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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 31 101
Rank change year-on-year +20 +70 +37
Permanent jobs citing AI 490 274 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 7.72% 8.72% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.93% 9.51% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 206 170 106
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,813 £66,100 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,215 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% -5.41% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78,438 £66,265 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £66,340 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,296 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.59% -5.29% -6.67%

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 4,483 2,882 5,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.63% 91.70% 77.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,094 1,464 3,864
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,977 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,200 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +44 135 £55,000 -8.33% 47
Cambridgeshire 0 133 £60,100 +20.20% 57
Essex +27 72 £60,000 +26.32% 31
Bedfordshire +29 60 £40,000 -37.50% 11
Suffolk +4 49 £55,000 -16.95% 12
Norfolk +5 40 £42,500 -33.59% 8
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 14 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.43%) Apache
4 7 (1.43%) WordPress
5 3 (0.61%) CMS
6 2 (0.41%) Confluence
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Moodle
Applications
1 70 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.24%) UserZoom
3 6 (1.22%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.82%) Simulink
6 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.61%) Stateflow
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.61%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 179 (36.53%) Azure
2 116 (23.67%) Azure AI
3 85 (17.35%) Power Platform
4 55 (11.22%) Adobe Analytics
5 45 (9.18%) AWS
6 28 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (4.49%) Figma
8 19 (3.88%) SaaS
9 15 (3.06%) GitHub
10 14 (2.86%) GCP
10 14 (2.86%) Snowflake
11 13 (2.65%) Google Ads
12 12 (2.45%) Contentsquare
12 12 (2.45%) dbt
12 12 (2.45%) Entra ID
13 10 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (1.84%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.63%) Google Analytics
15 8 (1.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 68 (13.88%) Broadband
2 19 (3.88%) Firewall
3 10 (2.04%) DNS
4 8 (1.63%) Internet
5 6 (1.22%) VPN
6 5 (1.02%) DMZ
6 5 (1.02%) Network Security
6 5 (1.02%) VLAN
7 4 (0.82%) DHCP
7 4 (0.82%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.41%) Intranet
9 1 (0.20%) LTE
9 1 (0.20%) MQTT
9 1 (0.20%) RS-422
9 1 (0.20%) SMS
9 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.20%) WireGuard
9 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (17.14%) Tableau
2 81 (16.53%) Power BI
3 29 (5.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 23 (4.69%) MongoDB
5 20 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (3.67%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.65%) Looker
8 11 (2.24%) Metadata
9 9 (1.84%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.43%) Apache Hive
11 7 (1.43%) Impala
11 7 (1.43%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.43%) Parquet
11 7 (1.43%) Spark SQL
12 6 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.22%) Metabase
12 6 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (2.86%) Git
2 7 (1.43%) IBM UrbanCode
2 7 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.22%) MLflow
4 4 (0.82%) Claude Code
4 4 (0.82%) JIRA
5 2 (0.41%) Plastic SCM
6 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.20%) Poetry
General
1 171 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 67 (13.67%) Games
3 41 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.35%) Finance
4 36 (7.35%) Marketing
5 23 (4.69%) Legal
6 19 (3.88%) Electronics
7 15 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.06%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.86%) Retail
9 10 (2.04%) Law
10 8 (1.63%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.43%) Banking
11 7 (1.43%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.43%) Swedish Language
12 5 (1.02%) Legal Technology
12 5 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (16.33%) Lead
2 78 (15.92%) Analyst
3 68 (13.88%) Junior
4 67 (13.67%) Data Analyst
5 64 (13.06%) Junior Analyst
5 64 (13.06%) Junior Data Analyst
6 52 (10.61%) Developer
7 47 (9.59%) Senior
8 28 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 27 (5.51%) .NET Developer
9 27 (5.51%) Architect
10 22 (4.49%) Product Manager
11 19 (3.88%) Designer
12 17 (3.47%) Software Engineer
13 16 (3.27%) Data Engineer
13 16 (3.27%) Lead Designer
14 14 (2.86%) Digital Designer
15 12 (2.45%) Consultant
15 12 (2.45%) Systems Engineer
16 10 (2.04%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.73%) .NET
2 29 (5.92%) .NET Core
2 29 (5.92%) React
3 27 (5.51%) CSS
3 27 (5.51%) HTML
4 26 (5.31%) ASP.NET
4 26 (5.31%) ASP.NET Core
4 26 (5.31%) ML.NET
5 20 (4.08%) PyTorch
6 19 (3.88%) TensorFlow
7 18 (3.67%) RESTful
8 17 (3.47%) Blazor
9 12 (2.45%) Node.js
10 11 (2.24%) PySpark
11 9 (1.84%) REST
12 8 (1.63%) scikit-learn
13 6 (1.22%) Kafka
13 6 (1.22%) LangChain
13 6 (1.22%) LlamaIndex
13 6 (1.22%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 61 (12.45%) Social Media
2 40 (8.16%) Robotics
3 26 (5.31%) Cloud Native
4 23 (4.69%) Algorithms
5 20 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.67%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.45%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.84%) FPGA
8 9 (1.84%) Legacy Applications
8 9 (1.84%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (1.63%) iPhone
10 7 (1.43%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.43%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.22%) Clustering
11 6 (1.22%) Digital TV
11 6 (1.22%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.22%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
12 5 (1.02%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.10%) Windows
2 19 (3.88%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.84%) Android
4 6 (1.22%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.22%) Linux
4 6 (1.22%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.82%) VMS
5 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (28.98%) Agile
2 128 (26.12%) Analytics
3 101 (20.61%) Business Intelligence
4 96 (19.59%) Machine Learning
5 91 (18.57%) Roadmaps
6 79 (16.12%) Customer Experience
7 75 (15.31%) Storytelling
8 65 (13.27%) Product Roadmap
9 58 (11.84%) Software Engineering
10 57 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 55 (11.22%) Digital Customer Experience
11 55 (11.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 54 (11.02%) User Research
13 50 (10.20%) CI/CD
13 50 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
14 49 (10.00%) Prototyping
15 48 (9.80%) DevOps
15 48 (9.80%) Workshop Facilitation
16 42 (8.57%) Mentoring
17 38 (7.76%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 160 (32.65%) Python
2 128 (26.12%) SQL
3 45 (9.18%) C#
4 33 (6.73%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.27%) C++
6 10 (2.04%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.63%) R
8 7 (1.43%) C
9 6 (1.22%) Julia
10 5 (1.02%) Java
11 4 (0.82%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.82%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.61%) Bash
12 3 (0.61%) Delphi
12 3 (0.61%) Rust
12 3 (0.61%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.41%) PHP
14 1 (0.20%) Clojure
14 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 93 (18.98%) Azure Certification
2 46 (9.39%) Degree
3 28 (5.71%) DBS Check
3 28 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 15 (3.06%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.24%) ACCA
5 11 (2.24%) CIMA
6 9 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.61%) PhD
9 3 (0.61%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.20%) GSEC
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (12.65%) Accessibility
2 22 (4.49%) GDPR
3 18 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.65%) QA
5 12 (2.45%) WCAG
6 10 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.43%) SLA
8 6 (1.22%) NIST
9 5 (1.02%) GRC
9 5 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 5 (1.02%) JSP 440
9 5 (1.02%) NCSC
9 5 (1.02%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.82%) DO-254
10 4 (0.82%) GAAP
10 4 (0.82%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.82%) IFRS
11 1 (0.20%) PMO
11 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.27%) Docker
3 8 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (1.63%) Firmware
4 5 (1.02%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.63%) Terraform
3 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (0.82%) Ansible
4 4 (0.82%) SolarWinds Orion
4 4 (0.82%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.61%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.20%) Grafana
6 1 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 145 (29.59%) Microsoft
2 58 (11.84%) Adobe
3 24 (4.90%) Google
4 22 (4.49%) Dell
5 18 (3.67%) Databricks
6 9 (1.84%) Cisco
7 8 (1.63%) Apple
7 8 (1.63%) Oracle
8 7 (1.43%) Informatica
8 7 (1.43%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.22%) Cloudera
9 6 (1.22%) Denodo
9 6 (1.22%) Teradata
10 5 (1.02%) Meraki
11 4 (0.82%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.82%) VMware
12 3 (0.61%) Facebook
12 3 (0.61%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.61%) Sony
12 3 (0.61%) Yahoo!