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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 68 93
Rank change year-on-year -44 +25 +3
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 394 694 872
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.40% 4.52% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 4.76% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 252 333 655
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £108,500 £101,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.60% +10.00% -

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 14,088 14,578 25,772
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.94% 94.86% 92.74%
Number of salaries quoted 9,167 8,804 21,405
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 21 February 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 (6.09%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.31%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.78%) CMS
5 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.27%) Apache Pulsar
7 4 (1.02%) Apache Solr
7 4 (1.02%) Confluence
8 3 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.51%) Apache
10 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.25%) Kinematics
Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Chatbot
1 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.76%) Trello
3 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.51%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (2.54%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.51%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.51%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 189 (47.97%) Azure
2 135 (34.26%) AWS
3 86 (21.83%) GCP
4 54 (13.71%) Power Platform
5 40 (10.15%) Azure Machine Learning
6 26 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (6.09%) SaaS
8 21 (5.33%) Entra ID
9 19 (4.82%) Serverless
10 15 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (3.81%) Azure AI
10 15 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (3.81%) Snowflake
11 13 (3.30%) Vertex AI
12 12 (3.05%) Amazon S3
12 12 (3.05%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (2.79%) Amazon SageMaker
14 10 (2.54%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (2.28%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (2.28%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 37 (9.39%) Broadband
2 4 (1.02%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.51%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.51%) Network Security
4 1 (0.25%) Firewall
4 1 (0.25%) LTE
4 1 (0.25%) Modbus
4 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.68%) Power BI
2 32 (8.12%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (6.85%) Tableau
4 19 (4.82%) Metadata
5 16 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (4.06%) SQL Server
6 14 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (3.30%) BigQuery
7 13 (3.30%) NoSQL
8 12 (3.05%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.79%) Apache Iceberg
9 11 (2.79%) Looker
10 10 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.54%) Delta Lake
10 10 (2.54%) Pinecone
10 10 (2.54%) Weaviate
11 9 (2.28%) Big Data
11 9 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.52%) Data Mining
13 5 (1.27%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (4.82%) MLflow
2 12 (3.05%) Git
3 6 (1.52%) JIRA
4 3 (0.76%) Claude Code
4 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.51%) ERwin
5 2 (0.51%) Selenium
5 2 (0.51%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.51%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.25%) GitLab
General
1 119 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 99 (25.13%) Finance
3 69 (17.51%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.12%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.60%) Retail
6 24 (6.09%) Marketing
7 20 (5.08%) Telecoms
8 15 (3.81%) Legal
9 14 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (3.30%) Games
11 11 (2.79%) Publishing
12 10 (2.54%) Law
12 10 (2.54%) Manufacturing
13 8 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.78%) Banking
14 7 (1.78%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.27%) Back Office
16 4 (1.02%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 70 (17.77%) Senior
2 59 (14.97%) Lead
3 42 (10.66%) Data Engineer
4 37 (9.39%) Developer
4 37 (9.39%) Software Engineer
5 33 (8.38%) Data Scientist
6 26 (6.60%) Consultant
7 22 (5.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 21 (5.33%) Architect
9 19 (4.82%) Analyst
10 16 (4.06%) Data Analyst
10 16 (4.06%) Operations Engineer
11 14 (3.55%) Data Consultant
11 14 (3.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 13 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
13 12 (3.05%) Scala Engineer
14 10 (2.54%) Commercial Analyst
14 10 (2.54%) Commercial Data Analyst
14 10 (2.54%) Data Architect
14 10 (2.54%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (11.17%) PyTorch
1 44 (11.17%) TensorFlow
2 34 (8.63%) gRPC
2 34 (8.63%) React
3 27 (6.85%) Kafka
4 22 (5.58%) RESTful
5 21 (5.33%) REST
6 17 (4.31%) Node.js
7 14 (3.55%) AngularJS
7 14 (3.55%) LangChain
7 14 (3.55%) Spring
7 14 (3.55%) Spring Boot
8 12 (3.05%) .NET
9 9 (2.28%) Faiss
9 9 (2.28%) OAuth
9 9 (2.28%) PySpark
9 9 (2.28%) vLLM
9 9 (2.28%) WebSockets
10 8 (2.03%) Blazor
10 8 (2.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.94%) Product Ownership
2 50 (12.69%) Cloud Native
3 43 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (8.88%) Algorithms
5 29 (7.36%) Video\Live Streaming
6 24 (6.09%) AI Agents
7 21 (5.33%) Over-the-Top Content
8 11 (2.79%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.54%) FMCG
10 8 (2.03%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.78%) Educational Technology
12 6 (1.52%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.52%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.27%) Augmented Reality
13 5 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.27%) Mobile Games
13 5 (1.27%) Social Media
14 4 (1.02%) Blog
14 4 (1.02%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.06%) Android
2 15 (3.81%) Linux
2 15 (3.81%) Windows
3 6 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.76%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (0.76%) Unix
6 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (77.66%) AI
2 151 (38.32%) Analytics
3 136 (34.52%) Data Science
4 127 (32.23%) CI/CD
5 100 (25.38%) Agile
6 98 (24.87%) DevOps
7 91 (23.10%) Roadmaps
8 85 (21.57%) Software Engineering
9 73 (18.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 68 (17.26%) Decision-Making
11 66 (16.75%) Coaching
12 64 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
13 63 (15.99%) LLM
14 62 (15.74%) MLOps
15 61 (15.48%) Data Pipeline
16 58 (14.72%) Mentoring
17 57 (14.47%) Business Intelligence
17 57 (14.47%) Containerisation
18 56 (14.21%) Generative AI
18 56 (14.21%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 204 (51.78%) Python
2 93 (23.60%) SQL
3 53 (13.45%) Go
4 50 (12.69%) Java
5 33 (8.38%) Scala
6 27 (6.85%) Bash
7 21 (5.33%) PowerShell
7 21 (5.33%) R
8 20 (5.08%) JavaScript
9 18 (4.57%) C++
10 16 (4.06%) C#
10 16 (4.06%) TypeScript
11 15 (3.81%) PHP
12 8 (2.03%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.52%) Rust
14 3 (0.76%) Bicep
14 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.51%) C
15 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (21.83%) Degree
2 34 (8.63%) Security Cleared
3 28 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (6.85%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.55%) Master's Degree
6 12 (3.05%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.79%) PhD
8 10 (2.54%) ACCA
8 10 (2.54%) CIMA
8 10 (2.54%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.78%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.27%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.02%) CISA
11 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.51%) CFA
12 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.87%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.84%) GDPR
3 5 (1.27%) QA
4 4 (1.02%) EU AI Act
4 4 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.51%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.51%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (16.50%) Docker
2 14 (3.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (2.54%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.51%) Ceph
5 2 (0.51%) Lustre
5 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (12.94%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.12%) Terraform
3 14 (3.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.28%) Ansible
5 6 (1.52%) SCCM
6 3 (0.76%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.25%) Argo
7 1 (0.25%) Grafana
7 1 (0.25%) Istio
7 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.39%) Databricks
3 20 (5.08%) Google
4 18 (4.57%) Typelevel
5 14 (3.55%) OpenAI
5 14 (3.55%) Salesforce
6 12 (3.05%) Palantir
7 6 (1.52%) Foundry
8 5 (1.27%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.27%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.27%) Nokia
8 5 (1.27%) SAP
9 3 (0.76%) Dell
9 3 (0.76%) Mercator
10 2 (0.51%) Adobe
10 2 (0.51%) Civica
10 2 (0.51%) Murex
10 2 (0.51%) Northgate
10 2 (0.51%) Oracle
10 2 (0.51%) Orchard