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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 34 74
Rank change year-on-year -33 +40 +21
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 876 1,075 856
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.59% 6.63% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 7.11% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 569 234 506
10th Percentile £46,500 £48,250 £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 £101,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £138,000 £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 19,841 15,111 20,359
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.27% 93.24% 87.81%
Number of salaries quoted 14,226 8,561 12,491
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,875 £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 21 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 (2.51%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.83%) 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
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (1.26%) 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
1 387 (44.18%) Azure
2 248 (28.31%) AWS
3 201 (22.95%) Azure AI
4 122 (13.93%) GCP
5 106 (12.10%) Snowflake
6 99 (11.30%) GitHub
7 88 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
8 78 (8.90%) GitHub Copilot
9 67 (7.65%) Azure Machine Learning
10 65 (7.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 59 (6.74%) Power Platform
12 44 (5.02%) Amazon Bedrock
13 43 (4.91%) Azure Data Factory
14 42 (4.79%) SaaS
15 38 (4.34%) Anthropic Claude
16 26 (2.97%) Microsoft Purview
17 21 (2.40%) Azure Databricks
18 19 (2.17%) Amazon S3
18 19 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
19 17 (1.94%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 63 (7.19%) Broadband
2 30 (3.42%) Internet
3 12 (1.37%) Firewall
4 9 (1.03%) 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%) UWB
8 2 (0.23%) VLAN
8 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (18.61%) MongoDB
2 161 (18.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 56 (6.39%) Power BI
4 47 (5.37%) Metadata
5 45 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
6 44 (5.02%) SQL Server
7 38 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (3.31%) Big Data
9 20 (2.28%) Delta Lake
10 19 (2.17%) Data Lake
11 18 (2.05%) Tableau
12 17 (1.94%) Data Vault
13 16 (1.83%) NoSQL
14 11 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (1.14%) Looker
16 8 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (0.91%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.80%) Hadoop
17 7 (0.80%) Relational Database
17 7 (0.80%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 36 (4.11%) Claude Code
1 36 (4.11%) Git
2 19 (2.17%) MLflow
3 13 (1.48%) JIRA
4 8 (0.91%) GitLab
4 8 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.57%) Poetry
5 5 (0.57%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.34%) Appium
7 3 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.34%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.34%) Mercurial
7 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.23%) Selenium
9 1 (0.11%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.11%) Mocha
9 1 (0.11%) NUnit
9 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 285 (32.53%) Finance
2 147 (16.78%) Social Skills
3 113 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (10.62%) Banking
5 83 (9.47%) Marketing
6 44 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (4.00%) Games
7 35 (4.00%) Law
7 35 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 34 (3.88%) Retail
9 33 (3.77%) Advertising
10 30 (3.42%) Legal
11 17 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.48%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.14%) Legal Technology
13 10 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.80%) Electronics
14 7 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 220 (25.11%) Developer
2 148 (16.89%) .NET Developer
3 137 (15.64%) Senior
4 116 (13.24%) Architect
5 104 (11.87%) Data Scientist
6 97 (11.07%) Lead
7 59 (6.74%) Software Engineer
8 55 (6.28%) Finance Manager
9 54 (6.16%) Senior Data Scientist
10 49 (5.59%) Data Engineer
11 45 (5.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 41 (4.68%) Data Architect
13 39 (4.45%) Lead Data Scientist
14 35 (4.00%) Data Manager
15 34 (3.88%) Enterprise Architect
16 30 (3.42%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 28 (3.20%) Consultant
18 26 (2.97%) Senior Developer
19 25 (2.85%) Engineering Manager
20 21 (2.40%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (19.98%) .NET
2 151 (17.24%) .NET Core
3 148 (16.89%) ASP.NET
3 148 (16.89%) ASP.NET Core
3 148 (16.89%) ML.NET
4 114 (13.01%) RESTful
5 108 (12.33%) React
6 97 (11.07%) Blazor
7 92 (10.50%) CSS
8 89 (10.16%) HTML
9 78 (8.90%) PyTorch
10 73 (8.33%) TensorFlow
11 68 (7.76%) LangChain
12 60 (6.85%) Terraform
13 46 (5.25%) LangGraph
14 33 (3.77%) PySpark
15 29 (3.31%) Node.js
16 26 (2.97%) Hugging Face
17 22 (2.51%) scikit-learn
18 21 (2.40%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 116 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 75 (8.56%) AI Agents
3 66 (7.53%) Blog
4 64 (7.31%) Distributed Systems
5 48 (5.48%) Algorithms
6 47 (5.37%) Video\Live Streaming
7 37 (4.22%) Product Ownership
8 33 (3.77%) Hedge funds
9 31 (3.54%) Mobile App
10 29 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
11 28 (3.20%) Social Media
12 24 (2.74%) Low-Code
13 20 (2.28%) Credit Risk
14 19 (2.17%) BBC
14 19 (2.17%) Digital TV
15 17 (1.94%) iPhone
16 15 (1.71%) Onboarding
16 15 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
17 14 (1.60%) Over-the-Top Content
18 12 (1.37%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.28%) Android
2 15 (1.71%) Linux
3 7 (0.80%) 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
1 751 (85.73%) AI
2 249 (28.42%) Data Science
3 244 (27.85%) Agile
4 243 (27.74%) CI/CD
5 233 (26.60%) Roadmaps
6 212 (24.20%) Analytics
7 194 (22.15%) Full-Stack Development
8 175 (19.98%) Software Engineering
9 148 (16.89%) DevOps
10 139 (15.87%) LLM
11 126 (14.38%) Generative AI
12 125 (14.27%) Mentoring
13 111 (12.67%) Data Engineering
14 105 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
15 100 (11.42%) Technical Leadership
16 96 (10.96%) Data Governance
17 92 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
18 90 (10.27%) Data Architecture
18 90 (10.27%) Data Modelling
18 90 (10.27%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 357 (40.75%) Python
1 357 (40.75%) SQL
2 183 (20.89%) C#
3 128 (14.61%) JavaScript
4 50 (5.71%) TypeScript
5 41 (4.68%) Go
6 37 (4.22%) Java
7 30 (3.42%) Scala
8 23 (2.63%) PowerShell
9 18 (2.05%) Bicep
10 16 (1.83%) R
11 12 (1.37%) C++
12 10 (1.14%) C
13 9 (1.03%) Rust
14 7 (0.80%) Swift
15 6 (0.68%) Bash
15 6 (0.68%) PHP
16 5 (0.57%) Ada
17 3 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 86 (9.82%) Degree
2 75 (8.56%) Security Cleared
3 51 (5.82%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.88%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 19 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.83%) SnowPro
7 15 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.26%) PhD
11 9 (1.03%) 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%) AWS Certification
16 2 (0.23%) GIAC
16 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (10.73%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.63%) 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
1 132 (15.07%) Docker
2 41 (4.68%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.68%) Firmware
5 4 (0.46%) 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
1 117 (13.36%) 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
1 277 (31.62%) Microsoft
2 141 (16.10%) Databricks
3 55 (6.28%) Google
4 35 (4.00%) Facebook
5 20 (2.28%) Yahoo!
6 18 (2.05%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.83%) Apple
7 16 (1.83%) Sony
8 14 (1.60%) Adobe
9 12 (1.37%) Foundry
10 11 (1.26%) SAP
11 9 (1.03%) Typelevel
12 5 (0.57%) Oracle
12 5 (0.57%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.46%) HighQ
13 4 (0.46%) Legatics
13 4 (0.46%) VMware
14 3 (0.34%) Cisco
14 3 (0.34%) Juniper
14 3 (0.34%) Perforce