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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 74 85
Rank change year-on-year -38 +11 +15
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 361 686 850
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.35% 4.21% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 4.48% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 255 363 614
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £102,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £77,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +0.65% +9.10% +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 13,351 15,319 21,635
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.05% 94.03% 93.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8,480 8,990 17,627
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 20 January 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 22 (6.09%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.94%) Apache Solr
5 7 (1.94%) CMS
6 5 (1.39%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (1.11%) Confluence
8 2 (0.55%) Apache
8 2 (0.55%) Luigi
9 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.28%) Kinematics
Applications
1 6 (1.66%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.83%) Trello
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.55%) Weka
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.28%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (1.94%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.55%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.55%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 192 (53.19%) Azure
2 120 (33.24%) AWS
3 69 (19.11%) GCP
4 53 (14.68%) Power Platform
5 33 (9.14%) Azure Machine Learning
6 30 (8.31%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (7.20%) Entra ID
7 26 (7.20%) SaaS
8 21 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (4.99%) Serverless
10 15 (4.16%) Azure AI
10 15 (4.16%) Snowflake
11 14 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.88%) Microsoft Purview
12 13 (3.60%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.60%) GitHub
13 12 (3.32%) dbt
14 11 (3.05%) Amazon SageMaker
15 10 (2.77%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (2.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.66%) Broadband
2 3 (0.83%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.55%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.28%) LTE
4 1 (0.28%) Modbus
4 1 (0.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.28%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (12.74%) Power BI
2 35 (9.70%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (7.20%) Tableau
4 18 (4.99%) SQL Server
5 17 (4.71%) NoSQL
6 16 (4.43%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (4.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.60%) Data Lake
9 12 (3.32%) BigQuery
9 12 (3.32%) Looker
10 11 (3.05%) Metadata
11 10 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (2.77%) MySQL
11 10 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (2.49%) Big Data
12 9 (2.49%) MongoDB
13 8 (2.22%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (1.94%) Pinecone
14 7 (1.94%) Weaviate
15 6 (1.66%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 19 (5.26%) Git
2 17 (4.71%) MLflow
3 7 (1.94%) JIRA
4 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.55%) ERwin
5 2 (0.55%) Selenium
5 2 (0.55%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.55%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.28%) GitLab
6 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
General
1 100 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 97 (26.87%) Finance
3 58 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (8.59%) Marketing
5 26 (7.20%) Retail
6 23 (6.37%) Public Sector
7 20 (5.54%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.88%) Games
9 11 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.77%) Law
11 8 (2.22%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.94%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.94%) Publishing
13 5 (1.39%) Back Office
13 5 (1.39%) Banking
13 5 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.11%) Billing
14 4 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (14.96%) Senior
2 47 (13.02%) Lead
3 42 (11.63%) Data Engineer
4 31 (8.59%) Software Engineer
5 29 (8.03%) Developer
6 28 (7.76%) Data Scientist
7 21 (5.82%) Architect
8 18 (4.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 18 (4.99%) Consultant
9 16 (4.43%) Analyst
10 14 (3.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 13 (3.60%) Operations Engineer
12 10 (2.77%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 10 (2.77%) Product Owner
13 9 (2.49%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (2.49%) Data Analyst
13 9 (2.49%) Data Architect
13 9 (2.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (2.49%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 8 (2.22%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.31%) PyTorch
2 29 (8.03%) React
2 29 (8.03%) TensorFlow
3 28 (7.76%) Kafka
4 23 (6.37%) Node.js
5 21 (5.82%) REST
5 21 (5.82%) RESTful
6 19 (5.26%) gRPC
7 15 (4.16%) Spring
8 14 (3.88%) Spring Boot
9 11 (3.05%) AngularJS
9 11 (3.05%) scikit-learn
10 10 (2.77%) .NET
10 10 (2.77%) Pandas
10 10 (2.77%) WebSockets
11 9 (2.49%) FastAPI
12 8 (2.22%) LangChain
12 8 (2.22%) OAuth
12 8 (2.22%) OAuth2
12 8 (2.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 54 (14.96%) Product Ownership
2 44 (12.19%) Cloud Native
3 32 (8.86%) Algorithms
4 28 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (6.65%) AI Agents
6 10 (2.77%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.22%) Low-Code
7 8 (2.22%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.94%) FMCG
8 7 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.94%) Reinsurance
9 6 (1.66%) Mobile Games
9 6 (1.66%) Sports Betting
10 5 (1.39%) Augmented Reality
10 5 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.39%) Educational Technology
11 4 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.11%) Linked Data
11 4 (1.11%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.26%) Windows
2 17 (4.71%) Android
3 16 (4.43%) Linux
4 7 (1.94%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.94%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.83%) Unix
6 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.55%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (81.44%) AI
2 149 (41.27%) Analytics
3 114 (31.58%) Data Science
4 104 (28.81%) DevOps
5 99 (27.42%) Agile
6 92 (25.48%) CI/CD
7 82 (22.71%) Roadmaps
8 67 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 65 (18.01%) Software Engineering
10 62 (17.17%) Decision-Making
11 59 (16.34%) Data Pipeline
12 56 (15.51%) Business Intelligence
13 55 (15.24%) Computer Science
13 55 (15.24%) LLM
14 52 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
15 51 (14.13%) Data Engineering
16 46 (12.74%) MLOps
17 44 (12.19%) Coaching
18 43 (11.91%) Containerisation
19 40 (11.08%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 177 (49.03%) Python
2 97 (26.87%) SQL
3 45 (12.47%) Java
4 31 (8.59%) Go
5 29 (8.03%) Bash
6 26 (7.20%) PowerShell
6 26 (7.20%) R
7 23 (6.37%) JavaScript
8 17 (4.71%) C++
8 17 (4.71%) Scala
8 17 (4.71%) TypeScript
9 14 (3.88%) PHP
10 13 (3.60%) C#
11 8 (2.22%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.66%) Rust
13 5 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (1.11%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.83%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.55%) Bicep
16 2 (0.55%) C
Qualifications
1 79 (21.88%) Degree
2 32 (8.86%) Security Cleared
3 30 (8.31%) SC Cleared
4 29 (8.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.43%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.49%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.49%) PhD
7 7 (1.94%) ACCA
7 7 (1.94%) CIMA
8 6 (1.66%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.11%) CISA
9 4 (1.11%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.55%) CFA
11 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.14%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.16%) GDPR
3 5 (1.39%) QA
4 4 (1.11%) EU AI Act
4 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.55%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.55%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 50 (13.85%) Docker
2 18 (4.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (3.05%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.55%) Ceph
5 2 (0.55%) Lustre
5 2 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (14.68%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.42%) Terraform
3 18 (4.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (3.88%) Ansible
5 8 (2.22%) SCCM
6 2 (0.55%) Argo
6 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.55%) Puppet
7 1 (0.28%) Grafana
7 1 (0.28%) Istio
7 1 (0.28%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 63 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 39 (10.80%) Databricks
3 19 (5.26%) Google
4 16 (4.43%) OpenAI
5 14 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.22%) Palantir
7 5 (1.39%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.39%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.39%) Nokia
7 5 (1.39%) SAP
8 4 (1.11%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.11%) HubSpot
8 4 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.11%) Talend
8 4 (1.11%) Zoho
9 3 (0.83%) Dell
9 3 (0.83%) Genesys
9 3 (0.83%) Mercator
10 2 (0.55%) Adobe
10 2 (0.55%) Murex