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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 35 69
Rank change year-on-year -35 +34 +25
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 848 1,089 831
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.40% 6.59% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 7.02% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 532 237 473
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,706 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £130,000 £102,250
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 20,087 15,504 18,946
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.59% 93.81% 88.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14,255 8,362 11,176
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 12 October 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 25 (2.95%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.48%) Apache
3 18 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.83%) SAS
6 6 (0.71%) Confluence
7 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.24%) IIS
8 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (1.42%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Blender
3 3 (0.35%) Maya
4 2 (0.24%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 354 (41.75%) Azure
2 248 (29.25%) AWS
3 162 (19.10%) Azure AI
4 121 (14.27%) GCP
5 104 (12.26%) GitHub
6 89 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (9.32%) GitHub Copilot
8 73 (8.61%) Snowflake
9 56 (6.60%) Power Platform
10 47 (5.54%) Amazon Bedrock
11 43 (5.07%) SaaS
12 41 (4.83%) Anthropic Claude
13 37 (4.36%) Azure Data Factory
14 28 (3.30%) Azure Machine Learning
15 27 (3.18%) Microsoft Purview
16 25 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 21 (2.48%) Azure Databricks
17 21 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
18 20 (2.36%) Amazon S3
19 19 (2.24%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 53 (6.25%) Broadband
2 30 (3.54%) Internet
3 10 (1.18%) Firewall
4 9 (1.06%) 5G
5 4 (0.47%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.47%) Network Security
6 3 (0.35%) BGP
6 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.35%) LAN
6 3 (0.35%) OSPF
6 3 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.35%) VPN
6 3 (0.35%) WAN
7 2 (0.24%) ATM
7 2 (0.24%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.24%) HTTP
7 2 (0.24%) UWB
7 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.24%) Wireless
8 1 (0.12%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (19.46%) MongoDB
2 146 (17.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 57 (6.72%) Metadata
4 52 (6.13%) Power BI
5 51 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (4.13%) Big Data
8 22 (2.59%) Data Lake
9 21 (2.48%) Delta Lake
10 19 (2.24%) Tableau
11 18 (2.12%) NoSQL
12 17 (2.00%) Data Vault
13 12 (1.42%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (1.30%) Looker
15 10 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.94%) Apache Iceberg
17 7 (0.83%) Hadoop
17 7 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (4.72%) Claude Code
2 37 (4.36%) Git
3 23 (2.71%) MLflow
4 12 (1.42%) JIRA
5 10 (1.18%) GitLab
6 8 (0.94%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.59%) Poetry
7 5 (0.59%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.35%) Appium
9 3 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.35%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.24%) Selenium
11 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.12%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.12%) Mocha
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 267 (31.49%) Finance
2 152 (17.92%) Social Skills
3 127 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (11.56%) Banking
5 86 (10.14%) Marketing
6 46 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (4.72%) Public Sector
8 39 (4.60%) Retail
9 37 (4.36%) Games
10 34 (4.01%) Law
11 33 (3.89%) Advertising
12 31 (3.66%) Legal
13 14 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (1.53%) Aerospace
15 12 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.30%) Financial Institution
17 10 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (1.06%) Legal Technology
18 9 (1.06%) Retail Banking
19 7 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 212 (25.00%) Developer
2 148 (17.45%) .NET Developer
3 135 (15.92%) Senior
4 114 (13.44%) Data Scientist
5 113 (13.33%) Architect
6 93 (10.97%) Lead
7 66 (7.78%) Software Engineer
8 55 (6.49%) Data Engineer
9 54 (6.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 54 (6.37%) Senior Data Scientist
10 38 (4.48%) Enterprise Architect
11 37 (4.36%) Lead Data Scientist
12 36 (4.25%) Finance Manager
13 35 (4.13%) Data Architect
14 32 (3.77%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 29 (3.42%) Consultant
16 25 (2.95%) Python Engineer
17 22 (2.59%) Analyst
18 20 (2.36%) Lead Developer
18 20 (2.36%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (20.17%) .NET
2 148 (17.45%) ASP.NET
2 148 (17.45%) ASP.NET Core
2 148 (17.45%) ML.NET
3 146 (17.22%) .NET Core
4 115 (13.56%) RESTful
5 102 (12.03%) React
6 97 (11.44%) Blazor
7 88 (10.38%) CSS
8 84 (9.91%) HTML
9 79 (9.32%) PyTorch
10 74 (8.73%) TensorFlow
11 72 (8.49%) LangChain
12 69 (8.14%) Terraform
13 48 (5.66%) LangGraph
14 37 (4.36%) PySpark
15 27 (3.18%) Hugging Face
16 25 (2.95%) Node.js
17 21 (2.48%) scikit-learn
18 17 (2.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 116 (13.68%) Cloud Native
2 79 (9.32%) AI Agents
3 66 (7.78%) Blog
4 57 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (6.13%) Algorithms
6 37 (4.36%) Video\Live Streaming
7 36 (4.25%) Hedge funds
8 32 (3.77%) Product Ownership
9 31 (3.66%) Mobile App
10 29 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
11 28 (3.30%) Social Media
12 24 (2.83%) Low-Code
13 21 (2.48%) Credit Risk
14 19 (2.24%) Digital TV
15 18 (2.12%) BBC
16 17 (2.00%) iPhone
17 16 (1.89%) Onboarding
18 15 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
19 12 (1.42%) Data Structures
19 12 (1.42%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.36%) Android
2 14 (1.65%) Linux
3 7 (0.83%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.71%) Windows
5 3 (0.35%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) macOS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (86.56%) AI
2 269 (31.72%) Data Science
3 246 (29.01%) CI/CD
4 223 (26.30%) Analytics
5 203 (23.94%) Agile
6 196 (23.11%) Roadmaps
7 191 (22.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 186 (21.93%) Software Engineering
9 146 (17.22%) DevOps
10 142 (16.75%) LLM
11 130 (15.33%) Generative AI
12 124 (14.62%) Mentoring
13 104 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
14 97 (11.44%) Data Modelling
15 96 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
15 96 (11.32%) Validation
16 94 (11.08%) Data Pipeline
17 91 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
17 91 (10.73%) Fintech
17 91 (10.73%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 388 (45.75%) Python
2 330 (38.92%) SQL
3 179 (21.11%) C#
4 120 (14.15%) JavaScript
5 51 (6.01%) Java
6 50 (5.90%) TypeScript
7 40 (4.72%) Go
8 25 (2.95%) Scala
9 24 (2.83%) R
10 19 (2.24%) Bicep
10 19 (2.24%) PowerShell
11 18 (2.12%) Rust
12 12 (1.42%) C++
12 12 (1.42%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.18%) C
14 7 (0.83%) Bash
14 7 (0.83%) Swift
15 6 (0.71%) PHP
16 5 (0.59%) Ada
17 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (9.67%) Degree
1 82 (9.67%) Security Cleared
2 57 (6.72%) SC Cleared
3 33 (3.89%) DV Cleared
4 28 (3.30%) Azure Certification
5 19 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.89%) SnowPro
7 14 (1.65%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.94%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.94%) PhD
10 7 (0.83%) CISSP
11 5 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.47%) CCNP
13 3 (0.35%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.35%) CCDP
14 2 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.24%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 24 (2.83%) GDPR
4 20 (2.36%) QA
5 13 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.94%) COPPA
8 4 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.47%) SLA
9 3 (0.35%) IFRS
9 3 (0.35%) IFRS 17
9 3 (0.35%) MIL-STD-1553
9 3 (0.35%) NIST
9 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) JTAG
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 129 (15.21%) Docker
2 7 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.71%) Firmware
4 5 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.24%) NFS
6 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 124 (14.62%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.89%) Grafana
3 12 (1.42%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.71%) Ansible
5 5 (0.59%) Kubeflow
6 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.35%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.35%) Istio
7 3 (0.35%) linkerd
7 3 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.35%) Puppet
8 2 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (0.24%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.12%) Podman
9 1 (0.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 227 (26.77%) Microsoft
2 106 (12.50%) Databricks
3 68 (8.02%) Google
4 35 (4.13%) Facebook
5 20 (2.36%) OpenAI
5 20 (2.36%) Yahoo!
6 17 (2.00%) Apple
7 16 (1.89%) Sony
8 15 (1.77%) Foundry
9 10 (1.18%) Adobe
9 10 (1.18%) SAP
10 6 (0.71%) New Relic
11 5 (0.59%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.59%) Splunk
11 5 (0.59%) VMware
12 4 (0.47%) Oracle
12 4 (0.47%) Palantir
13 3 (0.35%) Cisco
13 3 (0.35%) Forcepoint
13 3 (0.35%) Juniper