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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 88 108
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 -14
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 543 476 896
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.99% 3.52% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 3.72% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 340 299 701
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £107,188 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £131,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% +10.71% -

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 15,038 12,797 29,634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.83% 94.76% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,506 8,904 23,499
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +6.09% -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% -10.93%

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 28 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 (5.52%) Apache Spark
2 24 (4.42%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.29%) Apache
4 7 (1.29%) CMS
5 5 (0.92%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.18%) Confluence
7 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
Applications
1 7 (1.29%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.37%) Trello
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.84%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.37%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 259 (47.70%) Azure
2 194 (35.73%) AWS
3 135 (24.86%) GCP
4 103 (18.97%) Azure Machine Learning
5 79 (14.55%) Azure AI
6 70 (12.89%) Snowflake
7 68 (12.52%) Power Platform
8 60 (11.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 29 (5.34%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
12 20 (3.68%) Power Automate
12 20 (3.68%) SaaS
13 18 (3.31%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 18 (3.31%) OneDrive
13 18 (3.31%) PowerApps
13 18 (3.31%) Vertex AI
14 17 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (2.58%) Amazon SageMaker
15 14 (2.58%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 95 (17.50%) Broadband
2 9 (1.66%) Firewall
3 6 (1.10%) Kerberos
3 6 (1.10%) Network Security
4 2 (0.37%) DNS
4 2 (0.37%) VLAN
4 2 (0.37%) VPN
4 2 (0.37%) WireGuard
5 1 (0.18%) 4G
5 1 (0.18%) 5G
5 1 (0.18%) LTE
5 1 (0.18%) Modbus
5 1 (0.18%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.15%) SQL Server
2 61 (11.23%) Power BI
3 43 (7.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (4.42%) Tableau
6 22 (4.05%) MongoDB
7 21 (3.87%) Metadata
8 17 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (2.76%) Looker
11 14 (2.58%) BigQuery
12 13 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (2.39%) Data Lake
12 13 (2.39%) Delta Lake
13 11 (2.03%) NoSQL
13 11 (2.03%) Pinecone
14 10 (1.84%) Apache Iceberg
14 10 (1.84%) Weaviate
15 9 (1.66%) Big Data
16 7 (1.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (3.87%) MLflow
2 15 (2.76%) Git
3 6 (1.10%) JIRA
4 5 (0.92%) Claude Code
4 5 (0.92%) GitLab
5 3 (0.55%) Selenium
6 2 (0.37%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.37%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.18%) Appium
7 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 143 (26.34%) Finance
2 132 (24.31%) Social Skills
3 70 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.89%) Retail
5 24 (4.42%) Banking
6 22 (4.05%) Legal
6 22 (4.05%) Marketing
7 20 (3.68%) Law
7 20 (3.68%) Public Sector
8 17 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.03%) Publishing
11 10 (1.84%) Games
11 10 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.29%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.92%) Advertising
13 5 (0.92%) Back Office
14 4 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.74%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 118 (21.73%) Senior
2 72 (13.26%) Developer
3 71 (13.08%) Lead
4 48 (8.84%) Data Scientist
5 47 (8.66%) Data Engineer
5 47 (8.66%) Software Engineer
6 41 (7.55%) Engineering Manager
7 40 (7.37%) Data Manager
8 37 (6.81%) Architect
9 33 (6.08%) Finance Manager
10 30 (5.52%) Scala Engineer
11 29 (5.34%) Consultant
12 24 (4.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 21 (3.87%) Senior Developer
14 20 (3.68%) Data Architect
15 19 (3.50%) Operations Engineer
16 17 (3.13%) Analyst
16 17 (3.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 16 (2.95%) .NET Developer
17 16 (2.95%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.23%) gRPC
2 54 (9.94%) PyTorch
3 47 (8.66%) TensorFlow
4 44 (8.10%) .NET
5 39 (7.18%) React
6 31 (5.71%) .NET Core
7 29 (5.34%) REST
8 28 (5.16%) CSS
8 28 (5.16%) HTML
8 28 (5.16%) Kafka
9 27 (4.97%) RESTful
10 24 (4.42%) Node.js
11 20 (3.68%) JSON
12 18 (3.31%) HTML5 Canvas
12 18 (3.31%) LangChain
12 18 (3.31%) Microsoft Graph
12 18 (3.31%) SPFx
13 16 (2.95%) OAuth
14 13 (2.39%) ASP.NET
14 13 (2.39%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 65 (11.97%) Video\Live Streaming
2 63 (11.60%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (9.21%) Cloud Native
3 50 (9.21%) Over-the-Top Content
4 49 (9.02%) Product Ownership
5 34 (6.26%) Algorithms
6 28 (5.16%) AI Agents
7 15 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.58%) Low-Code
8 14 (2.58%) Social Media
9 12 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.03%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.84%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.84%) FMCG
12 9 (1.66%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (1.29%) Blog
14 6 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
15 5 (0.92%) Mobile Payment
16 4 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.39%) Android
2 7 (1.29%) Linux
3 4 (0.74%) Windows
4 3 (0.55%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.55%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (71.82%) AI
2 174 (32.04%) Data Science
3 166 (30.57%) Agile
4 161 (29.65%) CI/CD
5 143 (26.34%) Roadmaps
6 135 (24.86%) Analytics
7 124 (22.84%) Software Engineering
8 121 (22.28%) Data Engineering
9 99 (18.23%) DevOps
10 92 (16.94%) Microservices
11 89 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
12 87 (16.02%) Data Governance
13 82 (15.10%) Mentoring
14 80 (14.73%) Clean Code
15 78 (14.36%) Containerisation
16 76 (14.00%) Coaching
17 75 (13.81%) Migration
18 74 (13.63%) Data Architecture
18 74 (13.63%) Generative AI
18 74 (13.63%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 256 (47.15%) Python
2 178 (32.78%) SQL
3 92 (16.94%) Go
4 64 (11.79%) Scala
5 47 (8.66%) C#
5 47 (8.66%) JavaScript
6 46 (8.47%) Java
7 40 (7.37%) TypeScript
8 25 (4.60%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.95%) R
10 14 (2.58%) C++
11 13 (2.39%) Bash
12 9 (1.66%) PHP
12 9 (1.66%) Rust
13 7 (1.29%) Bicep
14 5 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.55%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.37%) C
16 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 88 (16.21%) Degree
2 27 (4.97%) Security Cleared
3 25 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (3.87%) PhD
5 19 (3.50%) SC Cleared
6 17 (3.13%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.76%) DBS Check
8 12 (2.21%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.84%) ACCA
9 10 (1.84%) CIMA
10 8 (1.47%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.29%) CISSP
12 4 (0.74%) CISA
13 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.37%) GIAC
14 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.37%) SANS
15 1 (0.18%) AWS Certification
15 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.87%) GDPR
3 20 (3.68%) QA
4 7 (1.29%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.55%) IFRS
5 3 (0.55%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.55%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 96 (17.68%) Docker
2 56 (10.31%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (9.02%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.87%) Terraform
3 5 (0.92%) Kubeflow
3 5 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.37%) Ansible
4 2 (0.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (0.37%) Computer Incident Response Team
4 2 (0.37%) Podman
5 1 (0.18%) Grafana
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 138 (25.41%) Microsoft
2 97 (17.86%) Databricks
3 45 (8.29%) Typelevel
4 27 (4.97%) Google
5 20 (3.68%) Adobe
6 12 (2.21%) Palantir
6 12 (2.21%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.03%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.84%) Foundry
9 5 (0.92%) Ericsson
9 5 (0.92%) Mavenir
9 5 (0.92%) Nokia
10 4 (0.74%) Facebook
10 4 (0.74%) SAP
11 2 (0.37%) Apple
11 2 (0.37%) Informatica
11 2 (0.37%) Northgate
11 2 (0.37%) Oracle
11 2 (0.37%) Sony
11 2 (0.37%) Yahoo!