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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 33 102
Rank change year-on-year -28 +69 -4
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 763 1,175 965
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.79% 7.59% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 8.03% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 466 260 745
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% -1.92%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £146,670 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -

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 16,496 14,625 30,850
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.89% 94.51% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,943 8,513 23,831
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 20 June 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 25 (3.28%) Apache Spark
2 24 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.05%) Apache
5 6 (0.79%) SAS
6 2 (0.26%) CMS
6 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.39%) Blender
2 3 (0.39%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.92%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) HFM
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 356 (46.66%) Azure
2 234 (30.67%) AWS
3 175 (22.94%) Azure AI
4 142 (18.61%) GCP
5 97 (12.71%) Azure Machine Learning
6 75 (9.83%) Snowflake
7 68 (8.91%) Power Platform
8 67 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
9 65 (8.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 59 (7.73%) GitHub
11 51 (6.68%) GitHub Copilot
12 37 (4.85%) SaaS
13 36 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
14 23 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
15 22 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
16 21 (2.75%) Vertex AI
17 20 (2.62%) Power Automate
18 19 (2.49%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 19 (2.49%) OneDrive
18 19 (2.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 135 (17.69%) Broadband
2 19 (2.49%) Internet
3 10 (1.31%) Firewall
4 7 (0.92%) 5G
5 6 (0.79%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.79%) Network Security
6 2 (0.26%) DNS
6 2 (0.26%) VLAN
6 2 (0.26%) VPN
6 2 (0.26%) WireGuard
7 1 (0.13%) 4G
7 1 (0.13%) LTE
7 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (17.43%) MongoDB
2 129 (16.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (8.26%) Power BI
4 62 (8.13%) SQL Server
5 42 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
6 35 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (4.33%) Metadata
8 20 (2.62%) Tableau
9 18 (2.36%) Big Data
10 17 (2.23%) BigQuery
11 15 (1.97%) Delta Lake
12 14 (1.83%) Looker
13 13 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (1.44%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.18%) Apache Iceberg
15 9 (1.18%) NoSQL
16 8 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (1.05%) Pinecone
16 8 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (2.49%) MLflow
2 16 (2.10%) Git
3 10 (1.31%) GitLab
4 7 (0.92%) JIRA
5 6 (0.79%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.39%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.26%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) Appium
8 1 (0.13%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.13%) Mocha
General
1 185 (24.25%) Finance
2 155 (20.31%) Social Skills
3 97 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (6.42%) Banking
5 40 (5.24%) Marketing
6 35 (4.59%) Games
7 32 (4.19%) Public Sector
8 30 (3.93%) Retail
9 28 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (3.28%) Law
11 24 (3.15%) Advertising
12 22 (2.88%) Legal
13 13 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.18%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.05%) Publishing
16 6 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.66%) Legal Technology
17 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 204 (26.74%) Developer
2 131 (17.17%) Senior
3 110 (14.42%) .NET Developer
4 101 (13.24%) Lead
5 86 (11.27%) Data Scientist
6 65 (8.52%) Architect
7 56 (7.34%) Software Engineer
8 55 (7.21%) Data Engineer
9 43 (5.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 42 (5.50%) Data Manager
10 42 (5.50%) Engineering Manager
11 39 (5.11%) Senior Data Scientist
12 33 (4.33%) Finance Manager
13 32 (4.19%) Data Architect
14 31 (4.06%) Lead Data Scientist
15 30 (3.93%) Consultant
15 30 (3.93%) Scala Engineer
15 30 (3.93%) Senior Developer
16 29 (3.80%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 27 (3.54%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (18.35%) .NET
2 119 (15.60%) .NET Core
3 107 (14.02%) ASP.NET
3 107 (14.02%) ASP.NET Core
3 107 (14.02%) ML.NET
4 93 (12.19%) RESTful
5 91 (11.93%) React
6 90 (11.80%) PyTorch
7 80 (10.48%) TensorFlow
8 76 (9.96%) CSS
9 75 (9.83%) HTML
10 74 (9.70%) Blazor
11 46 (6.03%) gRPC
12 44 (5.77%) LangChain
13 29 (3.80%) Node.js
14 26 (3.41%) Hugging Face
15 23 (3.01%) JSON
16 22 (2.88%) REST
17 21 (2.75%) scikit-learn
18 20 (2.62%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 102 (13.37%) Video\Live Streaming
2 88 (11.53%) Cloud Native
3 85 (11.14%) Distributed Systems
4 54 (7.08%) Over-the-Top Content
5 51 (6.68%) Product Ownership
6 44 (5.77%) Algorithms
7 35 (4.59%) Low-Code
8 32 (4.19%) AI Agents
9 25 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (3.01%) Social Media
11 19 (2.49%) Mobile App
12 15 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.83%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.83%) Digital TV
14 13 (1.70%) BBC
14 13 (1.70%) Blog
14 13 (1.70%) iPhone
15 12 (1.57%) Social Network
16 10 (1.31%) Life Science
16 10 (1.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.70%) Android
2 9 (1.18%) Linux
3 3 (0.39%) Windows
4 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.26%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 589 (77.20%) AI
2 246 (32.24%) CI/CD
3 238 (31.19%) Agile
4 227 (29.75%) Data Science
5 195 (25.56%) Roadmaps
6 192 (25.16%) Software Engineering
7 166 (21.76%) Full-Stack Development
8 155 (20.31%) Analytics
9 137 (17.96%) DevOps
10 128 (16.78%) Mentoring
11 127 (16.64%) Data Engineering
11 127 (16.64%) Generative AI
12 118 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
13 105 (13.76%) LLM
14 97 (12.71%) Data Governance
15 93 (12.19%) Decision-Making
16 88 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
17 86 (11.27%) Technical Leadership
18 84 (11.01%) Infrastructure as Code
19 83 (10.88%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 362 (47.44%) Python
2 287 (37.61%) SQL
3 144 (18.87%) C#
4 110 (14.42%) JavaScript
5 99 (12.98%) Go
6 64 (8.39%) Scala
7 52 (6.82%) TypeScript
8 45 (5.90%) Java
9 27 (3.54%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.44%) Bash
10 11 (1.44%) R
11 9 (1.18%) Bicep
11 9 (1.18%) C++
11 9 (1.18%) Rust
12 8 (1.05%) PHP
13 6 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.39%) C
16 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (10.62%) Degree
2 42 (5.50%) Security Cleared
3 28 (3.67%) SC Cleared
4 20 (2.62%) PhD
5 16 (2.10%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.10%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.70%) DBS Check
7 12 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.05%) CISSP
10 7 (0.92%) ACCA
10 7 (0.92%) CIMA
11 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.52%) CISA
12 4 (0.52%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.26%) GIAC
14 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.95%) Data Quality
2 21 (2.75%) GDPR
3 19 (2.49%) QA
4 17 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.39%) IFRS
5 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.39%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 129 (16.91%) Docker
2 55 (7.21%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 78 (10.22%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.46%) Terraform
3 9 (1.18%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.52%) Grafana
6 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.26%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 2 (0.26%) Istio
7 2 (0.26%) linkerd
7 2 (0.26%) Podman
7 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.26%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 243 (31.85%) Microsoft
2 103 (13.50%) Databricks
3 49 (6.42%) Google
4 45 (5.90%) Typelevel
5 25 (3.28%) Facebook
6 20 (2.62%) Adobe
7 15 (1.97%) Foundry
8 13 (1.70%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.57%) Apple
9 12 (1.57%) Sony
9 12 (1.57%) Yahoo!
10 9 (1.18%) Palantir
10 9 (1.18%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.92%) SAP
12 6 (0.79%) Oracle
13 4 (0.52%) HighQ
13 4 (0.52%) Legatics
13 4 (0.52%) ServiceNow
14 2 (0.26%) IBM
14 2 (0.26%) Informatica