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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 33 111
Rank change year-on-year -28 +78 -16
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 881 1,160 710
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.00% 7.05% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 7.57% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 572 250 521
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,475 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £122,250 £139,505 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +3.45%

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 18,280 15,315 23,472
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.99% 93.04% 88.02%
Number of salaries quoted 13,282 9,035 17,224
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 30 July 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 (2.72%) Apache Spark
1 24 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.25%) Apache
3 10 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.68%) SAS
5 4 (0.45%) Confluence
6 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.11%) CMS
7 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.34%) Blender
2 3 (0.34%) Maya
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) HFM
2 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 412 (46.77%) Azure
2 248 (28.15%) AWS
3 225 (25.54%) Azure AI
4 139 (15.78%) GCP
5 92 (10.44%) Azure DevOps
6 91 (10.33%) GitHub
6 91 (10.33%) Snowflake
7 88 (9.99%) Azure Machine Learning
8 78 (8.85%) GitHub Copilot
9 74 (8.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 63 (7.15%) Power Platform
11 45 (5.11%) Azure Data Factory
12 38 (4.31%) SaaS
13 23 (2.61%) Amazon Bedrock
13 23 (2.61%) Azure Logic Apps
14 21 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
14 21 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
15 20 (2.27%) Power Automate
16 19 (2.16%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (2.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 120 (13.62%) Broadband
2 30 (3.41%) Internet
3 12 (1.36%) Firewall
4 7 (0.79%) 5G
4 7 (0.79%) Kerberos
4 7 (0.79%) Network Security
5 2 (0.23%) ATM
5 2 (0.23%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.23%) DNS
5 2 (0.23%) UWB
5 2 (0.23%) VLAN
5 2 (0.23%) VPN
5 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.23%) WireGuard
5 2 (0.23%) Wireless
6 1 (0.11%) BGP
6 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.11%) LAN
6 1 (0.11%) OSPF
6 1 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (19.98%) MongoDB
2 172 (19.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 59 (6.70%) Power BI
3 59 (6.70%) SQL Server
4 46 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (4.20%) Metadata
6 31 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (2.61%) Big Data
8 18 (2.04%) Delta Lake
9 16 (1.82%) Data Lake
10 14 (1.59%) Tableau
11 12 (1.36%) Data Vault
12 9 (1.02%) BigQuery
12 9 (1.02%) Looker
13 8 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.91%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.79%) Relational Database
15 6 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 31 (3.52%) Git
2 17 (1.93%) MLflow
3 16 (1.82%) Claude Code
4 12 (1.36%) JIRA
5 11 (1.25%) GitLab
6 6 (0.68%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.34%) Appium
8 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.23%) Selenium
8 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.11%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.11%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.11%) Mocha
9 1 (0.11%) NUnit
9 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 226 (25.65%) Finance
2 162 (18.39%) Social Skills
3 102 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (7.60%) Marketing
5 63 (7.15%) Banking
6 40 (4.54%) Games
7 39 (4.43%) Public Sector
8 36 (4.09%) Advertising
9 33 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (3.63%) Law
11 28 (3.18%) Legal
12 25 (2.84%) Retail
13 19 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.02%) Legal Technology
15 8 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.79%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.57%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 250 (28.38%) Developer
2 156 (17.71%) .NET Developer
3 148 (16.80%) Senior
4 103 (11.69%) Lead
5 101 (11.46%) Data Scientist
6 90 (10.22%) Architect
7 59 (6.70%) Software Engineer
8 51 (5.79%) Senior Data Scientist
9 49 (5.56%) Data Engineer
10 45 (5.11%) Data Manager
10 45 (5.11%) Finance Manager
11 43 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 41 (4.65%) Engineering Manager
13 40 (4.54%) Lead Data Scientist
14 39 (4.43%) Data Architect
15 34 (3.86%) Senior Developer
16 31 (3.52%) Consultant
17 27 (3.06%) Lead Developer
17 27 (3.06%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 27 (3.06%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (21.23%) .NET
2 162 (18.39%) .NET Core
3 154 (17.48%) ASP.NET
3 154 (17.48%) ASP.NET Core
3 154 (17.48%) ML.NET
4 119 (13.51%) React
5 118 (13.39%) RESTful
6 103 (11.69%) CSS
7 102 (11.58%) Blazor
8 100 (11.35%) HTML
9 80 (9.08%) PyTorch
10 70 (7.95%) TensorFlow
11 59 (6.70%) LangChain
12 36 (4.09%) gRPC
13 35 (3.97%) LangGraph
13 35 (3.97%) Node.js
14 27 (3.06%) Hugging Face
14 27 (3.06%) PySpark
15 25 (2.84%) scikit-learn
16 24 (2.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 111 (12.60%) Cloud Native
2 86 (9.76%) Video\Live Streaming
3 84 (9.53%) Distributed Systems
4 52 (5.90%) AI Agents
5 47 (5.33%) Algorithms
6 46 (5.22%) Product Ownership
7 42 (4.77%) Over-the-Top Content
8 34 (3.86%) Low-Code
9 33 (3.75%) Blog
10 30 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
11 29 (3.29%) Social Media
12 27 (3.06%) Mobile App
13 20 (2.27%) Digital TV
14 18 (2.04%) BBC
15 17 (1.93%) iPhone
16 16 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
17 12 (1.36%) Hedge funds
17 12 (1.36%) Life Science
17 12 (1.36%) Social Network
18 11 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.16%) Android
2 13 (1.48%) Linux
3 6 (0.68%) Windows
4 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 724 (82.18%) AI
2 279 (31.67%) Agile
3 273 (30.99%) CI/CD
4 245 (27.81%) Data Science
5 224 (25.43%) Roadmaps
6 215 (24.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 202 (22.93%) Software Engineering
8 191 (21.68%) Analytics
9 159 (18.05%) DevOps
10 139 (15.78%) Mentoring
11 138 (15.66%) LLM
12 127 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
13 125 (14.19%) Data Engineering
14 123 (13.96%) Generative AI
15 103 (11.69%) Technical Leadership
16 101 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
16 101 (11.46%) Decision-Making
17 100 (11.35%) Data Governance
18 94 (10.67%) Data Architecture
18 94 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 381 (43.25%) Python
2 341 (38.71%) SQL
3 195 (22.13%) C#
4 137 (15.55%) JavaScript
5 78 (8.85%) Go
6 59 (6.70%) TypeScript
7 57 (6.47%) Scala
8 42 (4.77%) Java
9 28 (3.18%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.82%) Bicep
11 12 (1.36%) R
12 9 (1.02%) C++
13 8 (0.91%) C
13 8 (0.91%) PHP
14 7 (0.79%) Bash
14 7 (0.79%) Rust
15 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.34%) Ada
17 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (9.65%) Degree
2 58 (6.58%) Security Cleared
3 37 (4.20%) SC Cleared
4 25 (2.84%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.16%) PhD
6 18 (2.04%) Azure Certification
7 17 (1.93%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.48%) DBS Check
8 13 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.25%) SnowPro
10 9 (1.02%) CISSP
11 6 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.23%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.23%) GIAC
13 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.23%) SANS
14 1 (0.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.49%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.06%) QA
3 22 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.04%) GDPR
5 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.34%) IFRS
7 3 (0.34%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.34%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.23%) JTAG
8 2 (0.23%) SLA
9 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 152 (17.25%) Docker
2 55 (6.24%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.45%) Firmware
5 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 111 (12.60%) Kubernetes
2 46 (5.22%) Terraform
3 8 (0.91%) Grafana
4 7 (0.79%) Kubeflow
4 7 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.34%) Ansible
6 3 (0.34%) Istio
6 3 (0.34%) linkerd
6 3 (0.34%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.34%) Puppet
7 2 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.23%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 2 (0.23%) Podman
8 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 303 (34.39%) Microsoft
2 129 (14.64%) Databricks
3 66 (7.49%) Google
4 37 (4.20%) Facebook
5 36 (4.09%) Typelevel
6 21 (2.38%) Yahoo!
7 20 (2.27%) Adobe
8 18 (2.04%) Foundry
9 17 (1.93%) Apple
9 17 (1.93%) Sony
10 15 (1.70%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.02%) SAP
12 5 (0.57%) Oracle
12 5 (0.57%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.45%) HighQ
13 4 (0.45%) Legatics
14 3 (0.34%) Salesforce
15 2 (0.23%) IBM
15 2 (0.23%) New Relic
15 2 (0.23%) Palantir