Machine Learning Job Trends in the East of England

Machine Learning (ML)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 110 124
Rank change year-on-year +27 +14 -41
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 144 64 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.72% 1.92% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 2.23% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 107 35 22
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £48,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.34% +26.09%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,494 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,000 £106,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Machine Learning 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 5,878 2,874 3,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.28% 86.13% 76.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,292 1,545 1,529
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,878 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% -18.18% +1.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,833 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Machine Learning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in the East of England

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Machine Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in the East of England

Machine Learning
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 Machine Learning within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 October 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 -6 60 £85,000 +15.25% 199
Essex +2 37 £90,000 +38.46% 10
Hertfordshire +1 36 £60,000 -35.14% 41
Suffolk +13 6 £62,500 +56.25% 16
Bedfordshire -12 3 £64,000 +28.00% 17
Norfolk - 2 £56,000 - 12
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
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 11 (7.64%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.39%) Confluence
3 2 (1.39%) IIS
3 2 (1.39%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (3.47%) Simulink
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 50 (34.72%) Azure
2 30 (20.83%) Azure AI
3 23 (15.97%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (14.58%) AWS
5 18 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 13 (9.03%) GitHub
7 11 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (6.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 9 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
8 9 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (6.25%) OneDrive
8 9 (6.25%) Power Automate
8 9 (6.25%) PowerApps
9 8 (5.56%) GCP
10 6 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.08%) SaaS
12 2 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.39%) Google Sheets
12 2 (1.39%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.78%) Broadband
1 4 (2.78%) Firewall
2 3 (2.08%) BGP
2 3 (2.08%) Internet
2 3 (2.08%) LAN
2 3 (2.08%) OSPF
2 3 (2.08%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (2.08%) WAN
3 2 (1.39%) DNS
3 2 (1.39%) HTTP
4 1 (0.69%) DHCP
4 1 (0.69%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.69%) LTE
4 1 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.69%) VLAN
4 1 (0.69%) VPN
4 1 (0.69%) WireGuard
4 1 (0.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (27.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 24 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 18 (12.50%) Power BI
4 5 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.39%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.39%) Metadata
6 2 (1.39%) Redis
6 2 (1.39%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.69%) Airbyte
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.69%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.69%) Power Query
7 1 (0.69%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (4.86%) Git
2 2 (1.39%) GitLab
2 2 (1.39%) JIRA
2 2 (1.39%) MLflow
2 2 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.39%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 34 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.33%) Marketing
4 6 (4.17%) Finance
5 4 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.08%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.08%) Electronics
6 3 (2.08%) Military
7 2 (1.39%) Back Office
7 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.39%) Law
7 2 (1.39%) Legal
8 1 (0.69%) Automotive
8 1 (0.69%) Aviation
8 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (29.17%) Developer
2 30 (20.83%) .NET Developer
3 20 (13.89%) Senior
4 10 (6.94%) Lead
5 9 (6.25%) Python Engineer
6 8 (5.56%) Analyst
7 7 (4.86%) Research Scientist
7 7 (4.86%) Software Engineer
8 6 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (4.17%) Qualitative Analyst
8 6 (4.17%) Quantitative Analyst
9 5 (3.47%) Senior Developer
10 4 (2.78%) Consultant
10 4 (2.78%) Lead Developer
10 4 (2.78%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Principal Developer
10 4 (2.78%) Python Software Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Systems Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (27.08%) .NET
1 39 (27.08%) .NET Core
2 30 (20.83%) ASP.NET
2 30 (20.83%) ASP.NET Core
2 30 (20.83%) ML.NET
3 26 (18.06%) React
4 24 (16.67%) RESTful
5 21 (14.58%) Blazor
6 18 (12.50%) CSS
6 18 (12.50%) HTML
6 18 (12.50%) TensorFlow
7 16 (11.11%) PyTorch
8 12 (8.33%) Google JAX
8 12 (8.33%) JAX
9 11 (7.64%) JSON
10 9 (6.25%) HTML5 Canvas
10 9 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
10 9 (6.25%) SPFx
11 4 (2.78%) Keras
12 3 (2.08%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.44%) Algorithms
2 12 (8.33%) FPGA
3 7 (4.86%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.17%) Digital TV
4 6 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (4.17%) Social Media
5 5 (3.47%) BBC
5 5 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.08%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.08%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.39%) CSOC
8 2 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.39%) iPhone
8 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.39%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.47%) Linux
2 4 (2.78%) Windows
3 3 (2.08%) Android
3 3 (2.08%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.69%) CentOS
4 1 (0.69%) Debian
4 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.69%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.69%) Unix
4 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (72.92%) AI
2 37 (25.69%) Agile
3 31 (21.53%) DevOps
3 31 (21.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 26 (18.06%) CI/CD
5 24 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
6 21 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (14.58%) Multithreading
7 19 (13.19%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (11.81%) Software Engineering
9 16 (11.11%) Data Science
9 16 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (10.42%) Mathematics
10 15 (10.42%) Mentoring
11 14 (9.72%) Deep Learning
12 12 (8.33%) Computer Science
12 12 (8.33%) Physics
13 11 (7.64%) Statistics
13 11 (7.64%) User Experience
14 10 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (36.11%) SQL
2 44 (30.56%) Python
3 39 (27.08%) C#
4 37 (25.69%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.03%) PowerShell
5 13 (9.03%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.17%) MATLAB
7 5 (3.47%) C++
8 3 (2.08%) Embedded C++
8 3 (2.08%) Go
9 2 (1.39%) Bash
9 2 (1.39%) Scala
10 1 (0.69%) C
10 1 (0.69%) Clojure
10 1 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.69%) Java
10 1 (0.69%) R
10 1 (0.69%) Rust
10 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (22.92%) Degree
2 16 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 14 (9.72%) PhD
4 6 (4.17%) Numerate Degree
5 5 (3.47%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.78%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.08%) CCDP
7 3 (2.08%) CCNP
7 3 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.08%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.08%) Data Quality
1 3 (2.08%) SLA
2 2 (1.39%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (12.50%) Docker
2 10 (6.94%) Embedded Firmware
2 10 (6.94%) Firmware
3 5 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.08%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.08%) NFS
4 3 (2.08%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.69%) Ceph
6 1 (0.69%) Lustre
6 1 (0.69%) Samba
6 1 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 15 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.08%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.69%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle ZFS
3 1 (0.69%) Podman
Vendors
1 44 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.94%) Google
3 9 (6.25%) Adobe
4 6 (4.17%) Apple
5 5 (3.47%) Facebook
5 5 (3.47%) Sony
5 5 (3.47%) VMware
5 5 (3.47%) Yahoo!
6 4 (2.78%) Databricks
7 3 (2.08%) Cisco
7 3 (2.08%) Forcepoint
7 3 (2.08%) Juniper
7 3 (2.08%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.08%) SonicWALL
8 2 (1.39%) IBM
9 1 (0.69%) Domo
9 1 (0.69%) Red Hat