Ashney Market Intelligence · Market report · 31 August 2026 Weekly

Data & ML Engineer

in the United Kingdom

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

The read

Posting is up 27% from the month before, at 371 new roles. The median role is filled within 31 days.

01 — The numbers

By the numbers

1,065Open roles
371 ↑27% vs prior Posted / 30 days
31Median days open
6%Explicitly remote
02 — Who is hiring

The companies with the most open roles

These 1,065 roles are spread across 443 companies. The eight below post the most; together they are 12% 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 443 companies hiring
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NovartisWPP MediaCapcoLila SciencesFlagship Pioneering IncRelxFacultyWayve
03 — Seniority

Where these roles sit on the ladder

By title, across the 1,065 open roles. Seniority is inferred from the job title, so read it as a shape, not a precise count.

Principal 23%Lead 8%Senior 26%Mid / unspecified 41%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 the United Kingdom, 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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