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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 81 99
Rank change year-on-year -23 +18 -7
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 406 563 908
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.44% 4.04% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 4.23% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 251 309 684
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £112,700 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -

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 14,163 13,299 27,577
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.18% 95.33% 92.18%
Number of salaries quoted 9,242 8,824 22,844
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,415 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

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 11 March 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 28 (6.90%) Apache Spark
2 18 (4.43%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.72%) CMS
3 7 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.23%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.99%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.99%) Confluence
6 3 (0.74%) Apache
6 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) Kinematics
Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Chatbot
1 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.74%) Trello
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.49%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (2.46%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.49%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 184 (45.32%) Azure
2 147 (36.21%) AWS
3 99 (24.38%) GCP
4 56 (13.79%) Power Platform
5 42 (10.34%) Azure Machine Learning
6 24 (5.91%) SaaS
7 19 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (3.69%) Azure AI
8 15 (3.69%) Serverless
8 15 (3.69%) Snowflake
9 14 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (3.45%) Entra ID
9 14 (3.45%) Vertex AI
10 11 (2.71%) Amazon S3
10 11 (2.71%) Amazon SageMaker
10 11 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (2.71%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.22%) dbt
12 9 (2.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 50 (12.32%) Broadband
2 5 (1.23%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.74%) Network Security
4 2 (0.49%) Firewall
4 2 (0.49%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.25%) LTE
5 1 (0.25%) Modbus
5 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.82%) Power BI
2 33 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (6.16%) Tableau
4 18 (4.43%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (4.43%) Metadata
5 15 (3.69%) SQL Server
6 14 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (3.20%) BigQuery
8 12 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (2.96%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.71%) Apache Iceberg
9 11 (2.71%) Delta Lake
9 11 (2.71%) Looker
9 11 (2.71%) NoSQL
10 10 (2.46%) Pinecone
10 10 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (2.46%) Weaviate
11 9 (2.22%) Big Data
12 6 (1.48%) Data Mining
12 6 (1.48%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (4.43%) MLflow
2 14 (3.45%) Git
3 5 (1.23%) Claude Code
3 5 (1.23%) JIRA
4 3 (0.74%) Selenium
4 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.49%) ERwin
5 2 (0.49%) GitLab
5 2 (0.49%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.49%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.25%) Appium
6 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
General
1 125 (30.79%) Social Skills
2 85 (20.94%) Finance
3 69 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.39%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.40%) Retail
6 23 (5.67%) Marketing
7 20 (4.93%) Telecoms
8 16 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.69%) Legal
10 13 (3.20%) Law
11 11 (2.71%) Games
11 11 (2.71%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.71%) Publishing
12 8 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.72%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.23%) Back Office
14 5 (1.23%) Banking
15 4 (0.99%) Billing
Job Titles
1 85 (20.94%) Senior
2 63 (15.52%) Lead
3 44 (10.84%) Developer
4 43 (10.59%) Data Engineer
5 36 (8.87%) Software Engineer
6 31 (7.64%) Data Scientist
7 25 (6.16%) Consultant
8 22 (5.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 21 (5.17%) Architect
10 19 (4.68%) Analyst
10 19 (4.68%) Operations Engineer
11 18 (4.43%) Scala Engineer
12 16 (3.94%) Data Analyst
12 16 (3.94%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 14 (3.45%) Data Consultant
14 12 (2.96%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
15 10 (2.46%) Commercial Analyst
15 10 (2.46%) Commercial Data Analyst
15 10 (2.46%) Scala Developer
15 10 (2.46%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (11.08%) PyTorch
1 45 (11.08%) TensorFlow
2 44 (10.84%) gRPC
3 32 (7.88%) React
4 26 (6.40%) Kafka
5 22 (5.42%) REST
5 22 (5.42%) RESTful
6 17 (4.19%) Node.js
7 15 (3.69%) .NET
8 14 (3.45%) AngularJS
8 14 (3.45%) LangChain
9 12 (2.96%) OAuth
10 11 (2.71%) Spring
10 11 (2.71%) Spring Boot
11 10 (2.46%) PySpark
12 9 (2.22%) Faiss
12 9 (2.22%) Symfony
12 9 (2.22%) vLLM
12 9 (2.22%) WebSockets
13 8 (1.97%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.32%) Distributed Systems
1 50 (12.32%) Product Ownership
2 49 (12.07%) Cloud Native
3 41 (10.10%) Video\Live Streaming
4 37 (9.11%) Algorithms
5 32 (7.88%) Over-the-Top Content
6 26 (6.40%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.71%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.46%) FMCG
9 9 (2.22%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.97%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.48%) Educational Technology
13 5 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.23%) Social Media
14 4 (0.99%) Blog
14 4 (0.99%) Linked Data
14 4 (0.99%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.69%) Android
1 15 (3.69%) Linux
2 12 (2.96%) Windows
3 5 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.74%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (0.74%) Unix
6 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (75.37%) AI
2 144 (35.47%) Data Science
3 143 (35.22%) Analytics
4 138 (33.99%) CI/CD
5 98 (24.14%) Agile
6 93 (22.91%) Software Engineering
7 92 (22.66%) DevOps
8 89 (21.92%) Roadmaps
9 75 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
10 71 (17.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 67 (16.50%) Decision-Making
12 66 (16.26%) Containerisation
12 66 (16.26%) Mentoring
13 65 (16.01%) Clean Code
13 65 (16.01%) Coaching
14 63 (15.52%) LLM
15 62 (15.27%) MLOps
16 61 (15.02%) Microservices
17 60 (14.78%) Data Pipeline
17 60 (14.78%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 215 (52.96%) Python
2 92 (22.66%) SQL
3 65 (16.01%) Go
4 44 (10.84%) Java
4 44 (10.84%) Scala
5 23 (5.67%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.17%) Bash
7 20 (4.93%) C#
7 20 (4.93%) TypeScript
8 16 (3.94%) PHP
8 16 (3.94%) R
9 15 (3.69%) C++
9 15 (3.69%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.72%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.48%) Rust
12 5 (1.23%) Bicep
13 3 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.25%) Perl
14 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (21.43%) Degree
2 30 (7.39%) Security Cleared
3 28 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (5.67%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.69%) PhD
6 13 (3.20%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.20%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.46%) ACCA
7 10 (2.46%) CIMA
7 10 (2.46%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.99%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.99%) CISA
9 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.49%) CISSP
11 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.49%) OSCE
11 2 (0.49%) OSCP
11 2 (0.49%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.17%) GDPR
3 9 (2.22%) QA
4 4 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.99%) EU AI Act
5 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.49%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.49%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (18.97%) Docker
2 8 (1.97%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.49%) Ceph
4 2 (0.49%) Lustre
4 2 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (11.82%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.16%) Terraform
3 9 (2.22%) Ansible
4 8 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.99%) Kubeflow
6 3 (0.74%) SCCM
7 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.25%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) Grafana
8 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 60 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.62%) Databricks
3 28 (6.90%) Typelevel
4 19 (4.68%) Google
5 12 (2.96%) OpenAI
5 12 (2.96%) Palantir
5 12 (2.96%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.72%) Foundry
7 5 (1.23%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.23%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.23%) Nokia
8 4 (0.99%) Adobe
8 4 (0.99%) SAP
9 3 (0.74%) Dell
9 3 (0.74%) Mercator
10 2 (0.49%) Civica
10 2 (0.49%) Northgate
10 2 (0.49%) Orchard
11 1 (0.25%) VMware
11 1 (0.25%) Yahoo!