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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 76 99
Rank change year-on-year +41 +23 -25
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 1,074 853 776
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.59% 3.64% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.07% 4.15% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 233 508 564
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £50,984
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £68,474
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +9.53% -8.70%
75th Percentile £102,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £102,875 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +2.26%

All Process and 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 15,185 20,575 23,400
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 87.78% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8,609 12,675 19,261
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +1.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Machine Learning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Machine Learning trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Machine Learning
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Machine Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Machine Learning over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Machine Learning salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.74%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.65%) Apache
5 3 (0.28%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.28%) SAS
6 2 (0.19%) CMS
6 2 (0.19%) Luigi
6 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.093%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.19%) Simulink
3 2 (0.19%) Sketch
4 1 (0.093%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.093%) Blender
4 1 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.74%) Adaptiv
2 5 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.093%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.093%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.093%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.093%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.093%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.093%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.093%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.093%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.093%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 286 (26.63%) Azure
2 260 (24.21%) AWS
3 211 (19.65%) GCP
4 36 (3.35%) Power Platform
5 26 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (1.68%) Entra ID
8 17 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (1.58%) SaaS
9 15 (1.40%) Azure Machine Learning
10 12 (1.12%) Serverless
11 10 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (0.93%) GitHub
12 8 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (0.65%) Amazon S3
13 7 (0.65%) dbt
13 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (0.65%) Snowflake
14 6 (0.56%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (0.56%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.37%) DHCP
1 4 (0.37%) DNS
1 4 (0.37%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.28%) Broadband
2 3 (0.28%) SAN
3 2 (0.19%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) MQTT
3 2 (0.19%) Skype
3 2 (0.19%) WAN
4 1 (0.093%) HTTP
4 1 (0.093%) Internet
4 1 (0.093%) VoIP
4 1 (0.093%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.17%) Power BI
2 21 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 16 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (1.49%) NoSQL
3 16 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (1.21%) Tableau
5 11 (1.02%) MongoDB
6 10 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (0.93%) MySQL
7 8 (0.74%) Redis
7 8 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.47%) Big Data
8 5 (0.47%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.47%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.47%) Looker
9 4 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.37%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.28%) Metadata
11 2 (0.19%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.19%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 19 (1.77%) Git
2 9 (0.84%) GitLab
3 8 (0.74%) SonarQube
3 8 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.65%) MLflow
5 5 (0.47%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.28%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.28%) JIRA
6 3 (0.28%) RStudio
7 1 (0.093%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.093%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.093%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.093%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.093%) Vite
General
1 558 (51.96%) Retail
2 548 (51.02%) Manufacturing
3 196 (18.25%) Dutch Language
3 196 (18.25%) Finnish Language
4 182 (16.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 102 (9.50%) Social Skills
6 96 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
7 87 (8.10%) Finance
8 49 (4.56%) Catalan Language
9 23 (2.14%) Marketing
10 21 (1.96%) Banking
11 17 (1.58%) Law
12 13 (1.21%) Public Sector
13 11 (1.02%) Games
14 10 (0.93%) Legal
15 7 (0.65%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.56%) Advertising
16 6 (0.56%) Publishing
17 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 544 (50.65%) Trainer
2 213 (19.83%) Senior
3 198 (18.44%) Software Engineer
4 183 (17.04%) Senior Software Engineer
5 31 (2.89%) Lead
6 27 (2.51%) Data Scientist
7 24 (2.23%) Developer
8 22 (2.05%) Data Engineer
9 21 (1.96%) Analyst
9 21 (1.96%) Architect
10 15 (1.40%) Python Engineer
11 11 (1.02%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.02%) Head of AI
12 10 (0.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 10 (0.93%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (0.93%) Business Analyst
13 9 (0.84%) Consultant
13 9 (0.84%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 8 (0.74%) AWS DevOps
14 8 (0.74%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (18.16%) Node.js
2 194 (18.06%) .NET
3 56 (5.21%) HTML
4 22 (2.05%) scikit-learn
5 18 (1.68%) PyTorch
6 17 (1.58%) TensorFlow
7 16 (1.49%) Pandas
7 16 (1.49%) REST
8 15 (1.40%) Kafka
9 13 (1.21%) Hugging Face
9 13 (1.21%) React
10 12 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (1.02%) RESTful
12 10 (0.93%) gRPC
13 9 (0.84%) NumPy
13 9 (0.84%) Spring
14 8 (0.74%) .NET Framework
14 8 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (0.74%) FastAPI
14 8 (0.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 549 (51.12%) Robotics
2 183 (17.04%) Self-Motivation
3 179 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
4 178 (16.57%) Cyberattack
5 30 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 13 (1.21%) Algorithms
6 13 (1.21%) Cloud Native
7 11 (1.02%) Credit Risk
7 11 (1.02%) Reinsurance
8 10 (0.93%) AI Agents
9 9 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (0.84%) Market Risk
10 8 (0.74%) Augmented Reality
11 6 (0.56%) CUDA
11 6 (0.56%) Driving Licence
11 6 (0.56%) IoT
11 6 (0.56%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.56%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.47%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 188 (17.50%) Linux
2 16 (1.49%) Windows
3 7 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.28%) Android
4 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (75.23%) Artificial Intelligence
2 607 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
3 594 (55.31%) Data Privacy
4 581 (54.10%) LLM
5 568 (52.89%) Generative AI
6 539 (50.19%) Red Team
7 249 (23.18%) Agile
8 220 (20.48%) Software Engineering
9 210 (19.55%) Data Engineering
10 204 (18.99%) Mentoring
11 203 (18.90%) Microservices
11 203 (18.90%) User Experience
12 185 (17.23%) Scrum
13 180 (16.76%) Cloud Security
14 178 (16.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 119 (11.08%) Analytics
16 84 (7.82%) Data Science
17 82 (7.64%) Computer Science
18 71 (6.61%) DevOps
19 55 (5.12%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 389 (36.22%) Python
2 261 (24.30%) Java
3 243 (22.63%) C++
4 242 (22.53%) JavaScript
5 228 (21.23%) Rust
6 178 (16.57%) Go
7 131 (12.20%) SQL
8 75 (6.98%) R
9 60 (5.59%) MATLAB
9 60 (5.59%) TypeScript
10 58 (5.40%) C#
11 55 (5.12%) PHP
12 51 (4.75%) C
13 49 (4.56%) Dart
13 49 (4.56%) Ruby
14 24 (2.23%) PowerShell
15 18 (1.68%) Bash
16 9 (0.84%) Scala
17 7 (0.65%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 644 (59.96%) Degree
2 202 (18.81%) Security Cleared
3 183 (17.04%) AWS Certification
3 183 (17.04%) DV Cleared
4 180 (16.76%) AWS Certified Developer
5 178 (16.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 60 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.58%) SC Cleared
8 16 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.40%) PMP
10 14 (1.30%) CFA
10 14 (1.30%) PMI Certification
11 12 (1.12%) PhD
12 8 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.65%) Postgraduate
14 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.37%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
15 2 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (1.86%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.02%) GDPR
3 8 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.47%) QA
4 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.19%) SLA
5 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.093%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.093%) HL7
6 1 (0.093%) PMO
System Software
1 37 (3.45%) Docker
2 12 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (0.93%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.093%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (3.63%) Kubernetes
2 31 (2.89%) Terraform
3 15 (1.40%) Ansible
4 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.74%) SCCM
6 4 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.37%) Puppet
6 4 (0.37%) SCOM
7 2 (0.19%) Argo
7 2 (0.19%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.19%) SCOrch
7 2 (0.19%) SCSM
8 1 (0.093%) Grafana
8 1 (0.093%) Istio
8 1 (0.093%) Kibana
8 1 (0.093%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.093%) logstash
8 1 (0.093%) Packer
Vendors
1 571 (53.17%) Databricks
2 558 (51.96%) Google
3 541 (50.37%) Adobe
4 41 (3.82%) Microsoft
5 14 (1.30%) Murex
5 14 (1.30%) OpenAI
6 8 (0.74%) FIS
6 8 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 7 (0.65%) ServiceNow
8 6 (0.56%) SAP
9 4 (0.37%) Alteryx
9 4 (0.37%) Genesys
9 4 (0.37%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.37%) Talend
9 4 (0.37%) Zoho
10 3 (0.28%) Splunk
11 2 (0.19%) ArcSight
11 2 (0.19%) Concur
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.19%) VMware