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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 20 102
Rank change year-on-year +17 +82 +57
Permanent jobs citing AI 751 245 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 13.75% 9.44% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.00% 10.23% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 114 163 106
10th Percentile £30,370 £62,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £40,625 £66,200 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,225 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.95% +1.88% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,296 £80,001
90th Percentile £94,396 £77,000 £85,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 3,953 2,396 4,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 72.39% 92.33% 83.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,300 1,329 3,463
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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

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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 24 March 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 24 March 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 +46 284 £55,000 -23.08% 43
Essex +25 185 £65,000 +4.42% 25
Cambridgeshire +22 152 £59,450 +18.90% 33
Bedfordshire +44 49 £47,500 -17.39% 14
Norfolk +17 41 £37,500 -57.63% 18
Suffolk -9 39 £40,000 -39.60% 12
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 15 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (0.93%) Apache
4 6 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.53%) Confluence
6 3 (0.40%) CMS
7 2 (0.27%) Mendix
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 61 (8.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.39%) Chatbot
3 32 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.80%) UserZoom
5 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 363 (48.34%) Cloud Computing
2 100 (13.32%) Azure
3 79 (10.52%) Power Platform
4 64 (8.52%) Azure AI
5 44 (5.86%) Adobe Analytics
6 32 (4.26%) AWS
7 20 (2.66%) SaaS
8 15 (2.00%) Figma
9 14 (1.86%) Snowflake
10 11 (1.46%) dbt
10 11 (1.46%) GCP
11 9 (1.20%) Entra ID
11 9 (1.20%) OpenShift
12 8 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.93%) Amazon Alexa
13 7 (0.93%) Amazon S3
13 7 (0.93%) Contentsquare
13 7 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (0.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 358 (47.67%) Internet
2 51 (6.79%) Broadband
3 12 (1.60%) Firewall
4 8 (1.07%) DNS
5 5 (0.67%) DHCP
5 5 (0.67%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.53%) DMZ
6 4 (0.53%) Network Security
6 4 (0.53%) VLAN
6 4 (0.53%) VPN
7 2 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.13%) DOCSIS
8 1 (0.13%) DSL
8 1 (0.13%) GPON
8 1 (0.13%) IPv4
8 1 (0.13%) IPv6
8 1 (0.13%) LTE
8 1 (0.13%) RTP
8 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (10.65%) Tableau
2 71 (9.45%) Power BI
3 17 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 13 (1.73%) Looker
6 10 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (0.93%) Apache Hive
7 7 (0.93%) Impala
7 7 (0.93%) Oracle Database
7 7 (0.93%) Parquet
7 7 (0.93%) Spark SQL
8 6 (0.80%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.80%) DTS
8 6 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.67%) Metabase
9 5 (0.67%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.53%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (1.33%) Git
2 7 (0.93%) IBM UrbanCode
3 6 (0.80%) MLflow
4 5 (0.67%) GitBook
5 4 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.40%) JIRA
General
1 466 (62.05%) Social Skills
2 365 (48.60%) Banking
2 365 (48.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 77 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (7.32%) Games
5 29 (3.86%) German Language
6 27 (3.60%) Finance
7 21 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.40%) Marketing
9 17 (2.26%) Legal
10 15 (2.00%) Electronics
11 12 (1.60%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.60%) Retail
12 7 (0.93%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.80%) Law
13 6 (0.80%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.40%) Automotive
14 3 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 286 (38.08%) Lecturer
2 67 (8.92%) Analyst
3 62 (8.26%) Junior
4 60 (7.99%) Data Analyst
4 60 (7.99%) Junior Analyst
4 60 (7.99%) Junior Data Analyst
5 55 (7.32%) Lead
6 40 (5.33%) Senior
7 28 (3.73%) Trainer
8 19 (2.53%) Data Engineer
8 19 (2.53%) Developer
9 18 (2.40%) Designer
10 14 (1.86%) Digital Designer
10 14 (1.86%) Lead Designer
11 13 (1.73%) Product Manager
12 12 (1.60%) Architect
12 12 (1.60%) Consultant
12 12 (1.60%) Customer Support Specialist
12 12 (1.60%) Support Specialist
13 10 (1.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.26%) HTML
2 22 (2.93%) JSON
2 22 (2.93%) Regular Expression
2 22 (2.93%) XML
3 18 (2.40%) PyTorch
4 17 (2.26%) TensorFlow
5 10 (1.33%) CSS
6 9 (1.20%) PySpark
6 9 (1.20%) scikit-learn
7 8 (1.07%) React
8 7 (0.93%) REST
9 6 (0.80%) Kafka
9 6 (0.80%) LangChain
9 6 (0.80%) LlamaIndex
9 6 (0.80%) Node.js
9 6 (0.80%) Pandas
9 6 (0.80%) pgvector
9 6 (0.80%) Vue
10 4 (0.53%) NumPy
10 4 (0.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 358 (47.67%) IoT
2 48 (6.39%) Onboarding
3 46 (6.13%) Social Media
4 33 (4.39%) Robotics
5 22 (2.93%) Linux Command Line
6 15 (2.00%) Cloud Native
7 13 (1.73%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.60%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.07%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.07%) Low-Code
10 7 (0.93%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.80%) Blog
11 6 (0.80%) Clustering
11 6 (0.80%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (0.53%) Educational Technology
13 4 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.53%) PKI
13 4 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.93%) Unix
2 16 (2.13%) Windows
3 12 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.67%) Android
4 5 (0.67%) Linux
5 4 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.53%) VMS
5 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.13%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (54.46%) Machine Learning
2 378 (50.33%) Cybersecurity
3 377 (50.20%) User Experience
4 362 (48.20%) Web Development
5 95 (12.65%) Analytics
6 93 (12.38%) Agile
7 83 (11.05%) Business Intelligence
8 70 (9.32%) Generative AI
9 69 (9.19%) LLM
10 65 (8.66%) Storytelling
11 62 (8.26%) Roadmaps
12 61 (8.12%) Customer Experience
13 51 (6.79%) Problem-Solving
14 48 (6.39%) Product Roadmap
15 44 (5.86%) Digital Customer Experience
15 44 (5.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 42 (5.59%) User Research
17 39 (5.19%) Continuous Improvement
17 39 (5.19%) Conversational UI
17 39 (5.19%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 134 (17.84%) Python
2 87 (11.58%) SQL
3 13 (1.73%) JavaScript
4 8 (1.07%) C#
4 8 (1.07%) R
5 6 (0.80%) Java
6 5 (0.67%) C++
6 5 (0.67%) Julia
7 4 (0.53%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.40%) C
9 2 (0.27%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.13%) Go
10 1 (0.13%) PHP
10 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 466 (62.05%) Degree
2 379 (50.47%) Master's Degree
3 373 (49.67%) PhD
4 361 (48.07%) Postgraduate
5 64 (8.52%) Azure Certification
6 25 (3.33%) DBS Check
7 18 (2.40%) Security Cleared
8 6 (0.80%) SC Cleared
9 4 (0.53%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.27%) CISA
10 2 (0.27%) CISM
10 2 (0.27%) CISSP
10 2 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.13%) ACCA
11 1 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.13%) CIMA
11 1 (0.13%) CIPD
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.26%) Accessibility
2 29 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 14 (1.86%) GDPR
3 14 (1.86%) WCAG
4 10 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (0.67%) NIST
6 4 (0.53%) GRC
6 4 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 4 (0.53%) JSP 440
6 4 (0.53%) NCSC
6 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.40%) QA
8 2 (0.27%) DO-254
8 2 (0.27%) SLA
9 1 (0.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.13%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.13%) GxP
9 1 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.80%) Docker
2 6 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (0.80%) vSphere
3 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (0.80%) vCenter Server
2 5 (0.67%) Ansible
3 4 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (0.53%) SolarWinds Orion
4 3 (0.40%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.13%) Grafana
6 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 123 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 44 (5.86%) Adobe
3 28 (3.73%) PayPal
4 24 (3.20%) Dell
5 16 (2.13%) Databricks
6 9 (1.20%) Google
6 9 (1.20%) Red Hat
7 7 (0.93%) Informatica
7 7 (0.93%) Oracle
8 6 (0.80%) Cloudera
8 6 (0.80%) Denodo
8 6 (0.80%) Teradata
8 6 (0.80%) VMware
9 4 (0.53%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.53%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.40%) Ahrefs
10 3 (0.40%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.27%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.27%) OutSystems
12 1 (0.13%) New Relic