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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 31 82
Rank change year-on-year +28 +51 +62
Permanent jobs citing AI 665 221 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 14.09% 6.71% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.14% 7.45% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 105 155 101
10th Percentile £30,370 £66,100 £43,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £66,200 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,230 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% +1.89% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £66,296 £80,001
90th Percentile £99,000 £77,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 3,474 2,965 3,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 73.59% 90.01% 84.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,055 1,213 3,022
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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

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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 17 February 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 17 February 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 +49 253 £63,250 -9.64% 44
Essex +37 166 £72,500 -18.08% 29
Cambridgeshire +40 148 £59,450 -10.26% 34
Norfolk +24 33 £37,500 -62.50% 11
Suffolk -10 33 £40,000 -39.60% 10
Bedfordshire +55 31 £47,500 -15.56% 17
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 5 (0.75%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.45%) Confluence
2 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.30%) Mendix
3 2 (0.30%) WordPress
4 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 49 (7.37%) Chatbot
2 42 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.45%) Simulink
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 360 (54.14%) Cloud Computing
2 63 (9.47%) Azure
3 43 (6.47%) Power Platform
4 38 (5.71%) Azure AI
5 20 (3.01%) SaaS
6 18 (2.71%) AWS
7 11 (1.65%) Adobe Analytics
8 10 (1.50%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.05%) Amazon Alexa
9 7 (1.05%) PaaS
10 5 (0.75%) IaaS
10 5 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (0.75%) Power Automate
10 5 (0.75%) PowerApps
11 4 (0.60%) Figma
12 3 (0.45%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (0.45%) Azure AKS
12 3 (0.45%) GCP
12 3 (0.45%) GitHub
12 3 (0.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 361 (54.29%) Internet
2 14 (2.11%) Broadband
3 13 (1.95%) Firewall
4 9 (1.35%) DNS
5 5 (0.75%) DHCP
5 5 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.75%) VPN
6 4 (0.60%) DMZ
6 4 (0.60%) Network Security
6 4 (0.60%) VLAN
7 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.15%) DOCSIS
8 1 (0.15%) DSL
8 1 (0.15%) IPv4
8 1 (0.15%) IPv6
8 1 (0.15%) PPP
8 1 (0.15%) RTP
8 1 (0.15%) VoIP
8 1 (0.15%) WAN
8 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (6.17%) Tableau
2 37 (5.56%) Power BI
3 5 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (0.75%) Big Data
3 5 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.75%) Hadoop
4 4 (0.60%) DTS
4 4 (0.60%) Metadata
4 4 (0.60%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.45%) MySQL
5 3 (0.45%) Redis
5 3 (0.45%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.30%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.30%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.30%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.30%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (0.75%) GitBook
2 3 (0.45%) Git
2 3 (0.45%) JIRA
3 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
General
1 439 (66.02%) Social Skills
2 363 (54.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 358 (53.83%) Banking
4 74 (11.13%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.51%) German Language
6 21 (3.16%) Finance
7 18 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.56%) Games
8 17 (2.56%) Marketing
9 10 (1.50%) Retail
10 8 (1.20%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.20%) Electronics
10 8 (1.20%) Legal
11 7 (1.05%) Public Sector
12 5 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.60%) Law
13 4 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.45%) Automotive
15 2 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 286 (43.01%) Lecturer
2 45 (6.77%) Trainer
3 37 (5.56%) Analyst
3 37 (5.56%) Junior
4 36 (5.41%) Data Analyst
4 36 (5.41%) Junior Analyst
4 36 (5.41%) Junior Data Analyst
5 35 (5.26%) Senior
6 31 (4.66%) Lead
7 17 (2.56%) Customer Support Specialist
7 17 (2.56%) Support Specialist
8 15 (2.26%) Data Engineer
9 14 (2.11%) Developer
10 10 (1.50%) IT Support
11 9 (1.35%) Administrator
11 9 (1.35%) Consultant
12 8 (1.20%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
13 7 (1.05%) Designer
14 6 (0.90%) Architect
14 6 (0.90%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.06%) HTML
2 22 (3.31%) JSON
2 22 (3.31%) Regular Expression
2 22 (3.31%) XML
3 10 (1.50%) PyTorch
4 9 (1.35%) TensorFlow
5 8 (1.20%) Vue
6 7 (1.05%) Node.js
6 7 (1.05%) React
7 5 (0.75%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.75%) CSS
8 4 (0.60%) NumPy
8 4 (0.60%) scikit-learn
9 3 (0.45%) jQuery
9 3 (0.45%) Matplotlib
9 3 (0.45%) Pandas
9 3 (0.45%) REST
9 3 (0.45%) RESTful
9 3 (0.45%) SOAP
9 3 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 362 (54.44%) IoT
2 46 (6.92%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
4 21 (3.16%) Robotics
5 15 (2.26%) Algorithms
6 12 (1.80%) Social Media
7 10 (1.50%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.35%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.35%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.05%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.90%) Blog
11 5 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.75%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.60%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (0.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (0.60%) Educational Technology
12 4 (0.60%) PKI
12 4 (0.60%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.60%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.31%) Unix
2 19 (2.86%) Windows
3 14 (2.11%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.35%) Linux
5 6 (0.90%) Android
6 5 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.60%) VMS
7 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.15%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (59.55%) Machine Learning
2 381 (57.29%) Cybersecurity
3 369 (55.49%) User Experience
4 359 (53.98%) Web Development
5 63 (9.47%) LLM
6 60 (9.02%) Generative AI
7 49 (7.37%) Conversational UI
8 46 (6.92%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (6.17%) Business Intelligence
10 39 (5.86%) Agile
10 39 (5.86%) Analytics
11 34 (5.11%) Data Analysis
12 33 (4.96%) Analytical Thinking
13 31 (4.66%) Open Source
13 31 (4.66%) Software Engineering
14 26 (3.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (3.91%) Roadmaps
15 22 (3.31%) Customer Experience
16 21 (3.16%) Chemistry
17 18 (2.71%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 97 (14.59%) Python
2 46 (6.92%) SQL
3 13 (1.95%) JavaScript
4 11 (1.65%) C++
5 10 (1.50%) C
6 9 (1.35%) Java
7 4 (0.60%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.45%) Assembly Language
8 3 (0.45%) C#
8 3 (0.45%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.45%) Objective-C
8 3 (0.45%) R
8 3 (0.45%) Swift
9 2 (0.30%) PHP
10 1 (0.15%) Bicep
10 1 (0.15%) Fortran
10 1 (0.15%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (0.15%) Tcl
10 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 480 (72.18%) Degree
2 386 (58.05%) Master's Degree
2 386 (58.05%) PhD
3 358 (53.83%) Postgraduate
4 40 (6.02%) Azure Certification
5 22 (3.31%) Security Cleared
6 18 (2.71%) DBS Check
7 15 (2.26%) SC Cleared
8 12 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.60%) ACCA
10 4 (0.60%) CIMA
10 4 (0.60%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.30%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.30%) CISA
12 2 (0.30%) CISM
12 2 (0.30%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.71%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.90%) GDPR
3 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.90%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.75%) NIST
5 4 (0.60%) GRC
5 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 4 (0.60%) JSP 440
5 4 (0.60%) NCSC
6 2 (0.30%) QA
6 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.30%) WCAG
7 1 (0.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.15%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (1.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (1.05%) vSphere
3 6 (0.90%) Docker
4 4 (0.60%) Firmware
5 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (0.90%) vCenter Server
2 5 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (0.60%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.60%) SolarWinds Orion
4 3 (0.45%) Ansible
5 2 (0.30%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.30%) Terraform
6 1 (0.15%) Grafana
Vendors
1 95 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 46 (6.92%) PayPal
3 11 (1.65%) Adobe
4 8 (1.20%) Dell
5 7 (1.05%) HubSpot
5 7 (1.05%) VMware
6 6 (0.90%) Google
7 4 (0.60%) NVIDIA
7 4 (0.60%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.60%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.45%) Databricks
9 2 (0.30%) Ahrefs
9 2 (0.30%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.30%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.30%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.30%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.30%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.30%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.15%) Sitebulb
10 1 (0.15%) TikTok