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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 93 69
Rank change year-on-year +90 -24 +56
Permanent jobs citing AI 622 94 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 14.80% 2.69% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.03% 3.08% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 94 31 53
10th Percentile £30,370 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £61,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £77,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.06% +38.74% -7.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £93,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,875 £100,000 £87,000
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 3,106 3,052 2,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 73.90% 87.22% 86.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,833 1,183 1,600
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £38,569
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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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 16 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 16 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 +61 242 £59,250 -15.36% 107
Essex +37 161 £57,500 -35.03% 90
Cambridgeshire +47 144 £43,750 -33.96% 99
Norfolk +25 27 - - 78
Suffolk +7 26 £40,000 -48.05% 73
Bedfordshire +54 22 £47,500 - 84
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 (1.13%) WordPress
2 5 (0.80%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.32%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.32%) Confluence
4 2 (0.32%) Mendix
5 1 (0.16%) CMS
Applications
1 58 (9.32%) Chatbot
2 44 (7.07%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.48%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 358 (57.56%) Cloud Computing
2 42 (6.75%) Azure
3 27 (4.34%) Power Platform
4 22 (3.54%) Azure AI
5 20 (3.22%) SaaS
6 18 (2.89%) AWS
7 7 (1.13%) Amazon Alexa
8 5 (0.80%) Power Automate
8 5 (0.80%) PowerApps
9 4 (0.64%) GCP
10 3 (0.48%) Adobe Analytics
10 3 (0.48%) Azure AKS
10 3 (0.48%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.48%) GitHub
10 3 (0.48%) PaaS
10 3 (0.48%) Serverless
11 2 (0.32%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (0.32%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (0.32%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (0.32%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 361 (58.04%) Internet
2 9 (1.45%) Firewall
3 6 (0.96%) DNS
4 5 (0.80%) VPN
5 4 (0.64%) Broadband
5 4 (0.64%) SAN
6 3 (0.48%) DMZ
6 3 (0.48%) Network Security
7 2 (0.32%) DHCP
7 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.16%) DOCSIS
8 1 (0.16%) DSL
8 1 (0.16%) IPv4
8 1 (0.16%) IPv6
8 1 (0.16%) PPP
8 1 (0.16%) RTP
8 1 (0.16%) VoIP
8 1 (0.16%) WAN
8 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.18%) Tableau
2 22 (3.54%) Power BI
3 5 (0.80%) Big Data
3 5 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.80%) Hadoop
4 4 (0.64%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.48%) MySQL
5 3 (0.48%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.48%) Redis
5 3 (0.48%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.48%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.32%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.32%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.32%) Looker
6 2 (0.32%) Metadata
6 2 (0.32%) Neo4j
7 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
1 401 (64.47%) Social Skills
2 360 (57.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 358 (57.56%) Banking
4 75 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.82%) German Language
6 19 (3.05%) Finance
7 16 (2.57%) Marketing
8 14 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.13%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.13%) Public Sector
9 7 (1.13%) Retail
10 5 (0.80%) Legal
10 5 (0.80%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.64%) Games
12 3 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.32%) Automotive
13 2 (0.32%) Law
13 2 (0.32%) Local Government
13 2 (0.32%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 286 (45.98%) Lecturer
2 54 (8.68%) Trainer
3 33 (5.31%) Senior
4 22 (3.54%) Analyst
5 21 (3.38%) Customer Support Specialist
5 21 (3.38%) Junior
5 21 (3.38%) Support Specialist
6 20 (3.22%) Data Analyst
6 20 (3.22%) Junior Analyst
6 20 (3.22%) Junior Data Analyst
7 13 (2.09%) Data Engineer
7 13 (2.09%) Lead
8 11 (1.77%) Developer
9 10 (1.61%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
10 9 (1.45%) Administrator
11 8 (1.29%) Consultant
12 7 (1.13%) Research Scientist
13 6 (0.96%) Data Scientist
13 6 (0.96%) IT Support
13 6 (0.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.18%) HTML
2 22 (3.54%) JSON
2 22 (3.54%) Regular Expression
2 22 (3.54%) XML
3 11 (1.77%) PyTorch
4 10 (1.61%) TensorFlow
5 8 (1.29%) Vue
6 7 (1.13%) Node.js
7 6 (0.96%) React
8 5 (0.80%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.80%) NumPy
8 5 (0.80%) scikit-learn
9 4 (0.64%) CSS
9 4 (0.64%) Hugging Face
9 4 (0.64%) Pandas
10 3 (0.48%) Google JAX
10 3 (0.48%) JAX
10 3 (0.48%) jQuery
10 3 (0.48%) SOAP
10 3 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 363 (58.36%) IoT
2 44 (7.07%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.54%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (2.09%) Algorithms
5 9 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.29%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.29%) Robotics
7 7 (1.13%) Data Centre
8 6 (0.96%) Multi-touch
8 6 (0.96%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.80%) Blog
9 5 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.80%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.64%) CUDA
10 4 (0.64%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (0.64%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.64%) Social Media
10 4 (0.64%) Web Conferencing
11 3 (0.48%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.48%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.54%) Unix
2 15 (2.41%) Windows
3 12 (1.93%) Linux
4 10 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.96%) Android
6 5 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.16%) VMS
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (64.31%) Machine Learning
2 373 (59.97%) Cybersecurity
3 364 (58.52%) User Experience
4 358 (57.56%) Web Development
5 65 (10.45%) LLM
6 58 (9.32%) Conversational UI
7 53 (8.52%) Generative AI
8 38 (6.11%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (5.95%) Data Analysis
10 33 (5.31%) Analytical Thinking
11 31 (4.98%) Open Source
12 26 (4.18%) Analytics
13 24 (3.86%) Business Intelligence
13 24 (3.86%) Chemistry
13 24 (3.86%) Software Engineering
14 22 (3.54%) Agile
14 22 (3.54%) Decision-Making
15 19 (3.05%) Computer Science
15 19 (3.05%) Mathematics
15 19 (3.05%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 84 (13.50%) Python
2 30 (4.82%) SQL
3 12 (1.93%) C++
3 12 (1.93%) JavaScript
4 10 (1.61%) C
5 9 (1.45%) Java
6 3 (0.48%) Assembly Language
6 3 (0.48%) MATLAB
6 3 (0.48%) Objective-C
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%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.16%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.16%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 485 (77.97%) Degree
2 389 (62.54%) PhD
3 387 (62.22%) Master's Degree
4 358 (57.56%) Postgraduate
5 21 (3.38%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.05%) Security Cleared
7 13 (2.09%) SC Cleared
8 12 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.61%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.64%) ACCA
12 4 (0.64%) CIMA
12 4 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.48%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.32%) CISA
14 2 (0.32%) CISM
14 2 (0.32%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.89%) Data Quality
2 5 (0.80%) GDPR
2 5 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (0.80%) PCI DSS
3 4 (0.64%) NIST
4 3 (0.48%) GRC
4 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 3 (0.48%) JSP 440
4 3 (0.48%) NCSC
5 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.32%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.32%) WCAG
6 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 7 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (1.13%) vSphere
2 6 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.96%) Docker
3 4 (0.64%) Firmware
3 4 (0.64%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (0.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.48%) vCenter Server
3 2 (0.32%) Ansible
4 1 (0.16%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (0.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 72 (11.58%) Microsoft
2 55 (8.84%) PayPal
3 12 (1.93%) HubSpot
4 8 (1.29%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.13%) VMware
6 6 (0.96%) Dell
6 6 (0.96%) Google
7 5 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (0.80%) Fortinet
7 5 (0.80%) Palo Alto
8 4 (0.64%) Veeam
9 3 (0.48%) Adobe
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
11 1 (0.16%) SolarWinds