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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 91 113
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 -19
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 528 476 880
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.95% 3.56% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 3.75% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 328 301 692
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,188 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £110,000 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £137,375 £130,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.90% +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 14,887 12,677 29,712
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.14% 94.72% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,419 8,968 23,636
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 23 April 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 30 (5.68%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.98%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.33%) CMS
5 6 (1.14%) Apache
6 5 (0.95%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) Confluence
8 1 (0.19%) Kinematics
Applications
1 7 (1.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.38%) Trello
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.89%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.38%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 252 (47.73%) Azure
2 190 (35.98%) AWS
3 133 (25.19%) GCP
4 101 (19.13%) Azure Machine Learning
5 79 (14.96%) Azure AI
6 70 (13.26%) Snowflake
7 65 (12.31%) Power Platform
8 59 (11.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 27 (5.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (3.79%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (3.60%) SaaS
13 18 (3.41%) Power Automate
13 18 (3.41%) Vertex AI
14 17 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (3.03%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 16 (3.03%) OneDrive
15 16 (3.03%) PowerApps
16 14 (2.65%) Amazon SageMaker
17 13 (2.46%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 94 (17.80%) Broadband
2 8 (1.52%) Firewall
3 5 (0.95%) Kerberos
3 5 (0.95%) Network Security
4 2 (0.38%) DNS
4 2 (0.38%) VLAN
4 2 (0.38%) VPN
4 2 (0.38%) WireGuard
5 1 (0.19%) 4G
5 1 (0.19%) 5G
5 1 (0.19%) LTE
5 1 (0.19%) Modbus
5 1 (0.19%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (12.69%) SQL Server
2 58 (10.98%) Power BI
3 42 (7.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (4.55%) Tableau
6 22 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 20 (3.79%) Metadata
8 17 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (2.84%) Looker
11 14 (2.65%) BigQuery
12 13 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (2.27%) Data Lake
13 12 (2.27%) Delta Lake
14 11 (2.08%) NoSQL
14 11 (2.08%) Pinecone
15 10 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
15 10 (1.89%) Weaviate
16 7 (1.33%) Big Data
16 7 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (3.79%) MLflow
2 15 (2.84%) Git
3 6 (1.14%) JIRA
4 5 (0.95%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.76%) GitLab
6 3 (0.57%) Selenium
7 2 (0.38%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.38%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.19%) Appium
8 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 138 (26.14%) Finance
2 130 (24.62%) Social Skills
3 72 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (5.49%) Retail
5 24 (4.55%) Banking
6 21 (3.98%) Marketing
7 20 (3.79%) Legal
8 19 (3.60%) Law
8 19 (3.60%) Public Sector
9 17 (3.22%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.08%) Publishing
12 10 (1.89%) Games
13 9 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.95%) Advertising
15 5 (0.95%) Back Office
16 4 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 112 (21.21%) Senior
2 70 (13.26%) Developer
3 67 (12.69%) Lead
4 47 (8.90%) Data Engineer
5 46 (8.71%) Software Engineer
6 43 (8.14%) Data Scientist
7 41 (7.77%) Engineering Manager
8 40 (7.58%) Data Manager
9 35 (6.63%) Architect
10 33 (6.25%) Finance Manager
11 30 (5.68%) Scala Engineer
12 28 (5.30%) Consultant
13 24 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 20 (3.79%) Senior Developer
15 19 (3.60%) Data Architect
15 19 (3.60%) Operations Engineer
16 17 (3.22%) Analyst
16 17 (3.22%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 16 (3.03%) .NET Developer
18 15 (2.84%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.55%) gRPC
2 52 (9.85%) PyTorch
3 45 (8.52%) TensorFlow
4 40 (7.58%) .NET
5 39 (7.39%) React
6 29 (5.49%) .NET Core
7 28 (5.30%) Kafka
7 28 (5.30%) REST
8 27 (5.11%) RESTful
9 26 (4.92%) CSS
9 26 (4.92%) HTML
10 23 (4.36%) Node.js
11 18 (3.41%) JSON
11 18 (3.41%) LangChain
12 16 (3.03%) HTML5 Canvas
12 16 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
12 16 (3.03%) SPFx
13 15 (2.84%) OAuth
14 13 (2.46%) ASP.NET
14 13 (2.46%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 65 (12.31%) Video\Live Streaming
2 63 (11.93%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (9.47%) Over-the-Top Content
4 49 (9.28%) Cloud Native
5 48 (9.09%) Product Ownership
6 34 (6.44%) Algorithms
7 28 (5.30%) AI Agents
8 14 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.65%) Low-Code
9 13 (2.46%) Social Media
10 12 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (2.08%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.89%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.89%) FMCG
13 8 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (1.33%) Blog
15 6 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
16 5 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
16 5 (0.95%) Mobile Payment
17 4 (0.76%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.46%) Android
2 7 (1.33%) Linux
3 4 (0.76%) Windows
4 3 (0.57%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.57%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (72.35%) AI
2 168 (31.82%) Data Science
3 164 (31.06%) Agile
4 158 (29.92%) CI/CD
5 140 (26.52%) Roadmaps
6 132 (25.00%) Analytics
7 120 (22.73%) Data Engineering
7 120 (22.73%) Software Engineering
8 95 (17.99%) DevOps
9 91 (17.23%) Microservices
10 87 (16.48%) Data Governance
10 87 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
11 80 (15.15%) Clean Code
12 78 (14.77%) Containerisation
12 78 (14.77%) Mentoring
13 75 (14.20%) Coaching
14 74 (14.02%) Migration
15 73 (13.83%) Data Architecture
15 73 (13.83%) Generative AI
16 72 (13.64%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 251 (47.54%) Python
2 174 (32.95%) SQL
3 91 (17.23%) Go
4 64 (12.12%) Scala
5 45 (8.52%) Java
6 44 (8.33%) C#
6 44 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 37 (7.01%) TypeScript
8 22 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 16 (3.03%) R
10 13 (2.46%) Bash
10 13 (2.46%) C++
11 9 (1.70%) PHP
12 8 (1.52%) Rust
13 6 (1.14%) Bicep
14 4 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.38%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (16.48%) Degree
2 25 (4.73%) Security Cleared
3 24 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (3.98%) PhD
5 18 (3.41%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.22%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.65%) DBS Check
8 12 (2.27%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.89%) ACCA
9 10 (1.89%) CIMA
10 7 (1.33%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.14%) CISSP
12 4 (0.76%) CISA
13 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.38%) GIAC
14 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.38%) SANS
15 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
15 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.68%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.79%) GDPR
3 19 (3.60%) QA
4 8 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.38%) IFRS
5 2 (0.38%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.38%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.19%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 96 (18.18%) Docker
2 56 (10.61%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.95%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (9.28%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.60%) Terraform
3 5 (0.95%) Kubeflow
4 4 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.38%) Ansible
5 2 (0.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (0.38%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 2 (0.38%) Podman
6 1 (0.19%) Grafana
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 133 (25.19%) Microsoft
2 95 (17.99%) Databricks
3 45 (8.52%) Typelevel
4 27 (5.11%) Google
5 18 (3.41%) Adobe
6 12 (2.27%) Palantir
6 12 (2.27%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.08%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.89%) Foundry
9 5 (0.95%) Ericsson
9 5 (0.95%) Mavenir
9 5 (0.95%) Nokia
10 4 (0.76%) Facebook
10 4 (0.76%) SAP
11 2 (0.38%) Apple
11 2 (0.38%) Informatica
11 2 (0.38%) Northgate
11 2 (0.38%) Oracle
11 2 (0.38%) Sony
11 2 (0.38%) Yahoo!