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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 34 76
Rank change year-on-year -33 +42 +23
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 879 1,076 857
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.59% 6.61% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 7.09% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 571 235 507
10th Percentile £46,500 £48,500 £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 £101,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £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 19,914 15,166 20,533
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.38% 93.21% 87.84%
Number of salaries quoted 14,271 8,607 12,553
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,903 £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 20 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 (2.62%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.82%) Apache
4 13 (1.48%) 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
Applications
1 11 (1.25%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.80%) 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 (44.14%) Azure
2 249 (28.33%) AWS
3 202 (22.98%) Azure AI
4 122 (13.88%) GCP
5 106 (12.06%) Snowflake
6 99 (11.26%) GitHub
7 89 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
8 78 (8.87%) GitHub Copilot
9 66 (7.51%) Azure Machine Learning
10 65 (7.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 60 (6.83%) Power Platform
12 44 (5.01%) Amazon Bedrock
12 44 (5.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 42 (4.78%) SaaS
14 38 (4.32%) Anthropic Claude
15 26 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
16 21 (2.39%) Azure Databricks
17 20 (2.28%) Amazon S3
18 19 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
19 17 (1.93%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 63 (7.17%) Broadband
2 30 (3.41%) Internet
3 12 (1.37%) Firewall
4 9 (1.02%) 5G
5 5 (0.57%) Kerberos
5 5 (0.57%) Network Security
6 4 (0.46%) 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%) VLAN
8 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.23%) WireGuard
8 2 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (18.66%) MongoDB
2 163 (18.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 57 (6.48%) Power BI
4 47 (5.35%) Metadata
5 45 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
6 44 (5.01%) SQL Server
7 38 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (3.30%) Big Data
9 20 (2.28%) Delta Lake
10 19 (2.16%) Data Lake
11 18 (2.05%) Tableau
12 17 (1.93%) Data Vault
13 16 (1.82%) NoSQL
14 11 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (1.25%) Looker
15 8 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (0.91%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.80%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.80%) Relational Database
16 7 (0.80%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 36 (4.10%) Claude Code
1 36 (4.10%) Git
2 19 (2.16%) MLflow
3 13 (1.48%) JIRA
4 9 (1.02%) GitLab
5 8 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.57%) Poetry
6 5 (0.57%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.46%) 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
1 285 (32.42%) Finance
2 149 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 114 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (10.69%) Banking
5 83 (9.44%) Marketing
6 45 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (4.10%) Law
8 35 (3.98%) Public Sector
8 35 (3.98%) Retail
9 34 (3.87%) Games
10 33 (3.75%) Advertising
11 30 (3.41%) Legal
12 17 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.48%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.14%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.14%) Legal Technology
14 10 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.80%) Electronics
15 7 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 222 (25.26%) Developer
2 149 (16.95%) .NET Developer
3 137 (15.59%) Senior
4 116 (13.20%) Architect
5 103 (11.72%) Data Scientist
6 97 (11.04%) Lead
7 59 (6.71%) Software Engineer
8 55 (6.26%) Finance Manager
9 53 (6.03%) Senior Data Scientist
10 49 (5.57%) Data Engineer
11 45 (5.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 41 (4.66%) Data Architect
13 39 (4.44%) Lead Data Scientist
14 35 (3.98%) Data Manager
15 34 (3.87%) Enterprise Architect
16 30 (3.41%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 28 (3.19%) Consultant
18 27 (3.07%) Senior Developer
19 25 (2.84%) Engineering Manager
20 21 (2.39%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (20.14%) .NET
2 153 (17.41%) .NET Core
3 149 (16.95%) ASP.NET
3 149 (16.95%) ASP.NET Core
3 149 (16.95%) ML.NET
4 115 (13.08%) RESTful
5 109 (12.40%) React
6 98 (11.15%) Blazor
7 93 (10.58%) CSS
8 90 (10.24%) HTML
9 78 (8.87%) PyTorch
10 73 (8.30%) TensorFlow
11 68 (7.74%) LangChain
12 60 (6.83%) Terraform
13 46 (5.23%) LangGraph
14 33 (3.75%) PySpark
15 30 (3.41%) Node.js
16 26 (2.96%) Hugging Face
17 22 (2.50%) scikit-learn
18 21 (2.39%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 116 (13.20%) Cloud Native
2 75 (8.53%) AI Agents
3 67 (7.62%) Blog
4 64 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
5 48 (5.46%) Algorithms
6 47 (5.35%) Video\Live Streaming
7 37 (4.21%) Product Ownership
8 33 (3.75%) Hedge funds
9 31 (3.53%) Mobile App
10 29 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (3.30%) Social Media
11 24 (2.73%) Low-Code
12 20 (2.28%) BBC
12 20 (2.28%) Credit Risk
13 19 (2.16%) Digital TV
14 17 (1.93%) iPhone
15 15 (1.71%) Onboarding
15 15 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
16 14 (1.59%) Over-the-Top Content
17 12 (1.37%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.28%) Android
2 15 (1.71%) Linux
3 7 (0.80%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.57%) Windows
5 3 (0.34%) Unix
6 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 753 (85.67%) AI
2 249 (28.33%) Data Science
3 245 (27.87%) Agile
4 244 (27.76%) CI/CD
5 233 (26.51%) Roadmaps
6 213 (24.23%) Analytics
7 195 (22.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 175 (19.91%) Software Engineering
9 149 (16.95%) DevOps
10 140 (15.93%) LLM
11 126 (14.33%) Generative AI
12 124 (14.11%) Mentoring
13 111 (12.63%) Data Engineering
14 105 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
15 101 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
16 96 (10.92%) Data Governance
17 92 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
18 91 (10.35%) Fintech
19 90 (10.24%) Data Architecture
19 90 (10.24%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 359 (40.84%) SQL
2 357 (40.61%) Python
3 186 (21.16%) C#
4 130 (14.79%) JavaScript
5 51 (5.80%) TypeScript
6 41 (4.66%) Go
7 37 (4.21%) Java
8 31 (3.53%) Scala
9 23 (2.62%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.05%) Bicep
11 16 (1.82%) R
12 12 (1.37%) C++
13 10 (1.14%) C
14 9 (1.02%) Rust
15 7 (0.80%) Swift
16 6 (0.68%) Bash
16 6 (0.68%) PHP
17 5 (0.57%) Ada
18 3 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 3 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 86 (9.78%) Degree
2 75 (8.53%) Security Cleared
3 51 (5.80%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.87%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.16%) Azure Certification
5 19 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.82%) SnowPro
7 15 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.48%) 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 (0.46%) 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 94 (10.69%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.07%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.62%) QA
4 18 (2.05%) GDPR
5 10 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.46%) COPPA
8 4 (0.46%) IFRS
8 4 (0.46%) IFRS 17
8 4 (0.46%) SLA
8 4 (0.46%) 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 (15.13%) Docker
2 40 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.68%) Firmware
4 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.34%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 118 (13.42%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.48%) Grafana
3 10 (1.14%) 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
1 279 (31.74%) Microsoft
2 141 (16.04%) Databricks
3 56 (6.37%) Google
4 36 (4.10%) Facebook
5 21 (2.39%) Yahoo!
6 18 (2.05%) OpenAI
7 17 (1.93%) Apple
7 17 (1.93%) Sony
8 15 (1.71%) Adobe
9 12 (1.37%) Foundry
10 11 (1.25%) SAP
11 9 (1.02%) Typelevel
12 5 (0.57%) Oracle
12 5 (0.57%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.46%) HighQ
13 4 (0.46%) Legatics
14 3 (0.34%) Cisco
14 3 (0.34%) Forcepoint
14 3 (0.34%) Juniper
14 3 (0.34%) SonicWALL