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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 80 98
Rank change year-on-year -26 +18 -8
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 407 564 909
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.46% 4.01% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 4.21% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 249 311 684
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £130,500 £113,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -

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 14,111 13,408 27,557
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.24% 95.41% 92.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9,199 8,890 22,844
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%

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 9 March 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 28 (6.88%) Apache Spark
2 18 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.72%) CMS
3 7 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.23%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.98%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.98%) Confluence
5 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.74%) Apache
6 3 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) Kinematics
Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Chatbot
1 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.74%) Trello
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.49%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (2.46%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.49%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 186 (45.70%) Azure
2 146 (35.87%) AWS
3 98 (24.08%) GCP
4 55 (13.51%) Power Platform
5 42 (10.32%) Azure Machine Learning
6 25 (6.14%) SaaS
7 21 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (4.18%) Entra ID
9 15 (3.69%) Azure AI
9 15 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (3.69%) Serverless
9 15 (3.69%) Snowflake
10 14 (3.44%) Vertex AI
11 11 (2.70%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
11 11 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (2.21%) Dagster
12 9 (2.21%) GitHub
12 9 (2.21%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 49 (12.04%) Broadband
2 5 (1.23%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.74%) Network Security
4 2 (0.49%) Firewall
4 2 (0.49%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.25%) LTE
5 1 (0.25%) Modbus
5 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (11.55%) Power BI
2 33 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (6.14%) Tableau
4 18 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (4.42%) Metadata
5 15 (3.69%) SQL Server
6 14 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (3.19%) BigQuery
8 12 (2.95%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.70%) Apache Iceberg
9 11 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (2.70%) Delta Lake
9 11 (2.70%) Looker
9 11 (2.70%) NoSQL
10 10 (2.46%) Pinecone
10 10 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (2.46%) Weaviate
11 9 (2.21%) Big Data
12 6 (1.47%) Data Mining
12 6 (1.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (4.42%) MLflow
2 14 (3.44%) Git
3 5 (1.23%) Claude Code
3 5 (1.23%) JIRA
4 3 (0.74%) GitLab
4 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.49%) ERwin
5 2 (0.49%) Selenium
5 2 (0.49%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.49%) WebDriver
General
1 124 (30.47%) Social Skills
2 87 (21.38%) Finance
3 69 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.39%) Retail
6 23 (5.65%) Marketing
7 20 (4.91%) Telecoms
8 16 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.93%) Legal
9 13 (3.19%) Law
10 11 (2.70%) Games
10 11 (2.70%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.70%) Publishing
11 10 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.72%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.23%) Back Office
14 5 (1.23%) Banking
15 4 (0.98%) Billing
Job Titles
1 82 (20.15%) Senior
2 63 (15.48%) Lead
3 43 (10.57%) Data Engineer
4 42 (10.32%) Developer
5 37 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 31 (7.62%) Data Scientist
7 25 (6.14%) Consultant
8 21 (5.16%) Architect
8 21 (5.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 19 (4.67%) Analyst
9 19 (4.67%) Operations Engineer
10 18 (4.42%) Scala Engineer
11 16 (3.93%) Data Analyst
11 16 (3.93%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 14 (3.44%) Data Consultant
13 12 (2.95%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
14 10 (2.46%) Commercial Analyst
14 10 (2.46%) Commercial Data Analyst
14 10 (2.46%) Senior Consultant
15 9 (2.21%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (11.06%) PyTorch
1 45 (11.06%) TensorFlow
2 43 (10.57%) gRPC
3 33 (8.11%) React
4 27 (6.63%) Kafka
5 22 (5.41%) REST
5 22 (5.41%) RESTful
6 17 (4.18%) Node.js
7 14 (3.44%) .NET
7 14 (3.44%) AngularJS
7 14 (3.44%) LangChain
8 12 (2.95%) OAuth
8 12 (2.95%) Spring
8 12 (2.95%) Spring Boot
9 10 (2.46%) PySpark
10 9 (2.21%) Faiss
10 9 (2.21%) Symfony
10 9 (2.21%) vLLM
10 9 (2.21%) WebSockets
11 8 (1.97%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 53 (13.02%) Product Ownership
2 50 (12.29%) Cloud Native
2 50 (12.29%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (9.83%) Video\Live Streaming
4 38 (9.34%) Algorithms
5 31 (7.62%) Over-the-Top Content
6 26 (6.39%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.70%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.46%) FMCG
9 9 (2.21%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.72%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.47%) Educational Technology
12 5 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.23%) Social Media
13 4 (0.98%) Augmented Reality
13 4 (0.98%) Blog
13 4 (0.98%) Mobile Games
13 4 (0.98%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.69%) Android
1 15 (3.69%) Linux
2 13 (3.19%) Windows
3 5 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.98%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.74%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (0.74%) Unix
6 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (75.68%) AI
2 147 (36.12%) Analytics
3 142 (34.89%) Data Science
4 136 (33.42%) CI/CD
5 100 (24.57%) Agile
6 93 (22.85%) Software Engineering
7 92 (22.60%) DevOps
8 90 (22.11%) Roadmaps
9 75 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
10 73 (17.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 68 (16.71%) Coaching
12 67 (16.46%) Decision-Making
13 66 (16.22%) Mentoring
14 65 (15.97%) Containerisation
15 64 (15.72%) Clean Code
15 64 (15.72%) LLM
16 62 (15.23%) MLOps
17 61 (14.99%) Data Pipeline
17 61 (14.99%) Microservices
18 60 (14.74%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 217 (53.32%) Python
2 91 (22.36%) SQL
3 64 (15.72%) Go
4 46 (11.30%) Java
5 43 (10.57%) Scala
6 23 (5.65%) Bash
6 23 (5.65%) JavaScript
7 20 (4.91%) TypeScript
8 19 (4.67%) C#
9 17 (4.18%) PowerShell
10 16 (3.93%) C++
10 16 (3.93%) PHP
10 16 (3.93%) R
11 7 (1.72%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.47%) Rust
13 5 (1.23%) Bicep
14 3 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.25%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 88 (21.62%) Degree
2 31 (7.62%) Security Cleared
3 28 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (5.90%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.69%) PhD
6 13 (3.19%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.19%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.46%) ACCA
7 10 (2.46%) CIMA
7 10 (2.46%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.98%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.98%) CISA
9 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.49%) CISSP
10 2 (0.49%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.49%) OSCP
10 2 (0.49%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.13%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.16%) GDPR
3 8 (1.97%) QA
4 4 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.98%) EU AI Act
5 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.49%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.49%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (18.67%) Docker
2 10 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (2.21%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.49%) Ceph
5 2 (0.49%) Lustre
5 2 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (12.04%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.88%) Terraform
3 10 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.21%) Ansible
5 4 (0.98%) Kubeflow
5 4 (0.98%) SCCM
6 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.25%) Argo
7 1 (0.25%) Grafana
7 1 (0.25%) Istio
7 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 62 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.60%) Databricks
3 27 (6.63%) Typelevel
4 20 (4.91%) Google
5 12 (2.95%) OpenAI
5 12 (2.95%) Palantir
5 12 (2.95%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.72%) Foundry
7 5 (1.23%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.23%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.23%) Nokia
8 4 (0.98%) SAP
9 3 (0.74%) Adobe
9 3 (0.74%) Dell
9 3 (0.74%) Mercator
10 2 (0.49%) Civica
10 2 (0.49%) Northgate
10 2 (0.49%) Orchard
11 1 (0.25%) Sony
11 1 (0.25%) Yahoo!