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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 96 105
Rank change year-on-year +85 +9 -5
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 416 68 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 8.19% 2.34% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.30% 2.54% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 31 38 89
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £46,875 £54,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £66,254 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -5.35% +16.67%
75th Percentile £87,775 £85,625 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.60% +10.00% -

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 3,681 2,672 4,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 72.45% 92.14% 83.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,122 1,289 3,366
10th Percentile £28,271 £29,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £33,750
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 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,135 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 10 March 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 March 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 +75 201 £60,000 -22.08% 39
Essex +36 143 £81,250 +5.52% 52
Cambridgeshire +4 41 £60,100 -17.10% 21
Norfolk +8 18 £37,500 -57.63% 7
Suffolk +7 13 - - 6
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 4 (0.96%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 358 (86.06%) Cloud Computing
2 10 (2.40%) AWS
3 9 (2.16%) Azure
4 8 (1.92%) Amazon Alexa
5 5 (1.20%) SaaS
6 4 (0.96%) GCP
6 4 (0.96%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.48%) Azure AI
7 2 (0.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (0.48%) dbt
7 2 (0.48%) GitHub
7 2 (0.48%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (0.48%) H2O.ai
7 2 (0.48%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.48%) Slack
7 2 (0.48%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.24%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.24%) Google Play
8 1 (0.24%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 358 (86.06%) Internet
2 3 (0.72%) Broadband
3 1 (0.24%) LTE
3 1 (0.24%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (0.96%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.96%) Power BI
3 4 (0.96%) Redis
3 4 (0.96%) Tableau
4 3 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.48%) Big Data
5 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.48%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.48%) Looker
5 2 (0.48%) Metadata
5 2 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.24%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Git
1 2 (0.48%) MLflow
2 1 (0.24%) GitLab
General
1 371 (89.18%) Social Skills
2 360 (86.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 358 (86.06%) Banking
4 11 (2.64%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.16%) German Language
6 8 (1.92%) French Language
6 8 (1.92%) Italian Language
7 2 (0.48%) Automotive
7 2 (0.48%) Finance
7 2 (0.48%) Games
7 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.48%) Legal
7 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.24%) Billing
Job Titles
1 286 (68.75%) Lecturer
2 13 (3.13%) Developer
3 11 (2.64%) Senior
4 9 (2.16%) Lead
5 7 (1.68%) Consultant
6 5 (1.20%) Data Engineer
6 5 (1.20%) Data Scientist
7 4 (0.96%) Lead Developer
7 4 (0.96%) Machine Learning Consultant
7 4 (0.96%) Principal Developer
7 4 (0.96%) Research Engineer
7 4 (0.96%) Research Scientist
7 4 (0.96%) RF Engineer
7 4 (0.96%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (0.96%) Senior Data Scientist
7 4 (0.96%) Senior RF Engineer
7 4 (0.96%) Software Engineer
7 4 (0.96%) Team Leader
8 3 (0.72%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (0.72%) Research Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.81%) TensorFlow
2 19 (4.57%) PyTorch
3 7 (1.68%) Google JAX
3 7 (1.68%) JAX
4 6 (1.44%) scikit-learn
5 5 (1.20%) Keras
5 5 (1.20%) React
6 4 (0.96%) Node.js
6 4 (0.96%) NumPy
7 3 (0.72%) .NET
7 3 (0.72%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.72%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.72%) CSS
7 3 (0.72%) HTML
7 3 (0.72%) Kafka
7 3 (0.72%) Matplotlib
7 3 (0.72%) Pandas
7 3 (0.72%) Vue
8 2 (0.48%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.48%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 358 (86.06%) IoT
2 10 (2.40%) Algorithms
3 9 (2.16%) Onboarding
4 8 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 7 (1.68%) CUDA
6 5 (1.20%) Product Ownership
7 4 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.72%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.48%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (0.48%) Clustering
9 2 (0.48%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.48%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.48%) Life Science
9 2 (0.48%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.48%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (0.48%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.24%) iPhone
10 1 (0.24%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.48%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Android
2 1 (0.24%) Windows
2 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (95.91%) AI
2 364 (87.50%) User Experience
3 359 (86.30%) Web Development
4 358 (86.06%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (3.61%) Coaching
5 15 (3.61%) Computer Science
6 13 (3.13%) Data Science
6 13 (3.13%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (2.64%) Generative AI
8 10 (2.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (2.40%) Mathematics
8 10 (2.40%) Physics
9 9 (2.16%) Analytics
9 9 (2.16%) Mentoring
9 9 (2.16%) Performance Management
9 9 (2.16%) Prototyping
9 9 (2.16%) Software Engineering
10 8 (1.92%) Computer Vision
10 8 (1.92%) Conversational UI
10 8 (1.92%) Kaizen
Programming Languages
1 27 (6.49%) Python
2 8 (1.92%) JavaScript
3 6 (1.44%) SQL
4 4 (0.96%) Java
5 3 (0.72%) C#
5 3 (0.72%) R
6 2 (0.48%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.24%) C++
7 1 (0.24%) Go
7 1 (0.24%) PHP
7 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 390 (93.75%) Degree
2 363 (87.26%) PhD
3 361 (86.78%) Master's Degree
3 361 (86.78%) Postgraduate
4 6 (1.44%) DBS Check
5 4 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.72%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.20%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (0.48%) GDPR
3 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
3 1 (0.24%) NIST
3 1 (0.24%) QA
System Software
1 4 (0.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.48%) Kubeflow
1 2 (0.48%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.24%) Ansible
2 1 (0.24%) Istio
2 1 (0.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (1.68%) Microsoft
2 4 (0.96%) Databricks
2 4 (0.96%) Dell
3 2 (0.48%) Cloudera
3 2 (0.48%) Google
3 2 (0.48%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.24%) Adobe
4 1 (0.24%) Foundry