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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 24 119
Rank change year-on-year +22 +95 +33
Permanent jobs citing AI 815 244 118
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 12.82% 8.90% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.20% 9.58% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 142 173 97
10th Percentile £33,750 £62,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £66,200 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £66,225 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.23% +1.88% -
75th Percentile £81,563 £66,296 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,000 £82,250
England median annual salary £70,752 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.41% +3.57% -

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 4,479 2,548 4,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.47% 92.89% 81.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,628 1,385 3,675
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £25,809
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,574 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,295 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +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 29 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 29 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 +50 302 £55,000 -23.08% 49
Essex +29 204 £75,000 +20.48% 25
Cambridgeshire +8 146 £60,100 -6.76% 29
Bedfordshire +38 55 £47,500 -25.78% 10
Norfolk +19 54 £37,500 -57.63% 14
Suffolk -2 53 £62,500 -5.62% 12
AI
England

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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 (1.84%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (0.86%) Apache
4 6 (0.74%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.49%) Confluence
6 3 (0.37%) CMS
6 3 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 85 (10.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.35%) UserZoom
4 6 (0.74%) 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 (44.54%) Cloud Computing
2 155 (19.02%) Azure
3 112 (13.74%) Azure AI
4 102 (12.52%) Power Platform
5 57 (6.99%) Adobe Analytics
6 41 (5.03%) AWS
7 23 (2.82%) Figma
8 17 (2.09%) SaaS
9 14 (1.72%) Snowflake
10 13 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (1.47%) Contentsquare
11 12 (1.47%) dbt
11 12 (1.47%) GCP
12 11 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (1.10%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.10%) Entra ID
13 9 (1.10%) OpenShift
14 6 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (0.74%) Google Analytics
14 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 358 (43.93%) Internet
2 64 (7.85%) Broadband
3 10 (1.23%) Firewall
4 5 (0.61%) DMZ
4 5 (0.61%) DNS
4 5 (0.61%) Network Security
4 5 (0.61%) VLAN
5 4 (0.49%) DHCP
5 4 (0.49%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.25%) 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 (12.88%) Tableau
2 98 (12.02%) Power BI
3 19 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (2.21%) Data Lake
5 14 (1.72%) Looker
6 9 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (0.98%) Metadata
8 7 (0.86%) Apache Hive
8 7 (0.86%) Impala
8 7 (0.86%) Oracle Database
8 7 (0.86%) Parquet
8 7 (0.86%) Spark SQL
9 6 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.74%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.74%) Metabase
9 6 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (0.61%) DTS
Development Applications
1 9 (1.10%) Git
2 7 (0.86%) IBM UrbanCode
3 6 (0.74%) MLflow
4 4 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.25%) GitBook
5 2 (0.25%) JIRA
6 1 (0.12%) Poetry
General
1 527 (64.66%) Social Skills
2 370 (45.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 365 (44.79%) Banking
4 67 (8.22%) Games
5 60 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (4.66%) Finance
7 25 (3.07%) Marketing
8 20 (2.45%) German Language
9 19 (2.33%) Electronics
10 18 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (2.09%) Legal
12 16 (1.96%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.96%) Retail
13 8 (0.98%) Law
14 7 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.86%) Investment Banking
14 7 (0.86%) Public Sector
15 5 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.49%) Swedish Language
17 2 (0.25%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 286 (35.09%) Lecturer
2 91 (11.17%) Analyst
3 86 (10.55%) Junior
4 84 (10.31%) Data Analyst
4 84 (10.31%) Junior Analyst
4 84 (10.31%) Junior Data Analyst
5 75 (9.20%) Lead
6 49 (6.01%) Senior
7 28 (3.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 23 (2.82%) Developer
9 21 (2.58%) Designer
10 20 (2.45%) Data Engineer
11 19 (2.33%) Product Manager
12 18 (2.21%) Architect
13 17 (2.09%) Lead Designer
14 15 (1.84%) Digital Designer
15 13 (1.60%) Consultant
16 12 (1.47%) Systems Engineer
17 10 (1.23%) Data Scientist
17 10 (1.23%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.93%) HTML
2 18 (2.21%) JSON
2 18 (2.21%) PyTorch
3 17 (2.09%) TensorFlow
4 16 (1.96%) CSS
4 16 (1.96%) Regular Expression
4 16 (1.96%) XML
5 10 (1.23%) PySpark
5 10 (1.23%) React
6 9 (1.10%) scikit-learn
7 8 (0.98%) .NET
8 7 (0.86%) Node.js
8 7 (0.86%) REST
9 6 (0.74%) .NET Core
9 6 (0.74%) Kafka
9 6 (0.74%) LangChain
9 6 (0.74%) LlamaIndex
9 6 (0.74%) Pandas
9 6 (0.74%) pgvector
10 5 (0.61%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 359 (44.05%) IoT
2 60 (7.36%) Social Media
3 39 (4.79%) Robotics
4 35 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.58%) Cloud Native
6 16 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (1.96%) Product Ownership
7 15 (1.84%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.35%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (0.86%) Blog
11 7 (0.86%) Low-Code
11 7 (0.86%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.74%) Clustering
12 6 (0.74%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.61%) Cloud Security Posture
13 5 (0.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 5 (0.61%) PKI
13 5 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.96%) Unix
2 12 (1.47%) Windows
3 11 (1.35%) 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
1 423 (51.90%) Machine Learning
2 386 (47.36%) User Experience
3 381 (46.75%) Cybersecurity
4 366 (44.91%) Web Development
5 124 (15.21%) Analytics
6 119 (14.60%) Agile
7 116 (14.23%) Business Intelligence
8 84 (10.31%) Roadmaps
9 81 (9.94%) Customer Experience
10 79 (9.69%) Storytelling
11 64 (7.85%) Product Roadmap
12 60 (7.36%) LLM
13 59 (7.24%) Generative AI
14 57 (6.99%) Digital Customer Experience
14 57 (6.99%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 55 (6.75%) User Research
16 50 (6.13%) Prototyping
17 48 (5.89%) Problem-Solving
18 46 (5.64%) Software Engineering
19 45 (5.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 184 (22.58%) Python
2 115 (14.11%) SQL
3 15 (1.84%) JavaScript
4 14 (1.72%) C#
5 9 (1.10%) R
6 7 (0.86%) C++
7 6 (0.74%) Java
7 6 (0.74%) Julia
7 6 (0.74%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.49%) C
8 4 (0.49%) Embedded C
9 3 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.25%) PHP
11 1 (0.12%) Bash
11 1 (0.12%) Clojure
11 1 (0.12%) Go
11 1 (0.12%) Haskell
11 1 (0.12%) OCaml
11 1 (0.12%) Rust
Qualifications
1 433 (53.13%) Degree
2 367 (45.03%) Master's Degree
3 361 (44.29%) Postgraduate
4 360 (44.17%) PhD
5 113 (13.87%) Azure Certification
6 33 (4.05%) DBS Check
7 22 (2.70%) Security Cleared
8 11 (1.35%) ACCA
8 11 (1.35%) CIMA
9 9 (1.10%) SC Cleared
10 5 (0.61%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.37%) CISM
12 3 (0.37%) CISSP
12 3 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.25%) CISA
14 1 (0.12%) CIPD
14 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.12%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.36%) Accessibility
2 25 (3.07%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.33%) GDPR
4 14 (1.72%) WCAG
5 10 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.74%) NIST
7 5 (0.61%) GRC
7 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 5 (0.61%) JSP 440
7 5 (0.61%) NCSC
7 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.49%) DO-254
8 4 (0.49%) GAAP
8 4 (0.49%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.49%) IFRS
9 3 (0.37%) QA
10 2 (0.25%) SLA
11 1 (0.12%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.12%) GxP
System Software
1 9 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.86%) Docker
3 6 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.74%) vSphere
4 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (0.74%) 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 3 (0.37%) Terraform
5 2 (0.25%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.12%) Grafana
6 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 139 (17.06%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.24%) Adobe
3 23 (2.82%) Dell
4 18 (2.21%) Databricks
5 13 (1.60%) Google
6 9 (1.10%) Red Hat
7 8 (0.98%) Oracle
8 7 (0.86%) Informatica
9 6 (0.74%) Cloudera
9 6 (0.74%) Denodo
9 6 (0.74%) Teradata
9 6 (0.74%) 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 (0.25%) HubSpot
13 1 (0.12%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.12%) New Relic