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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 32 107
Rank change year-on-year +19 +75 +32
Permanent jobs citing AI 501 299 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 7.63% 8.61% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.67% 9.61% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 220 176 104
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £65,825 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,212 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -5.41% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £66,254 £83,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £66,340 £95,000
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 4,694 3,112 5,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 71.50% 89.58% 77.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,267 1,635 3,690
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,125 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -3 140 £60,100 +20.20% 67
Hertfordshire +41 137 £55,000 -8.33% 45
Essex +21 75 £60,000 +26.32% 29
Bedfordshire +22 57 £40,000 -37.50% 10
Suffolk +2 51 £55,000 -16.95% 11
Norfolk +8 40 £42,500 -33.59% 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 14 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.40%) Apache
4 7 (1.40%) WordPress
5 3 (0.60%) CMS
6 2 (0.40%) Confluence
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Moodle
Applications
1 70 (13.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.20%) UserZoom
3 6 (1.20%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.80%) Simulink
6 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.60%) Stateflow
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
1 4 (0.80%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 186 (37.13%) Azure
2 122 (24.35%) Azure AI
3 86 (17.17%) Power Platform
4 55 (10.98%) Adobe Analytics
5 46 (9.18%) AWS
6 33 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (4.39%) Figma
9 20 (3.99%) SaaS
10 17 (3.39%) GCP
11 16 (3.19%) GitHub
12 15 (2.99%) Snowflake
13 14 (2.79%) Google Ads
14 13 (2.59%) dbt
15 12 (2.40%) Contentsquare
15 12 (2.40%) Entra ID
16 11 (2.20%) GitHub Copilot
17 9 (1.80%) Amazon S3
17 9 (1.80%) Google Analytics
18 8 (1.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 68 (13.57%) Broadband
2 18 (3.59%) Firewall
3 10 (2.00%) DNS
4 8 (1.60%) Internet
5 6 (1.20%) VPN
6 5 (1.00%) VLAN
7 4 (0.80%) DHCP
7 4 (0.80%) DMZ
7 4 (0.80%) Network Security
7 4 (0.80%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.40%) Intranet
9 1 (0.20%) LTE
9 1 (0.20%) MQTT
9 1 (0.20%) RS-422
9 1 (0.20%) SMS
9 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.20%) WireGuard
9 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (16.57%) Tableau
2 82 (16.37%) Power BI
3 35 (6.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (5.39%) MongoDB
5 21 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (3.59%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.59%) Looker
8 12 (2.40%) Metadata
9 10 (2.00%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (1.40%) Apache Hive
10 7 (1.40%) Impala
10 7 (1.40%) Oracle Database
10 7 (1.40%) Parquet
10 7 (1.40%) Spark SQL
11 6 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.20%) Metabase
11 6 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (1.00%) DTS
Development Applications
1 15 (2.99%) Git
2 7 (1.40%) IBM UrbanCode
2 7 (1.40%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.20%) MLflow
4 4 (0.80%) Claude Code
4 4 (0.80%) JIRA
5 2 (0.40%) Plastic SCM
6 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.20%) Poetry
General
1 173 (34.53%) Social Skills
2 67 (13.37%) Games
3 41 (8.18%) Marketing
4 40 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.39%) Finance
6 23 (4.59%) Legal
7 19 (3.79%) Electronics
8 16 (3.19%) Retail
9 15 (2.99%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.80%) Law
12 7 (1.40%) Banking
12 7 (1.40%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.40%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.40%) Swedish Language
13 5 (1.00%) Legal Technology
13 5 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.80%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 81 (16.17%) Lead
2 80 (15.97%) Analyst
3 70 (13.97%) Junior
4 69 (13.77%) Data Analyst
5 64 (12.77%) Junior Analyst
5 64 (12.77%) Junior Data Analyst
6 59 (11.78%) Developer
7 51 (10.18%) Senior
8 33 (6.59%) .NET Developer
9 29 (5.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 27 (5.39%) Architect
11 22 (4.39%) Product Manager
12 21 (4.19%) Software Engineer
13 19 (3.79%) Designer
14 16 (3.19%) Lead Designer
15 14 (2.79%) Data Engineer
15 14 (2.79%) Digital Designer
16 12 (2.40%) Systems Engineer
17 11 (2.20%) Consultant
18 10 (2.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.78%) .NET
2 35 (6.99%) .NET Core
3 32 (6.39%) ASP.NET
3 32 (6.39%) ASP.NET Core
3 32 (6.39%) ML.NET
3 32 (6.39%) React
4 29 (5.79%) CSS
4 29 (5.79%) HTML
5 23 (4.59%) RESTful
6 22 (4.39%) Blazor
7 19 (3.79%) PyTorch
7 19 (3.79%) TensorFlow
8 11 (2.20%) PySpark
9 10 (2.00%) Node.js
10 9 (1.80%) REST
11 8 (1.60%) scikit-learn
12 6 (1.20%) Kafka
12 6 (1.20%) LangChain
12 6 (1.20%) LlamaIndex
12 6 (1.20%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 63 (12.57%) Social Media
2 38 (7.58%) Robotics
3 25 (4.99%) Cloud Native
4 23 (4.59%) Algorithms
5 20 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.59%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
8 12 (2.40%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.00%) FPGA
10 9 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.80%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.40%) Digital TV
11 7 (1.40%) iPhone
12 6 (1.20%) Clustering
12 6 (1.20%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.20%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.20%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.20%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.20%) Video\Live Streaming
13 5 (1.00%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.99%) Windows
2 19 (3.79%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.60%) Android
4 6 (1.20%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.20%) Linux
4 6 (1.20%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.80%) VMS
5 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (29.34%) Agile
2 131 (26.15%) Analytics
3 102 (20.36%) Business Intelligence
4 99 (19.76%) Machine Learning
5 91 (18.16%) Roadmaps
6 80 (15.97%) Customer Experience
7 75 (14.97%) Storytelling
8 65 (12.97%) Product Roadmap
9 62 (12.38%) Software Engineering
10 61 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 55 (10.98%) Digital Customer Experience
11 55 (10.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 54 (10.78%) User Research
13 53 (10.58%) DevOps
14 52 (10.38%) CI/CD
14 52 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
14 52 (10.38%) Prototyping
15 47 (9.38%) Workshop Facilitation
16 42 (8.38%) Mentoring
17 40 (7.98%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 165 (32.93%) Python
2 135 (26.95%) SQL
3 51 (10.18%) C#
4 36 (7.19%) JavaScript
5 20 (3.99%) C++
6 10 (2.00%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.40%) C
7 7 (1.40%) R
7 7 (1.40%) Rust
8 6 (1.20%) Julia
8 6 (1.20%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.80%) Embedded C
9 4 (0.80%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.60%) Bash
10 3 (0.60%) Delphi
10 3 (0.60%) Java
11 2 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.40%) PHP
12 1 (0.20%) Haskell
12 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (18.56%) Azure Certification
2 47 (9.38%) Degree
3 27 (5.39%) DBS Check
3 27 (5.39%) Security Cleared
4 15 (2.99%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.20%) ACCA
5 11 (2.20%) CIMA
6 9 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (0.80%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.60%) PhD
9 3 (0.60%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.20%) CISM
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (12.38%) Accessibility
2 22 (4.39%) GDPR
3 17 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.59%) QA
5 12 (2.40%) WCAG
6 10 (2.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 9 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.40%) SLA
9 5 (1.00%) NIST
10 4 (0.80%) DO-254
10 4 (0.80%) GAAP
10 4 (0.80%) GRC
10 4 (0.80%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.80%) IFRS
10 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.80%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.80%) NCSC
10 4 (0.80%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (3.59%) Docker
2 17 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.80%) Embedded Firmware
3 9 (1.80%) Firmware
4 5 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.80%) Terraform
3 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (0.80%) Ansible
4 4 (0.80%) SolarWinds Orion
4 4 (0.80%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.60%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.20%) Grafana
6 1 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 150 (29.94%) Microsoft
2 58 (11.58%) Adobe
3 26 (5.19%) Google
4 22 (4.39%) Dell
5 18 (3.59%) Databricks
6 10 (2.00%) Apple
7 9 (1.80%) Cisco
8 8 (1.60%) Oracle
9 7 (1.40%) Informatica
9 7 (1.40%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.20%) Cloudera
10 6 (1.20%) Denodo
10 6 (1.20%) Teradata
11 5 (1.00%) Facebook
11 5 (1.00%) Meraki
11 5 (1.00%) Sony
11 5 (1.00%) Yahoo!
12 4 (0.80%) SolarWinds
12 4 (0.80%) VMware
13 3 (0.60%) HubSpot