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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 33 101
Rank change year-on-year -33 +68 -3
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 700 1,180 967
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.60% 7.82% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 8.26% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 410 262 756
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -2.05%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,875 £145,920 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +10.36% -

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 15,967 14,283 30,442
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.05% 94.63% 89.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,428 8,372 23,637
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £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% -9.54%

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 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 26 (3.71%) Apache Spark
2 24 (3.43%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.00%) Apache
5 6 (0.86%) SAS
6 3 (0.43%) CMS
7 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.43%) Blender
2 3 (0.43%) Maya
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.00%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) HFM
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 307 (43.86%) Azure
2 223 (31.86%) AWS
3 139 (19.86%) GCP
4 129 (18.43%) Azure AI
5 100 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
6 73 (10.43%) Snowflake
7 70 (10.00%) Power Platform
8 61 (8.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 45 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (5.43%) GitHub
11 36 (5.14%) SaaS
12 32 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
13 31 (4.43%) GitHub Copilot
14 23 (3.29%) Azure Logic Apps
14 23 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
15 22 (3.14%) Vertex AI
16 20 (2.86%) Power Automate
17 19 (2.71%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 19 (2.71%) OneDrive
17 19 (2.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 132 (18.86%) Broadband
2 10 (1.43%) Firewall
3 9 (1.29%) Internet
4 7 (1.00%) 5G
5 6 (0.86%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.86%) Network Security
6 2 (0.29%) DNS
6 2 (0.29%) VLAN
6 2 (0.29%) VPN
6 2 (0.29%) WireGuard
7 1 (0.14%) 4G
7 1 (0.14%) LTE
7 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (12.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 88 (12.57%) MongoDB
3 65 (9.29%) Power BI
3 65 (9.29%) SQL Server
4 40 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (4.00%) Metadata
7 21 (3.00%) Tableau
8 18 (2.57%) Big Data
9 17 (2.43%) BigQuery
10 16 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (2.29%) Looker
11 14 (2.00%) Delta Lake
12 12 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.57%) Apache Iceberg
14 10 (1.43%) NoSQL
14 10 (1.43%) Pinecone
15 9 (1.29%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.29%) Relational Database
15 9 (1.29%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 21 (3.00%) MLflow
2 16 (2.29%) Git
3 9 (1.29%) GitLab
4 7 (1.00%) JIRA
5 6 (0.86%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.29%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.14%) Appium
7 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.14%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 177 (25.29%) Finance
2 148 (21.14%) Social Skills
3 97 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (6.29%) Banking
5 31 (4.43%) Retail
6 30 (4.29%) Games
7 28 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (3.86%) Marketing
9 26 (3.71%) Public Sector
10 25 (3.57%) Law
11 22 (3.14%) Legal
12 15 (2.14%) Advertising
13 13 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.29%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.14%) Publishing
15 8 (1.14%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.71%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 157 (22.43%) Developer
2 133 (19.00%) Senior
3 94 (13.43%) Lead
4 85 (12.14%) Data Scientist
5 66 (9.43%) .NET Developer
6 57 (8.14%) Software Engineer
7 56 (8.00%) Data Engineer
8 54 (7.71%) Architect
9 42 (6.00%) Data Manager
9 42 (6.00%) Engineering Manager
10 41 (5.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 35 (5.00%) Senior Data Scientist
12 33 (4.71%) Finance Manager
13 30 (4.29%) Consultant
13 30 (4.29%) Scala Engineer
14 29 (4.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 29 (4.14%) Senior Developer
15 26 (3.71%) Lead Data Scientist
16 25 (3.57%) Data Architect
16 25 (3.57%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (13.86%) .NET
2 85 (12.14%) PyTorch
3 79 (11.29%) .NET Core
4 77 (11.00%) TensorFlow
5 67 (9.57%) React
5 67 (9.57%) RESTful
6 63 (9.00%) ASP.NET
6 63 (9.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 63 (9.00%) ML.NET
7 54 (7.71%) CSS
7 54 (7.71%) HTML
8 50 (7.14%) gRPC
9 43 (6.14%) Blazor
10 40 (5.71%) LangChain
11 30 (4.29%) Node.js
12 24 (3.43%) Hugging Face
12 24 (3.43%) REST
13 23 (3.29%) JSON
14 20 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
15 19 (2.71%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 98 (14.00%) Video\Live Streaming
2 83 (11.86%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (10.57%) Cloud Native
4 53 (7.57%) Over-the-Top Content
5 52 (7.43%) Product Ownership
6 46 (6.57%) Algorithms
7 33 (4.71%) Low-Code
8 32 (4.57%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (2.57%) Social Media
11 15 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (2.00%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.86%) Blog
13 13 (1.86%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.43%) Cyberattack
15 9 (1.29%) Digital TV
15 9 (1.29%) iPhone
15 9 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
15 9 (1.29%) Life Science
15 9 (1.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.57%) Android
2 10 (1.43%) Linux
3 3 (0.43%) Windows
4 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.29%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (74.71%) AI
2 223 (31.86%) Data Science
3 220 (31.43%) CI/CD
4 210 (30.00%) Agile
5 188 (26.86%) Roadmaps
6 183 (26.14%) Software Engineering
7 151 (21.57%) Analytics
8 126 (18.00%) Data Engineering
9 120 (17.14%) Generative AI
10 118 (16.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 117 (16.71%) DevOps
11 117 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
12 112 (16.00%) Mentoring
13 96 (13.71%) LLM
14 93 (13.29%) Data Governance
15 86 (12.29%) Clean Code
15 86 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 86 (12.29%) Decision-Making
16 82 (11.71%) Microservices
17 80 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 358 (51.14%) Python
2 246 (35.14%) SQL
3 104 (14.86%) Go
4 103 (14.71%) C#
5 85 (12.14%) JavaScript
6 63 (9.00%) Scala
7 48 (6.86%) Java
7 48 (6.86%) TypeScript
8 27 (3.86%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.00%) R
10 13 (1.86%) Bash
11 10 (1.43%) C++
11 10 (1.43%) Rust
12 8 (1.14%) PHP
13 7 (1.00%) Bicep
14 6 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.43%) C
16 3 (0.43%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (11.71%) Degree
2 34 (4.86%) Security Cleared
3 22 (3.14%) SC Cleared
4 20 (2.86%) PhD
5 16 (2.29%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.86%) DBS Check
7 12 (1.71%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.14%) CISSP
9 7 (1.00%) ACCA
9 7 (1.00%) CIMA
10 4 (0.57%) CISA
11 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.29%) GIAC
12 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 20 (2.86%) GDPR
2 20 (2.86%) QA
3 17 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.43%) IFRS
4 3 (0.43%) IFRS 17
4 3 (0.43%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 114 (16.29%) Docker
2 55 (7.86%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.86%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (8.86%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.29%) Terraform
3 8 (1.14%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.43%) Grafana
6 2 (0.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.29%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 2 (0.29%) Podman
6 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.14%) Ansible
7 1 (0.14%) Istio
7 1 (0.14%) linkerd
7 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 196 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 99 (14.14%) Databricks
3 45 (6.43%) Typelevel
4 37 (5.29%) Google
5 20 (2.86%) Adobe
6 13 (1.86%) Facebook
6 13 (1.86%) OpenAI
7 12 (1.71%) Foundry
8 11 (1.57%) Palantir
9 9 (1.29%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.00%) Apple
10 7 (1.00%) SAP
10 7 (1.00%) Sony
10 7 (1.00%) Yahoo!
11 6 (0.86%) Oracle
12 4 (0.57%) HighQ
12 4 (0.57%) Legatics
12 4 (0.57%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.29%) IBM
13 2 (0.29%) Informatica