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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 33 104
Rank change year-on-year -29 +71 -4
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 805 1,175 926
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.88% 7.39% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 7.88% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 515 262 711
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +1.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £145,920 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -0.32%

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 17,029 14,914 29,776
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.18% 93.86% 89.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,466 8,777 22,909
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,809 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 1 July 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 (2.98%) Apache Spark
1 24 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (0.99%) Apache
4 6 (0.75%) SAS
5 2 (0.25%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.12%) CMS
6 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.37%) Blender
2 3 (0.37%) Maya
3 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.75%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.12%) HFM
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 395 (49.07%) Azure
2 241 (29.94%) AWS
3 213 (26.46%) Azure AI
4 142 (17.64%) GCP
5 98 (12.17%) Azure Machine Learning
6 84 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (9.57%) GitHub
7 77 (9.57%) Snowflake
8 68 (8.45%) GitHub Copilot
9 67 (8.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 64 (7.95%) Power Platform
11 39 (4.84%) SaaS
12 38 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
13 23 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
14 22 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
15 20 (2.48%) Power Automate
15 20 (2.48%) Vertex AI
16 19 (2.36%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (2.36%) OneDrive
16 19 (2.36%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 134 (16.65%) Broadband
2 25 (3.11%) Internet
3 10 (1.24%) Firewall
4 7 (0.87%) 5G
5 6 (0.75%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.75%) Network Security
6 2 (0.25%) DNS
6 2 (0.25%) VLAN
6 2 (0.25%) VPN
6 2 (0.25%) WireGuard
7 1 (0.12%) 4G
7 1 (0.12%) LTE
7 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (20.37%) MongoDB
2 161 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 61 (7.58%) SQL Server
4 59 (7.33%) Power BI
5 45 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
6 35 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (4.35%) Metadata
7 18 (2.24%) Big Data
7 18 (2.24%) Tableau
8 16 (1.99%) BigQuery
8 16 (1.99%) Delta Lake
9 13 (1.61%) Looker
10 12 (1.49%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (0.99%) Apache Iceberg
12 8 (0.99%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.87%) Pinecone
14 6 (0.75%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 18 (2.24%) MLflow
2 15 (1.86%) Git
3 10 (1.24%) GitLab
4 7 (0.87%) JIRA
5 6 (0.75%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.25%) Selenium
8 1 (0.12%) Appium
8 1 (0.12%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.12%) Mocha
General
1 185 (22.98%) Finance
2 163 (20.25%) Social Skills
3 94 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (6.21%) Banking
5 47 (5.84%) Marketing
6 36 (4.47%) Games
7 33 (4.10%) Public Sector
8 31 (3.85%) Advertising
9 29 (3.60%) Retail
10 28 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (3.11%) Law
12 21 (2.61%) Legal
13 13 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.99%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.87%) Publishing
17 6 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.62%) Legal Technology
18 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 237 (29.44%) Developer
2 144 (17.89%) .NET Developer
3 133 (16.52%) Senior
4 104 (12.92%) Lead
5 87 (10.81%) Data Scientist
6 66 (8.20%) Architect
7 54 (6.71%) Software Engineer
8 53 (6.58%) Data Engineer
9 44 (5.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 43 (5.34%) Engineering Manager
11 42 (5.22%) Data Manager
11 42 (5.22%) Senior Data Scientist
12 33 (4.10%) Data Architect
12 33 (4.10%) Finance Manager
12 33 (4.10%) Lead Data Scientist
13 32 (3.98%) Consultant
14 30 (3.73%) Scala Engineer
14 30 (3.73%) Senior Developer
15 27 (3.35%) Lead Developer
15 27 (3.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (21.61%) .NET
2 151 (18.76%) .NET Core
3 141 (17.52%) ASP.NET
3 141 (17.52%) ASP.NET Core
3 141 (17.52%) ML.NET
4 111 (13.79%) React
5 110 (13.66%) RESTful
6 96 (11.93%) CSS
7 95 (11.80%) Blazor
8 93 (11.55%) HTML
9 89 (11.06%) PyTorch
10 80 (9.94%) TensorFlow
11 46 (5.71%) gRPC
12 45 (5.59%) LangChain
13 31 (3.85%) Node.js
14 26 (3.23%) Hugging Face
15 23 (2.86%) JSON
16 22 (2.73%) REST
16 22 (2.73%) scikit-learn
17 21 (2.61%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 101 (12.55%) Video\Live Streaming
2 96 (11.93%) Cloud Native
3 90 (11.18%) Distributed Systems
4 53 (6.58%) Over-the-Top Content
5 49 (6.09%) Product Ownership
6 41 (5.09%) Algorithms
7 37 (4.60%) AI Agents
8 35 (4.35%) Low-Code
9 29 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
10 27 (3.35%) Social Media
11 24 (2.98%) Mobile App
12 20 (2.48%) Digital TV
13 17 (2.11%) BBC
13 17 (2.11%) iPhone
14 15 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.74%) Social Network
16 13 (1.61%) Blog
16 13 (1.61%) Data Structures
17 12 (1.49%) Life Science
18 10 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.11%) Android
2 9 (1.12%) Linux
3 3 (0.37%) Windows
4 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.25%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (78.76%) AI
2 267 (33.17%) CI/CD
3 259 (32.17%) Agile
4 224 (27.83%) Data Science
5 203 (25.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 198 (24.60%) Roadmaps
7 197 (24.47%) Software Engineering
8 158 (19.63%) Analytics
9 153 (19.01%) DevOps
10 136 (16.89%) Mentoring
11 126 (15.65%) Data Engineering
12 124 (15.40%) Generative AI
13 119 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
14 114 (14.16%) LLM
15 99 (12.30%) Decision-Making
16 97 (12.05%) Data Governance
16 97 (12.05%) Technical Leadership
17 89 (11.06%) Infrastructure as Code
18 88 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
19 86 (10.68%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 364 (45.22%) Python
2 313 (38.88%) SQL
3 179 (22.24%) C#
4 128 (15.90%) JavaScript
5 94 (11.68%) Go
6 65 (8.07%) Scala
7 56 (6.96%) TypeScript
8 45 (5.59%) Java
9 27 (3.35%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.37%) Bicep
11 10 (1.24%) Bash
11 10 (1.24%) R
12 9 (1.12%) C++
12 9 (1.12%) PHP
13 7 (0.87%) Rust
14 5 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.37%) C
17 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (10.06%) Degree
2 42 (5.22%) Security Cleared
3 28 (3.48%) SC Cleared
4 20 (2.48%) PhD
5 17 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 16 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.61%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (0.99%) CISSP
10 8 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.75%) ACCA
11 6 (0.75%) CIMA
11 6 (0.75%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.50%) CISA
13 3 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.25%) GIAC
14 2 (0.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.83%) Data Quality
2 22 (2.73%) GDPR
3 19 (2.36%) QA
4 17 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.37%) IFRS
5 3 (0.37%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.37%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 146 (18.14%) Docker
2 55 (6.83%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.50%) Firmware
5 2 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 94 (11.68%) Kubernetes
2 39 (4.84%) Terraform
3 8 (0.99%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.50%) Grafana
6 3 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.25%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 2 (0.25%) Istio
7 2 (0.25%) linkerd
7 2 (0.25%) Podman
7 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.25%) Puppet
8 1 (0.12%) Ansible
Vendors
1 280 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 108 (13.42%) Databricks
3 57 (7.08%) Google
4 45 (5.59%) Typelevel
5 33 (4.10%) Facebook
6 20 (2.48%) Adobe
7 19 (2.36%) Foundry
8 16 (1.99%) Apple
8 16 (1.99%) Sony
8 16 (1.99%) Yahoo!
9 14 (1.74%) OpenAI
10 8 (0.99%) Palantir
10 8 (0.99%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.87%) SAP
12 6 (0.75%) Oracle
13 4 (0.50%) HighQ
13 4 (0.50%) Legatics
13 4 (0.50%) ServiceNow
14 2 (0.25%) IBM
14 2 (0.25%) Informatica