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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 34 104
Rank change year-on-year -23 +70 -10
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 914 1,161 711
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.04% 7.04% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 7.58% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 581 250 514
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
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 £92,500
90th Percentile £123,969 £135,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +6.27%

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 18,735 15,321 22,033
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.88% 92.93% 87.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13,552 9,025 15,867
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,875 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +1.02% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 7 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 26 (2.84%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.31%) Apache
4 10 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.66%) SAS
6 5 (0.55%) Confluence
7 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) Blender
3 3 (0.33%) Maya
4 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 (45.30%) Azure
2 256 (28.01%) AWS
3 226 (24.73%) Azure AI
4 141 (15.43%) GCP
5 96 (10.50%) Snowflake
6 94 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (10.28%) GitHub
7 87 (9.52%) Azure Machine Learning
8 79 (8.64%) GitHub Copilot
9 76 (8.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 62 (6.78%) Power Platform
11 47 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 37 (4.05%) SaaS
13 26 (2.84%) Amazon Bedrock
14 23 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
15 22 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
16 20 (2.19%) Anthropic Claude
16 20 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
17 19 (2.08%) Amazon S3
17 19 (2.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 121 (13.24%) Broadband
2 30 (3.28%) Internet
3 13 (1.42%) Firewall
4 7 (0.77%) 5G
4 7 (0.77%) Kerberos
4 7 (0.77%) Network Security
5 2 (0.22%) ATM
5 2 (0.22%) BGP
5 2 (0.22%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.22%) DNS
5 2 (0.22%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.22%) LAN
5 2 (0.22%) OSPF
5 2 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.22%) UWB
5 2 (0.22%) VPN
5 2 (0.22%) WAN
5 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.22%) WireGuard
5 2 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (19.47%) MongoDB
2 174 (19.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 60 (6.56%) Power BI
4 58 (6.35%) SQL Server
5 47 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (4.49%) Metadata
7 34 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (2.74%) Big Data
9 19 (2.08%) Delta Lake
10 18 (1.97%) Data Lake
11 14 (1.53%) Data Vault
11 14 (1.53%) Tableau
12 9 (0.98%) Looker
12 9 (0.98%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.88%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.77%) Relational Database
15 6 (0.66%) Hadoop
16 5 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
16 5 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 37 (4.05%) Git
2 19 (2.08%) Claude Code
3 17 (1.86%) MLflow
4 13 (1.42%) JIRA
5 11 (1.20%) GitLab
6 7 (0.77%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.44%) Appium
8 3 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.33%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.22%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.22%) Selenium
9 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.11%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.11%) Mocha
10 1 (0.11%) NUnit
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 248 (27.13%) Finance
2 166 (18.16%) Social Skills
3 113 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (8.32%) Marketing
5 66 (7.22%) Banking
6 40 (4.38%) Public Sector
7 39 (4.27%) Games
7 39 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 37 (4.05%) Advertising
9 34 (3.72%) Law
10 33 (3.61%) Legal
11 25 (2.74%) Retail
12 23 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.09%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.09%) Legal Technology
14 9 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.77%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.66%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 252 (27.57%) Developer
2 157 (17.18%) .NET Developer
3 151 (16.52%) Senior
4 106 (11.60%) Lead
5 101 (11.05%) Data Scientist
6 97 (10.61%) Architect
7 63 (6.89%) Software Engineer
8 53 (5.80%) Senior Data Scientist
9 51 (5.58%) Data Engineer
10 48 (5.25%) Finance Manager
11 46 (5.03%) Data Manager
12 44 (4.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 41 (4.49%) Data Architect
13 41 (4.49%) Engineering Manager
13 41 (4.49%) Lead Data Scientist
14 34 (3.72%) Senior Developer
15 30 (3.28%) Consultant
16 27 (2.95%) Lead Developer
16 27 (2.95%) Python Engineer
17 26 (2.84%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (20.68%) .NET
2 164 (17.94%) .NET Core
3 156 (17.07%) ASP.NET
3 156 (17.07%) ASP.NET Core
3 156 (17.07%) ML.NET
4 121 (13.24%) React
5 119 (13.02%) RESTful
6 103 (11.27%) Blazor
6 103 (11.27%) CSS
7 100 (10.94%) HTML
8 81 (8.86%) PyTorch
9 70 (7.66%) TensorFlow
10 61 (6.67%) LangChain
11 38 (4.16%) LangGraph
12 36 (3.94%) gRPC
12 36 (3.94%) Node.js
13 29 (3.17%) PySpark
14 27 (2.95%) Hugging Face
15 25 (2.74%) JSON
15 25 (2.74%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 113 (12.36%) Cloud Native
2 86 (9.41%) Distributed Systems
2 86 (9.41%) Video\Live Streaming
3 56 (6.13%) AI Agents
4 50 (5.47%) Algorithms
5 48 (5.25%) Blog
6 45 (4.92%) Product Ownership
7 42 (4.60%) Over-the-Top Content
8 32 (3.50%) Low-Code
9 30 (3.28%) Social Media
10 29 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (3.17%) Mobile App
11 20 (2.19%) Digital TV
12 18 (1.97%) BBC
13 17 (1.86%) iPhone
14 16 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.64%) Hedge funds
16 14 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
17 13 (1.42%) Credit Risk
18 12 (1.31%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.19%) Android
2 14 (1.53%) Linux
3 5 (0.55%) Windows
4 3 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (82.71%) AI
2 289 (31.62%) Agile
3 279 (30.53%) CI/CD
4 255 (27.90%) Data Science
5 237 (25.93%) Roadmaps
6 217 (23.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 209 (22.87%) Software Engineering
8 206 (22.54%) Analytics
9 164 (17.94%) DevOps
10 145 (15.86%) LLM
11 142 (15.54%) Mentoring
12 134 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
13 130 (14.22%) Data Engineering
14 127 (13.89%) Generative AI
15 107 (11.71%) Technical Leadership
16 103 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 103 (11.27%) Decision-Making
17 102 (11.16%) Data Governance
18 97 (10.61%) Data Architecture
18 97 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 391 (42.78%) Python
2 353 (38.62%) SQL
3 196 (21.44%) C#
4 140 (15.32%) JavaScript
5 76 (8.32%) Go
6 61 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 58 (6.35%) Scala
8 42 (4.60%) Java
9 28 (3.06%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.86%) Bicep
11 13 (1.42%) R
12 11 (1.20%) C++
13 9 (0.98%) C
13 9 (0.98%) PHP
14 8 (0.88%) Rust
15 6 (0.66%) Bash
16 4 (0.44%) Ada
16 4 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 94 (10.28%) Degree
2 68 (7.44%) Security Cleared
3 44 (4.81%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.50%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.41%) PhD
6 21 (2.30%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.08%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.42%) DBS Check
10 13 (1.42%) SnowPro
11 11 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.98%) CISSP
13 4 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.22%) CCDP
14 2 (0.22%) CCNP
14 2 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (8.42%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.06%) QA
3 27 (2.95%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.97%) GDPR
5 7 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.44%) IFRS
7 4 (0.44%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.22%) JTAG
9 2 (0.22%) MIL-STD-1553
9 2 (0.22%) SLA
10 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 156 (17.07%) Docker
2 55 (6.02%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.44%) Firmware
5 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 115 (12.58%) Kubernetes
2 48 (5.25%) Terraform
3 9 (0.98%) Grafana
4 7 (0.77%) Kubeflow
4 7 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.55%) Ansible
5 5 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.33%) Istio
6 3 (0.33%) linkerd
6 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.33%) Puppet
7 2 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.22%) Podman
8 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 308 (33.70%) Microsoft
2 136 (14.88%) Databricks
3 68 (7.44%) Google
4 38 (4.16%) Facebook
5 36 (3.94%) Typelevel
6 21 (2.30%) Yahoo!
7 19 (2.08%) Adobe
8 17 (1.86%) Apple
8 17 (1.86%) Foundry
8 17 (1.86%) Sony
9 13 (1.42%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.20%) SAP
11 5 (0.55%) Oracle
11 5 (0.55%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.44%) HighQ
12 4 (0.44%) Legatics
13 2 (0.22%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.22%) Cisco
13 2 (0.22%) New Relic
13 2 (0.22%) SonicWALL