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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 31 100
Rank change year-on-year -31 +69 -3
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 729 1,182 974
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.70% 7.81% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 8.26% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 436 266 760
10th Percentile £45,375 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,360 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,000 £65,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.63% -4.47%
75th Percentile £96,250 £99,618 £87,500
90th Percentile £119,375 £144,400 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.46% +12.14% -

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 16,157 14,306 30,602
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.04% 94.59% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11,595 8,366 23,757
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 12 June 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 25 (3.43%) Apache Spark
2 24 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.96%) Apache
5 6 (0.82%) SAS
6 3 (0.41%) CMS
7 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.41%) Blender
2 3 (0.41%) Maya
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.96%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) HFM
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 330 (45.27%) Azure
2 231 (31.69%) AWS
3 148 (20.30%) Azure AI
4 141 (19.34%) GCP
5 99 (13.58%) Azure Machine Learning
6 74 (10.15%) Snowflake
7 68 (9.33%) Power Platform
8 64 (8.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 55 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (6.17%) GitHub
11 38 (5.21%) GitHub Copilot
12 37 (5.08%) SaaS
13 35 (4.80%) Azure Data Factory
14 23 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
15 22 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
16 21 (2.88%) Vertex AI
17 20 (2.74%) Power Automate
18 19 (2.61%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 19 (2.61%) OneDrive
18 19 (2.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 135 (18.52%) Broadband
2 13 (1.78%) Internet
3 10 (1.37%) Firewall
4 7 (0.96%) 5G
5 6 (0.82%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.82%) Network Security
6 2 (0.27%) DNS
6 2 (0.27%) VLAN
6 2 (0.27%) VPN
6 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
7 1 (0.14%) 4G
7 1 (0.14%) LTE
7 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (14.81%) MongoDB
2 105 (14.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (8.64%) Power BI
3 63 (8.64%) SQL Server
4 44 (6.04%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (4.25%) Metadata
7 21 (2.88%) Tableau
8 18 (2.47%) Big Data
9 16 (2.19%) BigQuery
10 15 (2.06%) Delta Lake
10 15 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (2.06%) Looker
11 11 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.37%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (1.37%) NoSQL
13 9 (1.23%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.23%) Pinecone
14 8 (1.10%) Relational Database
14 8 (1.10%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 20 (2.74%) MLflow
2 16 (2.19%) Git
3 9 (1.23%) GitLab
4 7 (0.96%) JIRA
5 6 (0.82%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.14%) Appium
7 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.14%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 178 (24.42%) Finance
2 152 (20.85%) Social Skills
3 96 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (6.17%) Banking
5 34 (4.66%) Games
5 34 (4.66%) Marketing
6 31 (4.25%) Retail
7 28 (3.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (3.57%) Public Sector
9 25 (3.43%) Law
10 22 (3.02%) Legal
11 18 (2.47%) Advertising
12 13 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.10%) Publishing
14 8 (1.10%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.69%) Legal Technology
16 5 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 177 (24.28%) Developer
2 135 (18.52%) Senior
3 95 (13.03%) Lead
4 84 (11.52%) .NET Developer
5 83 (11.39%) Data Scientist
6 61 (8.37%) Architect
7 57 (7.82%) Software Engineer
8 55 (7.54%) Data Engineer
9 43 (5.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 42 (5.76%) Data Manager
10 42 (5.76%) Engineering Manager
11 35 (4.80%) Senior Data Scientist
12 33 (4.53%) Finance Manager
13 31 (4.25%) Senior Developer
14 30 (4.12%) Consultant
14 30 (4.12%) Scala Engineer
15 29 (3.98%) Data Architect
15 29 (3.98%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 26 (3.57%) Lead Data Scientist
17 25 (3.43%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (15.64%) .NET
2 95 (13.03%) .NET Core
3 87 (11.93%) PyTorch
4 82 (11.25%) RESTful
5 81 (11.11%) ASP.NET
5 81 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
5 81 (11.11%) ML.NET
6 80 (10.97%) React
7 78 (10.70%) TensorFlow
8 63 (8.64%) CSS
9 62 (8.50%) HTML
10 57 (7.82%) Blazor
11 50 (6.86%) gRPC
12 41 (5.62%) LangChain
13 31 (4.25%) Node.js
14 24 (3.29%) Hugging Face
14 24 (3.29%) REST
15 23 (3.16%) JSON
16 20 (2.74%) Microsoft Graph
17 19 (2.61%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 101 (13.85%) Video\Live Streaming
2 88 (12.07%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (11.39%) Cloud Native
4 53 (7.27%) Over-the-Top Content
5 51 (7.00%) Product Ownership
6 45 (6.17%) Algorithms
7 36 (4.94%) Low-Code
8 33 (4.53%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (2.88%) Social Media
10 16 (2.19%) Mobile App
11 15 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.78%) Blog
12 13 (1.78%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.51%) BBC
13 11 (1.51%) Digital TV
14 10 (1.37%) Cyberattack
14 10 (1.37%) iPhone
14 10 (1.37%) Life Science
14 10 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.65%) Android
2 10 (1.37%) Linux
3 3 (0.41%) Windows
4 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.27%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (76.13%) AI
2 234 (32.10%) CI/CD
3 222 (30.45%) Agile
3 222 (30.45%) Data Science
4 193 (26.47%) Roadmaps
5 190 (26.06%) Software Engineering
6 152 (20.85%) Analytics
7 141 (19.34%) Full-Stack Development
8 127 (17.42%) Data Engineering
8 127 (17.42%) DevOps
9 124 (17.01%) Generative AI
10 118 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
11 116 (15.91%) Mentoring
12 100 (13.72%) LLM
13 96 (13.17%) Data Governance
14 87 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 87 (11.93%) Decision-Making
15 84 (11.52%) Clean Code
15 84 (11.52%) Microservices
16 82 (11.25%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 361 (49.52%) Python
2 260 (35.67%) SQL
3 120 (16.46%) C#
4 105 (14.40%) Go
5 97 (13.31%) JavaScript
6 63 (8.64%) Scala
7 50 (6.86%) TypeScript
8 47 (6.45%) Java
9 27 (3.70%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.65%) Bash
10 12 (1.65%) R
11 11 (1.51%) C++
12 10 (1.37%) Rust
13 8 (1.10%) Bicep
13 8 (1.10%) PHP
14 6 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.41%) C
17 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (11.39%) Degree
2 36 (4.94%) Security Cleared
3 24 (3.29%) SC Cleared
4 20 (2.74%) PhD
5 16 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 14 (1.92%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.78%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.65%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.10%) CISSP
10 7 (0.96%) ACCA
10 7 (0.96%) CIMA
11 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.55%) CISA
13 3 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.27%) GIAC
14 2 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.31%) Data Quality
2 21 (2.88%) GDPR
3 20 (2.74%) QA
4 17 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.41%) IFRS
5 3 (0.41%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.41%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 121 (16.60%) Docker
2 55 (7.54%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (9.47%) Kubernetes
2 32 (4.39%) Terraform
3 8 (1.10%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.41%) Grafana
6 2 (0.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.27%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 2 (0.27%) Podman
6 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.14%) Ansible
7 1 (0.14%) Istio
7 1 (0.14%) linkerd
7 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 217 (29.77%) Microsoft
2 102 (13.99%) Databricks
3 45 (6.17%) Typelevel
4 42 (5.76%) Google
5 20 (2.74%) Adobe
6 19 (2.61%) Facebook
7 14 (1.92%) Foundry
7 14 (1.92%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.37%) Apple
8 10 (1.37%) Palantir
8 10 (1.37%) Sony
8 10 (1.37%) Yahoo!
9 9 (1.23%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.96%) SAP
11 6 (0.82%) Oracle
12 4 (0.55%) HighQ
12 4 (0.55%) Legatics
12 4 (0.55%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.27%) IBM
13 2 (0.27%) Informatica