Machine Learning Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 112 91
Rank change year-on-year +17 -21 -18
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 472 900 1,474
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.16% 2.66% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.39% 2.90% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 299 710 842
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £54,500 £46,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% -0.79%
75th Percentile £91,250 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £131,000 £101,375 £111,250
UK median annual salary £77,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -3.45%

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 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Machine Learning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Machine Learning trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Machine Learning
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Machine Learning.

Machine Learning salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Machine Learning over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Machine Learning salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 44 (9.32%) Apache Spark
2 27 (5.72%) Jupyter
3 19 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.69%) Confluence
5 5 (1.06%) Apache
6 2 (0.42%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.42%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 30 (6.36%) Chatbot
2 16 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.85%) Trello
4 3 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.42%) Simulink
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.21%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.21%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.21%) SAP LE
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 101 (21.40%) Azure
2 95 (20.13%) AWS
3 48 (10.17%) GCP
4 36 (7.63%) Power Platform
5 25 (5.30%) Azure Machine Learning
6 22 (4.66%) Amazon S3
6 22 (4.66%) Serverless
7 17 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (3.39%) Amazon SageMaker
9 15 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (2.54%) GitHub
11 12 (2.54%) SaaS
12 10 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.12%) PaaS
13 8 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (1.48%) Snowflake
15 6 (1.27%) Dialogflow
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.45%) HTTP
2 7 (1.48%) Internet
3 4 (0.85%) DHCP
3 4 (0.85%) DNS
3 4 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.64%) VPN
5 2 (0.42%) Firewall
5 2 (0.42%) MQTT
5 2 (0.42%) SAN
5 2 (0.42%) Skype
5 2 (0.42%) WAN
6 1 (0.21%) Network Security
6 1 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (13.35%) Big Data
2 35 (7.42%) Power BI
3 33 (6.99%) Tableau
4 30 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (5.08%) NoSQL
6 22 (4.66%) SQL Server
7 15 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (2.75%) Redis
8 13 (2.75%) Relational Database
9 12 (2.54%) Data Lake
9 12 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (2.54%) MySQL
10 8 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.06%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.06%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.06%) Power Query
13 4 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.85%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 46 (9.75%) Git
2 22 (4.66%) GitLab
3 12 (2.54%) JIRA
3 12 (2.54%) SonarQube
4 11 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (1.48%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.06%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.06%) MLflow
6 5 (1.06%) Vite
6 5 (1.06%) webpack
7 4 (0.85%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.64%) Postman
8 3 (0.64%) Selenium
8 3 (0.64%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.21%) kappa
General
1 154 (32.63%) Finance
2 135 (28.60%) Social Skills
3 84 (17.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 66 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (9.32%) Banking
6 43 (9.11%) Games
7 32 (6.78%) Law
8 30 (6.36%) Retail
9 28 (5.93%) Legal
10 24 (5.08%) Advertising
11 21 (4.45%) Public Sector
12 20 (4.24%) Manufacturing
13 16 (3.39%) Marketing
14 13 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (2.54%) Publishing
16 11 (2.33%) Automotive
16 11 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (2.12%) Tech for Good
18 8 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
19 4 (0.85%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 128 (27.12%) Senior
2 98 (20.76%) Data Scientist
3 66 (13.98%) Software Engineer
4 61 (12.92%) Lead
5 53 (11.23%) Senior Data Scientist
6 40 (8.47%) Developer
7 34 (7.20%) Senior Software Engineer
8 27 (5.72%) Data Engineer
9 22 (4.66%) Python Engineer
10 21 (4.45%) Analyst
11 19 (4.03%) Architect
12 17 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 17 (3.60%) Head of AI
13 16 (3.39%) Data Science Graduate
13 16 (3.39%) Graduate
14 15 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
14 15 (3.18%) Gen AI Engineer
14 15 (3.18%) Trainer
15 12 (2.54%) Azure Engineer
15 12 (2.54%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (11.44%) TensorFlow
2 45 (9.53%) PyTorch
3 43 (9.11%) scikit-learn
4 38 (8.05%) Kafka
5 28 (5.93%) REST
6 25 (5.30%) Pandas
7 22 (4.66%) PySpark
8 21 (4.45%) Node.js
9 20 (4.24%) .NET
10 19 (4.03%) NumPy
11 18 (3.81%) HTML
11 18 (3.81%) RESTful
12 17 (3.60%) Hugging Face
13 16 (3.39%) .NET Framework
13 16 (3.39%) React
14 13 (2.75%) Keras
15 11 (2.33%) CSS
15 11 (2.33%) Django
16 10 (2.12%) Flask
16 10 (2.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 123 (26.06%) Algorithms
2 46 (9.75%) Cyberattack
3 39 (8.26%) Robotics
4 28 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (5.30%) Credit Risk
6 16 (3.39%) Learning Management System
7 13 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.54%) Management Information System
9 10 (2.12%) Distributed Computing
9 10 (2.12%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.91%) IoT
10 9 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.69%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.48%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.48%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.48%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.48%) Social Media
13 5 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.06%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.66%) Linux
2 10 (2.12%) Windows
3 4 (0.85%) Robot Operating System
3 4 (0.85%) VMS
3 4 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.42%) Unix
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (66.53%) Artificial Intelligence
2 194 (41.10%) Data Science
3 160 (33.90%) Analytics
4 135 (28.60%) Computer Science
5 128 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
6 127 (26.91%) Software Engineering
7 120 (25.42%) Visualisation
8 112 (23.73%) LLM
9 106 (22.46%) Agile
10 95 (20.13%) Decision-Making
11 87 (18.43%) DevOps
12 82 (17.37%) Mathematics
13 77 (16.31%) Statistics
14 68 (14.41%) CI/CD
15 67 (14.19%) MLOps
16 64 (13.56%) Mentoring
17 63 (13.35%) Data Analysis
17 63 (13.35%) Generative AI
18 57 (12.08%) Data Engineering
19 56 (11.86%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 326 (69.07%) Python
2 141 (29.87%) SQL
3 48 (10.17%) JavaScript
4 45 (9.53%) Java
5 32 (6.78%) Scala
6 29 (6.14%) C++
7 28 (5.93%) C#
8 17 (3.60%) MATLAB
9 15 (3.18%) Go
10 12 (2.54%) R
11 9 (1.91%) TypeScript
12 8 (1.69%) Rust
13 6 (1.27%) Bash
13 6 (1.27%) C
13 6 (1.27%) Clojure
13 6 (1.27%) Elixir
13 6 (1.27%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.27%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.85%) PHP
15 2 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 185 (39.19%) Degree
2 66 (13.98%) Security Cleared
3 64 (13.56%) Master's Degree
4 63 (13.35%) PhD
5 56 (11.86%) DV Cleared
6 38 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (5.72%) Numerate Degree
8 17 (3.60%) DBS Check
9 11 (2.33%) SC Cleared
10 7 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.06%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.85%) HND
13 3 (0.64%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.42%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.21%) CCNA
15 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.21%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.78%) Accessibility
2 28 (5.93%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (1.27%) GDPR
4 5 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.85%) QA
6 2 (0.42%) SLA
7 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.21%) GMP
System Software
1 80 (16.95%) Docker
2 7 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 100 (21.19%) Kubernetes
2 38 (8.05%) Terraform
3 17 (3.60%) Ansible
4 4 (0.85%) Puppet
4 4 (0.85%) SCOM
5 2 (0.42%) Grafana
5 2 (0.42%) Packer
5 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.42%) SCCM
5 2 (0.42%) SCOrch
5 2 (0.42%) SCSM
Vendors
1 49 (10.38%) Databricks
2 45 (9.53%) Microsoft
3 42 (8.90%) Google
4 21 (4.45%) Apple
5 8 (1.69%) SAP
6 6 (1.27%) PayPal
7 5 (1.06%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.85%) Oracle
8 4 (0.85%) Zoho
9 3 (0.64%) New Relic
9 3 (0.64%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.42%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.42%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.42%) F5
10 2 (0.42%) Hitachi
10 2 (0.42%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.42%) Splunk
10 2 (0.42%) Teradata
10 2 (0.42%) VMware
11 1 (0.21%) Foundry