The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Machine Learning in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Machine Learning over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Machine Learning
Rank 776 812 848
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +36
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 86 86 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.080% 0.071% 0.020%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.239% 0.215% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 63 82 21
Average salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.34% +4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £76,750 £72,250 £140,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +53.84%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
35925 39961 43579
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 33.40% 33.10% 34.57%
Number of salaries quoted 29475 33667 36543
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%

Machine Learning
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Machine Learning Jobs Demand Trend

Machine Learning
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the UK.

Machine Learning Salary Trend

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Machine Learning over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

Machine Learning Salary Histogram

Machine Learning
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +24 86 £60,000 +4.34%
London +26 65 £62,500 +8.69%
City of London +16 24 £62,500 +4.16%
South West - 14 £55,000 -
Bristol - 10 £30,000 -
Devon - 4 £56,250 -
Derby +12 2 £31,250 -6.71%
East of England +7 2 £50,000 +53.84%
Derbyshire +5 2 £31,250 -6.71%
South East +2 2 £50,000 -28.57%
East Midlands -1 2 £31,250 -6.71%
Cambridgeshire - 2 £50,000 -
Berkshire - 2 £50,000 -
Cambridge - 2 £50,000 -
Canary Wharf - 1 £60,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £33,500 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £33,500 -
Sheffield - 1 £33,500 -

Machine Learning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Machine Learning also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Machine Learning.

1 128 (53.56%) Mathematics
1 128 (53.56%) Big Data
2 126 (52.72%) Computer Science
3 120 (50.21%) Java
4 107 (44.77%) Data Mining
5 100 (41.84%) Hadoop
6 94 (39.33%) C++
7 66 (27.62%) Finance
8 64 (26.78%) PhD
8 64 (26.78%) Statistics
9 63 (26.36%) Physics
10 61 (25.52%) Python
11 53 (22.18%) Linux
12 51 (21.34%) C
13 50 (20.92%) MATLAB
13 50 (20.92%) Degree
14 49 (20.50%) SQL
15 47 (19.67%) Oracle
15 47 (19.67%) NoSQL
16 42 (17.57%) UNIX
17 41 (17.15%) C#
18 34 (14.23%) Lucene
18 34 (14.23%) Apache Solr
19 32 (13.39%) OO
20 31 (12.97%) Apache Pig
21 30 (12.55%) Software Engineering
21 30 (12.55%) SEO
22 29 (12.13%) PHP
22 29 (12.13%) Apache Cassandra
23 28 (11.72%) MySQL

Machine Learning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Machine Learning also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Machine Learning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 34 (14.23%) Lucene
2 20 (8.368%) LAMP
3 19 (7.950%) MapReduce
4 16 (6.695%) Natural Language Processing
5 8 (3.347%) STL
5 8 (3.347%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 7 (2.929%) Spring
7 6 (2.510%) .NET
8 4 (1.674%) HTML
8 4 (1.674%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.674%) jQuery
9 3 (1.255%) J2SE
10 2 (0.837%) ASP
10 2 (0.837%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.837%) CSS
10 2 (0.837%) Web Services
10 2 (0.837%) Django
10 2 (0.837%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.837%) SciPy
10 2 (0.837%) NumPy
Application Platforms
1 34 (14.23%) Apache Solr
2 31 (12.97%) Apache Pig
3 18 (7.531%) Apache
4 7 (2.929%) SAS
5 2 (0.837%) IIS
5 2 (0.837%) Amazon AWS
5 2 (0.837%) ESB
5 2 (0.837%) Kafka
5 2 (0.837%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.418%) MSMQ
Applications
1 6 (2.510%) MS Excel
1 6 (2.510%) SPSS
2 4 (1.674%) MS Office
3 1 (0.418%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.837%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.766%) HTTP
2 7 (2.929%) Internet
3 1 (0.418%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (53.56%) Big Data
2 107 (44.77%) Data Mining
3 100 (41.84%) Hadoop
4 47 (19.67%) NoSQL
5 29 (12.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 28 (11.72%) MySQL
7 19 (7.950%) Apache Hive
8 16 (6.695%) HBase
9 12 (5.021%) Text Mining
10 9 (3.766%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (2.510%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.674%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.674%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.837%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.837%) TOAD
13 2 (0.837%) SAP BW
13 2 (0.837%) OLAP
13 2 (0.837%) Mahout
13 2 (0.837%) Redis
14 1 (0.418%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 7 (2.929%) Maven
2 3 (1.255%) GitHub
2 3 (1.255%) Git (software)
2 3 (1.255%) LabVIEW
3 2 (0.837%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.418%) Moq
4 1 (0.418%) MbUnit
4 1 (0.418%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.418%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.418%) NUnit
4 1 (0.418%) JUnit
General
1 66 (27.62%) Finance
2 21 (8.787%) Front Office
3 14 (5.858%) Games
4 11 (4.603%) Marketing
5 8 (3.347%) Banking
5 8 (3.347%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.510%) Advertising
7 4 (1.674%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.255%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.255%) Electronics
8 3 (1.255%) Multimedia
9 2 (0.837%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.837%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.837%) Music
10 1 (0.418%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.418%) Retail
Job Titles
1 121 (50.63%) Developer
2 46 (19.25%) Java Developer
3 31 (12.97%) C++ Developer
4 25 (10.46%) Quantitative Developer
5 17 (7.113%) Front Office Developer
5 17 (7.113%) Analyst
5 17 (7.113%) Data Scientist
6 11 (4.603%) Software Engineer
7 8 (3.347%) Software Developer
7 8 (3.347%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 7 (2.929%) Data Analyst
9 6 (2.510%) C# Developer
9 6 (2.510%) C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (2.510%) Quantitative Analyst
10 5 (2.092%) C++/Java Developer
10 5 (2.092%) Electronics Engineer
10 5 (2.092%) Graduate
11 4 (1.674%) Team Leader
11 4 (1.674%) Real Time Software Engineer
11 4 (1.674%) Development Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 128 (53.56%) Mathematics
2 126 (52.72%) Computer Science
3 64 (26.78%) Statistics
4 63 (26.36%) Physics
5 18 (7.531%) Digital Media
5 18 (7.531%) Artificial Intelligence
6 15 (6.276%) Visualisation
7 13 (5.439%) Open Source
8 11 (4.603%) Neural Network
9 9 (3.766%) Hedge funds
9 9 (3.766%) Economics
10 8 (3.347%) Social Network
11 7 (2.929%) Ontologies
11 7 (2.929%) Client/Server
12 6 (2.510%) Smartphone
13 5 (2.092%) Mobile App
14 4 (1.674%) Equities
14 4 (1.674%) Semantic Web
14 4 (1.674%) Derivative
14 4 (1.674%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 53 (22.18%) Linux
2 42 (17.57%) UNIX
3 13 (5.439%) Android
4 6 (2.510%) Windows
4 6 (2.510%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.255%) Windows Phone
6 1 (0.418%) Symbian OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (13.39%) OO
2 30 (12.55%) Software Engineering
2 30 (12.55%) SEO
3 25 (10.46%) Analytics
4 19 (7.950%) TDD
5 18 (7.531%) Data Management
5 18 (7.531%) OOD
6 17 (7.113%) Pattern Recognition
7 14 (5.858%) Predictive Modelling
8 13 (5.439%) Scrum
9 12 (5.021%) Multithreading
9 12 (5.021%) Statistical Analysis
10 10 (4.184%) Game Development
11 9 (3.766%) Statistical Modelling
11 9 (3.766%) Algorithmic Trading
12 7 (2.929%) Signal Processing
12 7 (2.929%) Data Visualisation
12 7 (2.929%) Data Analytics
12 7 (2.929%) Big Data Analytics
12 7 (2.929%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 120 (50.21%) Java
2 94 (39.33%) C++
3 61 (25.52%) Python
4 51 (21.34%) C
5 50 (20.92%) MATLAB
6 49 (20.50%) SQL
7 41 (17.15%) C#
8 29 (12.13%) PHP
9 24 (10.04%) R
10 23 (9.623%) Perl
11 17 (7.113%) Scala
12 12 (5.021%) Ruby
13 11 (4.603%) Clojure
14 9 (3.766%) F#
15 8 (3.347%) JavaScript
16 6 (2.510%) Objective-C
16 6 (2.510%) Erlang
17 5 (2.092%) Shell Script
18 4 (1.674%) Lua
19 2 (0.837%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 64 (26.78%) PhD
2 50 (20.92%) Degree
3 3 (1.255%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 2 (0.837%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 8 (3.347%) Puppet
Vendors
1 47 (19.67%) Oracle
2 10 (4.184%) Facebook
3 8 (3.347%) Red Hat
3 8 (3.347%) Google
4 6 (2.510%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.674%) MicroStrategy
5 4 (1.674%) Business Objects
5 4 (1.674%) Tableau
6 2 (0.837%) SAP
6 2 (0.837%) Omniture
7 1 (0.418%) Symbian
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