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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 42 106
Rank change year-on-year +24 +64 +3
Permanent jobs citing AI 513 212 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 6.37% 6.25% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.10% 7.23% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 325 73 33
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,500 £48,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% -29.41% +54.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,000 £96,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -0.07%

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 5,638 2,932 3,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 69.99% 86.46% 74.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,129 1,558 1,779
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -15.49% -1.39%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £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

AI
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 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 18 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 -3 187 £65,000 +33.33% 390
Hertfordshire +9 114 £60,000 - 142
Essex +23 88 £62,500 -3.85% 72
Suffolk +46 62 £55,000 -12.00% 33
Bedfordshire +1 38 £41,250 -35.55% 40
Norfolk -8 24 £42,500 - 33
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 32 (6.24%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.53%) WordPress
3 10 (1.95%) CMS
4 5 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.58%) Confluence
7 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.19%) Moodle
Applications
1 48 (9.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.12%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.97%) UserZoom
4 4 (0.78%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.78%) Simulink
5 3 (0.58%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.19%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 3 (0.58%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.19%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 139 (27.10%) Azure
2 84 (16.37%) Azure AI
3 57 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 42 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (6.04%) AWS
6 28 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (4.87%) Microsoft Copilot
8 23 (4.48%) Power Automate
9 22 (4.29%) Google Ads
10 19 (3.70%) Google Analytics
11 18 (3.51%) Adobe Analytics
12 16 (3.12%) GCP
12 16 (3.12%) GitHub
13 15 (2.92%) PowerApps
14 12 (2.34%) Anthropic Claude
14 12 (2.34%) SaaS
15 11 (2.14%) Figma
16 10 (1.95%) GitHub Copilot
17 9 (1.75%) Zapier
18 8 (1.56%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.87%) Broadband
2 20 (3.90%) Firewall
3 13 (2.53%) DNS
3 13 (2.53%) VPN
4 12 (2.34%) Internet
5 4 (0.78%) DHCP
5 4 (0.78%) DMZ
5 4 (0.78%) Network Security
5 4 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.58%) BGP
6 3 (0.58%) LAN
6 3 (0.58%) OSPF
6 3 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.58%) WAN
7 2 (0.39%) Intranet
7 2 (0.39%) RFID
8 1 (0.19%) MQTT
8 1 (0.19%) RS-422
8 1 (0.19%) SMS
8 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.92%) Power BI
2 36 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 34 (6.63%) Tableau
4 24 (4.68%) MongoDB
5 14 (2.73%) Metadata
6 13 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.36%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.36%) Looker
9 5 (0.97%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.58%) Metabase
11 3 (0.58%) Milvus
11 3 (0.58%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.58%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.39%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.39%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (2.73%) Git
2 7 (1.36%) JIRA
3 4 (0.78%) Claude Code
3 4 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.58%) MLflow
5 2 (0.39%) Plastic SCM
6 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.19%) PetaLinux
6 1 (0.19%) Poetry
General
1 151 (29.43%) Social Skills
2 49 (9.55%) Marketing
3 39 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (5.85%) Finance
5 29 (5.65%) Games
6 27 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (3.70%) Legal
8 14 (2.73%) Legal Technology
8 14 (2.73%) Retail
9 13 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.53%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.56%) Electronics
12 7 (1.36%) Aviation
12 7 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.36%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.36%) Swedish Language
13 6 (1.17%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.97%) Law
Job Titles
1 89 (17.35%) Developer
2 84 (16.37%) Senior
3 53 (10.33%) Software Engineer
4 45 (8.77%) Lead
5 42 (8.19%) Analyst
6 39 (7.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 38 (7.41%) Junior
8 34 (6.63%) Data Analyst
9 31 (6.04%) .NET Developer
9 31 (6.04%) Architect
10 28 (5.46%) Junior Analyst
10 28 (5.46%) Junior Data Analyst
11 26 (5.07%) Python Developer
12 25 (4.87%) Python Engineer
13 22 (4.29%) Technologist
14 20 (3.90%) Python Software Engineer
15 16 (3.12%) Senior Software Engineer
16 15 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
17 14 (2.73%) Senior Developer
17 14 (2.73%) Senior Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.99%) .NET
2 33 (6.43%) .NET Core
3 30 (5.85%) ASP.NET
3 30 (5.85%) ASP.NET Core
3 30 (5.85%) ML.NET
4 28 (5.46%) CSS
4 28 (5.46%) HTML
4 28 (5.46%) React
5 22 (4.29%) RESTful
6 21 (4.09%) Blazor
7 13 (2.53%) TensorFlow
8 12 (2.34%) PyTorch
9 9 (1.75%) Node.js
9 9 (1.75%) Terraform
10 7 (1.36%) REST
10 7 (1.36%) Unity (Game Engine)
11 4 (0.78%) Google JAX
11 4 (0.78%) JAX
11 4 (0.78%) Keras
11 4 (0.78%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 50 (9.75%) Cyber Threat
2 36 (7.02%) Social Media
3 34 (6.63%) AI Agents
3 34 (6.63%) Algorithms
4 22 (4.29%) Robotics
5 19 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 15 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.34%) Low-Code
7 12 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.14%) FPGA
9 10 (1.95%) NHS
10 9 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.56%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.56%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.56%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.36%) iPhone
13 6 (1.17%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.17%) Digital TV
13 6 (1.17%) IoT
13 6 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.87%) Windows
2 13 (2.53%) Windows Server
3 12 (2.34%) Apple iOS
4 11 (2.14%) Android
4 11 (2.14%) Linux
5 9 (1.75%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (21.64%) Software Engineering
2 105 (20.47%) Machine Learning
3 87 (16.96%) Agile
4 81 (15.79%) Analytics
4 81 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (13.45%) Business Intelligence
6 67 (13.06%) Cybersecurity
7 56 (10.92%) Roadmaps
8 47 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 46 (8.97%) DevOps
10 45 (8.77%) Decision-Making
11 42 (8.19%) CI/CD
12 39 (7.60%) Mentoring
13 36 (7.02%) Full-Stack Development
14 35 (6.82%) Customer Experience
15 34 (6.63%) LLM
16 31 (6.04%) Technical Leadership
17 30 (5.85%) Prototyping
18 29 (5.65%) Product Roadmap
19 25 (4.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Programming Languages
1 152 (29.63%) Python
2 94 (18.32%) SQL
3 49 (9.55%) C#
4 34 (6.63%) JavaScript
5 26 (5.07%) C++
6 14 (2.73%) Rust
7 11 (2.14%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.75%) C
9 8 (1.56%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.97%) Embedded C
10 5 (0.97%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.78%) Embedded C++
11 4 (0.78%) Java
12 3 (0.58%) Bash
12 3 (0.58%) Delphi
12 3 (0.58%) Julia
12 3 (0.58%) R
13 2 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.39%) PHP
14 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (10.33%) Azure Certification
2 51 (9.94%) Degree
3 26 (5.07%) Security Cleared
4 15 (2.92%) ACCA
4 15 (2.92%) DBS Check
5 14 (2.73%) CIMA
5 14 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.53%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.75%) PhD
8 7 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.58%) CCDP
11 3 (0.58%) CCNP
11 3 (0.58%) CISSP
11 3 (0.58%) MCSA
11 3 (0.58%) MCSE
12 1 (0.19%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.48%) Accessibility
2 20 (3.90%) GDPR
3 19 (3.70%) QA
4 12 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.14%) SLA
6 9 (1.75%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.36%) NIST
8 5 (0.97%) IFRS
9 4 (0.78%) DO-254
9 4 (0.78%) GAAP
9 4 (0.78%) GRC
9 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (0.78%) JSP 440
9 4 (0.78%) NCSC
9 4 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.39%) PMO
12 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (3.70%) Docker
2 9 (1.75%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (1.75%) Firmware
3 8 (1.56%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (3.12%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.58%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.39%) Podman
5 1 (0.19%) Ansible
5 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 125 (24.37%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.60%) Google
3 27 (5.26%) Adobe
4 16 (3.12%) Apple
5 12 (2.34%) Cisco
6 9 (1.75%) Databricks
6 9 (1.75%) Dell
6 9 (1.75%) RedGate
7 8 (1.56%) DocuSign
8 6 (1.17%) Facebook
9 5 (0.97%) Meraki
9 5 (0.97%) Sony
9 5 (0.97%) Yahoo!
10 3 (0.58%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.58%) Forcepoint
10 3 (0.58%) Juniper
10 3 (0.58%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.58%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.58%) SonicWALL
10 3 (0.58%) VMware