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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 78 99
Rank change year-on-year -26 +21 -7
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 415 563 897
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.47% 4.05% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 4.25% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 254 311 681
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £54,063 £54,500 £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 £123,969 £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 14,297 13,240 27,544
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.26% 95.33% 92.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,336 8,795 22,823
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% -11.31%

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 12 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 27 (6.51%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.69%) CMS
3 7 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.20%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.96%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.96%) Confluence
6 3 (0.72%) Apache
6 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) Kinematics
Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Chatbot
1 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.72%) Trello
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.48%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (2.41%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.48%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 189 (45.54%) Azure
2 150 (36.14%) AWS
3 105 (25.30%) GCP
4 56 (13.49%) Power Platform
5 42 (10.12%) Azure Machine Learning
6 24 (5.78%) SaaS
7 21 (5.06%) Azure AI
8 19 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (3.61%) Snowflake
10 15 (3.61%) Vertex AI
11 14 (3.37%) Entra ID
12 13 (3.13%) Serverless
13 12 (2.89%) GitHub
14 11 (2.65%) Amazon SageMaker
14 11 (2.65%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (2.41%) Amazon S3
15 10 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (2.17%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 56 (13.49%) Broadband
2 5 (1.20%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.72%) Network Security
4 2 (0.48%) Firewall
4 2 (0.48%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.24%) LTE
5 1 (0.24%) Modbus
5 1 (0.24%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.57%) Power BI
2 33 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (6.02%) Tableau
4 18 (4.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 18 (4.34%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (4.34%) Metadata
5 15 (3.61%) SQL Server
6 14 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (3.37%) BigQuery
7 13 (3.13%) Data Lake
8 12 (2.89%) MongoDB
9 11 (2.65%) Apache Iceberg
9 11 (2.65%) Delta Lake
9 11 (2.65%) Looker
9 11 (2.65%) NoSQL
10 10 (2.41%) Pinecone
10 10 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (2.41%) Weaviate
11 9 (2.17%) Big Data
12 6 (1.45%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 18 (4.34%) MLflow
2 14 (3.37%) Git
3 5 (1.20%) Claude Code
3 5 (1.20%) JIRA
4 3 (0.72%) Selenium
4 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.48%) ERwin
5 2 (0.48%) GitLab
5 2 (0.48%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.48%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.24%) Appium
6 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
General
1 122 (29.40%) Social Skills
2 85 (20.48%) Finance
3 67 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (6.99%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.27%) Marketing
5 26 (6.27%) Retail
6 20 (4.82%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.61%) Legal
9 12 (2.89%) Law
9 12 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.65%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.65%) Publishing
11 10 (2.41%) Games
12 8 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.69%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.20%) Advertising
14 5 (1.20%) Back Office
14 5 (1.20%) Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (20.48%) Senior
2 63 (15.18%) Lead
3 52 (12.53%) Developer
4 45 (10.84%) Data Engineer
5 36 (8.67%) Software Engineer
6 31 (7.47%) Data Scientist
7 26 (6.27%) Consultant
8 22 (5.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 22 (5.30%) Scala Engineer
9 21 (5.06%) Architect
10 19 (4.58%) Analyst
10 19 (4.58%) Operations Engineer
11 16 (3.86%) Data Analyst
11 16 (3.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 15 (3.61%) .NET Developer
13 14 (3.37%) Data Consultant
14 12 (2.89%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
14 12 (2.89%) Scala Developer
15 11 (2.65%) Scala Software Engineer
15 11 (2.65%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (12.05%) gRPC
2 44 (10.60%) PyTorch
2 44 (10.60%) TensorFlow
3 34 (8.19%) React
4 26 (6.27%) Kafka
5 25 (6.02%) RESTful
6 22 (5.30%) REST
7 21 (5.06%) .NET
8 17 (4.10%) Node.js
9 14 (3.37%) AngularJS
9 14 (3.37%) LangChain
10 13 (3.13%) .NET Core
11 12 (2.89%) Blazor
11 12 (2.89%) OAuth
12 11 (2.65%) ASP.NET
12 11 (2.65%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (2.65%) CSS
12 11 (2.65%) HTML
12 11 (2.65%) ML.NET
13 10 (2.41%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.49%) Distributed Systems
2 48 (11.57%) Cloud Native
2 48 (11.57%) Product Ownership
3 47 (11.33%) Video\Live Streaming
4 38 (9.16%) Over-the-Top Content
5 37 (8.92%) Algorithms
6 26 (6.27%) AI Agents
7 12 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.65%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.41%) FMCG
10 9 (2.17%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.93%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.45%) Educational Technology
14 5 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (1.20%) Social Media
15 4 (0.96%) Blog
15 4 (0.96%) Linked Data
15 4 (0.96%) Mobile App
15 4 (0.96%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.61%) Android
1 15 (3.61%) Linux
2 12 (2.89%) Windows
3 5 (1.20%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.72%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (0.72%) Unix
6 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (74.46%) AI
2 147 (35.42%) Data Science
3 145 (34.94%) CI/CD
4 143 (34.46%) Analytics
5 99 (23.86%) Agile
6 97 (23.37%) Software Engineering
7 93 (22.41%) DevOps
8 89 (21.45%) Roadmaps
9 79 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
10 72 (17.35%) Containerisation
11 71 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 70 (16.87%) Clean Code
12 70 (16.87%) Coaching
13 68 (16.39%) Decision-Making
14 66 (15.90%) Microservices
15 65 (15.66%) Mentoring
16 61 (14.70%) LLM
16 61 (14.70%) MLOps
17 60 (14.46%) Data Pipeline
17 60 (14.46%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 220 (53.01%) Python
2 97 (23.37%) SQL
3 71 (17.11%) Go
4 50 (12.05%) Scala
5 43 (10.36%) Java
6 26 (6.27%) C#
6 26 (6.27%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.06%) Bash
8 19 (4.58%) TypeScript
9 16 (3.86%) PHP
9 16 (3.86%) R
10 15 (3.61%) C++
10 15 (3.61%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.69%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.45%) Rust
13 5 (1.20%) Bicep
14 3 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.24%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 87 (20.96%) Degree
2 29 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 28 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (5.30%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.86%) PhD
6 14 (3.37%) Master's Degree
7 13 (3.13%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.41%) ACCA
8 10 (2.41%) CIMA
8 10 (2.41%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.96%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.96%) CISA
10 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.48%) CISSP
12 2 (0.48%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.48%) OSCP
12 2 (0.48%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.99%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.06%) GDPR
3 9 (2.17%) QA
4 4 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.96%) EU AI Act
5 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.48%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.24%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (20.72%) Docker
2 8 (1.93%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.48%) Ceph
4 2 (0.48%) Lustre
4 2 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (12.05%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.27%) Terraform
3 9 (2.17%) Ansible
4 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.96%) Kubeflow
6 3 (0.72%) SCCM
7 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) Argo
8 1 (0.24%) Grafana
8 1 (0.24%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 66 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.43%) Databricks
3 34 (8.19%) Typelevel
4 20 (4.82%) Google
5 12 (2.89%) OpenAI
5 12 (2.89%) Palantir
5 12 (2.89%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.69%) Foundry
7 5 (1.20%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.20%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.20%) Nokia
8 4 (0.96%) Adobe
8 4 (0.96%) SAP
9 3 (0.72%) Dell
9 3 (0.72%) Facebook
9 3 (0.72%) Mercator
10 2 (0.48%) Civica
10 2 (0.48%) Northgate
10 2 (0.48%) Orchard
11 1 (0.24%) Yahoo!