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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 29 87
Rank change year-on-year +26 +58 +55
Permanent jobs citing AI 664 225 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 13.80% 6.88% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.83% 7.62% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 105 156 102
10th Percentile £30,370 £66,100 £43,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £66,200 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,230 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% +1.89% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £66,296 £80,001
90th Percentile £99,000 £77,000 £87,500
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 3,526 2,951 3,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 73.28% 90.27% 84.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,087 1,234 3,030
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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

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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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +51 253 £63,250 -9.64% 110
Essex +35 166 £72,500 -18.08% 100
Cambridgeshire +36 147 £59,450 -0.92% 111
Norfolk +21 34 £37,500 -62.50% 58
Suffolk -12 34 £40,000 -39.60% 57
Bedfordshire +54 29 £47,500 -15.56% 83
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 5 (0.75%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.45%) Confluence
2 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.30%) Mendix
3 2 (0.30%) WordPress
4 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 44 (6.63%) Chatbot
1 44 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.45%) Simulink
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 360 (54.22%) Cloud Computing
2 65 (9.79%) Azure
3 47 (7.08%) Power Platform
4 42 (6.33%) Azure AI
5 19 (2.86%) SaaS
6 18 (2.71%) AWS
7 11 (1.66%) Adobe Analytics
8 9 (1.36%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.05%) Amazon Alexa
10 6 (0.90%) PaaS
11 5 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (0.75%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.75%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.60%) Figma
12 4 (0.60%) IaaS
13 3 (0.45%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.45%) Azure AKS
13 3 (0.45%) GCP
13 3 (0.45%) GitHub
13 3 (0.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 361 (54.37%) Internet
2 14 (2.11%) Broadband
3 13 (1.96%) Firewall
4 9 (1.36%) DNS
5 5 (0.75%) DHCP
5 5 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.75%) VPN
6 4 (0.60%) DMZ
6 4 (0.60%) Network Security
6 4 (0.60%) VLAN
7 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.15%) GPON
8 1 (0.15%) IPv4
8 1 (0.15%) IPv6
8 1 (0.15%) LTE
8 1 (0.15%) PPP
8 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.15%) VoIP
8 1 (0.15%) WAN
8 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.78%) Tableau
2 41 (6.17%) Power BI
3 5 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (0.75%) Big Data
3 5 (0.75%) Hadoop
4 4 (0.60%) DTS
4 4 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.60%) Metadata
4 4 (0.60%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.45%) Redis
5 3 (0.45%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.30%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.30%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.30%) MySQL
6 2 (0.30%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.30%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (0.75%) GitBook
2 3 (0.45%) JIRA
3 2 (0.30%) Git
4 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
General
1 442 (66.57%) Social Skills
2 363 (54.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 358 (53.92%) Banking
4 74 (11.14%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.52%) German Language
6 21 (3.16%) Finance
7 19 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.56%) Games
8 17 (2.56%) Marketing
9 10 (1.51%) Retail
10 9 (1.36%) Electronics
11 8 (1.20%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.20%) Legal
12 7 (1.05%) Public Sector
13 5 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.75%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.75%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.60%) Law
15 3 (0.45%) Automotive
16 2 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 286 (43.07%) Lecturer
2 41 (6.17%) Analyst
2 41 (6.17%) Junior
2 41 (6.17%) Trainer
3 40 (6.02%) Data Analyst
3 40 (6.02%) Junior Analyst
3 40 (6.02%) Junior Data Analyst
4 35 (5.27%) Senior
5 32 (4.82%) Lead
6 15 (2.26%) Data Engineer
7 14 (2.11%) Customer Support Specialist
7 14 (2.11%) Developer
7 14 (2.11%) Support Specialist
8 10 (1.51%) IT Support
9 9 (1.36%) Administrator
9 9 (1.36%) Consultant
10 8 (1.20%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
11 7 (1.05%) Designer
12 6 (0.90%) Architect
12 6 (0.90%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.07%) HTML
2 22 (3.31%) JSON
2 22 (3.31%) Regular Expression
2 22 (3.31%) XML
3 10 (1.51%) PyTorch
4 9 (1.36%) TensorFlow
5 8 (1.20%) Vue
6 7 (1.05%) React
7 6 (0.90%) Node.js
8 5 (0.75%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.75%) CSS
9 4 (0.60%) NumPy
9 4 (0.60%) scikit-learn
10 3 (0.45%) jQuery
10 3 (0.45%) Matplotlib
10 3 (0.45%) REST
10 3 (0.45%) RESTful
10 3 (0.45%) Seaborn
10 3 (0.45%) SOAP
10 3 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 362 (54.52%) IoT
2 46 (6.93%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
4 21 (3.16%) Robotics
5 15 (2.26%) Algorithms
6 12 (1.81%) Social Media
7 10 (1.51%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.51%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.36%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.05%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.90%) Blog
11 5 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.75%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.60%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (0.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (0.60%) Educational Technology
12 4 (0.60%) PKI
12 4 (0.60%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.60%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.31%) Unix
2 18 (2.71%) Windows
3 13 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.20%) Linux
5 6 (0.90%) Android
6 5 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.60%) VMS
7 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.15%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (59.64%) Machine Learning
2 380 (57.23%) Cybersecurity
3 369 (55.57%) User Experience
4 359 (54.07%) Web Development
5 63 (9.49%) LLM
6 60 (9.04%) Generative AI
7 46 (6.93%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (6.78%) Business Intelligence
9 44 (6.63%) Conversational UI
10 40 (6.02%) Agile
11 39 (5.87%) Analytics
12 34 (5.12%) Data Analysis
13 33 (4.97%) Analytical Thinking
14 31 (4.67%) Open Source
15 30 (4.52%) Software Engineering
16 27 (4.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (3.92%) Roadmaps
18 22 (3.31%) Customer Experience
19 21 (3.16%) Chemistry
20 18 (2.71%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 101 (15.21%) Python
2 50 (7.53%) SQL
3 12 (1.81%) C++
3 12 (1.81%) JavaScript
4 10 (1.51%) C
5 9 (1.36%) Java
6 4 (0.60%) C#
6 4 (0.60%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.45%) Assembly Language
7 3 (0.45%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.45%) Objective-C
7 3 (0.45%) R
7 3 (0.45%) Swift
8 1 (0.15%) Fortran
8 1 (0.15%) PHP
8 1 (0.15%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.15%) Tcl
8 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 477 (71.84%) Degree
2 386 (58.13%) Master's Degree
2 386 (58.13%) PhD
3 358 (53.92%) Postgraduate
4 44 (6.63%) Azure Certification
5 22 (3.31%) Security Cleared
6 19 (2.86%) DBS Check
7 15 (2.26%) SC Cleared
8 12 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.60%) ACCA
10 4 (0.60%) CIMA
10 4 (0.60%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.30%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.30%) CISA
12 2 (0.30%) CISM
12 2 (0.30%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.71%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.90%) GDPR
3 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.90%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.75%) NIST
5 4 (0.60%) GRC
5 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 4 (0.60%) JSP 440
5 4 (0.60%) NCSC
6 2 (0.30%) QA
6 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.30%) WCAG
7 1 (0.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.15%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (1.51%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (1.05%) vSphere
3 6 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.75%) Docker
5 4 (0.60%) Firmware
6 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (0.90%) vCenter Server
2 5 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (0.60%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.60%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (0.30%) Ansible
4 2 (0.30%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.15%) Grafana
5 1 (0.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 97 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.17%) PayPal
3 11 (1.66%) Adobe
4 8 (1.20%) Dell
5 7 (1.05%) HubSpot
5 7 (1.05%) VMware
6 6 (0.90%) Google
7 4 (0.60%) NVIDIA
7 4 (0.60%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.60%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.45%) Databricks
9 2 (0.30%) Ahrefs
9 2 (0.30%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.30%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.30%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.15%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.15%) Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) Informatica
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle
10 1 (0.15%) Veeam