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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 35 67
Rank change year-on-year -33 +32 +27
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 852 1,089 829
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.41% 6.60% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 7.04% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 534 237 470
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,569 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £130,000 £101,375
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 20,151 15,479 18,778
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.63% 93.83% 88.19%
Number of salaries quoted 14,312 8,360 11,026
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 13 October 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 (2.93%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.46%) Apache
3 18 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.82%) SAS
6 6 (0.70%) Confluence
7 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.23%) IIS
8 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (1.41%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Blender
3 3 (0.35%) Maya
4 2 (0.23%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 357 (41.90%) Azure
2 248 (29.11%) AWS
3 164 (19.25%) Azure AI
4 121 (14.20%) GCP
5 105 (12.32%) GitHub
6 89 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (9.39%) GitHub Copilot
8 73 (8.57%) Snowflake
9 56 (6.57%) Power Platform
10 47 (5.52%) Amazon Bedrock
11 43 (5.05%) SaaS
12 41 (4.81%) Anthropic Claude
13 37 (4.34%) Azure Data Factory
14 29 (3.40%) Azure Machine Learning
15 27 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
16 25 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 21 (2.46%) Azure Databricks
17 21 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
18 20 (2.35%) Amazon S3
19 19 (2.23%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 53 (6.22%) Broadband
2 31 (3.64%) Internet
3 10 (1.17%) Firewall
4 9 (1.06%) 5G
5 4 (0.47%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.47%) Network Security
6 3 (0.35%) BGP
6 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.35%) LAN
6 3 (0.35%) OSPF
6 3 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.35%) VPN
6 3 (0.35%) WAN
7 2 (0.23%) ATM
7 2 (0.23%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.23%) HTTP
7 2 (0.23%) UWB
7 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.23%) Wireless
8 1 (0.12%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (19.48%) MongoDB
2 147 (17.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 57 (6.69%) Metadata
4 52 (6.10%) Power BI
5 51 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (4.11%) Big Data
8 22 (2.58%) Data Lake
9 21 (2.46%) Delta Lake
10 19 (2.23%) Tableau
11 18 (2.11%) NoSQL
12 17 (2.00%) Data Vault
13 12 (1.41%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (1.29%) Looker
15 10 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.94%) Apache Iceberg
17 7 (0.82%) Hadoop
17 7 (0.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (4.69%) Claude Code
2 37 (4.34%) Git
3 23 (2.70%) MLflow
4 12 (1.41%) JIRA
5 10 (1.17%) GitLab
6 8 (0.94%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.59%) Poetry
7 5 (0.59%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.35%) Appium
9 3 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.35%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.23%) Selenium
11 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.12%) Mocha
11 1 (0.12%) NUnit
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 269 (31.57%) Finance
2 152 (17.84%) Social Skills
3 128 (15.02%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (11.62%) Banking
5 86 (10.09%) Marketing
6 46 (5.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (4.69%) Public Sector
8 39 (4.58%) Retail
9 37 (4.34%) Games
10 34 (3.99%) Law
11 33 (3.87%) Advertising
12 31 (3.64%) Legal
13 14 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (1.53%) Aerospace
15 12 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.29%) Financial Institution
17 10 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (1.17%) Retail Banking
18 9 (1.06%) Legal Technology
19 7 (0.82%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 213 (25.00%) Developer
2 149 (17.49%) .NET Developer
3 135 (15.85%) Senior
4 115 (13.50%) Data Scientist
5 113 (13.26%) Architect
6 93 (10.92%) Lead
7 67 (7.86%) Software Engineer
8 55 (6.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 55 (6.46%) Data Engineer
9 54 (6.34%) Senior Data Scientist
10 38 (4.46%) Enterprise Architect
11 37 (4.34%) Lead Data Scientist
12 36 (4.23%) Finance Manager
13 35 (4.11%) Data Architect
14 32 (3.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 29 (3.40%) Consultant
16 25 (2.93%) Python Engineer
17 22 (2.58%) Analyst
18 20 (2.35%) Lead Developer
18 20 (2.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (20.19%) .NET
2 149 (17.49%) ASP.NET
2 149 (17.49%) ASP.NET Core
2 149 (17.49%) ML.NET
3 147 (17.25%) .NET Core
4 115 (13.50%) RESTful
5 102 (11.97%) React
6 97 (11.38%) Blazor
7 89 (10.45%) CSS
8 85 (9.98%) HTML
9 80 (9.39%) PyTorch
10 74 (8.69%) TensorFlow
11 73 (8.57%) LangChain
12 69 (8.10%) Terraform
13 48 (5.63%) LangGraph
14 37 (4.34%) PySpark
15 28 (3.29%) Hugging Face
16 25 (2.93%) Node.js
17 21 (2.46%) scikit-learn
18 17 (2.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 117 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 80 (9.39%) AI Agents
3 66 (7.75%) Blog
4 57 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
5 53 (6.22%) Algorithms
6 37 (4.34%) Video\Live Streaming
7 36 (4.23%) Hedge funds
8 32 (3.76%) Product Ownership
9 31 (3.64%) Mobile App
10 30 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
11 28 (3.29%) Social Media
12 24 (2.82%) Low-Code
13 21 (2.46%) Credit Risk
14 19 (2.23%) Digital TV
15 18 (2.11%) BBC
16 17 (2.00%) iPhone
17 16 (1.88%) Onboarding
18 15 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
19 12 (1.41%) Data Structures
19 12 (1.41%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.35%) Android
2 14 (1.64%) Linux
3 7 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.70%) Windows
5 3 (0.35%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) macOS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 737 (86.50%) AI
2 271 (31.81%) Data Science
3 248 (29.11%) CI/CD
4 224 (26.29%) Analytics
5 203 (23.83%) Agile
6 196 (23.00%) Roadmaps
7 192 (22.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 187 (21.95%) Software Engineering
9 146 (17.14%) DevOps
10 143 (16.78%) LLM
11 131 (15.38%) Generative AI
12 124 (14.55%) Mentoring
13 105 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
14 98 (11.50%) Data Modelling
15 96 (11.27%) Technical Leadership
15 96 (11.27%) Validation
16 95 (11.15%) Data Pipeline
17 91 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
17 91 (10.68%) Fintech
17 91 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 391 (45.89%) Python
2 332 (38.97%) SQL
3 180 (21.13%) C#
4 120 (14.08%) JavaScript
5 52 (6.10%) Java
6 51 (5.99%) TypeScript
7 41 (4.81%) Go
8 25 (2.93%) R
8 25 (2.93%) Scala
9 19 (2.23%) Bicep
9 19 (2.23%) PowerShell
9 19 (2.23%) Rust
10 13 (1.53%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.41%) C++
12 10 (1.17%) C
13 7 (0.82%) Bash
13 7 (0.82%) Swift
14 6 (0.70%) PHP
15 5 (0.59%) Ada
16 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (9.62%) Degree
1 82 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 57 (6.69%) SC Cleared
3 33 (3.87%) DV Cleared
4 29 (3.40%) Azure Certification
5 19 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.88%) SnowPro
7 14 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.94%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.94%) PhD
10 7 (0.82%) CISSP
11 5 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.47%) CCNP
13 3 (0.35%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.35%) CCDP
14 2 (0.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (12.44%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.52%) Accessibility
3 24 (2.82%) GDPR
4 20 (2.35%) QA
5 13 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.94%) COPPA
8 4 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.47%) SLA
9 3 (0.35%) IFRS
9 3 (0.35%) IFRS 17
9 3 (0.35%) MIL-STD-1553
9 3 (0.35%) NIST
9 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.23%) JTAG
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 130 (15.26%) Docker
2 7 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.70%) Firmware
4 5 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.23%) NFS
6 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 125 (14.67%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.88%) Grafana
3 12 (1.41%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.70%) Ansible
5 5 (0.59%) Kubeflow
6 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.35%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.35%) Istio
7 3 (0.35%) linkerd
7 3 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.35%) Puppet
8 2 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (0.23%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.12%) Podman
9 1 (0.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 228 (26.76%) Microsoft
2 106 (12.44%) Databricks
3 69 (8.10%) Google
4 35 (4.11%) Facebook
5 21 (2.46%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.35%) Yahoo!
7 17 (2.00%) Apple
8 16 (1.88%) Sony
9 15 (1.76%) Foundry
10 10 (1.17%) Adobe
10 10 (1.17%) SAP
11 6 (0.70%) New Relic
12 5 (0.59%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.59%) Splunk
12 5 (0.59%) VMware
13 4 (0.47%) Oracle
13 4 (0.47%) Palantir
14 3 (0.35%) Cisco
14 3 (0.35%) Forcepoint
14 3 (0.35%) Juniper