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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 34 77
Rank change year-on-year -26 +43 +20
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 919 1,079 840
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.84% 6.65% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 7.15% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 589 243 515
10th Percentile £46,450 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £138,000 £132,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +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 19,614 15,094 20,463
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.92% 93.04% 87.57%
Number of salaries quoted 14,115 8,698 12,932
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,913 £35,252
25th Percentile £44,784 £40,500 £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 10 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 23 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.74%) Apache
4 14 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.65%) SAS
6 5 (0.54%) Confluence
7 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 12 (1.31%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) Blender
3 3 (0.33%) Maya
4 2 (0.22%) Weka
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) HFM
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 412 (44.83%) Azure
2 261 (28.40%) AWS
3 227 (24.70%) Azure AI
4 130 (14.15%) GCP
5 114 (12.40%) Snowflake
6 100 (10.88%) GitHub
7 92 (10.01%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (8.81%) Azure Machine Learning
9 80 (8.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 80 (8.71%) GitHub Copilot
10 64 (6.96%) Power Platform
11 48 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
12 41 (4.46%) Amazon Bedrock
13 39 (4.24%) SaaS
14 35 (3.81%) Anthropic Claude
15 26 (2.83%) Microsoft Purview
16 23 (2.50%) Amazon S3
17 21 (2.29%) Azure Databricks
18 20 (2.18%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 91 (9.90%) Broadband
2 30 (3.26%) Internet
3 12 (1.31%) Firewall
4 9 (0.98%) 5G
5 5 (0.54%) Kerberos
5 5 (0.54%) Network Security
6 4 (0.44%) VPN
7 3 (0.33%) BGP
7 3 (0.33%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.33%) LAN
7 3 (0.33%) OSPF
7 3 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.33%) WAN
8 2 (0.22%) ATM
8 2 (0.22%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.22%) DNS
8 2 (0.22%) VLAN
8 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.22%) WireGuard
8 2 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (19.26%) MongoDB
2 173 (18.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 61 (6.64%) Power BI
4 59 (6.42%) SQL Server
5 49 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (4.68%) Metadata
7 39 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (2.94%) Big Data
9 20 (2.18%) Delta Lake
10 18 (1.96%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.85%) Data Vault
11 17 (1.85%) Tableau
12 16 (1.74%) NoSQL
13 13 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (1.09%) Looker
15 8 (0.87%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (0.76%) Apache Iceberg
16 7 (0.76%) Relational Database
16 7 (0.76%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 36 (3.92%) Git
2 31 (3.37%) Claude Code
3 17 (1.85%) MLflow
4 13 (1.41%) JIRA
5 9 (0.98%) GitLab
6 8 (0.87%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.54%) Poetry
8 4 (0.44%) Appium
8 4 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
8 4 (0.44%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.33%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.33%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.33%) Selenium
9 3 (0.33%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.11%) Mocha
10 1 (0.11%) NUnit
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 296 (32.21%) Finance
2 153 (16.65%) Social Skills
3 117 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (9.79%) Banking
5 85 (9.25%) Marketing
6 42 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (4.24%) Games
8 36 (3.92%) Advertising
9 34 (3.70%) Public Sector
10 32 (3.48%) Law
11 30 (3.26%) Retail
12 27 (2.94%) Legal
13 20 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.31%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.09%) Legal Technology
15 10 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.76%) Electronics
16 7 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 239 (26.01%) Developer
2 156 (16.97%) .NET Developer
3 147 (16.00%) Senior
4 116 (12.62%) Architect
5 102 (11.10%) Data Scientist
6 100 (10.88%) Lead
7 63 (6.86%) Finance Manager
8 62 (6.75%) Software Engineer
9 54 (5.88%) Senior Data Scientist
10 51 (5.55%) Data Engineer
11 46 (5.01%) Data Manager
12 43 (4.68%) Data Architect
13 42 (4.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 40 (4.35%) Lead Data Scientist
15 39 (4.24%) Engineering Manager
16 32 (3.48%) Senior Developer
17 31 (3.37%) Enterprise Architect
18 30 (3.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
19 27 (2.94%) Consultant
20 22 (2.39%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (20.35%) .NET
2 163 (17.74%) .NET Core
3 156 (16.97%) ASP.NET
3 156 (16.97%) ASP.NET Core
3 156 (16.97%) ML.NET
4 118 (12.84%) RESTful
5 114 (12.40%) React
6 103 (11.21%) Blazor
7 100 (10.88%) CSS
8 97 (10.55%) HTML
9 83 (9.03%) PyTorch
10 73 (7.94%) TensorFlow
11 70 (7.62%) LangChain
12 57 (6.20%) Terraform
13 46 (5.01%) LangGraph
14 34 (3.70%) PySpark
15 33 (3.59%) Node.js
16 27 (2.94%) Hugging Face
16 27 (2.94%) scikit-learn
17 24 (2.61%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 116 (12.62%) Cloud Native
2 71 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (7.62%) AI Agents
4 65 (7.07%) Blog
5 62 (6.75%) Video\Live Streaming
6 54 (5.88%) Algorithms
7 43 (4.68%) Product Ownership
8 31 (3.37%) Low-Code
8 31 (3.37%) Mobile App
9 30 (3.26%) Hedge funds
10 29 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (3.16%) Social Media
11 23 (2.50%) Over-the-Top Content
12 20 (2.18%) Credit Risk
12 20 (2.18%) Digital TV
13 19 (2.07%) BBC
14 17 (1.85%) iPhone
15 16 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
16 15 (1.63%) Onboarding
17 12 (1.31%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.18%) Android
2 15 (1.63%) Linux
3 7 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.54%) Windows
5 3 (0.33%) Unix
6 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 783 (85.20%) AI
2 275 (29.92%) Agile
3 256 (27.86%) CI/CD
4 252 (27.42%) Data Science
5 246 (26.77%) Roadmaps
6 212 (23.07%) Full-Stack Development
7 208 (22.63%) Analytics
8 194 (21.11%) Software Engineering
9 155 (16.87%) DevOps
10 147 (16.00%) LLM
11 133 (14.47%) Data Engineering
12 129 (14.04%) Generative AI
12 129 (14.04%) Mentoring
13 120 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
14 109 (11.86%) Data Governance
15 103 (11.21%) Data Architecture
15 103 (11.21%) Technical Leadership
16 99 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
17 95 (10.34%) Data Modelling
17 95 (10.34%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 379 (41.24%) SQL
2 378 (41.13%) Python
3 194 (21.11%) C#
4 138 (15.02%) JavaScript
5 57 (6.20%) TypeScript
6 56 (6.09%) Go
7 42 (4.57%) Java
8 40 (4.35%) Scala
9 26 (2.83%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.96%) Bicep
11 13 (1.41%) C++
12 12 (1.31%) R
13 10 (1.09%) C
14 9 (0.98%) Rust
15 7 (0.76%) Swift
16 6 (0.65%) Bash
16 6 (0.65%) PHP
17 5 (0.54%) Ada
18 3 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 3 (0.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 91 (9.90%) Degree
2 71 (7.73%) Security Cleared
3 47 (5.11%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.18%) Azure Certification
5 20 (2.18%) Master's Degree
6 18 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (1.96%) PhD
7 16 (1.74%) SnowPro
8 15 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.87%) CISSP
10 8 (0.87%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.33%) CCDP
13 3 (0.33%) CCNP
14 2 (0.22%) GIAC
14 2 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (9.90%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.16%) QA
3 28 (3.05%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.52%) GDPR
5 9 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.44%) IFRS
7 4 (0.44%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.44%) SLA
7 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.33%) MIL-STD-1553
9 2 (0.22%) COPPA
9 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.22%) JTAG
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 144 (15.67%) Docker
2 55 (5.98%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.65%) Firmware
4 3 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 120 (13.06%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.31%) Grafana
3 8 (0.87%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.65%) Ansible
4 6 (0.65%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.33%) FortiGate
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%) Podman
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 305 (33.19%) Microsoft
2 151 (16.43%) Databricks
3 64 (6.96%) Google
4 38 (4.13%) Facebook
5 21 (2.29%) Yahoo!
6 18 (1.96%) Adobe
6 18 (1.96%) Typelevel
7 17 (1.85%) Apple
7 17 (1.85%) OpenAI
7 17 (1.85%) Sony
8 15 (1.63%) Foundry
9 11 (1.20%) SAP
10 5 (0.54%) Oracle
10 5 (0.54%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.44%) HighQ
11 4 (0.44%) Legatics
12 3 (0.33%) Cisco
12 3 (0.33%) Forcepoint
12 3 (0.33%) Juniper
12 3 (0.33%) SonicWALL