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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 35 80
Rank change year-on-year -23 +45 +18
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 911 1,075 821
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.90% 6.70% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 7.21% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 584 240 519
10th Percentile £46,325 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,701 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £132,500 £105,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

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 19,138 14,917 20,728
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.87% 92.96% 87.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,805 8,582 13,608
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,266 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 4 September 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 23 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.41%) Apache Spark
3 15 (1.65%) Apache
4 13 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.66%) SAS
6 5 (0.55%) Confluence
7 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 13 (1.43%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) Blender
3 3 (0.33%) Maya
4 2 (0.22%) Weka
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) HFM
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 408 (44.79%) Azure
2 254 (27.88%) AWS
3 227 (24.92%) Azure AI
4 127 (13.94%) GCP
5 110 (12.07%) Snowflake
6 99 (10.87%) GitHub
7 92 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (8.89%) Azure Machine Learning
9 80 (8.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 80 (8.78%) GitHub Copilot
10 63 (6.92%) Power Platform
11 48 (5.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 38 (4.17%) Amazon Bedrock
12 38 (4.17%) SaaS
13 32 (3.51%) Anthropic Claude
14 26 (2.85%) Microsoft Purview
15 22 (2.41%) Amazon S3
16 21 (2.31%) Azure Databricks
17 20 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
17 20 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 93 (10.21%) Broadband
2 30 (3.29%) Internet
3 12 (1.32%) Firewall
4 7 (0.77%) 5G
5 5 (0.55%) Kerberos
5 5 (0.55%) Network Security
6 4 (0.44%) VPN
7 3 (0.33%) BGP
7 3 (0.33%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.33%) LAN
7 3 (0.33%) OSPF
7 3 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.33%) WAN
8 2 (0.22%) ATM
8 2 (0.22%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.22%) DNS
8 2 (0.22%) VLAN
8 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.22%) WireGuard
8 2 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (19.43%) MongoDB
2 173 (18.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 60 (6.59%) Power BI
4 58 (6.37%) SQL Server
5 48 (5.27%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (4.50%) Metadata
7 38 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (2.85%) Big Data
9 20 (2.20%) Delta Lake
10 18 (1.98%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.87%) Data Vault
12 16 (1.76%) NoSQL
12 16 (1.76%) Tableau
13 12 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (1.10%) Looker
15 8 (0.88%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.77%) Semantic Layer
17 6 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
17 6 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
17 6 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (3.95%) Git
2 28 (3.07%) Claude Code
3 17 (1.87%) MLflow
4 13 (1.43%) JIRA
5 9 (0.99%) GitLab
6 8 (0.88%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.44%) Appium
7 4 (0.44%) Poetry
7 4 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.44%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.33%) Mercurial
8 3 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.22%) Selenium
10 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.11%) Mocha
10 1 (0.11%) NUnit
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 286 (31.39%) Finance
2 153 (16.79%) Social Skills
3 117 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (9.22%) Banking
4 84 (9.22%) Marketing
5 41 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (4.28%) Games
7 35 (3.84%) Advertising
8 34 (3.73%) Public Sector
9 32 (3.51%) Law
10 28 (3.07%) Retail
11 26 (2.85%) Legal
12 22 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.32%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.10%) Legal Technology
14 10 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.77%) Electronics
15 7 (0.77%) Military
16 6 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 239 (26.23%) Developer
2 156 (17.12%) .NET Developer
3 148 (16.25%) Senior
4 112 (12.29%) Architect
5 102 (11.20%) Data Scientist
6 100 (10.98%) Lead
7 60 (6.59%) Finance Manager
7 60 (6.59%) Software Engineer
8 54 (5.93%) Senior Data Scientist
9 48 (5.27%) Data Engineer
10 46 (5.05%) Data Manager
11 43 (4.72%) Data Architect
12 42 (4.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 40 (4.39%) Engineering Manager
13 40 (4.39%) Lead Data Scientist
14 32 (3.51%) Senior Developer
15 28 (3.07%) Enterprise Architect
15 28 (3.07%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 27 (2.96%) Consultant
17 22 (2.41%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (20.53%) .NET
2 163 (17.89%) .NET Core
3 156 (17.12%) ASP.NET
3 156 (17.12%) ASP.NET Core
3 156 (17.12%) ML.NET
4 118 (12.95%) RESTful
5 114 (12.51%) React
6 103 (11.31%) Blazor
7 100 (10.98%) CSS
8 97 (10.65%) HTML
9 82 (9.00%) PyTorch
10 72 (7.90%) TensorFlow
11 68 (7.46%) LangChain
12 55 (6.04%) Terraform
13 44 (4.83%) LangGraph
14 33 (3.62%) Node.js
14 33 (3.62%) PySpark
15 27 (2.96%) Hugging Face
16 25 (2.74%) scikit-learn
17 24 (2.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 113 (12.40%) Cloud Native
2 70 (7.68%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (7.24%) AI Agents
4 64 (7.03%) Blog
5 63 (6.92%) Video\Live Streaming
6 55 (6.04%) Algorithms
7 42 (4.61%) Product Ownership
8 32 (3.51%) Mobile App
9 31 (3.40%) Low-Code
10 29 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (3.18%) Social Media
11 27 (2.96%) Hedge funds
12 24 (2.63%) Over-the-Top Content
13 20 (2.20%) Credit Risk
13 20 (2.20%) Digital TV
14 18 (1.98%) BBC
15 17 (1.87%) iPhone
15 17 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
16 15 (1.65%) Onboarding
17 12 (1.32%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.20%) Android
2 15 (1.65%) Linux
3 7 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.55%) Windows
5 3 (0.33%) Unix
6 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 776 (85.18%) AI
2 276 (30.30%) Agile
3 253 (27.77%) CI/CD
4 248 (27.22%) Data Science
5 243 (26.67%) Roadmaps
6 212 (23.27%) Full-Stack Development
7 208 (22.83%) Analytics
8 191 (20.97%) Software Engineering
9 156 (17.12%) DevOps
10 145 (15.92%) LLM
11 132 (14.49%) Data Engineering
12 128 (14.05%) Generative AI
12 128 (14.05%) Mentoring
13 121 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
14 107 (11.75%) Data Governance
15 102 (11.20%) Data Architecture
16 101 (11.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 100 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
18 96 (10.54%) Decision-Making
19 94 (10.32%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 377 (41.38%) SQL
2 374 (41.05%) Python
3 194 (21.30%) C#
4 137 (15.04%) JavaScript
5 56 (6.15%) Go
5 56 (6.15%) TypeScript
6 40 (4.39%) Java
6 40 (4.39%) Scala
7 26 (2.85%) PowerShell
8 18 (1.98%) Bicep
9 13 (1.43%) C++
10 12 (1.32%) R
11 10 (1.10%) C
12 9 (0.99%) Rust
13 7 (0.77%) Swift
14 6 (0.66%) Bash
14 6 (0.66%) PHP
15 5 (0.55%) Ada
16 3 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 92 (10.10%) Degree
2 70 (7.68%) Security Cleared
3 47 (5.16%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.73%) DV Cleared
5 21 (2.31%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.20%) Azure Certification
6 20 (2.20%) PhD
7 18 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.76%) SnowPro
9 15 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.77%) CISSP
12 6 (0.66%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.33%) CCDP
14 3 (0.33%) CCNP
14 3 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.22%) GIAC
15 2 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (9.55%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.18%) QA
3 27 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.21%) GDPR
5 9 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.44%) IFRS
7 4 (0.44%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.44%) SLA
7 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.33%) MIL-STD-1553
9 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.22%) JTAG
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 143 (15.70%) Docker
2 55 (6.04%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.66%) Firmware
4 3 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 119 (13.06%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.21%) Grafana
3 7 (0.77%) Kubeflow
3 7 (0.77%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.66%) Ansible
5 5 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.33%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.33%) Istio
6 3 (0.33%) linkerd
6 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.33%) Puppet
7 2 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 2 (0.22%) Podman
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 304 (33.37%) Microsoft
2 148 (16.25%) Databricks
3 64 (7.03%) Google
4 38 (4.17%) Facebook
5 21 (2.31%) Yahoo!
6 18 (1.98%) Adobe
6 18 (1.98%) Typelevel
7 17 (1.87%) Apple
7 17 (1.87%) OpenAI
7 17 (1.87%) Sony
8 15 (1.65%) Foundry
9 11 (1.21%) SAP
10 5 (0.55%) Oracle
10 5 (0.55%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.44%) HighQ
11 4 (0.44%) Legatics
12 3 (0.33%) Cisco
12 3 (0.33%) Forcepoint
12 3 (0.33%) Juniper
12 3 (0.33%) SonicWALL