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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 76 87
Rank change year-on-year -44 +11 +14
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 341 728 706
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.24% 4.12% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 4.46% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 244 405 454
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,000 £55,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,420 £90,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £102,500 £104,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.90% -0.65% +10.71%

All Process and 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 13,621 16,321 19,017
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.28% 92.29% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,730 9,931 15,296
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £61,153
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.20% -2.16%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.04%

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 15 December 2025.

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 19 (5.57%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.64%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (2.05%) Apache Solr
6 5 (1.47%) Apache Pulsar
6 5 (1.47%) CMS
7 4 (1.17%) Confluence
8 3 (0.88%) Apache
9 2 (0.59%) Luigi
10 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.29%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.76%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.88%) Trello
5 2 (0.59%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.59%) Sketch
5 2 (0.59%) Weka
6 1 (0.29%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.29%) Blender
Business Applications
1 6 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.88%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.88%) SAP SCM
4 2 (0.59%) Adaptiv
5 1 (0.29%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.29%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.29%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.29%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.29%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 170 (49.85%) Azure
2 110 (32.26%) AWS
3 62 (18.18%) GCP
4 41 (12.02%) Power Platform
5 31 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (7.62%) Entra ID
7 24 (7.04%) SaaS
8 20 (5.87%) Azure Machine Learning
9 19 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (4.99%) Serverless
11 14 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (3.81%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.81%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (3.52%) GitHub
14 11 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (2.93%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (2.93%) dbt
15 10 (2.93%) PaaS
15 10 (2.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.17%) Broadband
2 3 (0.88%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.59%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.29%) Modbus
4 1 (0.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.56%) Power BI
2 28 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (4.69%) Tableau
4 15 (4.40%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.11%) SQL Server
6 13 (3.81%) Data Lake
7 11 (3.23%) Metadata
7 11 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.93%) MySQL
9 8 (2.35%) Big Data
9 8 (2.35%) Looker
10 7 (2.05%) Data Mining
10 7 (2.05%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.76%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.76%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.47%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.17%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 17 (4.99%) Git
2 9 (2.64%) MLflow
3 8 (2.35%) JIRA
4 4 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.59%) ERwin
6 2 (0.59%) Selenium
6 2 (0.59%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.59%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.29%) GitLab
General
1 96 (28.15%) Social Skills
2 93 (27.27%) Finance
3 50 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.92%) Marketing
5 24 (7.04%) Retail
6 23 (6.74%) Public Sector
7 22 (6.45%) Telecoms
8 15 (4.40%) Games
9 12 (3.52%) Law
10 10 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.93%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.76%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.47%) Banking
13 5 (1.47%) Legal
13 5 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.17%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.17%) Automotive
14 4 (1.17%) Billing
14 4 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (13.78%) Senior
2 42 (12.32%) Lead
3 37 (10.85%) Data Engineer
4 25 (7.33%) Architect
5 24 (7.04%) Developer
6 23 (6.74%) Data Scientist
7 22 (6.45%) Software Engineer
8 17 (4.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 16 (4.69%) Consultant
10 14 (4.11%) Analyst
11 10 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (2.93%) Product Owner
12 9 (2.64%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 9 (2.64%) Operations Engineer
13 8 (2.35%) Applications Engineer
13 8 (2.35%) Azure Data Engineer
13 8 (2.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (2.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 8 (2.35%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 7 (2.05%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.50%) Kafka
2 24 (7.04%) TensorFlow
3 22 (6.45%) PyTorch
4 21 (6.16%) gRPC
4 21 (6.16%) RESTful
5 20 (5.87%) Node.js
5 20 (5.87%) React
6 19 (5.57%) REST
6 19 (5.57%) scikit-learn
7 14 (4.11%) Pandas
8 13 (3.81%) Spring
8 13 (3.81%) WebSockets
9 12 (3.52%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.23%) Hugging Face
11 10 (2.93%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.64%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (2.35%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.35%) NumPy
13 8 (2.35%) OAuth
13 8 (2.35%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 50 (14.66%) Product Ownership
2 44 (12.90%) Cloud Native
3 29 (8.50%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (7.04%) Algorithms
5 22 (6.45%) AI Agents
6 11 (3.23%) Reinsurance
7 8 (2.35%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.05%) Augmented Reality
8 7 (2.05%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.76%) CUDA
9 6 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.76%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.76%) Mobile Games
9 6 (1.76%) Sports Betting
10 5 (1.47%) Educational Technology
11 4 (1.17%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.17%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.57%) Windows
2 17 (4.99%) Android
3 14 (4.11%) Linux
4 8 (2.35%) Apple iOS
5 7 (2.05%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.88%) Unix
7 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.29%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (79.18%) AI
2 142 (41.64%) Analytics
3 98 (28.74%) Data Science
3 98 (28.74%) DevOps
4 97 (28.45%) Agile
5 80 (23.46%) CI/CD
5 80 (23.46%) Roadmaps
6 59 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 58 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
8 56 (16.42%) Decision-Making
8 56 (16.42%) Software Engineering
9 54 (15.84%) LLM
10 49 (14.37%) Computer Science
11 48 (14.08%) Business Intelligence
12 42 (12.32%) Data Engineering
13 41 (12.02%) Coaching
13 41 (12.02%) Data Pipeline
14 40 (11.73%) User Experience
15 39 (11.44%) Mentoring
15 39 (11.44%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 165 (48.39%) Python
2 86 (25.22%) SQL
3 35 (10.26%) Java
4 26 (7.62%) PowerShell
5 25 (7.33%) Bash
5 25 (7.33%) R
6 18 (5.28%) C++
6 18 (5.28%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.99%) Go
8 15 (4.40%) PHP
8 15 (4.40%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.52%) Scala
10 8 (2.35%) C#
10 8 (2.35%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.76%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.17%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.88%) Bicep
14 2 (0.59%) C
15 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (21.41%) Degree
2 29 (8.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 29 (8.50%) Security Cleared
3 26 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.69%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.35%) PhD
6 6 (1.76%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.47%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.17%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.88%) ACCA
9 3 (0.88%) CIMA
9 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.88%) PMP
10 2 (0.59%) CFA
10 2 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.59%) OSCP
10 2 (0.59%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.59%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.21%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.52%) GDPR
3 6 (1.76%) QA
4 4 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.17%) EU AI Act
4 4 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.59%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.59%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.29%) HL7
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 46 (13.49%) Docker
2 18 (5.28%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (3.23%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.59%) Ceph
5 2 (0.59%) Lustre
5 2 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.29%) Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (14.96%) Kubernetes
2 32 (9.38%) Terraform
3 18 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (4.11%) Ansible
5 8 (2.35%) SCCM
6 2 (0.59%) Argo
6 2 (0.59%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.59%) Puppet
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
7 1 (0.29%) Istio
7 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 58 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.97%) Databricks
3 18 (5.28%) Google
4 13 (3.81%) OpenAI
5 11 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.76%) SAP
7 5 (1.47%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.47%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.47%) Nokia
7 5 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.17%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.17%) Genesys
8 4 (1.17%) HubSpot
8 4 (1.17%) Talend
8 4 (1.17%) Zoho
9 3 (0.88%) Adobe
9 3 (0.88%) Dell
9 3 (0.88%) Mercator
10 2 (0.59%) Murex
10 2 (0.59%) Palantir