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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 70 93
Rank change year-on-year -37 +23 +5
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 401 702 885
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.45% 4.51% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 4.75% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 256 333 661
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £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 £85,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.60% +10.00% -

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 14,103 14,778 25,599
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.18% 94.85% 92.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,134 8,791 21,233
10th Percentile £30,538 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,249 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%

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 18 February 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 24 (5.99%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.24%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.75%) Apache Solr
4 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.50%) CMS
6 5 (1.25%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (1.00%) Confluence
8 3 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.50%) Apache
10 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.25%) Kinematics
Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Chatbot
1 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.75%) Trello
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.50%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (2.49%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.50%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.50%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 194 (48.38%) Azure
2 135 (33.67%) AWS
3 84 (20.95%) GCP
4 54 (13.47%) Power Platform
5 39 (9.73%) Azure Machine Learning
6 29 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (5.99%) Entra ID
7 24 (5.99%) SaaS
8 19 (4.74%) Serverless
9 16 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (3.74%) Azure AI
10 15 (3.74%) Snowflake
11 13 (3.24%) Microsoft Purview
12 12 (2.99%) Amazon S3
12 12 (2.99%) Vertex AI
13 11 (2.74%) Amazon SageMaker
14 9 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (2.24%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.98%) Broadband
2 4 (1.00%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.50%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.25%) Firewall
4 1 (0.25%) LTE
4 1 (0.25%) Modbus
4 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.47%) Power BI
2 34 (8.48%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (6.73%) Tableau
4 19 (4.74%) Elasticsearch
5 18 (4.49%) Metadata
6 16 (3.99%) SQL Server
7 14 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.24%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.99%) Data Lake
9 12 (2.99%) NoSQL
10 11 (2.74%) Apache Iceberg
10 11 (2.74%) Looker
11 10 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (2.49%) Delta Lake
11 10 (2.49%) Pinecone
11 10 (2.49%) Weaviate
12 9 (2.24%) Big Data
12 9 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (2.00%) MySQL
14 6 (1.50%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 21 (5.24%) MLflow
2 15 (3.74%) Git
3 6 (1.50%) JIRA
4 3 (0.75%) Claude Code
4 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.50%) ERwin
5 2 (0.50%) Selenium
5 2 (0.50%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.50%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.25%) GitLab
General
1 117 (29.18%) Social Skills
2 101 (25.19%) Finance
3 69 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.48%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.23%) Marketing
5 25 (6.23%) Retail
6 20 (4.99%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.24%) Games
7 13 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.24%) Legal
8 12 (2.99%) Law
9 10 (2.49%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.49%) Publishing
10 7 (1.75%) Banking
10 7 (1.75%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.25%) Back Office
12 4 (1.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 69 (17.21%) Senior
2 59 (14.71%) Lead
3 44 (10.97%) Data Engineer
4 39 (9.73%) Developer
5 37 (9.23%) Software Engineer
6 34 (8.48%) Data Scientist
7 25 (6.23%) Consultant
8 23 (5.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 20 (4.99%) Architect
10 18 (4.49%) Analyst
11 16 (3.99%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 16 (3.99%) Operations Engineer
12 15 (3.74%) Data Analyst
13 13 (3.24%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
13 13 (3.24%) Data Consultant
14 12 (2.99%) Scala Engineer
15 10 (2.49%) Commercial Analyst
15 10 (2.49%) Commercial Data Analyst
15 10 (2.49%) Senior Consultant
16 9 (2.24%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (10.97%) PyTorch
1 44 (10.97%) TensorFlow
2 35 (8.73%) gRPC
3 34 (8.48%) React
4 27 (6.73%) Kafka
5 22 (5.49%) RESTful
6 21 (5.24%) Node.js
6 21 (5.24%) REST
7 14 (3.49%) AngularJS
7 14 (3.49%) Spring
7 14 (3.49%) Spring Boot
8 13 (3.24%) LangChain
9 12 (2.99%) .NET
10 10 (2.49%) PySpark
11 9 (2.24%) Faiss
11 9 (2.24%) OAuth
11 9 (2.24%) vLLM
11 9 (2.24%) WebSockets
12 8 (2.00%) OAuth2
12 8 (2.00%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 52 (12.97%) Product Ownership
2 49 (12.22%) Cloud Native
3 43 (10.72%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (8.48%) Algorithms
5 29 (7.23%) Video\Live Streaming
6 24 (5.99%) AI Agents
7 21 (5.24%) Over-the-Top Content
8 11 (2.74%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.49%) FMCG
10 8 (2.00%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.75%) Educational Technology
11 7 (1.75%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.75%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.25%) Augmented Reality
12 5 (1.25%) Mobile Games
13 4 (1.00%) Blog
13 4 (1.00%) Linked Data
13 4 (1.00%) Robotics
13 4 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.74%) Windows
2 18 (4.49%) Linux
3 16 (3.99%) Android
4 7 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.50%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.75%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (0.75%) Unix
7 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (77.31%) AI
2 151 (37.66%) Analytics
3 139 (34.66%) Data Science
4 131 (32.67%) CI/CD
5 100 (24.94%) Agile
5 100 (24.94%) DevOps
6 93 (23.19%) Roadmaps
7 88 (21.95%) Software Engineering
8 74 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (16.96%) Coaching
9 68 (16.96%) Decision-Making
10 67 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (15.96%) MLOps
12 62 (15.46%) LLM
13 61 (15.21%) Containerisation
13 61 (15.21%) Data Pipeline
14 57 (14.21%) Business Intelligence
14 57 (14.21%) Generative AI
15 56 (13.97%) Mentoring
16 55 (13.72%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 214 (53.37%) Python
2 96 (23.94%) SQL
3 53 (13.22%) Go
4 49 (12.22%) Java
5 33 (8.23%) Scala
6 29 (7.23%) Bash
7 24 (5.99%) JavaScript
7 24 (5.99%) PowerShell
8 23 (5.74%) R
9 18 (4.49%) C++
9 18 (4.49%) PHP
10 17 (4.24%) TypeScript
11 16 (3.99%) C#
12 8 (2.00%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.50%) Rust
14 3 (0.75%) Bicep
14 3 (0.75%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.75%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.50%) C
15 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (21.20%) Degree
2 34 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 28 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.49%) Master's Degree
5 12 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.74%) PhD
7 10 (2.49%) ACCA
7 10 (2.49%) CIMA
8 9 (2.24%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.75%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.00%) CISA
10 4 (1.00%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.50%) CFA
11 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.98%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.24%) GDPR
3 5 (1.25%) QA
4 4 (1.00%) EU AI Act
4 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.50%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.50%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (17.21%) Docker
2 16 (3.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (2.74%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.50%) Ceph
5 2 (0.50%) Lustre
5 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (12.72%) Kubernetes
2 34 (8.48%) Terraform
3 16 (3.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (2.99%) Ansible
5 7 (1.75%) SCCM
6 3 (0.75%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.25%) Argo
7 1 (0.25%) Grafana
7 1 (0.25%) Istio
7 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.73%) Databricks
3 18 (4.49%) Google
3 18 (4.49%) Typelevel
4 14 (3.49%) OpenAI
4 14 (3.49%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.99%) Palantir
6 5 (1.25%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.25%) Foundry
6 5 (1.25%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.25%) Nokia
6 5 (1.25%) SAP
7 3 (0.75%) Dell
7 3 (0.75%) Mercator
8 2 (0.50%) Adobe
8 2 (0.50%) Civica
8 2 (0.50%) Murex
8 2 (0.50%) Northgate
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle
8 2 (0.50%) Orchard