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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 75 83
Rank change year-on-year -45 +8 +15
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 347 719 703
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.27% 4.15% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 4.47% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 249 398 452
10th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £70,888
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -1.25% +1.27%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,855 £90,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £100,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.90% -0.65% +10.71%

All Process and 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 13,584 16,079 18,719
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.80% 92.89% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,677 9,729 15,055
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.88% -2.80%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.84%

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 21 December 2025.

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 20 (5.76%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.59%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (2.02%) Apache Solr
6 6 (1.73%) CMS
7 5 (1.44%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (1.15%) Confluence
9 3 (0.86%) Apache
10 2 (0.58%) Luigi
11 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.29%) Kinematics
Applications
1 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.73%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.86%) Trello
5 2 (0.58%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.58%) Sketch
5 2 (0.58%) Weka
6 1 (0.29%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.29%) Blender
Business Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.86%) SAP SCM
4 2 (0.58%) Adaptiv
5 1 (0.29%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.29%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.29%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.29%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.29%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 176 (50.72%) Azure
2 114 (32.85%) AWS
3 64 (18.44%) GCP
4 43 (12.39%) Power Platform
5 31 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (7.49%) Entra ID
7 25 (7.20%) SaaS
8 22 (6.34%) Azure Machine Learning
9 19 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (4.90%) Serverless
11 14 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (3.75%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.75%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (3.46%) GitHub
14 11 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (3.17%) Snowflake
15 10 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (2.88%) dbt
16 9 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.44%) Broadband
2 3 (0.86%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.58%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.29%) Modbus
4 1 (0.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.66%) Power BI
2 29 (8.36%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (4.90%) Tableau
4 15 (4.32%) NoSQL
4 15 (4.32%) SQL Server
5 13 (3.75%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (3.17%) Metadata
8 10 (2.88%) MySQL
9 9 (2.59%) Big Data
9 9 (2.59%) Looker
10 7 (2.02%) BigQuery
10 7 (2.02%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.73%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.44%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.44%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.15%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 17 (4.90%) Git
2 11 (3.17%) MLflow
3 8 (2.31%) JIRA
4 4 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.58%) ERwin
6 2 (0.58%) Selenium
6 2 (0.58%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.58%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.29%) GitLab
General
1 97 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 89 (25.65%) Finance
3 54 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.07%) Marketing
5 24 (6.92%) Retail
6 23 (6.63%) Public Sector
7 22 (6.34%) Telecoms
8 15 (4.32%) Games
9 11 (3.17%) Law
10 10 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.59%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.73%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.44%) Legal
14 5 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.15%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.15%) Automotive
15 4 (1.15%) Back Office
15 4 (1.15%) Banking
15 4 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (14.12%) Senior
2 44 (12.68%) Lead
3 38 (10.95%) Data Engineer
4 25 (7.20%) Architect
4 25 (7.20%) Developer
5 23 (6.63%) Data Scientist
5 23 (6.63%) Software Engineer
6 18 (5.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 16 (4.61%) Consultant
8 14 (4.03%) Analyst
9 11 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (2.88%) Product Owner
11 9 (2.59%) Applications Engineer
11 9 (2.59%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 9 (2.59%) Operations Engineer
12 8 (2.31%) Azure Data Engineer
12 8 (2.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (2.31%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 8 (2.31%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 8 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.65%) Kafka
2 26 (7.49%) TensorFlow
3 24 (6.92%) PyTorch
4 23 (6.63%) Node.js
5 22 (6.34%) gRPC
5 22 (6.34%) React
6 21 (6.05%) RESTful
7 19 (5.48%) REST
8 17 (4.90%) scikit-learn
9 13 (3.75%) Spring
9 13 (3.75%) WebSockets
10 12 (3.46%) FastAPI
10 12 (3.46%) Pandas
10 12 (3.46%) Spring Boot
11 11 (3.17%) Hugging Face
12 10 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (2.59%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.31%) NumPy
14 8 (2.31%) OAuth
14 8 (2.31%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 51 (14.70%) Product Ownership
2 45 (12.97%) Cloud Native
3 30 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (6.92%) Algorithms
5 23 (6.63%) AI Agents
6 11 (3.17%) Reinsurance
7 8 (2.31%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.02%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.02%) Low-Code
8 7 (2.02%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.73%) Augmented Reality
9 6 (1.73%) CUDA
9 6 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.73%) Mobile Games
9 6 (1.73%) Sports Betting
10 5 (1.44%) Educational Technology
11 4 (1.15%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.15%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.15%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.48%) Windows
2 17 (4.90%) Android
3 15 (4.32%) Linux
4 8 (2.31%) Apple iOS
5 7 (2.02%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.86%) Unix
7 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.29%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (80.98%) AI
2 142 (40.92%) Analytics
3 102 (29.39%) Data Science
4 98 (28.24%) DevOps
5 97 (27.95%) Agile
6 85 (24.50%) CI/CD
7 83 (23.92%) Roadmaps
8 61 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 58 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (16.71%) Software Engineering
10 56 (16.14%) Decision-Making
10 56 (16.14%) LLM
11 51 (14.70%) Computer Science
12 49 (14.12%) Business Intelligence
13 44 (12.68%) Data Pipeline
14 43 (12.39%) Data Engineering
15 42 (12.10%) Coaching
15 42 (12.10%) Containerisation
16 41 (11.82%) User Experience
17 40 (11.53%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 172 (49.57%) Python
2 85 (24.50%) SQL
3 39 (11.24%) Java
4 27 (7.78%) Bash
5 26 (7.49%) PowerShell
6 25 (7.20%) R
7 20 (5.76%) Go
7 20 (5.76%) JavaScript
8 17 (4.90%) C++
9 16 (4.61%) TypeScript
10 15 (4.32%) PHP
11 13 (3.75%) Scala
12 10 (2.88%) C#
13 8 (2.31%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.73%) T-SQL
15 4 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (1.15%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.86%) Bicep
17 2 (0.58%) C
18 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (21.33%) Degree
2 29 (8.36%) Computer Science Degree
2 29 (8.36%) Security Cleared
3 26 (7.49%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.32%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.31%) PhD
6 6 (1.73%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.15%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.86%) ACCA
9 3 (0.86%) CIMA
9 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.86%) PMP
10 2 (0.58%) CFA
10 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.58%) OSCE
10 2 (0.58%) OSCP
10 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.78%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.46%) GDPR
3 7 (2.02%) QA
4 4 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.15%) EU AI Act
4 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.58%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.29%) HL7
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 50 (14.41%) Docker
2 18 (5.19%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (3.17%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.58%) Ceph
5 2 (0.58%) Lustre
5 2 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (15.56%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.80%) Terraform
3 18 (5.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (4.03%) Ansible
5 8 (2.31%) SCCM
6 2 (0.58%) Argo
6 2 (0.58%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.58%) Puppet
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
7 1 (0.29%) Istio
7 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 60 (17.29%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.37%) Databricks
3 18 (5.19%) Google
4 14 (4.03%) OpenAI
5 11 (3.17%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.73%) SAP
7 5 (1.44%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.44%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.44%) Nokia
7 5 (1.44%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.15%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.15%) Genesys
8 4 (1.15%) HubSpot
8 4 (1.15%) Talend
8 4 (1.15%) Zoho
9 3 (0.86%) Adobe
9 3 (0.86%) Dell
9 3 (0.86%) Mercator
9 3 (0.86%) Palantir
10 2 (0.58%) Murex