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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 40 112
Rank change year-on-year +27 +72 +11
Permanent jobs citing AI 534 207 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 7.24% 5.98% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.31% 6.83% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 286 67 46
10th Percentile £35,000 - £48,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £66,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £83,738 £95,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -3.33%

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 5,181 3,032 3,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.25% 87.66% 73.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,732 1,624 2,186
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,540
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% -11.20%

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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 21 August 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 21 August 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
Cambridgeshire -2 166 £65,000 +36.84% 57
Hertfordshire +36 139 £55,000 +2.80% 42
Essex +23 81 £65,000 +36.84% 42
Suffolk +47 62 £55,000 -12.00% 15
Bedfordshire +9 52 £45,000 -29.69% 14
Norfolk +4 34 £42,500 -33.59% 11
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 24 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.43%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.87%) WordPress
5 7 (1.31%) Apache
6 5 (0.94%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Confluence
7 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.19%) Moodle
Applications
1 55 (10.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.06%) UserZoom
3 10 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.12%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.75%) Simulink
6 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.56%) Stateflow
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.19%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (0.56%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.19%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 162 (30.34%) Azure
2 102 (19.10%) Azure AI
3 72 (13.48%) Power Platform
4 43 (8.05%) AWS
5 42 (7.87%) Adobe Analytics
6 34 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (3.75%) GCP
9 19 (3.56%) Google Ads
10 17 (3.18%) GitHub
11 16 (3.00%) Power Automate
12 15 (2.81%) Figma
12 15 (2.81%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (2.62%) Snowflake
14 13 (2.43%) dbt
14 13 (2.43%) SaaS
15 12 (2.25%) Anthropic Claude
15 12 (2.25%) Contentsquare
15 12 (2.25%) Google Analytics
16 11 (2.06%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 53 (9.93%) Broadband
2 18 (3.37%) Firewall
3 11 (2.06%) Internet
4 9 (1.69%) DNS
4 9 (1.69%) VPN
5 3 (0.56%) BGP
5 3 (0.56%) DMZ
5 3 (0.56%) LAN
5 3 (0.56%) Network Security
5 3 (0.56%) OSPF
5 3 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.56%) WAN
6 2 (0.37%) Intranet
7 1 (0.19%) DHCP
7 1 (0.19%) MQTT
7 1 (0.19%) RS-422
7 1 (0.19%) SMS
7 1 (0.19%) VLAN
7 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.19%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (12.92%) Power BI
2 63 (11.80%) Tableau
3 37 (6.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (5.06%) MongoDB
5 21 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (3.18%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.43%) Looker
7 13 (2.43%) Metadata
8 10 (1.87%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.31%) Apache Hive
9 7 (1.31%) Impala
9 7 (1.31%) Oracle Database
9 7 (1.31%) Parquet
9 7 (1.31%) Spark SQL
10 6 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.12%) Metabase
10 6 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (3.56%) Git
2 7 (1.31%) IBM UrbanCode
3 6 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.12%) MLflow
4 4 (0.75%) Claude Code
4 4 (0.75%) JIRA
5 2 (0.37%) Plastic SCM
6 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.19%) Poetry
General
1 151 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 54 (10.11%) Games
3 47 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.49%) Marketing
5 38 (7.12%) Finance
6 28 (5.24%) Legal
7 16 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.62%) Retail
10 13 (2.43%) Legal Technology
11 12 (2.25%) Electronics
11 12 (2.25%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.50%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.31%) Banking
13 7 (1.31%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.31%) Law
13 7 (1.31%) Swedish Language
14 5 (0.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 82 (15.36%) Developer
2 74 (13.86%) Senior
3 62 (11.61%) Analyst
4 55 (10.30%) Lead
5 54 (10.11%) Junior
6 50 (9.36%) Data Analyst
7 44 (8.24%) Junior Analyst
7 44 (8.24%) Junior Data Analyst
8 40 (7.49%) Software Engineer
9 36 (6.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 33 (6.18%) .NET Developer
10 33 (6.18%) Architect
11 21 (3.93%) Python Developer
12 19 (3.56%) Product Manager
12 19 (3.56%) Technologist
13 16 (3.00%) Python Engineer
14 14 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (2.25%) Designer
15 12 (2.25%) Senior Developer
16 11 (2.06%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.68%) .NET
2 35 (6.55%) .NET Core
3 32 (5.99%) ASP.NET
3 32 (5.99%) ASP.NET Core
3 32 (5.99%) ML.NET
4 31 (5.81%) CSS
4 31 (5.81%) HTML
4 31 (5.81%) React
5 23 (4.31%) RESTful
6 22 (4.12%) Blazor
7 17 (3.18%) TensorFlow
8 16 (3.00%) PyTorch
9 10 (1.87%) Node.js
9 10 (1.87%) PySpark
10 9 (1.69%) REST
11 8 (1.50%) scikit-learn
11 8 (1.50%) Terraform
12 7 (1.31%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 6 (1.12%) Kafka
13 6 (1.12%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.93%) Social Media
2 37 (6.93%) Cyber Threat
3 28 (5.24%) Algorithms
3 28 (5.24%) Robotics
4 25 (4.68%) AI Agents
5 22 (4.12%) Cloud Native
6 16 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.62%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.25%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.69%) FPGA
10 7 (1.31%) Digital TV
10 7 (1.31%) iPhone
10 7 (1.31%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.31%) NHS
11 6 (1.12%) Clustering
11 6 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.12%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.12%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.56%) Windows
2 12 (2.25%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.50%) Android
3 8 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 8 (1.50%) Mac OS
4 6 (1.12%) Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (23.78%) Agile
2 116 (21.72%) Analytics
3 108 (20.22%) Machine Learning
4 99 (18.54%) Software Engineering
5 87 (16.29%) Business Intelligence
6 76 (14.23%) Roadmaps
7 66 (12.36%) Customer Experience
8 65 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (10.86%) Storytelling
10 54 (10.11%) Cybersecurity
10 54 (10.11%) DevOps
11 51 (9.55%) CI/CD
11 51 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (9.36%) Product Roadmap
13 46 (8.61%) LLM
14 44 (8.24%) Prototyping
15 42 (7.87%) Decision-Making
15 42 (7.87%) Digital Customer Experience
15 42 (7.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 41 (7.68%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 169 (31.65%) Python
2 119 (22.28%) SQL
3 51 (9.55%) C#
4 37 (6.93%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.31%) C++
6 9 (1.69%) Rust
7 7 (1.31%) C
7 7 (1.31%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.31%) R
7 7 (1.31%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.12%) Julia
9 4 (0.75%) Embedded C
9 4 (0.75%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.56%) Bash
10 3 (0.56%) Delphi
10 3 (0.56%) Java
11 2 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.37%) PHP
12 1 (0.19%) Go
12 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (12.92%) Azure Certification
2 46 (8.61%) Degree
3 26 (4.87%) Security Cleared
4 17 (3.18%) DBS Check
5 13 (2.43%) ACCA
5 13 (2.43%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.25%) CIMA
7 7 (1.31%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.12%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.12%) PhD
9 5 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.56%) CCDP
11 3 (0.56%) CCNP
11 3 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.37%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.19%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.19%) CISM
13 1 (0.19%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (9.18%) Accessibility
2 25 (4.68%) GDPR
3 18 (3.37%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.18%) QA
5 12 (2.25%) SLA
5 12 (2.25%) WCAG
6 10 (1.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 9 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.94%) IFRS
9 4 (0.75%) DO-254
9 4 (0.75%) GAAP
9 4 (0.75%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.75%) NIST
10 3 (0.56%) GRC
10 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 3 (0.56%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.56%) NCSC
10 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (3.75%) Docker
2 9 (1.69%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (1.69%) Firmware
3 8 (1.50%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.56%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (2.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.56%) Ansible
3 3 (0.56%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.19%) Podman
Vendors
1 131 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.61%) Adobe
3 34 (6.37%) Google
4 19 (3.56%) Dell
5 16 (3.00%) Databricks
6 12 (2.25%) Apple
6 12 (2.25%) Cisco
7 9 (1.69%) RedGate
8 8 (1.50%) DocuSign
8 8 (1.50%) Oracle
9 7 (1.31%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.12%) Cloudera
10 6 (1.12%) Denodo
10 6 (1.12%) Facebook
10 6 (1.12%) Informatica
10 6 (1.12%) Teradata
11 5 (0.94%) Meraki
11 5 (0.94%) Sony
11 5 (0.94%) Yahoo!
12 3 (0.56%) Forcepoint