Machine Learning Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 107 106
Rank change year-on-year +72 -1 -42
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 1,386 918 1,089
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.83% 2.66% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.33% 2.98% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 261 701 697
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +1.71% -8.24%
75th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £87,419
90th Percentile £146,300 £101,250 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,226
% change year-on-year +14.29% -0.32% -6.37%

All Process and 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 18,907 30,842 34,528
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.22% 89.35% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 10,058 22,915 24,927
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,662 £81,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
% change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%

Machine Learning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Machine Learning trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Machine Learning
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Machine Learning.

Machine Learning salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Machine Learning over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Machine Learning salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 30 (2.16%) Apache Spark
2 23 (1.66%) Jupyter
3 13 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.58%) Apache
5 7 (0.51%) Confluence
6 3 (0.22%) SAS
7 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.14%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.072%) CMS
Applications
1 17 (1.23%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.29%) Trello
4 2 (0.14%) Simulink
5 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.072%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Adaptiv
2 3 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.14%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.072%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.072%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.072%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.072%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.072%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.072%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.072%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.072%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.072%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.072%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 479 (34.56%) AWS
2 478 (34.49%) Azure
3 426 (30.74%) GCP
4 230 (16.59%) Serverless
5 225 (16.23%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (2.31%) Power Platform
7 20 (1.44%) Azure Machine Learning
8 17 (1.23%) Amazon S3
9 16 (1.15%) Amazon SageMaker
10 14 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (1.01%) GitHub
11 12 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (0.58%) PaaS
12 8 (0.58%) SaaS
13 7 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.51%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (0.43%) Snowflake
15 5 (0.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 5 (0.36%) Google Analytics
15 5 (0.36%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 215 (15.51%) Broadband
2 12 (0.87%) HTTP
3 7 (0.51%) Internet
4 4 (0.29%) DHCP
4 4 (0.29%) DNS
4 4 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.22%) SAN
6 2 (0.14%) Firewall
6 2 (0.14%) MQTT
6 2 (0.14%) Skype
6 2 (0.14%) VPN
6 2 (0.14%) WAN
7 1 (0.072%) Network Security
7 1 (0.072%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.04%) Big Data
2 31 (2.24%) Power BI
3 25 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.44%) Tableau
5 18 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 15 (1.08%) NoSQL
7 13 (0.94%) Redis
8 12 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.87%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.65%) MySQL
11 7 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.51%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.36%) Power Query
13 3 (0.22%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.22%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.22%) Parquet
13 3 (0.22%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 33 (2.38%) Git
2 21 (1.52%) GitLab
3 16 (1.15%) SonarQube
4 15 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (0.58%) JIRA
6 4 (0.29%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.22%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.22%) RStudio
8 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.14%) Postman
8 2 (0.14%) Selenium
8 2 (0.14%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.072%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.072%) MLflow
9 1 (0.072%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.072%) Vite
General
1 564 (40.69%) Retail
2 562 (40.55%) Manufacturing
3 314 (22.66%) Analytical Skills
4 247 (17.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 196 (14.14%) Dutch Language
5 196 (14.14%) Finnish Language
6 142 (10.25%) Finance
7 129 (9.31%) Social Skills
8 49 (3.54%) Catalan Language
9 30 (2.16%) Banking
10 28 (2.02%) Games
11 21 (1.52%) Law
12 19 (1.37%) Marketing
13 16 (1.15%) Advertising
14 14 (1.01%) Public Sector
14 14 (1.01%) Publishing
15 12 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.65%) Legal
17 7 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 552 (39.83%) Trainer
2 491 (35.43%) Senior
3 224 (16.16%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 220 (15.87%) Software Engineer
5 198 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
6 94 (6.78%) Data Scientist
7 52 (3.75%) Senior Data Scientist
8 49 (3.54%) Lead
9 32 (2.31%) Developer
10 27 (1.95%) Analyst
11 24 (1.73%) Architect
12 21 (1.52%) Python Engineer
13 17 (1.23%) DevOps Engineer
13 17 (1.23%) Head of AI
14 13 (0.94%) Data Engineer
15 12 (0.87%) AWS Engineer
15 12 (0.87%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 12 (0.87%) Senior Developer
16 11 (0.79%) AWS DevOps
16 11 (0.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (14.29%) .NET
2 194 (14.00%) Node.js
3 66 (4.76%) HTML
4 44 (3.17%) TensorFlow
5 36 (2.60%) scikit-learn
6 33 (2.38%) PyTorch
7 27 (1.95%) REST
8 21 (1.52%) Kafka
9 20 (1.44%) Pandas
10 19 (1.37%) PySpark
11 14 (1.01%) .NET Framework
11 14 (1.01%) RESTful
12 13 (0.94%) Keras
13 12 (0.87%) NumPy
14 10 (0.72%) React
14 10 (0.72%) XGBoost
15 9 (0.65%) JSON
16 8 (0.58%) CSS
16 8 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
16 8 (0.58%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 571 (41.20%) Robotics
2 395 (28.50%) Self-Motivation
3 224 (16.16%) Cyberattack
4 180 (12.99%) Linux Command Line
5 86 (6.20%) Algorithms
6 17 (1.23%) Credit Risk
7 14 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
8 9 (0.65%) IoT
8 9 (0.65%) Management Information System
8 9 (0.65%) Market Risk
9 8 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (0.51%) Product Ownership
10 7 (0.51%) Social Media
10 7 (0.51%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.36%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.36%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.36%) Reinsurance
12 4 (0.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 190 (13.71%) Linux
2 10 (0.72%) Windows
3 4 (0.29%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.22%) VMS
5 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.072%) Android
6 1 (0.072%) Debian
6 1 (0.072%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 872 (62.91%) Problem-Solving
2 844 (60.89%) Artificial Intelligence
3 618 (44.59%) LLM
4 593 (42.78%) Data Privacy
5 586 (42.28%) Generative AI
6 539 (38.89%) Red Team
7 458 (33.04%) Agile
8 446 (32.18%) Mentoring
9 371 (26.77%) Data Science
10 272 (19.62%) Software Engineering
11 260 (18.76%) CI/CD
12 229 (16.52%) Personalization
13 227 (16.38%) Performance Metrics
14 218 (15.73%) Microservices
15 216 (15.58%) Clean Code
15 216 (15.58%) Creative Thinking
16 214 (15.44%) Data Engineering
17 197 (14.21%) User Experience
18 193 (13.92%) Scrum
19 186 (13.42%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 692 (49.93%) Python
2 273 (19.70%) Java
3 269 (19.41%) TypeScript
4 268 (19.34%) JavaScript
5 259 (18.69%) C++
6 231 (16.67%) Rust
7 183 (13.20%) Go
8 157 (11.33%) SQL
9 71 (5.12%) C#
10 67 (4.83%) MATLAB
11 66 (4.76%) R
12 54 (3.90%) C
13 53 (3.82%) PHP
14 49 (3.54%) Dart
14 49 (3.54%) Ruby
15 14 (1.01%) Scala
16 7 (0.51%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.43%) T-SQL
18 5 (0.36%) Bash
19 3 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 945 (68.18%) Degree
2 256 (18.47%) PhD
3 237 (17.10%) Security Cleared
4 229 (16.52%) DV Cleared
5 180 (12.99%) AWS Certification
6 178 (12.84%) AWS Certified Developer
6 178 (12.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 85 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.24%) Master's Degree
9 28 (2.02%) Numerate Degree
10 15 (1.08%) DBS Check
11 13 (0.94%) PMP
12 12 (0.87%) CFA
12 12 (0.87%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.58%) Postgraduate
14 7 (0.51%) SC Cleared
15 5 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.29%) Azure Certification
16 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (1.59%) Data Quality
2 14 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.87%) GDPR
4 5 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.36%) QA
5 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.14%) SLA
7 1 (0.072%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.072%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.072%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.072%) GMP
7 1 (0.072%) HL7
7 1 (0.072%) PMO
System Software
1 67 (4.83%) Docker
2 5 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.072%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 71 (5.12%) Kubernetes
2 31 (2.24%) Terraform
3 19 (1.37%) Ansible
4 4 (0.29%) SCOM
5 3 (0.22%) Puppet
6 2 (0.14%) Packer
6 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.14%) SCCM
6 2 (0.14%) SCOrch
6 2 (0.14%) SCSM
7 1 (0.072%) Grafana
7 1 (0.072%) Kibana
7 1 (0.072%) logstash
7 1 (0.072%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 578 (41.70%) Databricks
2 569 (41.05%) Google
3 539 (38.89%) Adobe
4 32 (2.31%) Microsoft
5 12 (0.87%) Apple
5 12 (0.87%) Murex
6 9 (0.65%) SAP
7 7 (0.51%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.43%) FIS
8 6 (0.43%) PayPal
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle
9 3 (0.22%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.22%) Splunk
10 2 (0.14%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.14%) Hitachi
10 2 (0.14%) Informatica
10 2 (0.14%) New Relic
10 2 (0.14%) Palantir
10 2 (0.14%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.14%) VMware