Artificial Intelligence Job Trends in the East of England

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 108 112
Rank change year-on-year +66 +4 -43
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 208 62 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.15% 1.41% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.09% 1.91% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 69 35 31
10th Percentile £35,000 £48,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £85,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.18% +47.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £95,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £95,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Artificial Intelligence 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 2,933 3,246 2,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 86.67% 73.71% 92.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,558 1,799 1,400
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,375 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,312 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.59% -1.27% +2.86%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,004
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.34%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the East of England

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Artificial Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the East of England

Artificial Intelligence
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 Artificial Intelligence within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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 +32 105 £48,750 -42.65% 67
Hertfordshire +50 45 £56,750 -45.95% 42
Bedfordshire +13 23 £64,000 -1.54% 14
Essex +9 19 £40,816 -18.37% 27
Suffolk - 11 £62,500 - 16
Norfolk +18 5 - - 19
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.88%) CMS
2 6 (2.88%) WordPress
3 4 (1.92%) Apache Solr
3 4 (1.92%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.44%) Kentico
4 3 (1.44%) Umbraco
Applications
1 73 (35.10%) Chatbot
2 16 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.44%) Simulink
4 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.06%) Azure
2 20 (9.62%) AWS
3 9 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (4.33%) Power Platform
3 9 (4.33%) SaaS
4 7 (3.37%) Entra ID
5 4 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (1.44%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.44%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (1.44%) Cloudflare
6 3 (1.44%) GCP
6 3 (1.44%) Serverless
7 2 (0.96%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (0.96%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.96%) GitHub
7 2 (0.96%) IaaS
7 2 (0.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.40%) DNS
1 5 (2.40%) Firewall
1 5 (2.40%) SD-WAN
1 5 (2.40%) Unified Communications
2 4 (1.92%) DHCP
2 4 (1.92%) SAN
3 3 (1.44%) HTTP
3 3 (1.44%) Internet
4 2 (0.96%) VoIP
5 1 (0.48%) Broadband
5 1 (0.48%) VPN
5 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.37%) Tableau
3 6 (2.88%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.40%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.40%) MySQL
4 5 (2.40%) Power BI
5 4 (1.92%) Big Data
5 4 (1.92%) Looker
6 3 (1.44%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.44%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.44%) Redis
6 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.96%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.96%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.96%) Metadata
7 2 (0.96%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.96%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 16 (7.69%) Git
2 3 (1.44%) Subversion
3 2 (0.96%) JIRA
3 2 (0.96%) MLflow
4 1 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
General
1 62 (29.81%) Analytical Skills
2 38 (18.27%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.90%) Finance
4 13 (6.25%) Marketing
5 11 (5.29%) Retail
6 8 (3.85%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.40%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.92%) Law
8 4 (1.92%) Legal
9 3 (1.44%) Agriculture
9 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.96%) German Language
10 2 (0.96%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.96%) Local Government
10 2 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Publishing
11 1 (0.48%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 64 (30.77%) Trainer
2 20 (9.62%) Senior
3 16 (7.69%) Lead
4 9 (4.33%) Support Engineer
5 8 (3.85%) Customer Support Specialist
5 8 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (3.85%) Linux Engineer
5 8 (3.85%) Linux Support
5 8 (3.85%) Linux Support Engineer
5 8 (3.85%) Support Specialist
6 7 (3.37%) Developer
6 7 (3.37%) Software Engineer
7 6 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (2.88%) Marketing Executive
7 6 (2.88%) Research Scientist
7 6 (2.88%) Technical Manager
8 5 (2.40%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (2.40%) Consultant
8 5 (2.40%) Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (1.92%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.29%) PyTorch
2 10 (4.81%) TensorFlow
3 8 (3.85%) Node.js
4 7 (3.37%) HTML
4 7 (3.37%) React
5 6 (2.88%) scikit-learn
6 5 (2.40%) Vue
7 4 (1.92%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.92%) CSS
7 4 (1.92%) Google JAX
7 4 (1.92%) Hugging Face
7 4 (1.92%) JAX
7 4 (1.92%) NumPy
7 4 (1.92%) Pandas
7 4 (1.92%) Spring
8 3 (1.44%) DOM
8 3 (1.44%) HTML5
8 3 (1.44%) jQuery
8 3 (1.44%) JSON
8 3 (1.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.17%) Algorithms
2 13 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 13 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (5.29%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.37%) Robotics
6 7 (3.37%) Smartphone
7 6 (2.88%) IoT
7 6 (2.88%) Multi-touch
8 4 (1.92%) CUDA
8 4 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.44%) Arduino
9 3 (1.44%) NHS
9 3 (1.44%) Raspberry Pi
10 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.96%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.62%) Linux
2 17 (8.17%) Windows
2 17 (8.17%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.85%) Mac OS
4 5 (2.40%) Unix
5 1 (0.48%) Android
5 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (35.10%) Conversational UI
2 43 (20.67%) Machine Learning
3 40 (19.23%) Mathematics
4 35 (16.83%) Computer Science
5 32 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (14.42%) Analytics
6 30 (14.42%) Chemistry
7 29 (13.94%) Physics
8 25 (12.02%) LLM
9 23 (11.06%) Software Engineering
10 18 (8.65%) Decision-Making
11 16 (7.69%) Data Analysis
11 16 (7.69%) Data Science
12 14 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (6.25%) CI/CD
13 13 (6.25%) Service Delivery
14 12 (5.77%) Asset Management
14 12 (5.77%) Containerisation
14 12 (5.77%) Generative AI
14 12 (5.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 53 (25.48%) Python
2 23 (11.06%) SQL
3 20 (9.62%) JavaScript
4 14 (6.73%) Java
5 11 (5.29%) C++
6 10 (4.81%) C
7 8 (3.85%) Bash
7 8 (3.85%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.37%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.92%) Rust
9 4 (1.92%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.44%) Assembly Language
10 3 (1.44%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.44%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.44%) Swift
11 2 (0.96%) Bicep
11 2 (0.96%) R
12 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.48%) Go
12 1 (0.48%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 102 (49.04%) Degree
2 59 (28.37%) Master's Degree
3 58 (27.88%) PhD
4 14 (6.73%) Security Cleared
5 11 (5.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.29%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.44%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.96%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.96%) MCAD
10 1 (0.48%) ACCA
10 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.48%) CIMA
10 1 (0.48%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.96%) GDPR
2 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 10 (4.81%) Docker
2 9 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 8 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.92%) Firmware
4 4 (1.92%) vSphere
5 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.48%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 7 (3.37%) Terraform
4 4 (1.92%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.96%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.48%) Ansible
6 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (31.25%) PayPal
2 34 (16.35%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.29%) HubSpot
4 8 (3.85%) Apple
4 8 (3.85%) VMware
5 7 (3.37%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.40%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (2.40%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.40%) Google
6 5 (2.40%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.92%) Citrix
7 4 (1.92%) Dell
7 4 (1.92%) Veeam
8 3 (1.44%) Databricks
8 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.44%) Screaming Frog
9 2 (0.96%) Cisco
9 2 (0.96%) Genesys
10 1 (0.48%) Adobe
10 1 (0.48%) Oracle