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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 37 90
Rank change year-on-year -22 +53 +8
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 920 1,084 765
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.94% 6.59% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 7.09% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 589 251 530
10th Percentile £46,450 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.04% +7.70%
75th Percentile £107,500 £103,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £132,500 £103,875
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 19,126 15,292 21,289
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.98% 93.01% 87.62%
Number of salaries quoted 13,800 8,904 14,205
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%

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 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 24 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.52%) Apache
4 13 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.65%) SAS
6 5 (0.54%) Confluence
7 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 13 (1.41%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.76%) 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 3 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) HFM
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 412 (44.78%) Azure
2 259 (28.15%) AWS
3 227 (24.67%) Azure AI
4 129 (14.02%) GCP
5 110 (11.96%) Snowflake
6 98 (10.65%) GitHub
7 92 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 82 (8.91%) Azure Machine Learning
9 80 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 80 (8.70%) GitHub Copilot
10 65 (7.07%) Power Platform
11 49 (5.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 38 (4.13%) Amazon Bedrock
12 38 (4.13%) SaaS
13 32 (3.48%) Anthropic Claude
14 26 (2.83%) Microsoft Purview
15 21 (2.28%) Amazon S3
15 21 (2.28%) Azure Databricks
15 21 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
15 21 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 94 (10.22%) Broadband
2 30 (3.26%) Internet
3 12 (1.30%) Firewall
4 7 (0.76%) 5G
5 5 (0.54%) Kerberos
5 5 (0.54%) Network Security
6 4 (0.43%) 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
1 178 (19.35%) MongoDB
2 174 (18.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (6.74%) Power BI
4 58 (6.30%) SQL Server
5 49 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (4.46%) Metadata
7 38 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (2.83%) Big Data
9 20 (2.17%) Delta Lake
10 18 (1.96%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.85%) Data Vault
12 16 (1.74%) NoSQL
12 16 (1.74%) Tableau
13 11 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (1.09%) Looker
15 8 (0.87%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.76%) Semantic Layer
17 6 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
17 6 (0.65%) Hadoop
17 6 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (3.91%) Git
2 28 (3.04%) Claude Code
3 17 (1.85%) MLflow
4 13 (1.41%) JIRA
5 10 (1.09%) GitLab
6 8 (0.87%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.43%) Appium
7 4 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.33%) Mercurial
8 3 (0.33%) Poetry
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
1 285 (30.98%) Finance
2 157 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 118 (12.83%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (9.13%) Banking
4 84 (9.13%) Marketing
5 41 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (4.35%) Games
7 35 (3.80%) Advertising
7 35 (3.80%) Public Sector
8 34 (3.70%) Law
9 28 (3.04%) Retail
10 27 (2.93%) Legal
11 22 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.30%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.09%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.09%) Legal Technology
15 7 (0.76%) Electronics
15 7 (0.76%) Military
16 6 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 242 (26.30%) Developer
2 156 (16.96%) .NET Developer
3 152 (16.52%) Senior
4 112 (12.17%) Architect
5 101 (10.98%) Data Scientist
6 100 (10.87%) Lead
7 61 (6.63%) Software Engineer
8 60 (6.52%) Finance Manager
9 54 (5.87%) Senior Data Scientist
10 48 (5.22%) Data Engineer
11 46 (5.00%) Data Manager
12 43 (4.67%) Data Architect
13 42 (4.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 40 (4.35%) Engineering Manager
14 40 (4.35%) Lead Data Scientist
15 34 (3.70%) Senior Developer
16 29 (3.15%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 28 (3.04%) Enterprise Architect
18 27 (2.93%) Consultant
19 23 (2.50%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (20.54%) .NET
2 164 (17.83%) .NET Core
3 156 (16.96%) ASP.NET
3 156 (16.96%) ASP.NET Core
3 156 (16.96%) ML.NET
4 118 (12.83%) RESTful
5 115 (12.50%) React
6 103 (11.20%) Blazor
7 101 (10.98%) CSS
8 98 (10.65%) HTML
9 82 (8.91%) PyTorch
10 72 (7.83%) TensorFlow
11 68 (7.39%) LangChain
12 54 (5.87%) Terraform
13 44 (4.78%) LangGraph
14 34 (3.70%) Node.js
15 33 (3.59%) PySpark
16 27 (2.93%) Hugging Face
17 25 (2.72%) JSON
17 25 (2.72%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 116 (12.61%) Cloud Native
2 70 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (7.17%) AI Agents
4 64 (6.96%) Blog
4 64 (6.96%) Video\Live Streaming
5 56 (6.09%) Algorithms
6 47 (5.11%) Product Ownership
7 34 (3.70%) Mobile App
8 32 (3.48%) Low-Code
9 29 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
9 29 (3.15%) Social Media
10 27 (2.93%) Hedge funds
11 24 (2.61%) Over-the-Top Content
12 20 (2.17%) Credit Risk
12 20 (2.17%) Digital TV
13 18 (1.96%) BBC
14 17 (1.85%) iPhone
14 17 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
15 14 (1.52%) Onboarding
16 13 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.17%) Android
2 15 (1.63%) Linux
3 7 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.54%) Windows
5 3 (0.33%) Unix
6 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 783 (85.11%) AI
2 279 (30.33%) Agile
3 255 (27.72%) CI/CD
4 248 (26.96%) Data Science
5 246 (26.74%) Roadmaps
6 214 (23.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 210 (22.83%) Analytics
8 193 (20.98%) Software Engineering
9 158 (17.17%) DevOps
10 145 (15.76%) LLM
11 131 (14.24%) Data Engineering
12 129 (14.02%) Mentoring
13 128 (13.91%) Generative AI
14 122 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
15 106 (11.52%) Data Governance
16 105 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
17 104 (11.30%) Technical Leadership
18 102 (11.09%) Data Architecture
19 97 (10.54%) Decision-Making
20 96 (10.43%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 377 (40.98%) Python
1 377 (40.98%) SQL
2 196 (21.30%) C#
3 139 (15.11%) JavaScript
4 58 (6.30%) TypeScript
5 57 (6.20%) Go
6 41 (4.46%) Scala
7 40 (4.35%) Java
8 27 (2.93%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.96%) Bicep
10 13 (1.41%) C++
11 12 (1.30%) R
12 10 (1.09%) C
13 9 (0.98%) Rust
14 7 (0.76%) Swift
15 6 (0.65%) Bash
15 6 (0.65%) PHP
16 5 (0.54%) Ada
17 4 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 93 (10.11%) Degree
2 70 (7.61%) Security Cleared
3 47 (5.11%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 21 (2.28%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 20 (2.17%) PhD
7 18 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.74%) SnowPro
9 15 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.76%) CISSP
11 7 (0.76%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.33%) CCDP
13 3 (0.33%) CCNP
13 3 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.22%) GIAC
14 2 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (9.46%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.26%) QA
3 29 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.30%) GDPR
5 9 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS
7 4 (0.43%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.43%) SLA
7 4 (0.43%) 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
1 142 (15.43%) Docker
2 55 (5.98%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.65%) Firmware
4 3 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 119 (12.93%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.20%) Grafana
3 7 (0.76%) Kubeflow
3 7 (0.76%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.65%) Ansible
5 5 (0.54%) 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
1 305 (33.15%) Microsoft
2 148 (16.09%) Databricks
3 64 (6.96%) Google
4 38 (4.13%) Facebook
5 21 (2.28%) Yahoo!
6 19 (2.07%) Adobe
7 18 (1.96%) Typelevel
8 17 (1.85%) Apple
8 17 (1.85%) OpenAI
8 17 (1.85%) Sony
9 15 (1.63%) Foundry
10 12 (1.30%) SAP
11 5 (0.54%) Oracle
11 5 (0.54%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.43%) HighQ
12 4 (0.43%) Legatics
13 3 (0.33%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.33%) Perforce
13 3 (0.33%) SonicWALL
13 3 (0.33%) VMware