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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 35 105
Rank change year-on-year -21 +70 -11
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 925 1,158 710
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.08% 7.01% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 7.54% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 584 251 514
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.68% +5.19%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £123,528 £135,000 £103,375
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +3.45%

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 18,798 15,349 21,794
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.81% 92.91% 87.71%
Number of salaries quoted 13,570 9,030 15,663
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,375 £77,500
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 10 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 26 (2.81%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.30%) Apache
4 10 (1.08%) 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
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.76%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.32%) Blender
3 3 (0.32%) Maya
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) HFM
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 414 (44.76%) Azure
2 256 (27.68%) AWS
3 226 (24.43%) Azure AI
4 143 (15.46%) GCP
5 96 (10.38%) Snowflake
6 94 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (10.16%) GitHub
7 87 (9.41%) Azure Machine Learning
8 79 (8.54%) GitHub Copilot
9 76 (8.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 61 (6.59%) Power Platform
11 47 (5.08%) Azure Data Factory
12 37 (4.00%) SaaS
13 26 (2.81%) Amazon Bedrock
14 23 (2.49%) Microsoft Purview
15 22 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
16 20 (2.16%) Anthropic Claude
16 20 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
17 19 (2.05%) Amazon S3
17 19 (2.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 121 (13.08%) Broadband
2 30 (3.24%) Internet
3 13 (1.41%) Firewall
4 7 (0.76%) 5G
4 7 (0.76%) Kerberos
4 7 (0.76%) Network Security
5 2 (0.22%) ATM
5 2 (0.22%) BGP
5 2 (0.22%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.22%) DNS
5 2 (0.22%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.22%) LAN
5 2 (0.22%) OSPF
5 2 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.22%) UWB
5 2 (0.22%) VPN
5 2 (0.22%) WAN
5 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.22%) WireGuard
5 2 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (19.24%) MongoDB
2 174 (18.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 59 (6.38%) Power BI
4 58 (6.27%) SQL Server
5 47 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
6 42 (4.54%) Metadata
7 33 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (2.70%) Big Data
9 19 (2.05%) Delta Lake
10 18 (1.95%) Data Lake
11 14 (1.51%) Data Vault
12 13 (1.41%) Tableau
13 11 (1.19%) NoSQL
14 9 (0.97%) Looker
15 8 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (0.86%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.76%) Relational Database
17 6 (0.65%) Hadoop
17 6 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
18 5 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 37 (4.00%) Git
2 19 (2.05%) Claude Code
3 17 (1.84%) MLflow
4 13 (1.41%) JIRA
5 11 (1.19%) GitLab
6 7 (0.76%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.43%) Appium
8 3 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.32%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.22%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.22%) Selenium
9 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.11%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.11%) Mocha
10 1 (0.11%) NUnit
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 254 (27.46%) Finance
2 166 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 116 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (8.65%) Marketing
5 66 (7.14%) Banking
6 39 (4.22%) Games
6 39 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (4.22%) Public Sector
7 37 (4.00%) Advertising
8 34 (3.68%) Law
9 33 (3.57%) Legal
10 25 (2.70%) Retail
11 23 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.08%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.08%) Legal Technology
13 9 (0.97%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.76%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.65%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 252 (27.24%) Developer
2 157 (16.97%) .NET Developer
3 153 (16.54%) Senior
4 107 (11.57%) Lead
5 100 (10.81%) Data Scientist
6 98 (10.59%) Architect
7 63 (6.81%) Software Engineer
8 53 (5.73%) Senior Data Scientist
9 51 (5.51%) Data Engineer
10 48 (5.19%) Finance Manager
11 46 (4.97%) Data Manager
12 44 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 41 (4.43%) Data Architect
13 41 (4.43%) Engineering Manager
13 41 (4.43%) Lead Data Scientist
14 34 (3.68%) Senior Developer
15 30 (3.24%) Consultant
16 27 (2.92%) Lead Developer
16 27 (2.92%) Python Engineer
17 26 (2.81%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (20.43%) .NET
2 164 (17.73%) .NET Core
3 156 (16.86%) ASP.NET
3 156 (16.86%) ASP.NET Core
3 156 (16.86%) ML.NET
4 121 (13.08%) React
5 119 (12.86%) RESTful
6 103 (11.14%) Blazor
6 103 (11.14%) CSS
7 100 (10.81%) HTML
8 82 (8.86%) PyTorch
9 71 (7.68%) TensorFlow
10 61 (6.59%) LangChain
11 38 (4.11%) LangGraph
12 36 (3.89%) gRPC
12 36 (3.89%) Node.js
13 29 (3.14%) PySpark
14 27 (2.92%) Hugging Face
15 25 (2.70%) JSON
15 25 (2.70%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 113 (12.22%) Cloud Native
2 86 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
2 86 (9.30%) Video\Live Streaming
3 56 (6.05%) AI Agents
4 54 (5.84%) Blog
5 52 (5.62%) Algorithms
6 47 (5.08%) Product Ownership
7 42 (4.54%) Over-the-Top Content
8 32 (3.46%) Low-Code
9 30 (3.24%) Mobile App
9 30 (3.24%) Social Media
10 29 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (2.16%) Digital TV
12 18 (1.95%) BBC
13 17 (1.84%) iPhone
14 16 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
15 15 (1.62%) Hedge funds
16 13 (1.41%) Credit Risk
17 12 (1.30%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.16%) Android
2 14 (1.51%) Linux
3 5 (0.54%) Windows
4 4 (0.43%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (83.03%) AI
2 289 (31.24%) Agile
3 279 (30.16%) CI/CD
4 254 (27.46%) Data Science
5 238 (25.73%) Roadmaps
6 217 (23.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 209 (22.59%) Analytics
7 209 (22.59%) Software Engineering
8 164 (17.73%) DevOps
9 146 (15.78%) LLM
10 143 (15.46%) Mentoring
11 137 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
12 131 (14.16%) Data Engineering
13 127 (13.73%) Generative AI
14 107 (11.57%) Technical Leadership
15 104 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
16 102 (11.03%) Data Governance
16 102 (11.03%) Decision-Making
17 97 (10.49%) Data Architecture
17 97 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 393 (42.49%) Python
2 357 (38.59%) SQL
3 196 (21.19%) C#
4 140 (15.14%) JavaScript
5 76 (8.22%) Go
6 61 (6.59%) TypeScript
7 58 (6.27%) Scala
8 42 (4.54%) Java
9 28 (3.03%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.84%) Bicep
11 12 (1.30%) R
12 11 (1.19%) C++
13 9 (0.97%) C
13 9 (0.97%) PHP
14 8 (0.86%) Rust
15 6 (0.65%) Bash
16 4 (0.43%) Ada
16 4 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 95 (10.27%) Degree
2 69 (7.46%) Security Cleared
3 45 (4.86%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.46%) DV Cleared
5 23 (2.49%) PhD
6 21 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.41%) SnowPro
11 12 (1.30%) DBS Check
12 11 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.97%) CISSP
14 4 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
15 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.22%) CCDP
15 2 (0.22%) CCNP
15 2 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (8.22%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.24%) QA
3 27 (2.92%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.84%) GDPR
5 7 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.22%) JTAG
9 2 (0.22%) MIL-STD-1553
9 2 (0.22%) SLA
10 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 157 (16.97%) Docker
2 55 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.43%) Firmware
5 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 116 (12.54%) Kubernetes
2 48 (5.19%) Terraform
3 9 (0.97%) Grafana
4 7 (0.76%) Kubeflow
4 7 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.54%) Ansible
5 5 (0.54%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.32%) Istio
6 3 (0.32%) linkerd
6 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.32%) Puppet
7 2 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.22%) Podman
8 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 307 (33.19%) Microsoft
2 136 (14.70%) Databricks
3 68 (7.35%) Google
4 38 (4.11%) Facebook
5 36 (3.89%) Typelevel
6 21 (2.27%) Yahoo!
7 19 (2.05%) Adobe
8 17 (1.84%) Apple
8 17 (1.84%) Foundry
8 17 (1.84%) Sony
9 14 (1.51%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.19%) SAP
11 5 (0.54%) Oracle
11 5 (0.54%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.43%) HighQ
12 4 (0.43%) Legatics
13 2 (0.22%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.22%) Cisco
13 2 (0.22%) New Relic
13 2 (0.22%) SonicWALL