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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 34 103
Rank change year-on-year -27 +69 -6
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 777 1,171 957
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.82% 7.53% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 7.97% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 482 259 737
10th Percentile £45,075 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +1.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £147,040 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -

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 16,683 14,689 30,701
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.00% 94.40% 88.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,100 8,561 23,682
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%

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 23 June 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 (3.22%) Apache Spark
2 24 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.03%) Apache
5 6 (0.77%) SAS
6 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.13%) CMS
7 1 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.39%) Blender
2 3 (0.39%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.90%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) HFM
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 368 (47.36%) Azure
2 237 (30.50%) AWS
3 186 (23.94%) Azure AI
4 142 (18.28%) GCP
5 97 (12.48%) Azure Machine Learning
6 77 (9.91%) Snowflake
7 71 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (8.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 67 (8.62%) Power Platform
9 65 (8.37%) GitHub
10 57 (7.34%) GitHub Copilot
11 38 (4.89%) Azure Data Factory
12 37 (4.76%) SaaS
13 23 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
14 22 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
15 21 (2.70%) Vertex AI
16 20 (2.57%) Power Automate
17 19 (2.45%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 19 (2.45%) OneDrive
17 19 (2.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 135 (17.37%) Broadband
2 20 (2.57%) Internet
3 10 (1.29%) Firewall
4 7 (0.90%) 5G
5 6 (0.77%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.77%) Network Security
6 2 (0.26%) DNS
6 2 (0.26%) VLAN
6 2 (0.26%) VPN
6 2 (0.26%) WireGuard
7 1 (0.13%) 4G
7 1 (0.13%) LTE
7 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (18.15%) MongoDB
2 139 (17.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (7.98%) Power BI
3 62 (7.98%) SQL Server
4 43 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (4.50%) Metadata
6 20 (2.57%) Tableau
7 18 (2.32%) Big Data
8 17 (2.19%) BigQuery
8 17 (2.19%) Delta Lake
9 14 (1.80%) Looker
10 13 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.42%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.16%) Apache Iceberg
13 8 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.03%) NoSQL
13 8 (1.03%) Pinecone
13 8 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (2.45%) MLflow
2 16 (2.06%) Git
3 10 (1.29%) GitLab
4 7 (0.90%) JIRA
5 6 (0.77%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.39%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.26%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) Appium
8 1 (0.13%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.13%) Mocha
General
1 185 (23.81%) Finance
2 155 (19.95%) Social Skills
3 97 (12.48%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (6.31%) Banking
5 42 (5.41%) Marketing
6 35 (4.50%) Games
7 33 (4.25%) Public Sector
8 30 (3.86%) Retail
9 28 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (3.35%) Advertising
11 25 (3.22%) Law
12 21 (2.70%) Legal
13 13 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.03%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.03%) Publishing
16 6 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.64%) Legal Technology
17 5 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 214 (27.54%) Developer
2 132 (16.99%) Senior
3 120 (15.44%) .NET Developer
4 104 (13.38%) Lead
5 88 (11.33%) Data Scientist
6 66 (8.49%) Architect
7 55 (7.08%) Software Engineer
8 54 (6.95%) Data Engineer
9 43 (5.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 42 (5.41%) Data Manager
10 42 (5.41%) Engineering Manager
11 41 (5.28%) Senior Data Scientist
12 34 (4.38%) Data Architect
13 33 (4.25%) Finance Manager
13 33 (4.25%) Lead Data Scientist
14 31 (3.99%) Consultant
15 30 (3.86%) Scala Engineer
15 30 (3.86%) Senior Developer
16 28 (3.60%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 27 (3.47%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (19.31%) .NET
2 129 (16.60%) .NET Core
3 117 (15.06%) ASP.NET
3 117 (15.06%) ASP.NET Core
3 117 (15.06%) ML.NET
4 97 (12.48%) RESTful
5 96 (12.36%) React
6 90 (11.58%) PyTorch
7 83 (10.68%) CSS
8 81 (10.42%) HTML
9 80 (10.30%) TensorFlow
10 79 (10.17%) Blazor
11 46 (5.92%) gRPC
12 44 (5.66%) LangChain
13 30 (3.86%) Node.js
14 26 (3.35%) Hugging Face
15 23 (2.96%) JSON
16 22 (2.83%) REST
16 22 (2.83%) scikit-learn
17 20 (2.57%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 102 (13.13%) Video\Live Streaming
2 91 (11.71%) Cloud Native
3 86 (11.07%) Distributed Systems
4 54 (6.95%) Over-the-Top Content
5 50 (6.44%) Product Ownership
6 42 (5.41%) Algorithms
7 35 (4.50%) Low-Code
8 33 (4.25%) AI Agents
9 26 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (3.09%) Social Media
11 20 (2.57%) Mobile App
12 17 (2.19%) Digital TV
13 15 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.80%) BBC
14 14 (1.80%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.80%) iPhone
15 13 (1.67%) Blog
15 13 (1.67%) Social Network
16 11 (1.42%) Life Science
17 10 (1.29%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.80%) Android
2 9 (1.16%) Linux
3 3 (0.39%) Windows
4 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.26%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (77.73%) AI
2 255 (32.82%) CI/CD
3 243 (31.27%) Agile
4 229 (29.47%) Data Science
5 198 (25.48%) Roadmaps
6 192 (24.71%) Software Engineering
7 177 (22.78%) Full-Stack Development
8 157 (20.21%) Analytics
9 141 (18.15%) DevOps
10 131 (16.86%) Mentoring
11 127 (16.34%) Data Engineering
11 127 (16.34%) Generative AI
12 118 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
13 107 (13.77%) LLM
14 97 (12.48%) Data Governance
15 95 (12.23%) Decision-Making
16 91 (11.71%) Technical Leadership
17 88 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
18 87 (11.20%) Infrastructure as Code
19 85 (10.94%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 363 (46.72%) Python
2 297 (38.22%) SQL
3 154 (19.82%) C#
4 114 (14.67%) JavaScript
5 98 (12.61%) Go
6 66 (8.49%) Scala
7 53 (6.82%) TypeScript
8 45 (5.79%) Java
9 27 (3.47%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.42%) Bash
10 11 (1.42%) Bicep
10 11 (1.42%) R
11 9 (1.16%) C++
11 9 (1.16%) Rust
12 8 (1.03%) PHP
13 6 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.39%) C
16 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 82 (10.55%) Degree
2 42 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 28 (3.60%) SC Cleared
4 20 (2.57%) PhD
5 18 (2.32%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.06%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.67%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.03%) CISSP
10 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.90%) ACCA
11 7 (0.90%) CIMA
12 6 (0.77%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.51%) CISA
14 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
15 2 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.26%) GIAC
15 2 (0.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (7.08%) Data Quality
2 21 (2.70%) GDPR
3 19 (2.45%) QA
4 17 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.39%) IFRS
5 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.39%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 135 (17.37%) Docker
2 55 (7.08%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 83 (10.68%) Kubernetes
2 37 (4.76%) Terraform
3 9 (1.16%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.51%) Grafana
6 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.26%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 2 (0.26%) Istio
7 2 (0.26%) linkerd
7 2 (0.26%) Podman
7 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.26%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 255 (32.82%) Microsoft
2 106 (13.64%) Databricks
3 51 (6.56%) Google
4 45 (5.79%) Typelevel
5 27 (3.47%) Facebook
6 20 (2.57%) Adobe
7 16 (2.06%) Foundry
8 13 (1.67%) Apple
8 13 (1.67%) OpenAI
8 13 (1.67%) Sony
8 13 (1.67%) Yahoo!
9 9 (1.16%) Palantir
9 9 (1.16%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.90%) SAP
11 6 (0.77%) Oracle
12 4 (0.51%) HighQ
12 4 (0.51%) Legatics
12 4 (0.51%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.26%) IBM
13 2 (0.26%) Informatica