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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 105 129
Rank change year-on-year +91 +24 -12
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 461 62 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 7.21% 2.09% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.26% 2.24% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66 42 82
10th Percentile £46,875 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,750 £55,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,175 £68,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.53% +5.77% -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,738 £80,001
90th Percentile £95,625 £100,000 £93,125
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -

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 4,491 2,767 4,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.28% 93.39% 80.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,662 1,415 3,697
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £25,809
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,254 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +68 213 £60,000 -22.08% 11
Essex +38 159 £90,000 +16.88% 9
Cambridgeshire -1 51 £60,100 -28.23% 24
Norfolk -5 19 £46,750 -47.18% 2
Suffolk +20 18 £62,500 -5.67% 5
Bedfordshire +11 1 - - 8
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 19 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.22%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 358 (77.66%) Cloud Computing
2 39 (8.46%) Azure
3 32 (6.94%) Power Platform
4 26 (5.64%) AWS
5 20 (4.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (4.12%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 19 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
6 19 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (4.12%) OneDrive
6 19 (4.12%) Power Automate
6 19 (4.12%) PowerApps
7 14 (3.04%) GCP
8 12 (2.60%) dbt
9 8 (1.74%) Azure AI
10 6 (1.30%) Amazon Alexa
10 6 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.30%) Dataform
10 6 (1.30%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.87%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 359 (77.87%) Internet
2 9 (1.95%) Broadband
3 1 (0.22%) DNS
3 1 (0.22%) Firewall
3 1 (0.22%) LTE
3 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.22%) VLAN
3 1 (0.22%) VPN
3 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.22%) WireGuard
3 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.94%) Power BI
2 27 (5.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (3.04%) Tableau
4 13 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.60%) Looker
6 9 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (1.95%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.52%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.30%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.30%) Metabase
8 6 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.08%) Redis
10 2 (0.43%) Big Data
10 2 (0.43%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (1.30%) MLflow
2 1 (0.22%) Git
2 1 (0.22%) Poetry
General
1 391 (84.82%) Social Skills
2 361 (78.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 358 (77.66%) Banking
4 23 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (1.30%) French Language
5 6 (1.30%) German Language
5 6 (1.30%) Italian Language
5 6 (1.30%) Legal
6 2 (0.43%) Finance
6 2 (0.43%) Games
6 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.22%) Automotive
7 1 (0.22%) Billing
7 1 (0.22%) Law
7 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 286 (62.04%) Lecturer
2 39 (8.46%) Developer
3 32 (6.94%) Senior
4 16 (3.47%) Senior Developer
5 14 (3.04%) Lead
6 11 (2.39%) Consultant
7 10 (2.17%) Data Scientist
7 10 (2.17%) Senior Data Scientist
8 9 (1.95%) Lead Developer
8 9 (1.95%) Principal Developer
8 9 (1.95%) Team Leader
9 8 (1.74%) .NET Developer
10 7 (1.52%) Data Engineer
10 7 (1.52%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Developer
10 7 (1.52%) Senior Microsoft Developer
10 7 (1.52%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (1.30%) Principal Data Scientist
11 6 (1.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 5 (1.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.86%) .NET
1 27 (5.86%) .NET Core
2 24 (5.21%) CSS
2 24 (5.21%) HTML
3 21 (4.56%) PyTorch
3 21 (4.56%) TensorFlow
4 19 (4.12%) HTML5 Canvas
4 19 (4.12%) JSON
4 19 (4.12%) Microsoft Graph
4 19 (4.12%) SPFx
5 9 (1.95%) scikit-learn
6 8 (1.74%) ASP.NET
6 8 (1.74%) ASP.NET Core
6 8 (1.74%) ML.NET
7 7 (1.52%) Google JAX
7 7 (1.52%) JAX
7 7 (1.52%) React
8 6 (1.30%) Kafka
8 6 (1.30%) LlamaIndex
8 6 (1.30%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 359 (77.87%) IoT
2 15 (3.25%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 9 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (1.74%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.52%) CUDA
6 7 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.30%) Clustering
7 6 (1.30%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
9 4 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (0.87%) Over-the-Top Content
10 3 (0.65%) Digital TV
10 3 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.65%) FPGA
11 2 (0.43%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.43%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.43%) iPhone
11 2 (0.43%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.43%) Android
1 2 (0.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (92.84%) AI
2 386 (83.73%) User Experience
3 359 (77.87%) Web Development
4 358 (77.66%) Cybersecurity
5 32 (6.94%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (6.51%) Technical Leadership
7 24 (5.21%) Data Science
8 23 (4.99%) CI/CD
9 22 (4.77%) Agile
10 20 (4.34%) Mentoring
10 20 (4.34%) Project Management
11 19 (4.12%) Coaching
11 19 (4.12%) Document Management
11 19 (4.12%) Observability
11 19 (4.12%) Web Design
12 18 (3.90%) Analytics
13 17 (3.69%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (3.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (3.25%) Data Engineering
16 14 (3.04%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 45 (9.76%) Python
2 41 (8.89%) SQL
3 28 (6.07%) JavaScript
4 27 (5.86%) C#
5 19 (4.12%) PowerShell
5 19 (4.12%) TypeScript
6 9 (1.95%) R
7 6 (1.30%) Java
7 6 (1.30%) Julia
8 3 (0.65%) Go
8 3 (0.65%) Scala
9 2 (0.43%) C++
10 1 (0.22%) Clojure
10 1 (0.22%) Haskell
10 1 (0.22%) OCaml
10 1 (0.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 390 (84.60%) Degree
2 361 (78.31%) Postgraduate
3 360 (78.09%) Master's Degree
3 360 (78.09%) PhD
4 18 (3.90%) DBS Check
5 4 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (0.87%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (0.22%) QA
System Software
1 10 (2.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (1.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.43%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 29 (6.29%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.12%) Adobe
3 8 (1.74%) Databricks
4 7 (1.52%) Dell
5 6 (1.30%) Cloudera
5 6 (1.30%) Google
6 2 (0.43%) Typelevel
7 1 (0.22%) Apple
7 1 (0.22%) Facebook
7 1 (0.22%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle
7 1 (0.22%) Sony
7 1 (0.22%) Yahoo!