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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 86 70
Rank change year-on-year +82 -16 +35
Permanent jobs citing AI 508 107 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 13.17% 2.68% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.87% 3.22% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 88 43 48
10th Percentile £30,370 £46,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £65,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £98,125 £77,188
90th Percentile £83,250 £100,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £76,383
% change year-on-year -6.45% +1.46% +9.12%

All Process and 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 3,012 3,326 1,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 78.09% 83.32% 92.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,804 1,418 1,281
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £63,188 £73,750 £69,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £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

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

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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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 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
Hertfordshire +63 175 £62,500 -17.76% 263
Cambridgeshire +40 154 £39,000 -54.12% 281
Essex +38 117 £45,000 -49.15% 255
Suffolk +5 26 £40,000 -54.80% 83
Bedfordshire +46 19 £47,500 -26.92% 203
Norfolk +21 17 - - 126
AI
England

AI
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 9 (1.77%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.38%) WordPress
4 4 (0.79%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.79%) CMS
5 3 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.39%) Kentico
6 2 (0.39%) Mendix
6 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
Applications
1 80 (15.75%) Chatbot
2 45 (8.86%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.59%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 236 (46.46%) Cloud Computing
2 36 (7.09%) Azure
3 27 (5.31%) Power Platform
4 18 (3.54%) SaaS
5 16 (3.15%) AWS
5 16 (3.15%) Azure AI
6 7 (1.38%) Amazon Alexa
7 5 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (0.98%) Power Automate
7 5 (0.98%) PowerApps
8 4 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.59%) Azure AKS
9 3 (0.59%) Serverless
10 2 (0.39%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (0.39%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (0.39%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.39%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.39%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (0.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.39%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 239 (47.05%) Internet
2 6 (1.18%) Firewall
3 5 (0.98%) DNS
3 5 (0.98%) VPN
4 4 (0.79%) SAN
5 2 (0.39%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.20%) Broadband
6 1 (0.20%) DHCP
6 1 (0.20%) DMZ
6 1 (0.20%) DOCSIS
6 1 (0.20%) DSL
6 1 (0.20%) GPON
6 1 (0.20%) IPv4
6 1 (0.20%) IPv6
6 1 (0.20%) PPP
6 1 (0.20%) RTP
6 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.20%) VoIP
6 1 (0.20%) WAN
6 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.94%) Tableau
2 18 (3.54%) Power BI
3 6 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.79%) DynamoDB
4 4 (0.79%) Looker
4 4 (0.79%) Metadata
4 4 (0.79%) MySQL
5 3 (0.59%) Big Data
5 3 (0.59%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.59%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.59%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.59%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.39%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.39%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.39%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.39%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.20%) DTS
7 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Git
1 5 (0.98%) GitBook
2 2 (0.39%) MLflow
3 1 (0.20%) JIRA
3 1 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
General
1 279 (54.92%) Social Skills
2 236 (46.46%) Banking
2 236 (46.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 84 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (4.92%) German Language
5 24 (4.72%) Finance
6 18 (3.54%) Marketing
7 11 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.77%) Retail
9 7 (1.38%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.18%) Legal
11 5 (0.98%) Public Sector
11 5 (0.98%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.59%) Law
13 2 (0.39%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.39%) Automotive
13 2 (0.39%) Local Government
13 2 (0.39%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 190 (37.40%) Lecturer
2 73 (14.37%) Trainer
3 34 (6.69%) Senior
4 22 (4.33%) Customer Support Specialist
4 22 (4.33%) Support Specialist
5 19 (3.74%) Analyst
6 18 (3.54%) Junior
7 16 (3.15%) Data Analyst
7 16 (3.15%) Junior Analyst
7 16 (3.15%) Junior Data Analyst
8 10 (1.97%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 10 (1.97%) Lead
9 9 (1.77%) Administrator
10 7 (1.38%) Consultant
10 7 (1.38%) Developer
11 6 (1.18%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (1.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (1.18%) Marketing Executive
11 6 (1.18%) Technical Manager
12 5 (0.98%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.12%) HTML
2 23 (4.53%) JSON
2 23 (4.53%) Regular Expression
2 23 (4.53%) XML
3 12 (2.36%) PyTorch
4 11 (2.17%) TensorFlow
5 6 (1.18%) Node.js
5 6 (1.18%) scikit-learn
6 5 (0.98%) Vue
7 4 (0.79%) ARM Templates
7 4 (0.79%) Hugging Face
7 4 (0.79%) NumPy
7 4 (0.79%) Pandas
8 3 (0.59%) CSS
8 3 (0.59%) Google JAX
8 3 (0.59%) JAX
8 3 (0.59%) jQuery
8 3 (0.59%) Keras
8 3 (0.59%) REST
8 3 (0.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 241 (47.44%) IoT
2 47 (9.25%) Onboarding
3 28 (5.51%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (2.76%) Algorithms
5 11 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.18%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.18%) Multi-touch
8 5 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (0.98%) Management Information System
8 5 (0.98%) Product Ownership
8 5 (0.98%) Robotics
9 4 (0.79%) CUDA
9 4 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
10 3 (0.59%) Arduino
10 3 (0.59%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.59%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.59%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.92%) Unix
2 20 (3.94%) Windows
3 17 (3.35%) Linux
4 15 (2.95%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.98%) Android
5 5 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.20%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (53.94%) Machine Learning
2 250 (49.21%) Cybersecurity
3 238 (46.85%) User Experience
4 236 (46.46%) Web Development
5 80 (15.75%) Conversational UI
6 64 (12.60%) LLM
7 43 (8.46%) Generative AI
8 35 (6.89%) Chemistry
8 35 (6.89%) Data Analysis
9 34 (6.69%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (6.10%) Analytical Thinking
10 31 (6.10%) Open Source
11 25 (4.92%) Mathematics
12 24 (4.72%) Physics
13 22 (4.33%) Analytics
14 20 (3.94%) Computer Science
14 20 (3.94%) Decision-Making
15 19 (3.74%) Software Engineering
16 18 (3.54%) Business Intelligence
17 16 (3.15%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 85 (16.73%) Python
2 29 (5.71%) SQL
3 11 (2.17%) C++
4 10 (1.97%) C
4 10 (1.97%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.38%) Java
6 5 (0.98%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.59%) Assembly Language
7 3 (0.59%) Bash
7 3 (0.59%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.59%) Objective-C
7 3 (0.59%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.59%) Swift
8 2 (0.39%) PHP
9 1 (0.20%) Bicep
9 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.20%) Fortran
9 1 (0.20%) Go
9 1 (0.20%) R
9 1 (0.20%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 383 (75.39%) Degree
2 285 (56.10%) Master's Degree
2 285 (56.10%) PhD
3 236 (46.46%) Postgraduate
4 17 (3.35%) Security Cleared
5 16 (3.15%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.56%) SC Cleared
7 12 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.98%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.79%) ACCA
10 4 (0.79%) CIMA
10 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.39%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.39%) CISA
11 2 (0.39%) CISM
11 2 (0.39%) CISSP
12 1 (0.20%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.59%) GDPR
2 3 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.39%) NIST
3 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.20%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.20%) GRC
4 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (1.77%) Docker
3 8 (1.57%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.18%) vSphere
5 5 (0.98%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.79%) Firmware
7 3 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.20%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 7 (1.38%) Terraform
2 4 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (0.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.39%) Ansible
3 2 (0.39%) Kubeflow
3 2 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 74 (14.57%) PayPal
2 72 (14.17%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.36%) HubSpot
4 10 (1.97%) VMware
5 8 (1.57%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.38%) Google
7 6 (1.18%) Dell
8 5 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (0.98%) Fortinet
8 5 (0.98%) Palo Alto
9 4 (0.79%) Veeam
10 3 (0.59%) Apple
10 3 (0.59%) Databricks
10 3 (0.59%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.59%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.59%) Screaming Frog
11 2 (0.39%) Ahrefs
11 2 (0.39%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.39%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.20%) Adobe