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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 71 89
Rank change year-on-year +37 +18 -8
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 1,105 766 776
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.78% 3.83% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.26% 4.34% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 247 426 529
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £51,104
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £87,419
90th Percentile £130,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +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 15,229 17,664 21,267
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.42% 88.21% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 8,516 10,594 17,215
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,000 £37,090
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% - -

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 29 October 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 16 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.36%) Apache Spark
3 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.72%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.63%) Apache Solr
5 5 (0.45%) Apache
6 3 (0.27%) Confluence
6 3 (0.27%) SAS
7 2 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.18%) Luigi
8 1 (0.090%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.18%) Sketch
5 2 (0.18%) Trello
5 2 (0.18%) Weka
6 1 (0.090%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.090%) Blender
Business Applications
1 8 (0.72%) Adaptiv
2 6 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.090%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.090%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.090%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.090%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.090%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.090%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.090%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.090%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.090%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 323 (29.23%) Azure
2 274 (24.80%) AWS
3 221 (20.00%) GCP
4 41 (3.71%) Power Platform
5 32 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (2.35%) Entra ID
7 24 (2.17%) SaaS
8 21 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (1.63%) Serverless
10 16 (1.45%) Azure Machine Learning
11 14 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (1.18%) Amazon S3
13 11 (1.00%) GitHub
14 10 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
14 10 (0.90%) PaaS
15 9 (0.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (0.81%) dbt
15 9 (0.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.36%) Broadband
2 2 (0.18%) InfiniBand
2 2 (0.18%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.090%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (3.44%) Power BI
2 24 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (1.45%) NoSQL
3 16 (1.45%) SQL Server
4 14 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (1.27%) Tableau
5 13 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (0.90%) MySQL
7 9 (0.81%) Big Data
7 9 (0.81%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (0.72%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.63%) Redis
9 7 (0.63%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.54%) Metadata
11 5 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.45%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.45%) Data Mining
11 5 (0.45%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.45%) Looker
Development Applications
1 20 (1.81%) Git
2 7 (0.63%) MLflow
3 6 (0.54%) JIRA
4 5 (0.45%) GitLab
4 5 (0.45%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.36%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.27%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.27%) RStudio
7 2 (0.18%) ERwin
7 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.090%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.090%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.090%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.090%) Vite
General
1 559 (50.59%) Retail
2 549 (49.68%) Manufacturing
3 196 (17.74%) Dutch Language
3 196 (17.74%) Finnish Language
4 187 (16.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 114 (10.32%) Social Skills
6 106 (9.59%) Finance
7 91 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
8 49 (4.43%) Catalan Language
9 26 (2.35%) Marketing
10 23 (2.08%) Public Sector
11 20 (1.81%) Banking
12 17 (1.54%) Games
13 14 (1.27%) Law
14 10 (0.90%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.72%) Legal
16 6 (0.54%) Automotive
16 6 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.36%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 545 (49.32%) Trainer
2 214 (19.37%) Senior
3 196 (17.74%) Software Engineer
4 183 (16.56%) Senior Software Engineer
5 42 (3.80%) Lead
6 31 (2.81%) Developer
7 27 (2.44%) Architect
8 25 (2.26%) Data Engineer
8 25 (2.26%) Data Scientist
9 23 (2.08%) Analyst
10 12 (1.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (1.00%) Consultant
12 10 (0.90%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (0.90%) Business Analyst
12 10 (0.90%) Python Engineer
13 8 (0.72%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (0.72%) Head of AI
13 8 (0.72%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 8 (0.72%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 8 (0.72%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (17.92%) Node.js
2 192 (17.38%) .NET
3 57 (5.16%) HTML
4 21 (1.90%) scikit-learn
5 20 (1.81%) React
5 20 (1.81%) TensorFlow
6 19 (1.72%) PyTorch
7 15 (1.36%) Pandas
8 14 (1.27%) Kafka
9 13 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
10 12 (1.09%) Hugging Face
10 12 (1.09%) REST
10 12 (1.09%) RESTful
10 12 (1.09%) Spring
11 11 (1.00%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.81%) FastAPI
12 9 (0.81%) NumPy
13 8 (0.72%) Middleware
14 7 (0.63%) .NET Framework
14 7 (0.63%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 540 (48.87%) Robotics
2 181 (16.38%) Self-Motivation
3 180 (16.29%) Cyberattack
3 180 (16.29%) Linux Command Line
4 44 (3.98%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.53%) Cloud Native
6 17 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 13 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.00%) AI Agents
8 11 (1.00%) Credit Risk
8 11 (1.00%) Reinsurance
9 9 (0.81%) Market Risk
10 8 (0.72%) Augmented Reality
10 8 (0.72%) Driving Licence
10 8 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (0.72%) Security Posture
11 6 (0.54%) CUDA
11 6 (0.54%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.45%) Mobile Games
12 5 (0.45%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 193 (17.47%) Linux
2 20 (1.81%) Windows
3 7 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.54%) Android
4 6 (0.54%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.18%) Unix
6 1 (0.090%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 840 (76.02%) AI
2 608 (55.02%) Problem-Solving
3 595 (53.85%) Data Privacy
4 583 (52.76%) LLM
5 569 (51.49%) Generative AI
6 542 (49.05%) Red Team
7 266 (24.07%) Agile
8 225 (20.36%) Software Engineering
9 216 (19.55%) Mentoring
10 212 (19.19%) Data Engineering
11 209 (18.91%) User Experience
12 204 (18.46%) Microservices
13 186 (16.83%) Scrum
14 182 (16.47%) Cloud Security
15 178 (16.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 144 (13.03%) Analytics
17 94 (8.51%) Data Science
18 81 (7.33%) Computer Science
19 78 (7.06%) DevOps
20 69 (6.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 391 (35.38%) Python
2 268 (24.25%) Java
3 247 (22.35%) JavaScript
4 240 (21.72%) C++
5 227 (20.54%) Rust
6 178 (16.11%) Go
7 133 (12.04%) SQL
8 76 (6.88%) R
9 65 (5.88%) TypeScript
10 64 (5.79%) PHP
11 60 (5.43%) C#
12 54 (4.89%) MATLAB
13 51 (4.62%) C
14 49 (4.43%) Dart
14 49 (4.43%) Ruby
15 27 (2.44%) PowerShell
16 23 (2.08%) Bash
17 9 (0.81%) T-SQL
18 8 (0.72%) Scala
19 7 (0.63%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 649 (58.73%) Degree
2 201 (18.19%) Security Cleared
3 186 (16.83%) AWS Certification
4 180 (16.29%) AWS Certified Developer
5 179 (16.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 178 (16.11%) DV Cleared
7 62 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (1.90%) SC Cleared
9 18 (1.63%) Master's Degree
10 15 (1.36%) PMP
11 14 (1.27%) CFA
11 14 (1.27%) PMI Certification
12 9 (0.81%) PhD
13 8 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.63%) Postgraduate
15 5 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.36%) Azure Certification
16 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
17 2 (0.18%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 14 (1.27%) GDPR
3 7 (0.63%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.54%) QA
5 5 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.27%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.090%) HL7
9 1 (0.090%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.090%) ISO 26262
9 1 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.090%) PMO
System Software
1 39 (3.53%) Docker
2 18 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.18%) Ceph
4 2 (0.18%) Lustre
4 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.090%) Firmware
5 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.35%) Terraform
3 18 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (1.54%) Ansible
5 8 (0.72%) SCCM
6 2 (0.18%) Argo
6 2 (0.18%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.18%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.18%) Puppet
7 1 (0.090%) Grafana
7 1 (0.090%) Istio
7 1 (0.090%) Kibana
7 1 (0.090%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.090%) logstash
Vendors
1 573 (51.86%) Databricks
2 558 (50.50%) Google
3 541 (48.96%) Adobe
4 51 (4.62%) Microsoft
5 14 (1.27%) Murex
5 14 (1.27%) OpenAI
6 8 (0.72%) FIS
6 8 (0.72%) Salesforce
7 6 (0.54%) SAP
8 5 (0.45%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.36%) Alteryx
9 4 (0.36%) Genesys
9 4 (0.36%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.36%) Talend
9 4 (0.36%) Zoho
10 3 (0.27%) Dell
11 2 (0.18%) Concur
11 2 (0.18%) Mercator
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle
12 1 (0.090%) Samsung