Ashney Market Intelligence · Market report · 31 August 2026 Weekly

Data & ML Engineer

in remote roles

Who is hiring, how senior the roles are, and how fast they fill.

The read

Agency, Syneos Health and Humana are the biggest hirers, 19% of distinct openings between them. Posting is up 24% from the month before, at 211 new roles.

01 — The numbers

By the numbers

763Open roles
211 ↑24% vs prior Posted / 30 days
31Median days open
100%Explicitly remote
02 — Who is hiring

The companies with the most open roles

These 763 roles are spread across 370 companies. The eight below post the most; together they are 26% of the total, so hiring here is fragmented, no single employer dominates. The rest sit at hundreds of companies with a handful of openings each.

Top 8 of 370 companies hiring
109
20
19
13
11
10
10
10
AgencySyneos HealthHumanaGDITTechbizglobalFeatherless AIInnoData IncTether
03 — Seniority

Where these roles sit on the ladder

By title, across the 763 open roles. Seniority is inferred from the job title, so read it as a shape, not a precise count.

Principal 16%Lead 5%Senior 21%Mid / unspecified 55%Junior 2%
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How we count

Ashney reads companies' own applicant-tracking systems directly, hourly, not job boards. These counts are for Data & ML Engineer roles in remote roles, deduplicated across reposts and staffing-agency listings. Seniority is inferred from the job title. This report refreshes weekly; the Ashney app scores new roles for members hourly. Figures as of 31 August 2026.

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