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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 91 81
Rank change year-on-year +88 -10 +30
Permanent jobs citing AI 626 94 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 14.99% 2.68% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.14% 3.08% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 95 31 47
10th Percentile £30,370 £37,500 £41,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £61,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £77,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.31% +28.33% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £93,750 £78,125
90th Percentile £95,750 £100,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% +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 3,109 3,053 2,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.43% 87.05% 86.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,820 1,193 1,508
10th Percentile £27,625 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,350 £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

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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

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Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 January 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 9 January 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 +60 242 £59,250 -15.36% 122
Essex +37 162 £47,500 -46.33% 114
Cambridgeshire +43 145 £39,000 -41.13% 147
Suffolk +12 29 £40,000 -48.05% 96
Norfolk +24 27 - - 99
Bedfordshire +49 21 £47,500 - 103
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 7 (1.12%) SharePoint
1 7 (1.12%) WordPress
2 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.32%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.32%) Confluence
4 2 (0.32%) Mendix
5 1 (0.16%) CMS
Applications
1 62 (9.90%) Chatbot
2 46 (7.35%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.48%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 358 (57.19%) Cloud Computing
2 41 (6.55%) Azure
3 29 (4.63%) Power Platform
4 22 (3.51%) Azure AI
5 19 (3.04%) SaaS
6 17 (2.72%) AWS
7 7 (1.12%) Amazon Alexa
8 5 (0.80%) Power Automate
8 5 (0.80%) PowerApps
9 4 (0.64%) GCP
10 3 (0.48%) Azure AKS
10 3 (0.48%) GitHub
10 3 (0.48%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.48%) Serverless
11 2 (0.32%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (0.32%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.32%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (0.32%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (0.32%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.32%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 361 (57.67%) Internet
2 7 (1.12%) Firewall
3 5 (0.80%) DNS
3 5 (0.80%) VPN
4 4 (0.64%) 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 26 (4.15%) Tableau
2 22 (3.51%) Power BI
3 6 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (0.80%) Big Data
4 5 (0.80%) Hadoop
5 4 (0.64%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.64%) Redis
6 3 (0.48%) MySQL
6 3 (0.48%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.48%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.48%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.32%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.32%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.32%) Looker
7 2 (0.32%) Metadata
7 2 (0.32%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.16%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 5 (0.80%) GitBook
2 3 (0.48%) Git
3 2 (0.32%) JIRA
4 1 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
General
1 396 (63.26%) Social Skills
2 359 (57.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 358 (57.19%) Banking
4 77 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.79%) German Language
6 21 (3.35%) Finance
7 16 (2.56%) Marketing
8 14 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.28%) Retail
10 7 (1.12%) Aerospace
11 6 (0.96%) Legal
11 6 (0.96%) Public Sector
12 5 (0.80%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.48%) Games
13 3 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.32%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.32%) Automotive
14 2 (0.32%) Law
14 2 (0.32%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 286 (45.69%) Lecturer
2 58 (9.27%) Trainer
3 35 (5.59%) Senior
4 23 (3.67%) Analyst
5 21 (3.35%) Customer Support Specialist
5 21 (3.35%) Junior
5 21 (3.35%) Support Specialist
6 20 (3.19%) Data Analyst
6 20 (3.19%) Junior Analyst
6 20 (3.19%) Junior Data Analyst
7 11 (1.76%) Data Engineer
7 11 (1.76%) Developer
8 10 (1.60%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 10 (1.60%) Lead
9 9 (1.44%) Administrator
10 7 (1.12%) Consultant
10 7 (1.12%) Research Scientist
10 7 (1.12%) Software Engineer
11 6 (0.96%) Applications Engineer
11 6 (0.96%) Marketing Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.31%) HTML
2 23 (3.67%) JSON
2 23 (3.67%) Regular Expression
2 23 (3.67%) XML
3 10 (1.60%) PyTorch
3 10 (1.60%) TensorFlow
4 8 (1.28%) Node.js
4 8 (1.28%) Vue
5 6 (0.96%) React
6 5 (0.80%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.80%) scikit-learn
7 4 (0.64%) CSS
7 4 (0.64%) Hugging Face
7 4 (0.64%) NumPy
7 4 (0.64%) Pandas
8 3 (0.48%) Google JAX
8 3 (0.48%) JAX
8 3 (0.48%) jQuery
8 3 (0.48%) SOAP
8 3 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 363 (57.99%) IoT
2 46 (7.35%) Onboarding
3 23 (3.67%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (2.08%) Algorithms
5 9 (1.44%) Data Centre
5 9 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.28%) Robotics
7 7 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 6 (0.96%) Multi-touch
8 6 (0.96%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.80%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.64%) Blog
10 4 (0.64%) CUDA
10 4 (0.64%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (0.64%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.64%) Web Conferencing
11 3 (0.48%) Arduino
11 3 (0.48%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.48%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.67%) Unix
2 16 (2.56%) Windows
3 12 (1.92%) Linux
4 11 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.96%) Android
6 5 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (64.06%) Machine Learning
2 371 (59.27%) Cybersecurity
3 364 (58.15%) User Experience
4 358 (57.19%) Web Development
5 67 (10.70%) LLM
6 62 (9.90%) Conversational UI
7 50 (7.99%) Generative AI
8 37 (5.91%) Data Analysis
9 35 (5.59%) Analytical Thinking
9 35 (5.59%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (4.95%) Open Source
11 25 (3.99%) Analytics
11 25 (3.99%) Chemistry
11 25 (3.99%) Software Engineering
12 24 (3.83%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (3.83%) Physics
13 23 (3.67%) Mathematics
14 22 (3.51%) Decision-Making
15 21 (3.35%) Agile
16 20 (3.19%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 87 (13.90%) Python
2 32 (5.11%) SQL
3 12 (1.92%) JavaScript
4 11 (1.76%) C++
5 10 (1.60%) C
5 10 (1.60%) Java
6 3 (0.48%) Assembly Language
6 3 (0.48%) MATLAB
6 3 (0.48%) Objective-C
6 3 (0.48%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.48%) R
6 3 (0.48%) Swift
7 2 (0.32%) C#
7 2 (0.32%) PHP
8 1 (0.16%) Bicep
8 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.16%) Fortran
8 1 (0.16%) Go
8 1 (0.16%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.16%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 492 (78.59%) Degree
2 393 (62.78%) PhD
3 392 (62.62%) Master's Degree
4 358 (57.19%) Postgraduate
5 20 (3.19%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.88%) Security Cleared
7 13 (2.08%) SC Cleared
8 12 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.12%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.64%) ACCA
11 4 (0.64%) CIMA
11 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.32%) CISA
12 2 (0.32%) CISM
12 2 (0.32%) CISSP
12 2 (0.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.88%) Data Quality
2 4 (0.64%) GDPR
2 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (0.64%) 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 8 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (0.96%) Docker
2 6 (0.96%) Hyper-V
2 6 (0.96%) vSphere
3 5 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.64%) Firmware
5 3 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.16%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 4 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (0.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.48%) Terraform
3 2 (0.32%) Ansible
3 2 (0.32%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 73 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.42%) PayPal
3 12 (1.92%) HubSpot
4 8 (1.28%) Salesforce
4 8 (1.28%) VMware
5 6 (0.96%) Dell
5 6 (0.96%) Google
6 5 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (0.80%) Fortinet
6 5 (0.80%) Palo Alto
7 4 (0.64%) Veeam
8 3 (0.48%) Adobe
8 3 (0.48%) NVIDIA
8 3 (0.48%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.32%) Ahrefs
9 2 (0.32%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.32%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle
10 1 (0.16%) SAP
10 1 (0.16%) Screaming Frog