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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 34 99
Rank change year-on-year -19 +65 -5
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 932 1,153 727
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.10% 6.94% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 7.47% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 587 252 520
10th Percentile £46,500 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +7.41%
75th Percentile £103,125 £103,125 £92,500
90th Percentile £126,381 £135,000 £102,625
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +3.45%

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 18,782 15,445 21,829
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.64% 92.96% 87.71%
Number of salaries quoted 13,537 8,945 15,559
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%

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 13 August 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 (2.79%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.29%) Apache
4 10 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.64%) SAS
6 5 (0.54%) Confluence
7 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.32%) Blender
3 3 (0.32%) Maya
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
4 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) HFM
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 415 (44.53%) Azure
2 253 (27.15%) AWS
3 226 (24.25%) Azure AI
4 136 (14.59%) GCP
5 99 (10.62%) Snowflake
6 94 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (10.09%) GitHub
7 88 (9.44%) Azure Machine Learning
8 79 (8.48%) GitHub Copilot
9 76 (8.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 63 (6.76%) Power Platform
11 47 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 37 (3.97%) SaaS
13 29 (3.11%) Amazon Bedrock
14 23 (2.47%) Anthropic Claude
14 23 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
15 22 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
16 20 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
17 19 (2.04%) Amazon S3
17 19 (2.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 112 (12.02%) Broadband
2 30 (3.22%) Internet
3 13 (1.39%) Firewall
4 7 (0.75%) 5G
5 6 (0.64%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.64%) Network Security
6 3 (0.32%) BGP
6 3 (0.32%) LAN
6 3 (0.32%) OSPF
6 3 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.32%) VPN
6 3 (0.32%) WAN
7 2 (0.21%) ATM
7 2 (0.21%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.21%) DNS
7 2 (0.21%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.21%) VLAN
7 2 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.21%) WireGuard
7 2 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (19.10%) MongoDB
2 174 (18.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 61 (6.55%) Power BI
4 58 (6.22%) SQL Server
5 47 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (4.61%) Metadata
7 34 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (2.68%) Big Data
9 19 (2.04%) Delta Lake
10 18 (1.93%) Data Lake
11 15 (1.61%) Tableau
12 14 (1.50%) Data Vault
13 11 (1.18%) NoSQL
14 9 (0.97%) Looker
15 8 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (0.86%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.75%) Relational Database
16 7 (0.75%) Semantic Layer
17 6 (0.64%) Hadoop
18 5 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 38 (4.08%) Git
2 22 (2.36%) Claude Code
3 17 (1.82%) MLflow
4 13 (1.39%) JIRA
5 11 (1.18%) GitLab
6 8 (0.86%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.43%) Appium
7 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.32%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.32%) Mercurial
8 3 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.21%) Selenium
10 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.11%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.11%) Mocha
10 1 (0.11%) NUnit
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 272 (29.18%) Finance
2 171 (18.35%) Social Skills
3 125 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (9.01%) Marketing
5 70 (7.51%) Banking
6 41 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (4.29%) Public Sector
8 39 (4.18%) Games
9 37 (3.97%) Advertising
10 34 (3.65%) Law
11 33 (3.54%) Legal
12 27 (2.90%) Retail
13 25 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.18%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.07%) Legal Technology
16 9 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.75%) Electronics
17 7 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 248 (26.61%) Developer
2 157 (16.85%) .NET Developer
3 154 (16.52%) Senior
4 108 (11.59%) Lead
5 101 (10.84%) Architect
6 100 (10.73%) Data Scientist
7 62 (6.65%) Software Engineer
8 53 (5.69%) Senior Data Scientist
9 51 (5.47%) Finance Manager
10 49 (5.26%) Data Engineer
11 46 (4.94%) Data Manager
12 44 (4.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 41 (4.40%) Data Architect
13 41 (4.40%) Engineering Manager
13 41 (4.40%) Lead Data Scientist
14 34 (3.65%) Senior Developer
15 28 (3.00%) Consultant
16 27 (2.90%) Lead Developer
16 27 (2.90%) Python Engineer
17 26 (2.79%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (20.39%) .NET
2 164 (17.60%) .NET Core
3 156 (16.74%) ASP.NET
3 156 (16.74%) ASP.NET Core
3 156 (16.74%) ML.NET
4 120 (12.88%) React
5 118 (12.66%) RESTful
6 103 (11.05%) Blazor
7 102 (10.94%) CSS
8 99 (10.62%) HTML
9 83 (8.91%) PyTorch
10 73 (7.83%) TensorFlow
11 64 (6.87%) LangChain
12 41 (4.40%) LangGraph
13 35 (3.76%) Node.js
14 29 (3.11%) PySpark
15 27 (2.90%) gRPC
15 27 (2.90%) Hugging Face
16 25 (2.68%) JSON
16 25 (2.68%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 113 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 77 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
2 77 (8.26%) Video\Live Streaming
3 62 (6.65%) Blog
4 61 (6.55%) AI Agents
5 52 (5.58%) Algorithms
6 50 (5.36%) Product Ownership
7 33 (3.54%) Over-the-Top Content
8 32 (3.43%) Low-Code
9 31 (3.33%) Mobile App
10 30 (3.22%) Social Media
11 29 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
12 20 (2.15%) Digital TV
13 18 (1.93%) BBC
13 18 (1.93%) Credit Risk
13 18 (1.93%) Hedge funds
13 18 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.82%) iPhone
15 16 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (1.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.15%) Android
2 14 (1.50%) Linux
3 5 (0.54%) Windows
4 4 (0.43%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.21%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (84.12%) AI
2 294 (31.55%) Agile
3 269 (28.86%) CI/CD
4 251 (26.93%) Data Science
5 247 (26.50%) Roadmaps
6 217 (23.28%) Analytics
6 217 (23.28%) Full-Stack Development
7 200 (21.46%) Software Engineering
8 164 (17.60%) DevOps
9 150 (16.09%) LLM
10 144 (15.45%) Mentoring
11 132 (14.16%) Data Engineering
12 130 (13.95%) Generative AI
12 130 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
13 107 (11.48%) Technical Leadership
14 106 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 106 (11.37%) Data Governance
15 105 (11.27%) Decision-Making
16 98 (10.52%) Data Architecture
17 97 (10.41%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 391 (41.95%) Python
2 365 (39.16%) SQL
3 196 (21.03%) C#
4 140 (15.02%) JavaScript
5 67 (7.19%) Go
6 61 (6.55%) TypeScript
7 49 (5.26%) Scala
8 43 (4.61%) Java
9 27 (2.90%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.82%) Bicep
11 13 (1.39%) R
12 12 (1.29%) C++
13 9 (0.97%) C
13 9 (0.97%) PHP
14 8 (0.86%) Rust
15 6 (0.64%) Bash
16 4 (0.43%) Ada
16 4 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 97 (10.41%) Degree
2 75 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 48 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.76%) DV Cleared
5 23 (2.47%) PhD
6 22 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.93%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.39%) SnowPro
11 11 (1.18%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.86%) CISSP
13 4 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.32%) CCDP
14 3 (0.32%) CCNP
14 3 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.21%) GIAC
15 2 (0.21%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (8.58%) Data Quality
2 32 (3.43%) QA
3 28 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.61%) GDPR
5 8 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.32%) SLA
9 2 (0.21%) JTAG
9 2 (0.21%) MIL-STD-1553
10 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 149 (15.99%) Docker
2 55 (5.90%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.64%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.54%) Firmware
5 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 117 (12.55%) Kubernetes
2 48 (5.15%) Terraform
3 9 (0.97%) Grafana
4 7 (0.75%) Kubeflow
5 6 (0.64%) Ansible
5 6 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.32%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.32%) Istio
7 3 (0.32%) linkerd
7 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.32%) Puppet
8 2 (0.21%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (0.21%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 2 (0.21%) Podman
9 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 306 (32.83%) Microsoft
2 140 (15.02%) Databricks
3 69 (7.40%) Google
4 38 (4.08%) Facebook
5 27 (2.90%) Typelevel
6 21 (2.25%) Yahoo!
7 19 (2.04%) Adobe
8 17 (1.82%) Apple
8 17 (1.82%) Foundry
8 17 (1.82%) Sony
9 14 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.18%) SAP
11 5 (0.54%) Oracle
11 5 (0.54%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.43%) HighQ
12 4 (0.43%) Legatics
13 3 (0.32%) Cisco
13 3 (0.32%) Forcepoint
13 3 (0.32%) Juniper
13 3 (0.32%) SonicWALL