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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 88 72
Rank change year-on-year +85 -16 +43
Permanent jobs citing AI 631 102 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 15.11% 2.80% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.82% 3.24% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 90 38 41
10th Percentile £30,370 £41,875 £38,750
25th Percentile £35,625 £63,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £77,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.31% +28.33% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £100,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,750 - £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% +7.14%

All Process and 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 3,184 3,151 1,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 76.25% 86.40% 90.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,861 1,274 1,268
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £43,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 +62 238 £66,500 -12.50% 201
Essex +32 165 £45,000 -49.15% 186
Cambridgeshire +42 150 £39,000 -49.35% 156
Suffolk +6 32 £40,000 -48.05% 58
Norfolk +22 27 - - 58
Bedfordshire +50 19 £47,500 -26.92% 131
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 9 (1.43%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.11%) WordPress
4 4 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.48%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.32%) CMS
6 2 (0.32%) Confluence
6 2 (0.32%) Mendix
Applications
1 66 (10.46%) Chatbot
2 48 (7.61%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.48%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 358 (56.74%) Cloud Computing
2 41 (6.50%) Azure
3 31 (4.91%) Power Platform
4 20 (3.17%) Azure AI
5 19 (3.01%) AWS
6 18 (2.85%) SaaS
7 7 (1.11%) Amazon Alexa
8 5 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (0.79%) Power Automate
8 5 (0.79%) PowerApps
9 4 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.48%) Azure AKS
10 3 (0.48%) GCP
10 3 (0.48%) Serverless
11 2 (0.32%) Amazon ELB
11 2 (0.32%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (0.32%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.32%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.32%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.32%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 361 (57.21%) Internet
2 7 (1.11%) Firewall
3 5 (0.79%) DNS
3 5 (0.79%) VPN
4 4 (0.63%) SAN
5 3 (0.48%) Broadband
6 2 (0.32%) DMZ
6 2 (0.32%) Network Security
7 1 (0.16%) DHCP
7 1 (0.16%) DOCSIS
7 1 (0.16%) DSL
7 1 (0.16%) GPON
7 1 (0.16%) IPv4
7 1 (0.16%) IPv6
7 1 (0.16%) PPP
7 1 (0.16%) RTP
7 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.16%) VoIP
7 1 (0.16%) WAN
7 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.96%) Tableau
2 22 (3.49%) Power BI
3 6 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.63%) Big Data
4 4 (0.63%) DynamoDB
4 4 (0.63%) Hadoop
4 4 (0.63%) Metadata
4 4 (0.63%) MySQL
5 3 (0.48%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.48%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.48%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.32%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.32%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.32%) Looker
6 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.32%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.32%) Redis
6 2 (0.32%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (0.79%) GitBook
2 4 (0.63%) Git
3 2 (0.32%) JIRA
3 2 (0.32%) MLflow
4 1 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
General
1 400 (63.39%) Social Skills
2 358 (56.74%) Banking
2 358 (56.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 81 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.07%) German Language
5 23 (3.65%) Finance
6 16 (2.54%) Marketing
7 14 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.43%) Retail
9 7 (1.11%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.95%) Legal
10 6 (0.95%) Public Sector
11 5 (0.79%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.48%) Games
12 3 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.32%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.32%) Automotive
13 2 (0.32%) Local Government
13 2 (0.32%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 286 (45.32%) Lecturer
2 62 (9.83%) Trainer
3 36 (5.71%) Senior
4 23 (3.65%) Analyst
5 22 (3.49%) Junior
6 21 (3.33%) Customer Support Specialist
6 21 (3.33%) Support Specialist
7 20 (3.17%) Data Analyst
7 20 (3.17%) Junior Analyst
7 20 (3.17%) Junior Data Analyst
8 12 (1.90%) Lead
9 10 (1.58%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
10 9 (1.43%) Administrator
11 8 (1.27%) Consultant
11 8 (1.27%) Developer
12 7 (1.11%) Data Engineer
13 6 (0.95%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (0.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (0.95%) Marketing Executive
14 5 (0.79%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.28%) HTML
2 24 (3.80%) JSON
2 24 (3.80%) Regular Expression
2 24 (3.80%) XML
3 12 (1.90%) PyTorch
3 12 (1.90%) TensorFlow
4 7 (1.11%) Node.js
4 7 (1.11%) scikit-learn
5 6 (0.95%) Vue
6 5 (0.79%) NumPy
6 5 (0.79%) Pandas
7 4 (0.63%) ARM Templates
7 4 (0.63%) Hugging Face
8 3 (0.48%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.48%) Google JAX
8 3 (0.48%) JAX
8 3 (0.48%) jQuery
8 3 (0.48%) Keras
8 3 (0.48%) React
8 3 (0.48%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 363 (57.53%) IoT
2 48 (7.61%) Onboarding
3 26 (4.12%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (2.06%) Algorithms
5 11 (1.74%) Data Centre
6 9 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.11%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.11%) Robotics
8 6 (0.95%) Multi-touch
8 6 (0.95%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.79%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.63%) Blog
10 4 (0.63%) CUDA
10 4 (0.63%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.63%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.63%) Web Conferencing
11 3 (0.48%) Arduino
11 3 (0.48%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.12%) Unix
2 19 (3.01%) Windows
3 14 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.06%) Linux
5 5 (0.79%) Android
5 5 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (63.07%) Machine Learning
2 372 (58.95%) Cybersecurity
3 362 (57.37%) User Experience
4 358 (56.74%) Web Development
5 70 (11.09%) LLM
6 66 (10.46%) Conversational UI
7 48 (7.61%) Generative AI
8 37 (5.86%) Data Analysis
9 36 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (5.55%) Analytical Thinking
11 34 (5.39%) Open Source
12 29 (4.60%) Chemistry
13 25 (3.96%) Analytics
14 24 (3.80%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (3.65%) Physics
16 22 (3.49%) Mathematics
16 22 (3.49%) Software Engineering
17 21 (3.33%) Decision-Making
18 20 (3.17%) Agile
19 19 (3.01%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 92 (14.58%) Python
2 34 (5.39%) SQL
3 11 (1.74%) C++
4 10 (1.58%) C
4 10 (1.58%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.27%) Java
6 5 (0.79%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.48%) Assembly Language
7 3 (0.48%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.48%) Objective-C
7 3 (0.48%) Swift
8 2 (0.32%) PHP
8 2 (0.32%) R
9 1 (0.16%) Bicep
9 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.16%) Fortran
9 1 (0.16%) Go
9 1 (0.16%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (0.16%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 499 (79.08%) Degree
2 397 (62.92%) Master's Degree
2 397 (62.92%) PhD
3 358 (56.74%) Postgraduate
4 20 (3.17%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.85%) Security Cleared
6 13 (2.06%) SC Cleared
7 12 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.63%) ACCA
10 4 (0.63%) CIMA
10 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.32%) CISA
11 2 (0.32%) CISM
11 2 (0.32%) CISSP
11 2 (0.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.69%) Data Quality
2 4 (0.63%) GDPR
2 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (0.63%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.48%) NIST
4 2 (0.32%) GRC
4 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (0.32%) JSP 440
4 2 (0.32%) NCSC
4 2 (0.32%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.32%) WCAG
5 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 10 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.27%) Docker
2 8 (1.27%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.95%) vSphere
4 5 (0.79%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.63%) Firmware
6 3 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.16%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 7 (1.11%) Terraform
2 4 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (0.63%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.32%) Ansible
3 2 (0.32%) Kubeflow
3 2 (0.32%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 75 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 63 (9.98%) PayPal
3 12 (1.90%) HubSpot
4 10 (1.58%) VMware
5 8 (1.27%) Salesforce
6 6 (0.95%) Dell
7 5 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (0.79%) Fortinet
7 5 (0.79%) Google
7 5 (0.79%) Palo Alto
8 4 (0.63%) Veeam
9 3 (0.48%) Adobe
9 3 (0.48%) Databricks
9 3 (0.48%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.48%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.32%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.32%) OutSystems
10 2 (0.32%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.16%) Oracle
11 1 (0.16%) SAP