Machine Learning Jobs in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Machine Learning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Machine Learning over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 113 106
Rank change year-on-year +44 -7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 2,562 1,794 2,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.61% 2.98% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 3.12% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 935 776 939
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Machine Learning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +78 1,479 £70,000 +7.69% 25
South East -5 346 £65,000 -7.14% 140
South West -25 238 £65,000 -1.45% 60
North of England -109 193 £55,000 -15.38% 82
Midlands -34 179 £57,500 - 47
West Midlands -24 138 £57,500 +9.52% 32
North West -96 111 £56,250 -6.25% 49
East of England -2 102 £65,000 -7.14% 86
Yorkshire -67 68 £58,750 -15.02% 25
East Midlands -29 41 £47,500 -29.63% 15
North East -18 14 £47,500 -26.92% 8
Wales -7 13 £60,000 +9.01% 8
Northern Ireland +30 9 £100,000 +33.33% 17
Channel Islands - 2 - -
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -
Machine Learning
UK

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 310 (12.10%) Apache Spark
2 100 (3.90%) FileNet
3 42 (1.64%) Apache
4 33 (1.29%) SAS
5 32 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
6 19 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.43%) CICS
8 7 (0.27%) Confluence
9 6 (0.23%) Kinematics
10 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.12%) Luigi
12 2 (0.078%) Alfresco
12 2 (0.078%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.078%) CMS
12 2 (0.078%) Documentum
12 2 (0.078%) IIS
13 1 (0.039%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 58 (2.26%) Simulink
2 43 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.23%) Stateflow
6 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Siebel CRM
2 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.039%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 920 (35.91%) AWS
2 464 (18.11%) Azure
3 246 (9.60%) Power Platform
4 163 (6.36%) GCP
5 109 (4.25%) Amazon S3
6 82 (3.20%) SaaS
7 77 (3.01%) Datadog
8 76 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
9 66 (2.58%) Snowflake
10 63 (2.46%) GitHub
11 58 (2.26%) Matillion
12 55 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 52 (2.03%) Serverless
14 44 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
15 42 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 41 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
16 41 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 34 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
18 33 (1.29%) BlazeMeter
19 29 (1.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (0.74%) DNS
2 18 (0.70%) DSL
3 17 (0.66%) HTTP
4 12 (0.47%) Internet
5 9 (0.35%) Firewall
6 7 (0.27%) MQTT
6 7 (0.27%) Network Security
6 7 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.27%) Wireless
7 6 (0.23%) DHCP
8 5 (0.20%) Modbus
8 5 (0.20%) RFID
9 4 (0.16%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.16%) ZigBee
10 3 (0.12%) GPRS
10 3 (0.12%) SAN
11 2 (0.078%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.078%) RS-485
11 2 (0.078%) SSL
12 1 (0.039%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 456 (17.80%) NoSQL
2 278 (10.85%) Big Data
3 231 (9.02%) Power BI
4 203 (7.92%) SQL Server
5 185 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
6 173 (6.75%) Data Lake
7 136 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
8 134 (5.23%) Apache Cassandra
9 131 (5.11%) Hadoop
10 116 (4.53%) Apache Hive
11 104 (4.06%) HBase
12 95 (3.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 88 (3.43%) Tableau
14 80 (3.12%) MongoDB
15 44 (1.72%) Relational Database
16 39 (1.52%) Qlik Sense
17 33 (1.29%) DB2
17 33 (1.29%) Star Schema
18 26 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
19 25 (0.98%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 205 (8.00%) Git
2 200 (7.81%) JUnit
3 165 (6.44%) Jenkins
4 105 (4.10%) Jasmine
5 86 (3.36%) Bitbucket Server
6 84 (3.28%) Selenium
7 83 (3.24%) Cypress.io
8 60 (2.34%) Karma Test Runner
8 60 (2.34%) Protractor
8 60 (2.34%) WebDriver
9 45 (1.76%) Mockito
10 38 (1.48%) GitLab
11 25 (0.98%) Android Studio
12 22 (0.86%) JIRA
13 21 (0.82%) SoapUI
14 19 (0.74%) JMeter
15 14 (0.55%) Vagrant
16 13 (0.51%) Bitbucket
17 11 (0.43%) ChangeMan
18 10 (0.39%) LabVIEW
General
1 1,726 (67.37%) Finance
2 1,478 (57.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,463 (57.10%) Law
4 706 (27.56%) Marketing
5 489 (19.09%) Social Skills
6 476 (18.58%) Legal
7 390 (15.22%) Banking
8 277 (10.81%) Investment Banking
9 196 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
10 140 (5.46%) Public Sector
11 132 (5.15%) Retail
12 88 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
13 81 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
14 78 (3.04%) Financial Institution
15 60 (2.34%) Games
16 40 (1.56%) Manufacturing
17 33 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
18 32 (1.25%) Private Banking
19 31 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
20 24 (0.94%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,398 (54.57%) Software Engineer
2 584 (22.79%) Java Engineer
3 583 (22.76%) Java Software Engineer
4 526 (20.53%) Lead
5 400 (15.61%) Lead Software Engineer
6 369 (14.40%) Senior
7 284 (11.09%) Developer
8 265 (10.34%) Data Engineer
9 246 (9.60%) Full Stack Engineer
10 243 (9.48%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 223 (8.70%) Python Engineer
12 206 (8.04%) Python Software Engineer
13 196 (7.65%) AWS Engineer
14 191 (7.46%) AWS Software Engineer
15 155 (6.05%) Architect
15 155 (6.05%) Senior Software Engineer
16 153 (5.97%) Lead Java Engineer
17 137 (5.35%) Big Data Engineer
18 136 (5.31%) Big Data Software Engineer
19 131 (5.11%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 406 (15.85%) Spring
2 402 (15.69%) React
3 330 (12.88%) AngularJS
4 248 (9.68%) Kafka
5 221 (8.63%) HTML
5 221 (8.63%) J2EE
6 183 (7.14%) Node.js
7 180 (7.03%) CSS
7 180 (7.03%) Hibernate
8 171 (6.67%) JMS
9 165 (6.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 138 (5.39%) JSON
11 134 (5.23%) jQuery
12 127 (4.96%) Spring Boot
13 111 (4.33%) GraphQL
14 98 (3.83%) Spring Integration
15 97 (3.79%) .NET
15 97 (3.79%) PySpark
16 86 (3.36%) Jest
17 73 (2.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 806 (31.46%) Algorithms
2 481 (18.77%) Cloud Native
3 188 (7.34%) Public Cloud
4 167 (6.52%) Onboarding
5 165 (6.44%) Data Structures
6 77 (3.01%) Management Information System
7 76 (2.97%) Product Ownership
8 54 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 51 (1.99%) IoT
10 50 (1.95%) Reference Data
11 43 (1.68%) Legacy Code
12 38 (1.48%) Taxonomies
13 35 (1.37%) Blockchain
14 30 (1.17%) Credit Risk
14 30 (1.17%) Mainframe
15 26 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
16 24 (0.94%) Market Risk
17 21 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
17 21 (0.82%) Robotics
18 17 (0.66%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 145 (5.66%) Unix
2 134 (5.23%) Linux
3 51 (1.99%) Windows
4 44 (1.72%) Android
5 16 (0.62%) Embedded Linux
5 16 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.55%) CentOS
6 14 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.47%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.078%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,110 (82.36%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1,622 (63.31%) Agile
3 1,609 (62.80%) Software Engineering
4 1,317 (51.41%) CI/CD
5 1,273 (49.69%) SDLC
6 1,225 (47.81%) Operational Stability
7 907 (35.40%) Community of Practice
8 829 (32.36%) Visualisation
9 699 (27.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 512 (19.98%) Risk Management
11 495 (19.32%) Decision-Making
12 479 (18.70%) Data Science
13 443 (17.29%) Analytics
14 415 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
15 398 (15.53%) Microservices
16 390 (15.22%) Computer Science
17 320 (12.49%) Full Stack Development
18 314 (12.26%) Business Intelligence
19 304 (11.87%) ETL
20 291 (11.36%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 1,176 (45.90%) Java
2 1,121 (43.75%) Python
3 1,013 (39.54%) SQL
4 334 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 252 (9.84%) TypeScript
6 154 (6.01%) C#
7 118 (4.61%) C++
8 112 (4.37%) Scala
9 106 (4.14%) PL/SQL
10 81 (3.16%) C
11 65 (2.54%) R
12 56 (2.19%) Kotlin
13 55 (2.15%) MATLAB
14 39 (1.52%) Go
15 34 (1.33%) T-SQL
16 25 (0.98%) Fortran
17 24 (0.94%) Haskell
18 16 (0.62%) Bash
18 16 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 15 (0.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 478 (18.66%) Degree
2 157 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 152 (5.93%) Security Cleared
4 131 (5.11%) Master's Degree
5 106 (4.14%) PhD
6 71 (2.77%) SC Cleared
7 60 (2.34%) DV Cleared
8 23 (0.90%) AWS Certification
9 16 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (0.62%) PMI Certification
10 15 (0.59%) CISSP
11 13 (0.51%) CISM
12 9 (0.35%) MBA
12 9 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
13 7 (0.27%) CISA
13 7 (0.27%) CRISC
14 6 (0.23%) CCNA
14 6 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.23%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (0.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (4.61%) Data Quality
2 59 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 48 (1.87%) GDPR
4 32 (1.25%) QA
5 22 (0.86%) SLA
6 12 (0.47%) NIST
7 11 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.23%) Def Stans
8 6 (0.23%) IEC 61508
9 4 (0.16%) COBIT
10 3 (0.12%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.078%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.039%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.039%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 103 (4.02%) HDFS
2 100 (3.90%) Docker
3 23 (0.90%) Firmware
4 11 (0.43%) Time Sharing Option
5 10 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.27%) Active Directory
8 6 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 285 (11.12%) Kubernetes
2 262 (10.23%) Terraform
3 96 (3.75%) Grafana
4 30 (1.17%) Ansible
5 22 (0.86%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.27%) Graphite
7 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.12%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.078%) Argo
10 1 (0.039%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.039%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.039%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle Identity Management
10 1 (0.039%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.039%) Rancher
Vendors
1 324 (12.65%) Databricks
2 285 (11.12%) Oracle
3 262 (10.23%) Microsoft
4 102 (3.98%) Splunk
5 90 (3.51%) Dynatrace
6 88 (3.43%) Informatica
7 87 (3.40%) Alteryx
8 73 (2.85%) Cloudera
9 63 (2.46%) Google
10 32 (1.25%) Xilinx
11 18 (0.70%) Cognos
11 18 (0.70%) SaltStack
11 18 (0.70%) Sybase
12 16 (0.62%) Salesforce
13 12 (0.47%) Dataiku
14 10 (0.39%) SAP
14 10 (0.39%) Xamarin
15 9 (0.35%) IBM
15 9 (0.35%) OpenAI
16 8 (0.31%) UiPath