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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 83 102
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 -9
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 509 484 911
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.91% 3.69% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 3.90% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 318 300 672
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £54,750 £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 £116,875 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £141,125 £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 14,527 12,420 29,443
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.14% 94.78% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10,146 8,885 23,513
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £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 £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% -10.54%

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 15 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 28 (5.50%) Apache Spark
2 19 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (2.75%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.38%) CMS
5 5 (0.98%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.79%) Apache
7 3 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.39%) Confluence
9 1 (0.20%) Kinematics
Applications
1 7 (1.38%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.59%) Trello
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.39%) Weka
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.96%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.39%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 251 (49.31%) Azure
2 182 (35.76%) AWS
3 128 (25.15%) GCP
4 102 (20.04%) Azure Machine Learning
5 79 (15.52%) Azure AI
6 72 (14.15%) Snowflake
7 64 (12.57%) Power Platform
8 59 (11.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 22 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (4.13%) SaaS
11 18 (3.54%) Vertex AI
12 17 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (2.75%) Amazon SageMaker
14 14 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (2.55%) Amazon S3
15 13 (2.55%) Power Automate
16 12 (2.36%) dbt
16 12 (2.36%) GitHub
16 12 (2.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 87 (17.09%) Broadband
2 4 (0.79%) Firewall
2 4 (0.79%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.79%) Network Security
3 2 (0.39%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.20%) DNS
4 1 (0.20%) LTE
4 1 (0.20%) Modbus
4 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.20%) VLAN
4 1 (0.20%) VPN
4 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.20%) WireGuard
4 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (13.36%) SQL Server
2 58 (11.39%) Power BI
3 38 (7.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 32 (6.29%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (5.11%) Tableau
6 21 (4.13%) Metadata
7 20 (3.93%) MongoDB
8 16 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (2.75%) BigQuery
9 14 (2.75%) Looker
10 13 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (2.55%) Data Lake
10 13 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (2.16%) Delta Lake
11 11 (2.16%) NoSQL
12 10 (1.96%) Pinecone
12 10 (1.96%) Weaviate
13 9 (1.77%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (1.18%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 19 (3.73%) MLflow
2 13 (2.55%) Git
3 7 (1.38%) JIRA
4 5 (0.98%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.79%) GitLab
6 3 (0.59%) Selenium
7 2 (0.39%) ERwin
7 2 (0.39%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.39%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.20%) Appium
8 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
General
1 134 (26.33%) Finance
2 128 (25.15%) Social Skills
3 74 (14.54%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (5.50%) Retail
5 22 (4.32%) Marketing
5 22 (4.32%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.13%) Banking
7 18 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.34%) Law
9 16 (3.14%) Legal
9 16 (3.14%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.36%) Games
12 11 (2.16%) Publishing
13 8 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.38%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.18%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.98%) Advertising
16 5 (0.98%) Back Office
17 4 (0.79%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 105 (20.63%) Senior
2 64 (12.57%) Lead
3 63 (12.38%) Developer
4 46 (9.04%) Data Engineer
5 42 (8.25%) Software Engineer
6 41 (8.06%) Engineering Manager
7 40 (7.86%) Data Manager
8 38 (7.47%) Architect
9 36 (7.07%) Data Scientist
10 33 (6.48%) Finance Manager
11 30 (5.89%) Scala Engineer
12 25 (4.91%) Consultant
13 24 (4.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 22 (4.32%) Data Architect
15 19 (3.73%) Operations Engineer
16 18 (3.54%) Analyst
17 17 (3.34%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 17 (3.34%) Senior Developer
18 16 (3.14%) .NET Developer
19 15 (2.95%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.98%) gRPC
2 49 (9.63%) PyTorch
3 42 (8.25%) TensorFlow
4 40 (7.86%) React
5 33 (6.48%) .NET
6 28 (5.50%) REST
7 27 (5.30%) RESTful
8 25 (4.91%) Kafka
9 24 (4.72%) .NET Core
10 20 (3.93%) CSS
10 20 (3.93%) HTML
10 20 (3.93%) Node.js
11 17 (3.34%) LangChain
12 15 (2.95%) JSON
13 14 (2.75%) OAuth
14 13 (2.55%) ASP.NET
14 13 (2.55%) ASP.NET Core
14 13 (2.55%) ML.NET
15 12 (2.36%) Blazor
15 12 (2.36%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 65 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
1 65 (12.77%) Video\Live Streaming
2 50 (9.82%) Over-the-Top Content
3 49 (9.63%) Cloud Native
4 48 (9.43%) Product Ownership
5 36 (7.07%) Algorithms
6 28 (5.50%) AI Agents
7 14 (2.75%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (2.16%) Data Structures
9 11 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.16%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.96%) FMCG
11 6 (1.18%) Blog
11 6 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.18%) Social Media
12 5 (0.98%) Educational Technology
12 5 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.98%) Mobile Payment
13 4 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.75%) Android
2 10 (1.96%) Linux
3 5 (0.98%) Windows
4 4 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.59%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.59%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (74.46%) AI
2 161 (31.63%) Agile
3 159 (31.24%) Data Science
4 153 (30.06%) CI/CD
5 138 (27.11%) Analytics
6 135 (26.52%) Roadmaps
7 116 (22.79%) Data Engineering
7 116 (22.79%) Software Engineering
8 92 (18.07%) DevOps
9 90 (17.68%) Data Governance
10 88 (17.29%) Microservices
11 86 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (15.72%) Clean Code
13 79 (15.52%) Data Architecture
14 76 (14.93%) Containerisation
14 76 (14.93%) Decision-Making
15 74 (14.54%) Mentoring
16 73 (14.34%) Coaching
16 73 (14.34%) Generative AI
17 72 (14.15%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 242 (47.54%) Python
2 167 (32.81%) SQL
3 89 (17.49%) Go
4 63 (12.38%) Scala
5 43 (8.45%) Java
6 37 (7.27%) C#
7 35 (6.88%) JavaScript
8 32 (6.29%) TypeScript
9 16 (3.14%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.95%) Bash
10 15 (2.95%) R
11 12 (2.36%) C++
12 9 (1.77%) PHP
13 6 (1.18%) Rust
14 5 (0.98%) Bicep
14 5 (0.98%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.98%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.20%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 89 (17.49%) Degree
2 28 (5.50%) Security Cleared
3 27 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (4.32%) PhD
5 21 (4.13%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.93%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.16%) DBS Check
9 10 (1.96%) ACCA
9 10 (1.96%) CIMA
10 7 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.79%) CISA
12 3 (0.59%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.59%) CISSP
12 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.39%) OSCE
13 2 (0.39%) OSCP
13 2 (0.39%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.50%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.52%) GDPR
3 17 (3.34%) QA
4 8 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.79%) EU AI Act
6 3 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.39%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.20%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 94 (18.47%) Docker
2 57 (11.20%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.39%) Ceph
4 2 (0.39%) Lustre
4 2 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (9.23%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.93%) Terraform
3 5 (0.98%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.59%) Ansible
4 3 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.20%) Grafana
6 1 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 126 (24.75%) Microsoft
2 97 (19.06%) Databricks
3 45 (8.84%) Typelevel
4 27 (5.30%) Google
5 13 (2.55%) Adobe
6 12 (2.36%) Palantir
6 12 (2.36%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.96%) Foundry
8 9 (1.77%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.98%) Ericsson
9 5 (0.98%) Mavenir
9 5 (0.98%) Nokia
9 5 (0.98%) SAP
10 4 (0.79%) Facebook
11 2 (0.39%) Apple
11 2 (0.39%) Informatica
11 2 (0.39%) Mercator
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle
11 2 (0.39%) Sony
11 2 (0.39%) Yahoo!