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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 35 105
Rank change year-on-year +24 +70 +32
Permanent jobs citing AI 466 255 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 7.48% 8.53% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.77% 9.23% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 180 166 105
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £66,100 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,725 £66,215 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% -5.41% +7.69%
75th Percentile £77,813 £66,265 £80,001
90th Percentile £96,625 £66,340 £90,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,350 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% -6.67%

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 4,328 2,764 5,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 69.50% 92.50% 77.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,961 1,387 3,928
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,150 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,533 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,200 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 12 June 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 12 June 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
Cambridgeshire -1 127 £60,100 +20.20% 45
Hertfordshire +37 126 £55,000 -8.33% 43
Essex +32 68 £72,500 +52.63% 27
Bedfordshire +33 61 £40,000 -37.50% 11
Suffolk +2 47 £55,000 -16.95% 13
Norfolk +8 36 £37,500 -41.41% 5
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 (3.22%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.50%) Apache
5 5 (1.07%) WordPress
6 2 (0.43%) CMS
6 2 (0.43%) Confluence
7 1 (0.21%) Moodle
Applications
1 68 (14.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.36%) UserZoom
3 6 (1.29%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.86%) Simulink
5 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.64%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.64%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 165 (35.41%) Azure
2 110 (23.61%) Azure AI
3 84 (18.03%) Power Platform
4 55 (11.80%) Adobe Analytics
5 44 (9.44%) AWS
6 24 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (4.72%) Figma
7 22 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (3.86%) SaaS
9 15 (3.22%) GCP
10 14 (3.00%) Snowflake
11 12 (2.58%) Contentsquare
11 12 (2.58%) dbt
12 10 (2.15%) Entra ID
12 10 (2.15%) GitHub
13 9 (1.93%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.93%) Google Ads
14 8 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
14 8 (1.72%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.50%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 67 (14.38%) Broadband
2 17 (3.65%) Firewall
3 8 (1.72%) DNS
4 6 (1.29%) DMZ
4 6 (1.29%) Network Security
5 5 (1.07%) Internet
5 5 (1.07%) VLAN
6 4 (0.86%) DHCP
6 4 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.86%) VPN
7 2 (0.43%) Intranet
8 1 (0.21%) LTE
8 1 (0.21%) MQTT
8 1 (0.21%) RS-422
8 1 (0.21%) SMS
8 1 (0.21%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.21%) WireGuard
8 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (18.24%) Tableau
2 80 (17.17%) Power BI
3 22 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (3.86%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.86%) MongoDB
6 13 (2.79%) Looker
7 9 (1.93%) BigQuery
7 9 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (1.93%) Metadata
8 7 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.50%) Apache Hive
8 7 (1.50%) Impala
8 7 (1.50%) Oracle Database
8 7 (1.50%) Parquet
8 7 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.50%) Spark SQL
9 6 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.29%) Metabase
9 6 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (3.00%) Git
2 7 (1.50%) IBM UrbanCode
2 7 (1.50%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.29%) MLflow
4 3 (0.64%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.43%) JIRA
6 1 (0.21%) Plastic SCM
6 1 (0.21%) Poetry
General
1 165 (35.41%) Social Skills
2 66 (14.16%) Games
3 43 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.73%) Finance
5 31 (6.65%) Marketing
6 23 (4.94%) Legal
7 19 (4.08%) Electronics
8 15 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.22%) Manufacturing
9 14 (3.00%) Retail
10 10 (2.15%) Law
11 9 (1.93%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.50%) Banking
12 7 (1.50%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.50%) Swedish Language
13 5 (1.07%) Legal Technology
13 5 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (16.52%) Lead
2 75 (16.09%) Analyst
3 68 (14.59%) Junior
4 65 (13.95%) Data Analyst
5 64 (13.73%) Junior Analyst
5 64 (13.73%) Junior Data Analyst
6 48 (10.30%) Senior
7 46 (9.87%) Developer
8 28 (6.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 27 (5.79%) Architect
10 22 (4.72%) Product Manager
11 21 (4.51%) .NET Developer
12 19 (4.08%) Designer
13 18 (3.86%) Data Engineer
14 16 (3.43%) Lead Designer
15 14 (3.00%) Digital Designer
16 13 (2.79%) Consultant
17 12 (2.58%) Systems Engineer
18 10 (2.15%) Lead Developer
18 10 (2.15%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.79%) .NET
2 24 (5.15%) HTML
2 24 (5.15%) React
3 23 (4.94%) .NET Core
3 23 (4.94%) CSS
4 20 (4.29%) ASP.NET
4 20 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
4 20 (4.29%) ML.NET
5 19 (4.08%) PyTorch
6 18 (3.86%) TensorFlow
7 14 (3.00%) RESTful
8 13 (2.79%) Blazor
8 13 (2.79%) Node.js
9 11 (2.36%) PySpark
10 9 (1.93%) REST
10 9 (1.93%) scikit-learn
11 6 (1.29%) Kafka
11 6 (1.29%) LangChain
11 6 (1.29%) Pandas
11 6 (1.29%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 60 (12.88%) Social Media
2 41 (8.80%) Robotics
3 25 (5.36%) Cloud Native
4 20 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (4.08%) Algorithms
6 18 (3.86%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.58%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.93%) Legacy Applications
8 9 (1.93%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.72%) FPGA
9 8 (1.72%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.72%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.50%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.29%) Blog
11 6 (1.29%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (1.29%) Clustering
11 6 (1.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 6 (1.29%) PKI
11 6 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.07%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.86%) Windows
2 14 (3.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.07%) Android
3 5 (1.07%) Linux
4 4 (0.86%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.86%) VMS
4 4 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (29.18%) Agile
2 125 (26.82%) Analytics
3 101 (21.67%) Business Intelligence
4 90 (19.31%) Machine Learning
4 90 (19.31%) Roadmaps
5 79 (16.95%) Customer Experience
6 75 (16.09%) Storytelling
7 65 (13.95%) Product Roadmap
8 55 (11.80%) Digital Customer Experience
8 55 (11.80%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 54 (11.59%) User Research
10 52 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (11.16%) Software Engineering
11 49 (10.52%) Prototyping
11 49 (10.52%) Workshop Facilitation
12 45 (9.66%) CI/CD
13 44 (9.44%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (9.23%) Generative AI
15 42 (9.01%) DevOps
16 37 (7.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 154 (33.05%) Python
2 119 (25.54%) SQL
3 37 (7.94%) C#
4 27 (5.79%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.15%) C++
6 9 (1.93%) R
7 8 (1.72%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.50%) C
9 6 (1.29%) Java
9 6 (1.29%) Julia
10 4 (0.86%) Embedded C
10 4 (0.86%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.64%) Delphi
11 3 (0.64%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.43%) Bash
12 2 (0.43%) PHP
13 1 (0.21%) Clojure
13 1 (0.21%) Go
13 1 (0.21%) Haskell
13 1 (0.21%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 93 (19.96%) Azure Certification
2 50 (10.73%) Degree
3 30 (6.44%) DBS Check
4 29 (6.22%) Security Cleared
5 15 (3.22%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.36%) ACCA
6 11 (2.36%) CIMA
7 9 (1.93%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.29%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.86%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (0.64%) PhD
10 3 (0.64%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.21%) CISSP
12 1 (0.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (13.09%) Accessibility
2 21 (4.51%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.51%) GDPR
3 12 (2.58%) WCAG
4 10 (2.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.93%) QA
6 7 (1.50%) NIST
7 6 (1.29%) GRC
7 6 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 6 (1.29%) JSP 440
7 6 (1.29%) NCSC
7 6 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.07%) SLA
9 4 (0.86%) DO-254
9 4 (0.86%) GAAP
9 4 (0.86%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.86%) IFRS
10 1 (0.21%) PMO
10 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (2.79%) Docker
2 12 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.50%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (1.50%) Firmware
4 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.86%) vSphere
5 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (2.36%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.29%) Terraform
3 4 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (0.86%) Ansible
3 4 (0.86%) SolarWinds Orion
3 4 (0.86%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.43%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.21%) Grafana
5 1 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 134 (28.76%) Microsoft
2 58 (12.45%) Adobe
3 22 (4.72%) Dell
4 19 (4.08%) Google
5 18 (3.86%) Databricks
6 8 (1.72%) Oracle
7 7 (1.50%) Informatica
7 7 (1.50%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.29%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.29%) Denodo
8 6 (1.29%) Teradata
9 5 (1.07%) Apple
9 5 (1.07%) Cisco
10 4 (0.86%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.86%) VMware
11 3 (0.64%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.43%) Facebook
12 2 (0.43%) iManage
12 2 (0.43%) Meraki
12 2 (0.43%) Yahoo!