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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 72 86
Rank change year-on-year -41 +14 +12
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 378 674 918
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.39% 4.22% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 4.46% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 254 348 679
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 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.58% -7.05%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £75,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year +2.65% +6.98% +0.82%

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 13,709 15,109 25,560
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.58% 94.52% 92.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8,711 8,865 21,104
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £58,885
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +6.61% -5.78%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 3 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 (6.35%) Apache Spark
2 18 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.85%) Apache Solr
6 6 (1.59%) CMS
7 5 (1.32%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (1.06%) Confluence
9 3 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.53%) Apache
10 2 (0.53%) Luigi
11 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.26%) Kinematics
Applications
1 5 (1.32%) Chatbot
1 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.79%) Trello
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.53%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (2.65%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.53%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.53%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 189 (50.00%) Azure
2 125 (33.07%) AWS
3 74 (19.58%) GCP
4 54 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 34 (8.99%) Azure Machine Learning
6 32 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (6.88%) Entra ID
8 25 (6.61%) SaaS
9 18 (4.76%) Serverless
10 17 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (4.23%) Azure AI
12 14 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (3.70%) Snowflake
13 13 (3.44%) Amazon S3
14 10 (2.65%) Amazon SageMaker
14 10 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (2.65%) GitHub
15 9 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.29%) Broadband
2 3 (0.79%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.53%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.26%) LTE
4 1 (0.26%) Modbus
4 1 (0.26%) Network Security
4 1 (0.26%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (11.90%) Power BI
2 33 (8.73%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (6.61%) Tableau
4 18 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.97%) SQL Server
7 14 (3.70%) Metadata
8 13 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (3.17%) BigQuery
9 12 (3.17%) Data Lake
10 11 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (2.65%) Apache Iceberg
11 10 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (2.65%) Looker
11 10 (2.65%) MySQL
12 9 (2.38%) Big Data
12 9 (2.38%) Pinecone
12 9 (2.38%) Weaviate
13 8 (2.12%) Delta Lake
13 8 (2.12%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (5.03%) MLflow
2 14 (3.70%) Git
3 6 (1.59%) JIRA
4 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.53%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.53%) ERwin
5 2 (0.53%) Selenium
5 2 (0.53%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.53%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.26%) GitLab
General
1 103 (27.25%) Social Skills
2 100 (26.46%) Finance
3 64 (16.93%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.14%) Marketing
4 27 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.61%) Retail
6 18 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.44%) Games
7 13 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.17%) Law
9 10 (2.65%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.65%) Publishing
10 7 (1.85%) Banking
10 7 (1.85%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.59%) Legal
12 5 (1.32%) Back Office
12 5 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 63 (16.67%) Senior
2 55 (14.55%) Lead
3 44 (11.64%) Data Engineer
4 34 (8.99%) Software Engineer
5 33 (8.73%) Developer
6 30 (7.94%) Data Scientist
7 21 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 21 (5.56%) Consultant
8 20 (5.29%) Architect
9 16 (4.23%) Analyst
10 15 (3.97%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 15 (3.97%) Operations Engineer
11 13 (3.44%) Data Analyst
12 12 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
13 11 (2.91%) Data Consultant
14 10 (2.65%) Commercial Analyst
14 10 (2.65%) Commercial Data Analyst
15 9 (2.38%) Data Architect
15 9 (2.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 9 (2.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (10.85%) PyTorch
2 39 (10.32%) TensorFlow
3 32 (8.47%) React
4 29 (7.67%) Kafka
5 27 (7.14%) gRPC
6 23 (6.08%) Node.js
7 21 (5.56%) REST
7 21 (5.56%) RESTful
8 14 (3.70%) Spring
8 14 (3.70%) Spring Boot
9 13 (3.44%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.91%) .NET
11 9 (2.38%) LangChain
11 9 (2.38%) WebSockets
12 8 (2.12%) Faiss
12 8 (2.12%) FastAPI
12 8 (2.12%) OAuth
12 8 (2.12%) OAuth2
12 8 (2.12%) PySpark
12 8 (2.12%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 52 (13.76%) Product Ownership
2 47 (12.43%) Cloud Native
3 37 (9.79%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (9.52%) Algorithms
5 23 (6.08%) AI Agents
6 16 (4.23%) Video\Live Streaming
7 13 (3.44%) Data Structures
8 12 (3.17%) Over-the-Top Content
9 11 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (2.65%) FMCG
10 10 (2.65%) Low-Code
11 8 (2.12%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.59%) Mobile Games
13 5 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.32%) Educational Technology
13 5 (1.32%) Sports Betting
14 4 (1.06%) Blog
14 4 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (1.06%) Robotics
14 4 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.29%) Windows
2 18 (4.76%) Linux
3 16 (4.23%) Android
4 7 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.59%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.79%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (0.79%) Unix
7 2 (0.53%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (78.57%) AI
2 144 (38.10%) Analytics
3 125 (33.07%) Data Science
4 112 (29.63%) CI/CD
5 100 (26.46%) DevOps
6 95 (25.13%) Agile
7 84 (22.22%) Roadmaps
8 77 (20.37%) Software Engineering
9 71 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 62 (16.40%) Decision-Making
11 59 (15.61%) Data Pipeline
12 58 (15.34%) LLM
13 57 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
14 55 (14.55%) Business Intelligence
14 55 (14.55%) Coaching
14 55 (14.55%) MLOps
15 54 (14.29%) Computer Science
16 52 (13.76%) Containerisation
17 51 (13.49%) Generative AI
18 49 (12.96%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 198 (52.38%) Python
2 98 (25.93%) SQL
3 48 (12.70%) Java
4 43 (11.38%) Go
5 31 (8.20%) Bash
6 26 (6.88%) PowerShell
6 26 (6.88%) Scala
7 24 (6.35%) JavaScript
8 23 (6.08%) R
9 19 (5.03%) TypeScript
10 18 (4.76%) C++
11 17 (4.50%) PHP
12 15 (3.97%) C#
13 8 (2.12%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.59%) Rust
15 4 (1.06%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.79%) Bicep
16 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.53%) C
17 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (20.63%) Degree
2 33 (8.73%) Security Cleared
3 30 (7.94%) SC Cleared
4 28 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.70%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.65%) ACCA
6 10 (2.65%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.65%) CIMA
6 10 (2.65%) PhD
7 7 (1.85%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.06%) CISA
8 4 (1.06%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.53%) OSCE
10 2 (0.53%) OSCP
10 2 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.73%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.23%) GDPR
3 6 (1.59%) QA
4 4 (1.06%) EU AI Act
4 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.53%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.53%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (15.87%) Docker
2 18 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (2.91%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.53%) Ceph
5 2 (0.53%) Lustre
5 2 (0.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (13.76%) Kubernetes
2 36 (9.52%) Terraform
3 18 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (3.70%) Ansible
5 8 (2.12%) SCCM
6 3 (0.79%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.53%) Argo
7 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.53%) Puppet
8 1 (0.26%) Grafana
8 1 (0.26%) Istio
8 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 66 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.79%) Databricks
3 15 (3.97%) Google
4 14 (3.70%) OpenAI
4 14 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.91%) Palantir
6 9 (2.38%) Typelevel
7 5 (1.32%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.32%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.32%) Nokia
7 5 (1.32%) SAP
8 3 (0.79%) Dell
8 3 (0.79%) Foundry
8 3 (0.79%) Mercator
9 2 (0.53%) Adobe
9 2 (0.53%) FIS
9 2 (0.53%) Genesys
9 2 (0.53%) Murex
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle
9 2 (0.53%) ServiceNow