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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 38 95
Rank change year-on-year -20 +57 0
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 929 1,092 749
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.04% 6.59% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 7.09% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 587 248 535
10th Percentile £46,500 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +5.84%
75th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £135,000 £104,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +2.11%

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 18,961 15,409 21,603
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.39% 93.03% 87.49%
Number of salaries quoted 13,692 8,891 15,061
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 22 August 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 25 (2.69%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.40%) Apache
4 11 (1.18%) 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 11 (1.18%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.32%) Blender
3 3 (0.32%) Maya
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
4 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) HFM
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 413 (44.46%) Azure
2 258 (27.77%) AWS
3 227 (24.43%) Azure AI
4 136 (14.64%) GCP
5 103 (11.09%) Snowflake
6 95 (10.23%) GitHub
7 94 (10.12%) Azure DevOps
8 84 (9.04%) Azure Machine Learning
9 79 (8.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 79 (8.50%) GitHub Copilot
10 65 (7.00%) Power Platform
11 49 (5.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 38 (4.09%) SaaS
13 32 (3.44%) Amazon Bedrock
14 26 (2.80%) Anthropic Claude
15 25 (2.69%) Microsoft Purview
16 22 (2.37%) Azure Logic Apps
17 20 (2.15%) Amazon S3
17 20 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
18 19 (2.05%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 104 (11.19%) Broadband
2 30 (3.23%) Internet
3 13 (1.40%) Firewall
4 7 (0.75%) 5G
5 6 (0.65%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.65%) Network Security
6 3 (0.32%) BGP
6 3 (0.32%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.32%) LAN
6 3 (0.32%) OSPF
6 3 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.32%) VPN
6 3 (0.32%) WAN
7 2 (0.22%) ATM
7 2 (0.22%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.22%) DNS
7 2 (0.22%) VLAN
7 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.22%) WireGuard
7 2 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (19.16%) MongoDB
2 174 (18.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (6.78%) Power BI
4 58 (6.24%) SQL Server
5 48 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (4.31%) Metadata
7 37 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (2.80%) Big Data
9 20 (2.15%) Delta Lake
10 19 (2.05%) Data Lake
11 16 (1.72%) Data Vault
11 16 (1.72%) Tableau
12 14 (1.51%) NoSQL
13 10 (1.08%) Looker
14 9 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (0.86%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.75%) Relational Database
16 7 (0.75%) Semantic Layer
17 6 (0.65%) Hadoop
18 5 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 38 (4.09%) Git
2 24 (2.58%) Claude Code
3 16 (1.72%) MLflow
4 13 (1.40%) JIRA
5 11 (1.18%) GitLab
6 8 (0.86%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.43%) Appium
7 4 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.32%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.32%) Mercurial
8 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.22%) Selenium
10 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.11%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.11%) Mocha
10 1 (0.11%) Poetry
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 276 (29.71%) Finance
2 160 (17.22%) Social Skills
3 120 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (9.04%) Marketing
5 76 (8.18%) Banking
6 42 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (4.31%) Games
8 36 (3.88%) Public Sector
9 35 (3.77%) Advertising
10 34 (3.66%) Law
11 27 (2.91%) Legal
11 27 (2.91%) Retail
12 23 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.29%) Aerospace
14 11 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.08%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.08%) Legal Technology
16 7 (0.75%) Electronics
16 7 (0.75%) Military
17 6 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 246 (26.48%) Developer
2 157 (16.90%) .NET Developer
3 154 (16.58%) Senior
4 105 (11.30%) Architect
5 102 (10.98%) Lead
6 100 (10.76%) Data Scientist
7 64 (6.89%) Software Engineer
8 54 (5.81%) Finance Manager
8 54 (5.81%) Senior Data Scientist
9 49 (5.27%) Data Engineer
10 46 (4.95%) Data Manager
11 44 (4.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 42 (4.52%) Data Architect
13 40 (4.31%) Engineering Manager
13 40 (4.31%) Lead Data Scientist
14 34 (3.66%) Senior Developer
15 29 (3.12%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 27 (2.91%) Consultant
17 25 (2.69%) Python Engineer
18 24 (2.58%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (20.45%) .NET
2 164 (17.65%) .NET Core
3 156 (16.79%) ASP.NET
3 156 (16.79%) ASP.NET Core
3 156 (16.79%) ML.NET
4 119 (12.81%) React
5 118 (12.70%) RESTful
6 103 (11.09%) Blazor
7 102 (10.98%) CSS
8 99 (10.66%) HTML
9 81 (8.72%) PyTorch
10 71 (7.64%) TensorFlow
11 65 (7.00%) LangChain
12 51 (5.49%) Terraform
13 42 (4.52%) LangGraph
14 35 (3.77%) Node.js
15 31 (3.34%) PySpark
16 27 (2.91%) gRPC
16 27 (2.91%) Hugging Face
17 25 (2.69%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 114 (12.27%) Cloud Native
2 78 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (7.86%) Video\Live Streaming
4 63 (6.78%) AI Agents
4 63 (6.78%) Blog
5 57 (6.14%) Algorithms
6 48 (5.17%) Product Ownership
7 33 (3.55%) Mobile App
7 33 (3.55%) Over-the-Top Content
8 32 (3.44%) Low-Code
9 29 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
9 29 (3.12%) Social Media
10 21 (2.26%) Hedge funds
11 20 (2.15%) Credit Risk
11 20 (2.15%) Digital TV
12 18 (1.94%) BBC
13 17 (1.83%) iPhone
13 17 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.51%) Onboarding
15 13 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.15%) Android
2 15 (1.61%) Linux
3 6 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.54%) Windows
5 3 (0.32%) Unix
6 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 782 (84.18%) AI
2 283 (30.46%) Agile
3 264 (28.42%) CI/CD
4 252 (27.13%) Data Science
5 243 (26.16%) Roadmaps
6 217 (23.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 211 (22.71%) Analytics
8 202 (21.74%) Software Engineering
9 161 (17.33%) DevOps
10 148 (15.93%) LLM
11 132 (14.21%) Mentoring
11 132 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
12 131 (14.10%) Data Engineering
13 130 (13.99%) Generative AI
14 106 (11.41%) Data Governance
15 105 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
16 102 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
17 101 (10.87%) Data Architecture
17 101 (10.87%) Decision-Making
18 96 (10.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 389 (41.87%) Python
2 373 (40.15%) SQL
3 198 (21.31%) C#
4 140 (15.07%) JavaScript
5 67 (7.21%) Go
6 60 (6.46%) TypeScript
7 51 (5.49%) Scala
8 42 (4.52%) Java
9 27 (2.91%) PowerShell
10 19 (2.05%) Bicep
11 13 (1.40%) C++
11 13 (1.40%) R
12 10 (1.08%) C
13 9 (0.97%) Rust
14 8 (0.86%) PHP
15 6 (0.65%) Bash
15 6 (0.65%) Swift
16 5 (0.54%) Ada
17 4 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 95 (10.23%) Degree
2 71 (7.64%) Security Cleared
3 48 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.66%) DV Cleared
5 23 (2.48%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.37%) PhD
7 20 (2.15%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.61%) SnowPro
11 13 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.86%) CISSP
13 7 (0.75%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
15 3 (0.32%) CCDP
15 3 (0.32%) CCNP
15 3 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
16 2 (0.22%) GIAC
16 2 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (9.15%) Data Quality
2 32 (3.44%) QA
3 29 (3.12%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.29%) GDPR
5 8 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.43%) SLA
7 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.32%) MIL-STD-1553
9 2 (0.22%) JTAG
10 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 151 (16.25%) Docker
2 55 (5.92%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.54%) Firmware
5 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 119 (12.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.08%) Grafana
3 7 (0.75%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.65%) Ansible
4 6 (0.65%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.32%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.32%) Istio
5 3 (0.32%) linkerd
5 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.32%) Puppet
6 2 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 2 (0.22%) Podman
7 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 306 (32.94%) Microsoft
2 142 (15.29%) Databricks
3 65 (7.00%) Google
4 38 (4.09%) Facebook
5 27 (2.91%) Typelevel
6 21 (2.26%) Yahoo!
7 19 (2.05%) Adobe
8 17 (1.83%) Apple
8 17 (1.83%) Sony
9 16 (1.72%) Foundry
9 16 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.29%) SAP
11 5 (0.54%) Oracle
11 5 (0.54%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.43%) HighQ
12 4 (0.43%) Legatics
13 3 (0.32%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.32%) Perforce
13 3 (0.32%) SonicWALL
13 3 (0.32%) VMware