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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 35 71
Rank change year-on-year -32 +36 +26
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 882 1,068 844
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.59% 6.61% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 7.08% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 573 228 496
10th Percentile £46,500 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,026 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £142,000 £132,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -

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 19,997 15,081 19,774
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.30% 93.33% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 14,323 8,517 12,096
10th Percentile £34,250 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 23 September 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 22 (2.49%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.93%) Apache
4 14 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.68%) SAS
6 5 (0.57%) Confluence
7 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (1.25%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) Blender
3 3 (0.34%) Maya
4 2 (0.23%) Weka
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.11%) HFM
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 388 (43.99%) Azure
2 252 (28.57%) AWS
3 202 (22.90%) Azure AI
4 124 (14.06%) GCP
5 109 (12.36%) Snowflake
6 100 (11.34%) GitHub
7 89 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
8 78 (8.84%) GitHub Copilot
9 67 (7.60%) Azure Machine Learning
10 65 (7.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 60 (6.80%) Power Platform
12 47 (5.33%) Amazon Bedrock
13 44 (4.99%) SaaS
14 43 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
15 41 (4.65%) Anthropic Claude
16 26 (2.95%) Microsoft Purview
17 21 (2.38%) Azure Databricks
18 19 (2.15%) Amazon S3
18 19 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
19 17 (1.93%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 63 (7.14%) Broadband
2 30 (3.40%) Internet
3 12 (1.36%) Firewall
4 9 (1.02%) 5G
5 5 (0.57%) Kerberos
5 5 (0.57%) Network Security
6 4 (0.45%) VPN
7 3 (0.34%) BGP
7 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.34%) LAN
7 3 (0.34%) OSPF
7 3 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.34%) WAN
8 2 (0.23%) ATM
8 2 (0.23%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.23%) DNS
8 2 (0.23%) UWB
8 2 (0.23%) VLAN
8 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (18.48%) MongoDB
2 161 (18.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 56 (6.35%) Power BI
4 48 (5.44%) Metadata
5 46 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
6 44 (4.99%) SQL Server
7 38 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (3.29%) Big Data
9 20 (2.27%) Delta Lake
10 19 (2.15%) Data Lake
11 18 (2.04%) Tableau
12 17 (1.93%) Data Vault
13 16 (1.81%) NoSQL
14 11 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (1.25%) Looker
15 9 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (1.02%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.79%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.79%) Relational Database
16 7 (0.79%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 39 (4.42%) Claude Code
2 36 (4.08%) Git
3 19 (2.15%) MLflow
4 13 (1.47%) JIRA
5 8 (0.91%) GitLab
5 8 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.57%) Poetry
6 5 (0.57%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.34%) Appium
8 3 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.34%) Mercurial
8 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.23%) Selenium
10 1 (0.11%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.11%) Mocha
10 1 (0.11%) NUnit
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 290 (32.88%) Finance
2 148 (16.78%) Social Skills
3 113 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (11.00%) Banking
5 83 (9.41%) Marketing
6 45 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (4.08%) Law
7 36 (4.08%) Public Sector
8 35 (3.97%) Games
8 35 (3.97%) Retail
9 33 (3.74%) Advertising
10 30 (3.40%) Legal
11 17 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.47%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.13%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.13%) Legal Technology
13 10 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.79%) Electronics
14 7 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 220 (24.94%) Developer
2 148 (16.78%) .NET Developer
3 137 (15.53%) Senior
4 120 (13.61%) Architect
5 105 (11.90%) Data Scientist
6 97 (11.00%) Lead
7 59 (6.69%) Software Engineer
8 58 (6.58%) Finance Manager
9 54 (6.12%) Senior Data Scientist
10 49 (5.56%) Data Engineer
11 45 (5.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 41 (4.65%) Data Architect
13 39 (4.42%) Lead Data Scientist
14 37 (4.20%) Enterprise Architect
15 35 (3.97%) Data Manager
16 30 (3.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 28 (3.17%) Consultant
18 26 (2.95%) Senior Developer
19 25 (2.83%) Engineering Manager
20 21 (2.38%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (19.84%) .NET
2 151 (17.12%) .NET Core
3 148 (16.78%) ASP.NET
3 148 (16.78%) ASP.NET Core
3 148 (16.78%) ML.NET
4 114 (12.93%) RESTful
5 108 (12.24%) React
6 97 (11.00%) Blazor
7 92 (10.43%) CSS
8 89 (10.09%) HTML
9 78 (8.84%) PyTorch
10 73 (8.28%) TensorFlow
11 68 (7.71%) LangChain
12 63 (7.14%) Terraform
13 46 (5.22%) LangGraph
14 33 (3.74%) PySpark
15 29 (3.29%) Node.js
16 26 (2.95%) Hugging Face
17 22 (2.49%) scikit-learn
18 21 (2.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 117 (13.27%) Cloud Native
2 78 (8.84%) AI Agents
3 67 (7.60%) Blog
4 65 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
5 48 (5.44%) Algorithms
6 47 (5.33%) Video\Live Streaming
7 37 (4.20%) Product Ownership
8 36 (4.08%) Hedge funds
9 31 (3.51%) Mobile App
10 29 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
11 28 (3.17%) Social Media
12 24 (2.72%) Low-Code
13 20 (2.27%) Credit Risk
14 19 (2.15%) BBC
14 19 (2.15%) Digital TV
15 17 (1.93%) iPhone
16 15 (1.70%) Onboarding
16 15 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
17 14 (1.59%) Over-the-Top Content
18 12 (1.36%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.27%) Android
2 15 (1.70%) Linux
3 7 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.68%) Windows
5 3 (0.34%) Unix
6 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (85.71%) AI
2 253 (28.68%) Data Science
3 244 (27.66%) Agile
3 244 (27.66%) CI/CD
4 237 (26.87%) Roadmaps
5 214 (24.26%) Analytics
6 194 (22.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 176 (19.95%) Software Engineering
8 149 (16.89%) DevOps
9 139 (15.76%) LLM
10 127 (14.40%) Generative AI
11 125 (14.17%) Mentoring
12 111 (12.59%) Data Engineering
13 105 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
14 100 (11.34%) Technical Leadership
15 96 (10.88%) Data Governance
16 93 (10.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 91 (10.32%) Fintech
18 90 (10.20%) Data Architecture
18 90 (10.20%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 358 (40.59%) Python
1 358 (40.59%) SQL
2 183 (20.75%) C#
3 128 (14.51%) JavaScript
4 50 (5.67%) TypeScript
5 41 (4.65%) Go
6 39 (4.42%) Java
7 31 (3.51%) Scala
8 23 (2.61%) PowerShell
9 19 (2.15%) Bicep
10 16 (1.81%) R
11 12 (1.36%) C++
12 10 (1.13%) C
13 9 (1.02%) Rust
14 7 (0.79%) Swift
15 6 (0.68%) Bash
15 6 (0.68%) PHP
16 5 (0.57%) Ada
17 3 (0.34%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 86 (9.75%) Degree
2 76 (8.62%) Security Cleared
3 52 (5.90%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.15%) Azure Certification
5 19 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.81%) SnowPro
7 15 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.25%) PhD
11 9 (1.02%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.91%) CISSP
13 5 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
14 4 (0.45%) CCNP
15 3 (0.34%) CCDP
16 2 (0.23%) GIAC
16 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (10.77%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.61%) QA
4 18 (2.04%) GDPR
5 10 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.45%) COPPA
8 4 (0.45%) IFRS
8 4 (0.45%) IFRS 17
8 4 (0.45%) SLA
8 4 (0.45%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.34%) MIL-STD-1553
10 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.23%) JTAG
10 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 1 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 133 (15.08%) Docker
2 41 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.68%) Firmware
5 4 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.34%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 119 (13.49%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.70%) Grafana
3 11 (1.25%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.68%) Ansible
4 6 (0.68%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.34%) FortiGate
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%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 278 (31.52%) Microsoft
2 144 (16.33%) Databricks
3 56 (6.35%) Google
4 35 (3.97%) Facebook
5 20 (2.27%) Yahoo!
6 18 (2.04%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.81%) Apple
7 16 (1.81%) Sony
8 15 (1.70%) Adobe
9 12 (1.36%) Foundry
10 11 (1.25%) SAP
11 9 (1.02%) Typelevel
12 5 (0.57%) Oracle
12 5 (0.57%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.45%) HighQ
13 4 (0.45%) Legatics
13 4 (0.45%) New Relic
13 4 (0.45%) VMware
14 3 (0.34%) Cisco
14 3 (0.34%) Perforce