AI Job Trends in the East of England

AI
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 39 112
Rank change year-on-year +34 +73 +40
Permanent jobs citing AI 607 237 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 9.77% 7.94% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.16% 8.51% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 158 161 99
10th Percentile £33,750 £60,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,813 £66,200 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,725 £66,219 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.81% +1.88% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £66,274 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,375 £66,350 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

AI falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,288 2,786 4,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 69.03% 93.36% 80.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,711 1,407 3,696
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £25,809
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,125 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,252 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,100 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

AI job vacancy trend in the East of England

AI
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AI

AI
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in the East of England

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Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2026. 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
Hertfordshire +49 180 £55,000 -15.38% 47
Cambridgeshire +7 147 £60,100 -4.91% 87
Essex +34 121 £75,000 +57.89% 33
Bedfordshire +44 59 £40,000 -37.50% 14
Suffolk +1 50 £58,750 -11.29% 20
Norfolk +15 49 £37,500 -41.41% 16
AI
England

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 15 (2.47%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.15%) Apache
3 7 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.66%) Confluence
4 4 (0.66%) WordPress
5 3 (0.49%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Moodle
Applications
1 87 (14.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.81%) UserZoom
4 5 (0.82%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.33%) Simulink
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.16%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.49%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 172 (28.34%) Azure
2 136 (22.41%) Cloud Computing
3 125 (20.59%) Azure AI
4 102 (16.80%) Power Platform
5 57 (9.39%) Adobe Analytics
6 41 (6.75%) AWS
7 23 (3.79%) Figma
8 19 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (2.31%) SaaS
10 14 (2.31%) Snowflake
11 12 (1.98%) Contentsquare
11 12 (1.98%) dbt
11 12 (1.98%) GCP
12 9 (1.48%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.48%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.32%) GitHub
13 8 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (1.32%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.15%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 135 (22.24%) Internet
2 64 (10.54%) Broadband
3 13 (2.14%) Firewall
4 7 (1.15%) DNS
5 6 (0.99%) DMZ
5 6 (0.99%) Network Security
6 5 (0.82%) VLAN
7 4 (0.66%) DHCP
7 4 (0.66%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.49%) VPN
9 2 (0.33%) Intranet
10 1 (0.16%) LTE
10 1 (0.16%) MQTT
10 1 (0.16%) RS-422
10 1 (0.16%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.16%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (17.30%) Tableau
2 98 (16.14%) Power BI
3 20 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 17 (2.80%) Data Lake
5 15 (2.47%) MongoDB
6 13 (2.14%) Looker
7 9 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.15%) Apache Hive
9 7 (1.15%) Impala
9 7 (1.15%) Oracle Database
9 7 (1.15%) Parquet
9 7 (1.15%) Spark SQL
10 6 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.99%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.99%) Metabase
10 6 (0.99%) Metadata
10 6 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (1.98%) Git
2 7 (1.15%) IBM UrbanCode
3 6 (0.99%) MLflow
4 4 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.33%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.33%) JIRA
6 1 (0.16%) GitBook
6 1 (0.16%) Poetry
General
1 308 (50.74%) Social Skills
2 143 (23.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 138 (22.73%) Banking
4 67 (11.04%) Games
5 55 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (6.10%) Finance
7 24 (3.95%) Marketing
8 19 (3.13%) Electronics
8 19 (3.13%) Legal
9 16 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (2.64%) German Language
10 15 (2.47%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.31%) Retail
12 10 (1.65%) Law
13 9 (1.48%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.15%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.82%) Swedish Language
17 2 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 102 (16.80%) Lecturer
2 91 (14.99%) Analyst
3 87 (14.33%) Junior
4 84 (13.84%) Data Analyst
4 84 (13.84%) Junior Analyst
4 84 (13.84%) Junior Data Analyst
5 77 (12.69%) Lead
6 52 (8.57%) Senior
7 35 (5.77%) Developer
8 28 (4.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 23 (3.79%) Architect
10 21 (3.46%) Designer
11 20 (3.29%) Data Engineer
12 18 (2.97%) Product Manager
13 17 (2.80%) Lead Designer
14 15 (2.47%) .NET Developer
14 15 (2.47%) Digital Designer
15 13 (2.14%) Consultant
16 12 (1.98%) Systems Engineer
17 10 (1.65%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.44%) HTML
2 21 (3.46%) .NET
3 20 (3.29%) CSS
4 18 (2.97%) React
5 17 (2.80%) .NET Core
5 17 (2.80%) PyTorch
6 16 (2.64%) TensorFlow
7 15 (2.47%) ASP.NET
7 15 (2.47%) ASP.NET Core
7 15 (2.47%) JSON
7 15 (2.47%) ML.NET
8 13 (2.14%) Regular Expression
8 13 (2.14%) XML
9 11 (1.81%) PySpark
10 10 (1.65%) RESTful
11 9 (1.48%) Blazor
11 9 (1.48%) scikit-learn
12 8 (1.32%) Node.js
13 7 (1.15%) REST
14 6 (0.99%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 132 (21.75%) IoT
2 62 (10.21%) Social Media
3 41 (6.75%) Robotics
4 31 (5.11%) Onboarding
5 22 (3.62%) Cloud Native
6 16 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.47%) Product Ownership
8 14 (2.31%) Algorithms
9 13 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (1.98%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (1.32%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.32%) Security Posture
13 7 (1.15%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.99%) Blog
14 6 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
14 6 (0.99%) Clustering
14 6 (0.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 6 (0.99%) PKI
14 6 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.14%) Unix
2 12 (1.98%) Windows
3 11 (1.81%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.66%) VMS
4 4 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.49%) Android
5 3 (0.49%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.33%) Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (34.60%) Machine Learning
2 160 (26.36%) User Experience
3 155 (25.54%) Cybersecurity
4 140 (23.06%) Web Development
5 127 (20.92%) Agile
6 125 (20.59%) Analytics
7 119 (19.60%) Business Intelligence
8 83 (13.67%) Roadmaps
9 81 (13.34%) Customer Experience
10 77 (12.69%) Storytelling
11 63 (10.38%) Product Roadmap
12 57 (9.39%) Digital Customer Experience
12 57 (9.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 55 (9.06%) User Research
14 54 (8.90%) LLM
15 51 (8.40%) Generative AI
16 50 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
16 50 (8.24%) Prototyping
16 50 (8.24%) Software Engineering
17 46 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 183 (30.15%) Python
2 129 (21.25%) SQL
3 28 (4.61%) C#
4 22 (3.62%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.48%) R
6 8 (1.32%) C++
7 6 (0.99%) Java
7 6 (0.99%) Julia
7 6 (0.99%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.82%) C
9 4 (0.66%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.49%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.33%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.33%) PHP
12 1 (0.16%) Bash
12 1 (0.16%) Delphi
12 1 (0.16%) Go
12 1 (0.16%) Haskell
12 1 (0.16%) OCaml
12 1 (0.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 198 (32.62%) Degree
2 138 (22.73%) Master's Degree
3 134 (22.08%) Postgraduate
4 132 (21.75%) PhD
5 113 (18.62%) Azure Certification
6 32 (5.27%) DBS Check
7 25 (4.12%) Security Cleared
8 11 (1.81%) ACCA
8 11 (1.81%) CIMA
8 11 (1.81%) SC Cleared
9 6 (0.99%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (0.49%) CISM
11 3 (0.49%) CISSP
12 2 (0.33%) CISA
12 2 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (10.05%) Accessibility
2 22 (3.62%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.29%) GDPR
4 14 (2.31%) WCAG
5 10 (1.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.15%) NIST
7 6 (0.99%) GRC
7 6 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 6 (0.99%) JSP 440
7 6 (0.99%) NCSC
7 6 (0.99%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.99%) QA
8 4 (0.66%) DO-254
8 4 (0.66%) GAAP
8 4 (0.66%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.66%) IFRS
8 4 (0.66%) SLA
9 1 (0.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.16%) GxP
System Software
1 11 (1.81%) Docker
2 9 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (0.66%) Firmware
3 4 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (1.48%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (0.66%) Ansible
2 4 (0.66%) SolarWinds Orion
2 4 (0.66%) vCenter Server
3 3 (0.49%) Terraform
4 2 (0.33%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.16%) Grafana
5 1 (0.16%) Podman
Vendors
1 152 (25.04%) Microsoft
2 60 (9.88%) Adobe
3 22 (3.62%) Dell
4 18 (2.97%) Databricks
5 17 (2.80%) Google
6 8 (1.32%) Oracle
7 7 (1.15%) Informatica
7 7 (1.15%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.99%) Cloudera
8 6 (0.99%) Denodo
8 6 (0.99%) Teradata
9 4 (0.66%) Apple
9 4 (0.66%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.66%) VMware
10 3 (0.49%) SAP
11 2 (0.33%) Facebook
11 2 (0.33%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.33%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.33%) Sony
11 2 (0.33%) Yahoo!