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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 36 72
Rank change year-on-year -32 +36 +21
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 854 1,086 837
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.43% 6.46% 3.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 6.89% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 553 236 481
10th Percentile £46,500 £47,500 £41,250
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 £105,000 £100,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £136,000 £131,250 £102,500
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 20,103 15,768 19,267
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.63% 93.81% 88.15%
Number of salaries quoted 14,356 8,416 11,421
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,026
25th Percentile £44,652 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 7 October 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 (2.93%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.22%) Apache
3 16 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.70%) Confluence
4 6 (0.70%) SAS
5 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.23%) IIS
6 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (1.41%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Blender
3 3 (0.35%) Maya
4 2 (0.23%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 368 (43.09%) Azure
2 248 (29.04%) AWS
3 181 (21.19%) Azure AI
4 119 (13.93%) GCP
5 104 (12.18%) GitHub
6 90 (10.54%) Snowflake
7 89 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (9.25%) GitHub Copilot
9 56 (6.56%) Power Platform
10 47 (5.50%) Amazon Bedrock
10 47 (5.50%) Azure Machine Learning
11 43 (5.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 43 (5.04%) SaaS
12 41 (4.80%) Anthropic Claude
13 39 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
14 27 (3.16%) Microsoft Purview
15 21 (2.46%) Azure Databricks
15 21 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.22%) Amazon S3
17 18 (2.11%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 53 (6.21%) Broadband
2 30 (3.51%) Internet
3 11 (1.29%) Firewall
4 9 (1.05%) 5G
5 4 (0.47%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.47%) Network Security
5 4 (0.47%) VPN
6 3 (0.35%) BGP
6 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.35%) LAN
6 3 (0.35%) OSPF
6 3 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.35%) WAN
7 2 (0.23%) ATM
7 2 (0.23%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.23%) DNS
7 2 (0.23%) HTTP
7 2 (0.23%) VLAN
7 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (19.32%) MongoDB
2 152 (17.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 52 (6.09%) Metadata
3 52 (6.09%) Power BI
4 50 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (3.51%) Big Data
7 24 (2.81%) SQL Server
8 21 (2.46%) Data Lake
9 20 (2.34%) Delta Lake
10 19 (2.22%) Tableau
11 17 (1.99%) Data Vault
11 17 (1.99%) NoSQL
12 11 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.29%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.29%) Looker
13 10 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.82%) Relational Database
15 7 (0.82%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 40 (4.68%) Claude Code
2 39 (4.57%) Git
3 22 (2.58%) MLflow
4 14 (1.64%) JIRA
5 10 (1.17%) GitLab
6 8 (0.94%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.59%) Poetry
7 5 (0.59%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.35%) Appium
9 3 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.35%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.23%) Selenium
11 1 (0.12%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.12%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.12%) Mocha
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 276 (32.32%) Finance
2 149 (17.45%) Social Skills
3 116 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (11.24%) Banking
5 85 (9.95%) Marketing
6 47 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (4.68%) Public Sector
8 39 (4.57%) Retail
9 37 (4.33%) Games
10 36 (4.22%) Law
11 33 (3.86%) Advertising
11 33 (3.86%) Legal
12 14 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.52%) Aerospace
14 12 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.29%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.17%) Legal Technology
16 10 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.82%) Electronics
17 7 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 213 (24.94%) Developer
2 148 (17.33%) .NET Developer
3 137 (16.04%) Senior
4 114 (13.35%) Architect
5 107 (12.53%) Data Scientist
6 92 (10.77%) Lead
7 59 (6.91%) Software Engineer
8 55 (6.44%) Senior Data Scientist
9 53 (6.21%) Data Engineer
10 50 (5.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 47 (5.50%) Finance Manager
12 38 (4.45%) Data Architect
13 37 (4.33%) Enterprise Architect
13 37 (4.33%) Lead Data Scientist
14 32 (3.75%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 29 (3.40%) Consultant
16 23 (2.69%) Data Manager
16 23 (2.69%) Python Engineer
17 22 (2.58%) Analyst
17 22 (2.58%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (20.26%) .NET
2 148 (17.33%) .NET Core
2 148 (17.33%) ASP.NET
2 148 (17.33%) ASP.NET Core
2 148 (17.33%) ML.NET
3 115 (13.47%) RESTful
4 102 (11.94%) React
5 97 (11.36%) Blazor
6 90 (10.54%) CSS
7 86 (10.07%) HTML
8 79 (9.25%) PyTorch
9 74 (8.67%) TensorFlow
10 70 (8.20%) LangChain
11 67 (7.85%) Terraform
12 48 (5.62%) LangGraph
13 35 (4.10%) PySpark
14 27 (3.16%) Hugging Face
15 25 (2.93%) Node.js
16 21 (2.46%) scikit-learn
17 19 (2.22%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 116 (13.58%) Cloud Native
2 80 (9.37%) AI Agents
3 67 (7.85%) Blog
4 57 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 49 (5.74%) Algorithms
6 37 (4.33%) Video\Live Streaming
7 36 (4.22%) Hedge funds
8 34 (3.98%) Product Ownership
9 31 (3.63%) Mobile App
10 29 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
11 28 (3.28%) Social Media
12 24 (2.81%) Low-Code
13 21 (2.46%) Credit Risk
14 19 (2.22%) BBC
14 19 (2.22%) Digital TV
15 17 (1.99%) iPhone
16 15 (1.76%) Onboarding
16 15 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
17 12 (1.41%) Data Structures
17 12 (1.41%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.34%) Android
2 15 (1.76%) Linux
3 7 (0.82%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.82%) Windows
4 3 (0.35%) Unix
5 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 739 (86.53%) AI
2 254 (29.74%) Data Science
3 246 (28.81%) CI/CD
4 222 (26.00%) Agile
5 214 (25.06%) Roadmaps
6 213 (24.94%) Analytics
7 190 (22.25%) Full-Stack Development
8 177 (20.73%) Software Engineering
9 147 (17.21%) DevOps
10 141 (16.51%) LLM
11 128 (14.99%) Generative AI
12 123 (14.40%) Mentoring
13 101 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
14 98 (11.48%) Technical Leadership
15 95 (11.12%) Validation
16 94 (11.01%) Data Modelling
17 92 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
17 92 (10.77%) Data Engineering
18 91 (10.66%) Infrastructure as Code
19 90 (10.54%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 370 (43.33%) Python
2 345 (40.40%) SQL
3 180 (21.08%) C#
4 122 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 47 (5.50%) TypeScript
6 45 (5.27%) Java
7 35 (4.10%) Go
8 24 (2.81%) Scala
9 21 (2.46%) PowerShell
10 19 (2.22%) Bicep
11 17 (1.99%) R
12 13 (1.52%) Rust
13 12 (1.41%) C++
14 10 (1.17%) C
15 7 (0.82%) Bash
15 7 (0.82%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.82%) Swift
16 6 (0.70%) PHP
17 5 (0.59%) Ada
18 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (9.84%) Degree
2 81 (9.48%) Security Cleared
3 57 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.58%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.87%) SnowPro
8 14 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.05%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.94%) PhD
12 7 (0.82%) CISSP
13 5 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
14 4 (0.47%) CCNP
15 3 (0.35%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.35%) CCDP
16 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (11.83%) Data Quality
2 25 (2.93%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.69%) GDPR
4 21 (2.46%) QA
5 10 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (0.70%) COPPA
7 4 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.47%) SLA
8 3 (0.35%) IFRS
8 3 (0.35%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.35%) MIL-STD-1553
8 3 (0.35%) NIST
8 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.23%) JTAG
10 1 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 129 (15.11%) Docker
2 21 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.70%) Firmware
5 5 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) NFS
Systems Management
1 124 (14.52%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.87%) Grafana
3 12 (1.41%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.70%) Ansible
5 5 (0.59%) Kubeflow
6 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.35%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.35%) Istio
7 3 (0.35%) linkerd
7 3 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.35%) Puppet
8 2 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (0.23%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 2 (0.23%) Podman
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 246 (28.81%) Microsoft
2 123 (14.40%) Databricks
3 62 (7.26%) Google
4 35 (4.10%) Facebook
5 20 (2.34%) OpenAI
5 20 (2.34%) Yahoo!
6 16 (1.87%) Apple
6 16 (1.87%) Sony
7 14 (1.64%) Foundry
8 12 (1.41%) Adobe
9 10 (1.17%) SAP
10 5 (0.59%) New Relic
10 5 (0.59%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.59%) VMware
11 4 (0.47%) HighQ
11 4 (0.47%) Legatics
11 4 (0.47%) Oracle
11 4 (0.47%) Palantir
11 4 (0.47%) Splunk
12 3 (0.35%) Cisco