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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 20 110
Rank change year-on-year +17 +90 +45
Permanent jobs citing AI 820 250 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 13.12% 9.60% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.60% 10.37% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 137 172 97
10th Percentile £33,250 £62,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £66,200 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,225 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.95% +1.88% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,296 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,000 £82,250
England median annual salary £70,752 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +7.14% -

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 4,409 2,410 4,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.54% 92.59% 81.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,569 1,396 3,659
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £25,809
25th Percentile £35,250 £39,803 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,340 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,185 £78,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in the East of England

AI
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 21 April 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 +44 298 £55,000 -23.08% 122
Essex +29 203 £73,750 +18.47% 76
Cambridgeshire +12 156 £60,000 -6.12% 47
Bedfordshire +38 56 £47,500 -25.78% 17
Norfolk +22 53 £37,500 -57.63% 31
Suffolk -3 53 £62,500 -5.62% 24
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 (1.83%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (0.85%) Apache
4 4 (0.49%) Confluence
4 4 (0.49%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.37%) CMS
5 3 (0.37%) WordPress
6 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 85 (10.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.34%) UserZoom
4 7 (0.85%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.37%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 363 (44.27%) Cloud Computing
2 152 (18.54%) Azure
3 112 (13.66%) Azure AI
4 100 (12.20%) Power Platform
5 57 (6.95%) Adobe Analytics
6 37 (4.51%) AWS
7 23 (2.80%) Figma
8 18 (2.20%) SaaS
9 14 (1.71%) Snowflake
10 12 (1.46%) Contentsquare
10 12 (1.46%) dbt
10 12 (1.46%) GCP
11 11 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (1.10%) Entra ID
13 9 (1.10%) OpenShift
14 7 (0.85%) Amazon Alexa
14 7 (0.85%) Amazon S3
15 6 (0.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (0.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 358 (43.66%) Internet
2 64 (7.80%) Broadband
3 9 (1.10%) Firewall
4 5 (0.61%) DNS
4 5 (0.61%) VLAN
5 4 (0.49%) DHCP
5 4 (0.49%) DMZ
5 4 (0.49%) Network Security
5 4 (0.49%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.24%) Intranet
7 1 (0.12%) LTE
7 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.12%) VPN
7 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.12%) WireGuard
7 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (12.80%) Tableau
2 96 (11.71%) Power BI
3 19 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (2.20%) Data Lake
5 14 (1.71%) Looker
6 9 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (0.98%) Metadata
8 7 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (0.85%) Apache Hive
8 7 (0.85%) Impala
8 7 (0.85%) Oracle Database
8 7 (0.85%) Parquet
8 7 (0.85%) Spark SQL
9 6 (0.73%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.73%) Metabase
9 6 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (0.61%) DTS
10 5 (0.61%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (1.10%) Git
2 7 (0.85%) IBM UrbanCode
3 6 (0.73%) MLflow
4 4 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.37%) GitBook
6 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.24%) JIRA
7 1 (0.12%) Poetry
General
1 525 (64.02%) Social Skills
2 370 (45.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 365 (44.51%) Banking
4 67 (8.17%) Games
5 66 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (4.39%) Finance
7 26 (3.17%) German Language
8 23 (2.80%) Marketing
9 20 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.32%) Electronics
11 17 (2.07%) Legal
12 16 (1.95%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.71%) Retail
14 7 (0.85%) Investment Banking
14 7 (0.85%) Law
15 6 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.73%) Public Sector
16 5 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.49%) Swedish Language
18 2 (0.24%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 286 (34.88%) Lecturer
2 91 (11.10%) Analyst
3 86 (10.49%) Junior
4 84 (10.24%) Data Analyst
4 84 (10.24%) Junior Analyst
4 84 (10.24%) Junior Data Analyst
5 71 (8.66%) Lead
6 48 (5.85%) Senior
7 28 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 21 (2.56%) Designer
8 21 (2.56%) Developer
9 20 (2.44%) Data Engineer
10 19 (2.32%) Product Manager
11 17 (2.07%) Lead Designer
12 16 (1.95%) Architect
13 15 (1.83%) Digital Designer
14 12 (1.46%) Consultant
14 12 (1.46%) Systems Engineer
15 11 (1.34%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
16 10 (1.22%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (4.51%) HTML
2 22 (2.68%) JSON
2 22 (2.68%) Regular Expression
2 22 (2.68%) XML
3 19 (2.32%) PyTorch
4 18 (2.20%) TensorFlow
5 15 (1.83%) CSS
6 10 (1.22%) PySpark
6 10 (1.22%) React
7 9 (1.10%) scikit-learn
8 8 (0.98%) REST
9 7 (0.85%) Node.js
10 6 (0.73%) .NET
10 6 (0.73%) Kafka
10 6 (0.73%) LangChain
10 6 (0.73%) LlamaIndex
10 6 (0.73%) Pandas
10 6 (0.73%) pgvector
11 5 (0.61%) NumPy
11 5 (0.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 359 (43.78%) IoT
2 60 (7.32%) Social Media
3 46 (5.61%) Onboarding
4 38 (4.63%) Robotics
5 22 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
6 18 (2.20%) Cloud Native
7 16 (1.95%) Product Ownership
8 15 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.46%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (0.98%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (0.85%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.73%) Blog
13 6 (0.73%) Clustering
13 6 (0.73%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 4 (0.49%) Educational Technology
14 4 (0.49%) PKI
14 4 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.68%) Unix
2 12 (1.46%) Windows
3 11 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.49%) Linux
4 4 (0.49%) VMS
4 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.12%) Android
5 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (51.10%) Machine Learning
2 385 (46.95%) User Experience
3 379 (46.22%) Cybersecurity
4 366 (44.63%) Web Development
5 120 (14.63%) Analytics
6 117 (14.27%) Agile
7 113 (13.78%) Business Intelligence
8 83 (10.12%) Roadmaps
9 79 (9.63%) Customer Experience
9 79 (9.63%) Storytelling
10 73 (8.90%) LLM
11 66 (8.05%) Generative AI
12 65 (7.93%) Product Roadmap
13 57 (6.95%) Digital Customer Experience
13 57 (6.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 55 (6.71%) User Research
15 52 (6.34%) Problem-Solving
16 51 (6.22%) Prototyping
17 46 (5.61%) Software Engineering
18 44 (5.37%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 191 (23.29%) Python
2 113 (13.78%) SQL
3 14 (1.71%) JavaScript
4 12 (1.46%) C#
5 9 (1.10%) R
6 7 (0.85%) C++
7 6 (0.73%) Java
7 6 (0.73%) Julia
8 4 (0.49%) C
8 4 (0.49%) Embedded C
8 4 (0.49%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.24%) PHP
10 1 (0.12%) Bash
10 1 (0.12%) Go
10 1 (0.12%) Haskell
10 1 (0.12%) OCaml
10 1 (0.12%) Rust
10 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 443 (54.02%) Degree
2 367 (44.76%) Master's Degree
3 361 (44.02%) Postgraduate
4 360 (43.90%) PhD
5 112 (13.66%) Azure Certification
6 31 (3.78%) DBS Check
7 20 (2.44%) Security Cleared
8 9 (1.10%) ACCA
8 9 (1.10%) CIMA
9 8 (0.98%) SC Cleared
10 4 (0.49%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (0.37%) CISM
11 3 (0.37%) CISSP
11 3 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.24%) CISA
13 1 (0.12%) CIPD
13 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.12%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.32%) Accessibility
2 27 (3.29%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.20%) GDPR
4 14 (1.71%) WCAG
5 10 (1.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.73%) NIST
7 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.49%) DO-254
8 4 (0.49%) GAAP
8 4 (0.49%) GRC
8 4 (0.49%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.49%) IFRS
8 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 4 (0.49%) JSP 440
8 4 (0.49%) NCSC
8 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.37%) QA
10 2 (0.24%) SLA
11 1 (0.12%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.12%) GxP
System Software
1 9 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.85%) Docker
3 6 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.73%) vSphere
4 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (0.73%) vCenter Server
2 5 (0.61%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (0.49%) Ansible
3 4 (0.49%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (0.24%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.24%) Terraform
5 1 (0.12%) Grafana
5 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 144 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.95%) Adobe
3 23 (2.80%) Dell
4 17 (2.07%) Databricks
5 13 (1.59%) Google
6 9 (1.10%) Red Hat
7 8 (0.98%) Oracle
8 7 (0.85%) Informatica
9 6 (0.73%) Cloudera
9 6 (0.73%) Denodo
9 6 (0.73%) Teradata
9 6 (0.73%) VMware
10 4 (0.49%) NVIDIA
10 4 (0.49%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.37%) Ahrefs
11 3 (0.37%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.37%) SAP
12 2 (0.24%) HubSpot
13 1 (0.12%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.12%) New Relic