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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 45 106
Rank change year-on-year +30 +61 +13
Permanent jobs citing AI 525 197 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 6.83% 5.76% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.74% 6.65% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 311 70 39
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £48,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -29.69% +39.13%
75th Percentile £80,000 £66,250 £93,125
90th Percentile £96,250 £86,000 £95,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -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 5,388 2,964 3,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.10% 86.67% 73.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,956 1,586 1,975
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,050
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.76% -7.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -2 180 £65,000 +36.84% 329
Hertfordshire +29 121 £55,000 +2.80% 127
Essex +25 84 £62,500 +31.58% 69
Suffolk +40 63 £55,000 -12.00% 40
Bedfordshire +8 47 £45,000 -29.69% 35
Norfolk -2 30 £42,500 - 36
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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 28 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.90%) WordPress
3 6 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.14%) CMS
4 5 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.38%) Confluence
7 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.19%) Moodle
Applications
1 49 (9.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.90%) UserZoom
4 6 (1.14%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.76%) Simulink
6 3 (0.57%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.19%) LaTeX
8 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.57%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.19%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 152 (28.95%) Azure
2 94 (17.90%) Azure AI
3 63 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 36 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (6.48%) AWS
6 33 (6.29%) Adobe Analytics
7 32 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (3.62%) GCP
8 19 (3.62%) Google Ads
8 19 (3.62%) Microsoft Copilot
8 19 (3.62%) Power Automate
9 17 (3.24%) GitHub
10 14 (2.67%) Google Analytics
11 13 (2.48%) Figma
12 12 (2.29%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (2.10%) dbt
13 11 (2.10%) GitHub Copilot
13 11 (2.10%) PowerApps
13 11 (2.10%) SaaS
14 10 (1.90%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 43 (8.19%) Broadband
2 19 (3.62%) Firewall
3 11 (2.10%) DNS
3 11 (2.10%) Internet
3 11 (2.10%) VPN
4 4 (0.76%) DMZ
4 4 (0.76%) Network Security
5 3 (0.57%) BGP
5 3 (0.57%) DHCP
5 3 (0.57%) LAN
5 3 (0.57%) OSPF
5 3 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.57%) WAN
5 3 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.38%) Intranet
7 1 (0.19%) MQTT
7 1 (0.19%) RS-422
7 1 (0.19%) SMS
7 1 (0.19%) VLAN
7 1 (0.19%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (11.81%) Power BI
2 46 (8.76%) Tableau
3 38 (7.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 26 (4.95%) MongoDB
5 17 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.48%) Metadata
7 12 (2.29%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.10%) Looker
9 8 (1.52%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.14%) Metabase
11 5 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.95%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.76%) Milvus
12 4 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
13 3 (0.57%) Star Schema
14 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.38%) SQL Server
15 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (2.48%) Git
2 6 (1.14%) JIRA
3 5 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.76%) Claude Code
4 4 (0.76%) MLflow
5 2 (0.38%) Plastic SCM
6 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.19%) Poetry
General
1 147 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 43 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (8.00%) Games
4 39 (7.43%) Marketing
5 29 (5.52%) Finance
6 23 (4.38%) Legal
7 20 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.48%) Legal Technology
9 12 (2.29%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.29%) Retail
10 11 (2.10%) Electronics
11 8 (1.52%) Swedish Language
11 8 (1.52%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.14%) Public Sector
14 5 (0.95%) Aviation
14 5 (0.95%) Law
15 4 (0.76%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 86 (16.38%) Developer
2 72 (13.71%) Senior
3 55 (10.48%) Lead
4 49 (9.33%) Analyst
5 47 (8.95%) Software Engineer
6 45 (8.57%) Junior
7 42 (8.00%) Data Analyst
8 39 (7.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 36 (6.86%) Junior Analyst
9 36 (6.86%) Junior Data Analyst
10 33 (6.29%) .NET Developer
10 33 (6.29%) Architect
11 24 (4.57%) Python Developer
12 21 (4.00%) Python Engineer
12 21 (4.00%) Technologist
13 17 (3.24%) Product Manager
14 16 (3.05%) Python Software Engineer
14 16 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (2.48%) Senior Technologist
16 12 (2.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (8.19%) .NET
2 35 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 32 (6.10%) ASP.NET
3 32 (6.10%) ASP.NET Core
3 32 (6.10%) ML.NET
4 31 (5.90%) React
5 30 (5.71%) CSS
5 30 (5.71%) HTML
6 23 (4.38%) RESTful
7 22 (4.19%) Blazor
8 14 (2.67%) TensorFlow
9 13 (2.48%) PyTorch
10 10 (1.90%) Node.js
11 9 (1.71%) Terraform
12 7 (1.33%) REST
12 7 (1.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 5 (0.95%) scikit-learn
14 4 (0.76%) JAX
14 4 (0.76%) Kafka
14 4 (0.76%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.95%) Social Media
2 46 (8.76%) Cyber Threat
3 30 (5.71%) Algorithms
4 26 (4.95%) AI Agents
4 26 (4.95%) Robotics
5 20 (3.81%) Cloud Native
6 15 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.29%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.10%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.90%) NHS
10 9 (1.71%) FPGA
11 8 (1.52%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.33%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.33%) Digital TV
12 7 (1.33%) iPhone
13 6 (1.14%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.95%) BBC
14 5 (0.95%) Blog
14 5 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
14 5 (0.95%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.38%) Windows
2 12 (2.29%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.71%) Android
3 9 (1.71%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.52%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.14%) Linux
6 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (20.95%) Software Engineering
2 109 (20.76%) Agile
3 107 (20.38%) Machine Learning
4 95 (18.10%) Analytics
5 77 (14.67%) Business Intelligence
6 74 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (12.57%) Roadmaps
8 62 (11.81%) Cybersecurity
9 57 (10.86%) Customer Experience
10 50 (9.52%) DevOps
11 48 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (8.38%) Storytelling
13 43 (8.19%) CI/CD
13 43 (8.19%) Decision-Making
13 43 (8.19%) LLM
14 42 (8.00%) Product Roadmap
15 41 (7.81%) Mentoring
16 39 (7.43%) Full-Stack Development
17 38 (7.24%) Prototyping
18 33 (6.29%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 157 (29.90%) Python
2 105 (20.00%) SQL
3 52 (9.90%) C#
4 36 (6.86%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.38%) C++
6 12 (2.29%) Rust
7 9 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.52%) C
9 7 (1.33%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.14%) Julia
10 6 (1.14%) R
11 5 (0.95%) Embedded C
11 5 (0.95%) Java
12 4 (0.76%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.57%) Bash
13 3 (0.57%) Delphi
14 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.38%) PHP
15 1 (0.19%) Embedded C++
15 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (11.62%) Azure Certification
2 45 (8.57%) Degree
3 26 (4.95%) Security Cleared
4 18 (3.43%) DBS Check
5 14 (2.67%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.48%) ACCA
7 12 (2.29%) CIMA
8 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.33%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.14%) PhD
11 5 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.57%) CCDP
13 3 (0.57%) CCNP
13 3 (0.57%) CISSP
14 2 (0.38%) MCSA
14 2 (0.38%) MCSE
15 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.24%) Accessibility
2 20 (3.81%) GDPR
3 16 (3.05%) QA
4 12 (2.29%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.29%) SLA
5 7 (1.33%) NIST
6 5 (0.95%) DO-254
6 5 (0.95%) IFRS
6 5 (0.95%) WCAG
7 4 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.76%) GAAP
7 4 (0.76%) GRC
7 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 4 (0.76%) JSP 440
7 4 (0.76%) NCSC
7 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (3.62%) Docker
2 9 (1.71%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (1.71%) Firmware
3 8 (1.52%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.57%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.19%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.19%) Podman
Vendors
1 129 (24.57%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.43%) Adobe
3 36 (6.86%) Google
4 13 (2.48%) Apple
5 12 (2.29%) Cisco
5 12 (2.29%) Dell
6 11 (2.10%) Databricks
7 9 (1.71%) RedGate
8 8 (1.52%) DocuSign
9 6 (1.14%) Facebook
10 5 (0.95%) Meraki
10 5 (0.95%) Sony
10 5 (0.95%) Yahoo!
11 4 (0.76%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.57%) Forcepoint
12 3 (0.57%) Informatica
12 3 (0.57%) Juniper
12 3 (0.57%) SonicWALL
12 3 (0.57%) Teradata
12 3 (0.57%) VMware