33 (5.06%) LangChain
11 27 (4.14%) Node.js
12 25 (3.83%) REST
13 22 (3.37%) JSON
14 19 (2.91%) HTML5 Canvas
14 19 (2.91%) Kafka
14 19 (2.91%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 87 (13.34%) Video\Live Streaming
2 76 (11.66%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (9.66%) Cloud Native
4 52 (7.98%) Over-the-Top Content
5 48 (7.36%) Product Ownership
6 46 (7.06%) Algorithms
7 30 (4.60%) AI Agents
8 29 (4.45%) Low-Code
9 17 (2.61%) Social Media
10 16 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.99%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.84%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.69%) Blog
15 10 (1.53%) Cyberattack
15 10 (1.53%) Life Science
16 9 (1.38%) Digital TV
16 9 (1.38%) FMCG
16 9 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
16 9 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.69%) Android
2 9 (1.38%) Linux
3 4 (0.61%) Windows
4 3 (0.46%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (73.77%) AI
2 206 (31.60%) Data Science
3 199 (30.52%) CI/CD
4 194 (29.75%) Agile
5 166 (25.46%) Roadmaps
5 166 (25.46%) Software Engineering
6 150 (23.01%) Analytics
7 121 (18.56%) Data Engineering
8 110 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
9 108 (16.56%) DevOps
10 102 (15.64%) Generative AI
11 97 (14.88%) Full-Stack Development
11 97 (14.88%) Mentoring
12 92 (14.11%) Data Governance
13 89 (13.65%) Clean Code
14 88 (13.50%) LLM
15 84 (12.88%) Microservices
16 82 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
16 82 (12.58%) Decision-Making
17 77 (11.81%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 325 (49.85%) Python
2 228 (34.97%) SQL
3 99 (15.18%) Go
4 88 (13.50%) C#
5 75 (11.50%) JavaScript
6 62 (9.51%) Scala
7 47 (7.21%) Java
8 45 (6.90%) TypeScript
9 27 (4.14%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.30%) R
11 14 (2.15%) Bash
12 11 (1.69%) C++
13 10 (1.53%) Rust
14 8 (1.23%) PHP
15 6 (0.92%) Bicep
15 6 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.46%) C
17 3 (0.46%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (13.50%) Degree
2 35 (5.37%) Security Cleared
3 22 (3.37%) SC Cleared
4 21 (3.22%) PhD
5 16 (2.45%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.99%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.84%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.38%) ACCA
10 9 (1.38%) CIMA
11 8 (1.23%) CISSP
12 4 (0.61%) CISA
13 3 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.31%) GIAC
14 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.83%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.22%) GDPR
2 21 (3.22%) QA
3 15 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.46%) IFRS
4 3 (0.46%) IFRS 17
4 3 (0.46%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 109 (16.72%) Docker
2 55 (8.44%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (8.90%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.14%) Terraform
3 7 (1.07%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.46%) Grafana
6 2 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.31%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 2 (0.31%) Podman
6 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) Ansible
7 1 (0.15%) Istio
7 1 (0.15%) linkerd
7 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 182 (27.91%) Microsoft
2 97 (14.88%) Databricks
3 45 (6.90%) Typelevel
4 35 (5.37%) Google
5 21 (3.22%) Adobe
6 12 (1.84%) Foundry
6 12 (1.84%) OpenAI
6 12 (1.84%) Palantir
7 11 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.53%) Facebook
9 7 (1.07%) SAP
10 6 (0.92%) Apple
10 6 (0.92%) Sony
10 6 (0.92%) Yahoo!
11 5 (0.77%) Oracle
12 4 (0.61%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.31%) IBM
13 2 (0.31%) Informatica
14 1 (0.15%) Cognizant
14 1 (0.15%) Nokia