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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 88 72
Rank change year-on-year +85 -16 +42
Permanent jobs citing AI 617 94 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 14.96% 2.67% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.10% 3.07% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 92 31 55
10th Percentile £30,370 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £61,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £77,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.69% +33.91% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,938 £93,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,125 £100,000 £86,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% +7.14%

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 3,069 3,066 2,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.40% 87.23% 86.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,797 1,192 1,583
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,700 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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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 12 January 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 12 January 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
Hertfordshire +63 241 £60,000 -14.29% 135
Essex +37 161 £57,500 -35.03% 125
Cambridgeshire +46 140 £40,750 -38.49% 130
Norfolk +25 27 - - 100
Suffolk +11 27 £40,000 -48.05% 95
Bedfordshire +54 21 £47,500 - 105
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 7 (1.13%) WordPress
2 6 (0.97%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.32%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.32%) Confluence
5 2 (0.32%) Mendix
6 1 (0.16%) CMS
Applications
1 58 (9.40%) Chatbot
2 44 (7.13%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.49%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 358 (58.02%) Cloud Computing
2 41 (6.65%) Azure
3 28 (4.54%) Power Platform
4 22 (3.57%) Azure AI
5 19 (3.08%) SaaS
6 18 (2.92%) AWS
7 7 (1.13%) Amazon Alexa
8 5 (0.81%) Power Automate
8 5 (0.81%) PowerApps
9 4 (0.65%) GCP
10 3 (0.49%) Azure AKS
10 3 (0.49%) GitHub
10 3 (0.49%) Serverless
11 2 (0.32%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (0.32%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.32%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (0.32%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (0.32%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.32%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 361 (58.51%) Internet
2 8 (1.30%) Firewall
3 5 (0.81%) DNS
3 5 (0.81%) VPN
4 4 (0.65%) SAN
5 3 (0.49%) Broadband
5 3 (0.49%) DMZ
5 3 (0.49%) Network Security
6 2 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.16%) DHCP
7 1 (0.16%) DOCSIS
7 1 (0.16%) DSL
7 1 (0.16%) GPON
7 1 (0.16%) LTE
7 1 (0.16%) PPP
7 1 (0.16%) RTP
7 1 (0.16%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.16%) VoIP
7 1 (0.16%) WAN
7 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.21%) Tableau
2 22 (3.57%) Power BI
3 5 (0.81%) Big Data
3 5 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.81%) Hadoop
4 4 (0.65%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.49%) MySQL
5 3 (0.49%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.49%) Redis
5 3 (0.49%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.49%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.32%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.32%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.32%) Looker
6 2 (0.32%) Metadata
6 2 (0.32%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (0.81%) GitBook
2 3 (0.49%) Git
3 2 (0.32%) JIRA
4 1 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
General
1 398 (64.51%) Social Skills
2 359 (58.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 358 (58.02%) Banking
4 74 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.86%) German Language
6 20 (3.24%) Finance
7 16 (2.59%) Marketing
8 14 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.13%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.13%) Public Sector
9 7 (1.13%) Retail
10 5 (0.81%) Legal
10 5 (0.81%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.49%) Games
11 3 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.32%) Automotive
12 2 (0.32%) Law
12 2 (0.32%) Local Government
12 2 (0.32%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 286 (46.35%) Lecturer
2 54 (8.75%) Trainer
3 34 (5.51%) Senior
4 22 (3.57%) Analyst
5 21 (3.40%) Customer Support Specialist
5 21 (3.40%) Junior
5 21 (3.40%) Support Specialist
6 20 (3.24%) Data Analyst
6 20 (3.24%) Junior Analyst
6 20 (3.24%) Junior Data Analyst
7 12 (1.94%) Data Engineer
8 11 (1.78%) Developer
9 10 (1.62%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
9 10 (1.62%) Lead
10 9 (1.46%) Administrator
11 7 (1.13%) Consultant
11 7 (1.13%) Research Scientist
12 6 (0.97%) Data Scientist
12 6 (0.97%) Marketing Executive
12 6 (0.97%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.21%) HTML
2 22 (3.57%) JSON
2 22 (3.57%) Regular Expression
2 22 (3.57%) XML
3 11 (1.78%) PyTorch
4 10 (1.62%) TensorFlow
5 8 (1.30%) Vue
6 7 (1.13%) Node.js
7 6 (0.97%) React
8 5 (0.81%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.81%) NumPy
8 5 (0.81%) scikit-learn
9 4 (0.65%) CSS
9 4 (0.65%) Hugging Face
9 4 (0.65%) Pandas
10 3 (0.49%) Google JAX
10 3 (0.49%) JAX
10 3 (0.49%) Seaborn
10 3 (0.49%) SOAP
10 3 (0.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 363 (58.83%) IoT
2 44 (7.13%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (2.11%) Algorithms
5 9 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.30%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.30%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.13%) Robotics
8 6 (0.97%) Multi-touch
8 6 (0.97%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.81%) Blog
9 5 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.81%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.65%) CUDA
10 4 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (0.65%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.65%) Web Conferencing
11 3 (0.49%) Arduino
11 3 (0.49%) Raspberry Pi
11 3 (0.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.57%) Unix
2 14 (2.27%) Windows
3 12 (1.94%) Linux
4 9 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.97%) Android
6 5 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (64.83%) Machine Learning
2 371 (60.13%) Cybersecurity
3 364 (59.00%) User Experience
4 358 (58.02%) Web Development
5 65 (10.53%) LLM
6 58 (9.40%) Conversational UI
7 50 (8.10%) Generative AI
8 37 (6.00%) Data Analysis
9 35 (5.67%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (5.35%) Analytical Thinking
11 31 (5.02%) Open Source
12 25 (4.05%) Analytics
13 24 (3.89%) Business Intelligence
13 24 (3.89%) Chemistry
13 24 (3.89%) Software Engineering
14 22 (3.57%) Decision-Making
15 21 (3.40%) Agile
16 19 (3.08%) Computer Science
16 19 (3.08%) Mathematics
16 19 (3.08%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 85 (13.78%) Python
2 31 (5.02%) SQL
3 12 (1.94%) C++
3 12 (1.94%) JavaScript
4 10 (1.62%) C
5 9 (1.46%) Java
6 3 (0.49%) Assembly Language
6 3 (0.49%) MATLAB
6 3 (0.49%) Objective-C
6 3 (0.49%) R
6 3 (0.49%) Swift
7 2 (0.32%) C#
7 2 (0.32%) PHP
8 1 (0.16%) Bicep
8 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.16%) Fortran
8 1 (0.16%) Go
8 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.16%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.16%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 486 (78.77%) Degree
2 389 (63.05%) PhD
3 388 (62.88%) Master's Degree
4 358 (58.02%) Postgraduate
5 20 (3.24%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.08%) Security Cleared
7 13 (2.11%) SC Cleared
8 12 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.30%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.65%) ACCA
10 4 (0.65%) CIMA
10 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.49%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.32%) CISA
12 2 (0.32%) CISM
12 2 (0.32%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.92%) Data Quality
2 5 (0.81%) GDPR
2 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (0.81%) PCI DSS
3 4 (0.65%) NIST
4 3 (0.49%) GRC
4 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 3 (0.49%) JSP 440
4 3 (0.49%) NCSC
5 2 (0.32%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.32%) WCAG
6 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 7 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (0.97%) Docker
2 6 (0.97%) vSphere
3 5 (0.81%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.65%) Firmware
5 3 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (0.49%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.32%) Ansible
3 2 (0.32%) Terraform
3 2 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 71 (11.51%) Microsoft
2 55 (8.91%) PayPal
3 12 (1.94%) HubSpot
4 8 (1.30%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.13%) VMware
6 6 (0.97%) Dell
6 6 (0.97%) Google
7 5 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (0.81%) Fortinet
7 5 (0.81%) Palo Alto
8 4 (0.65%) Veeam
9 3 (0.49%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.49%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.32%) Adobe
10 2 (0.32%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.32%) OutSystems
10 2 (0.32%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.16%) Foundry
11 1 (0.16%) Oracle
11 1 (0.16%) SAP