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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 85 76
Rank change year-on-year +80 -9 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 488 106 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 13.45% 2.44% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.65% 3.05% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 90 44 45
10th Percentile £30,370 £47,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,750 £66,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £85,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.12% +47.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £66,250 £97,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £100,000 £86,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,000 £76,383
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.81% +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 2,931 3,471 1,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 80.77% 80.00% 92.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,765 1,518 1,324
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +1.38%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £67,625
90th Percentile £76,700 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +67 177 £60,000 -22.08% 43
Cambridgeshire +36 148 £39,000 -54.12% 73
Essex +38 108 £45,000 -49.15% 18
Suffolk +5 23 £40,000 -54.80% 9
Bedfordshire +48 21 £47,500 -26.92% 18
Norfolk +22 11 - - 10
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 (1.84%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.43%) WordPress
4 5 (1.02%) CMS
5 4 (0.82%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.61%) Kentico
6 3 (0.61%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.41%) Mendix
Applications
1 88 (18.03%) Chatbot
2 40 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.61%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 227 (46.52%) Cloud Computing
2 26 (5.33%) Azure
3 18 (3.69%) AWS
3 18 (3.69%) SaaS
4 15 (3.07%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.02%) Amazon Alexa
5 5 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (1.02%) Power Automate
5 5 (1.02%) PowerApps
6 4 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (0.82%) Azure AI
7 3 (0.61%) Azure AKS
7 3 (0.61%) GCP
7 3 (0.61%) Serverless
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (0.41%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.41%) GitHub
8 2 (0.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 230 (47.13%) Internet
2 6 (1.23%) Firewall
3 5 (1.02%) DNS
3 5 (1.02%) VPN
4 4 (0.82%) SAN
5 2 (0.41%) 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 8 (1.64%) Tableau
2 6 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (1.23%) Power BI
3 5 (1.02%) Looker
4 4 (0.82%) DynamoDB
4 4 (0.82%) Metadata
4 4 (0.82%) MySQL
5 3 (0.61%) Big Data
5 3 (0.61%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.61%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.61%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.61%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.41%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.41%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.41%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.41%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.41%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.20%) DTS
Development Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Git
2 5 (1.02%) GitBook
3 2 (0.41%) MLflow
4 1 (0.20%) JIRA
4 1 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
General
1 259 (53.07%) Social Skills
2 227 (46.52%) Banking
2 227 (46.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 84 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (4.51%) Finance
5 21 (4.30%) German Language
6 19 (3.89%) Marketing
7 9 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (1.84%) Retail
8 7 (1.43%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.23%) Legal
10 5 (1.02%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.02%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.82%) Law
12 3 (0.61%) Agriculture
12 3 (0.61%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.41%) Automotive
13 2 (0.41%) Local Government
14 1 (0.20%) Billing
14 1 (0.20%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 184 (37.70%) Lecturer
2 78 (15.98%) Trainer
3 32 (6.56%) Senior
4 22 (4.51%) Customer Support Specialist
4 22 (4.51%) Support Specialist
5 12 (2.46%) Lead
6 10 (2.05%) Developer
7 9 (1.84%) Administrator
8 8 (1.64%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
9 7 (1.43%) Analyst
9 7 (1.43%) Consultant
9 7 (1.43%) Support Engineer
10 6 (1.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (1.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (1.23%) Junior
10 6 (1.23%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (1.23%) Linux Support
10 6 (1.23%) Linux Support Engineer
10 6 (1.23%) Marketing Executive
10 6 (1.23%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.71%) HTML
2 19 (3.89%) JSON
2 19 (3.89%) Regular Expression
2 19 (3.89%) XML
3 13 (2.66%) PyTorch
4 12 (2.46%) TensorFlow
5 7 (1.43%) Node.js
5 7 (1.43%) scikit-learn
6 5 (1.02%) Vue
7 4 (0.82%) ARM Templates
7 4 (0.82%) Hugging Face
7 4 (0.82%) NumPy
7 4 (0.82%) Pandas
7 4 (0.82%) React
8 3 (0.61%) CSS
8 3 (0.61%) Google JAX
8 3 (0.61%) JAX
8 3 (0.61%) jQuery
8 3 (0.61%) Keras
8 3 (0.61%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 232 (47.54%) IoT
2 40 (8.20%) Onboarding
3 27 (5.53%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (3.07%) Algorithms
5 11 (2.25%) Data Centre
6 9 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.23%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.23%) Multi-touch
8 5 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.02%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.02%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.82%) CUDA
9 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.82%) Robotics
9 4 (0.82%) Web Conferencing
10 3 (0.61%) Arduino
10 3 (0.61%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.61%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.61%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.30%) Unix
2 20 (4.10%) Linux
2 20 (4.10%) Windows
3 15 (3.07%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.23%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.02%) Android
5 5 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.20%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (54.92%) Machine Learning
2 239 (48.98%) Cybersecurity
3 230 (47.13%) User Experience
4 227 (46.52%) Web Development
5 88 (18.03%) Conversational UI
6 58 (11.89%) LLM
7 39 (7.99%) Chemistry
7 39 (7.99%) Generative AI
8 31 (6.35%) Data Analysis
8 31 (6.35%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (5.53%) Mathematics
10 26 (5.33%) Analytical Thinking
10 26 (5.33%) Open Source
11 24 (4.92%) Analytics
11 24 (4.92%) Physics
12 23 (4.71%) Computer Science
13 20 (4.10%) Decision-Making
14 18 (3.69%) Software Engineering
15 16 (3.28%) Agile
16 14 (2.87%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 71 (14.55%) Python
2 18 (3.69%) SQL
3 13 (2.66%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.25%) C++
5 10 (2.05%) C
6 7 (1.43%) Java
7 6 (1.23%) Bash
7 6 (1.23%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.02%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.61%) Assembly Language
9 3 (0.61%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.61%) Objective-C
9 3 (0.61%) Swift
10 2 (0.41%) PHP
10 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.20%) Fortran
11 1 (0.20%) Go
11 1 (0.20%) R
11 1 (0.20%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 374 (76.64%) Degree
2 282 (57.79%) Master's Degree
2 282 (57.79%) PhD
3 227 (46.52%) Postgraduate
4 17 (3.48%) Security Cleared
5 13 (2.66%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.82%) ACCA
9 4 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.82%) CIMA
9 4 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.61%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.41%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.41%) MCAD
12 1 (0.20%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.20%) MBA
12 1 (0.20%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.25%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.61%) GDPR
2 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.61%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.41%) NIST
3 2 (0.41%) 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 (2.05%) Docker
1 10 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.64%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.23%) vSphere
4 5 (1.02%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.82%) Firmware
6 3 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.20%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (1.43%) Terraform
2 4 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (0.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.41%) Ansible
3 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
3 2 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 79 (16.19%) PayPal
2 58 (11.89%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.46%) HubSpot
4 10 (2.05%) VMware
5 8 (1.64%) Google
5 8 (1.64%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.23%) Apple
6 6 (1.23%) Dell
7 5 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (1.02%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.02%) Palo Alto
8 4 (0.82%) Screaming Frog
8 4 (0.82%) Veeam
9 3 (0.61%) Databricks
9 3 (0.61%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.61%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.41%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.41%) OutSystems
10 2 (0.41%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.20%) Adobe