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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 91 119
Rank change year-on-year +78 +28 -3
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 452 62 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 7.21% 2.42% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.23% 2.62% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 55 41 80
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,750 £54,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £66,254 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.52% -5.35% +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,738 £80,063
90th Percentile - £100,000 £93,750
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 4,418 2,367 4,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.45% 92.46% 81.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,577 1,400 3,665
10th Percentile £29,650 £28,238 £25,809
25th Percentile £35,750 £38,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,296 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +64 210 £57,500 -25.32% 25
Essex +35 156 £90,000 +16.88% 23
Cambridgeshire -2 49 £60,100 -19.60% 19
Suffolk +14 18 £62,500 -5.67% 7
Norfolk -2 18 £37,500 -57.63% 7
Bedfordshire +1 1 - - 3
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 16 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 358 (79.20%) Cloud Computing
2 32 (7.08%) Azure
3 28 (6.19%) Power Platform
4 24 (5.31%) AWS
5 16 (3.54%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 16 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (3.54%) Azure Logic Apps
5 16 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (3.54%) OneDrive
5 16 (3.54%) Power Automate
5 16 (3.54%) PowerApps
6 14 (3.10%) GCP
7 12 (2.65%) dbt
8 7 (1.55%) Amazon Alexa
9 6 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (1.33%) Dataform
9 6 (1.33%) Snowflake
10 4 (0.88%) Azure AI
10 4 (0.88%) SaaS
11 3 (0.66%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 358 (79.20%) Internet
2 9 (1.99%) 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 28 (6.19%) Power BI
2 20 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (3.10%) Tableau
4 12 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.65%) Looker
5 9 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (1.77%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.33%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.33%) Metabase
7 6 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.11%) Redis
9 2 (0.44%) Big Data
9 2 (0.44%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.44%) Metadata
10 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (1.33%) MLflow
2 1 (0.22%) Git
2 1 (0.22%) Poetry
General
1 387 (85.62%) Social Skills
2 361 (79.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 358 (79.20%) Banking
4 23 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (1.55%) French Language
5 7 (1.55%) German Language
5 7 (1.55%) Italian Language
6 6 (1.33%) Legal
7 3 (0.66%) Finance
8 2 (0.44%) Games
8 2 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.22%) Automotive
9 1 (0.22%) Billing
9 1 (0.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 286 (63.27%) Lecturer
2 34 (7.52%) Developer
3 30 (6.64%) Senior
4 16 (3.54%) Senior Developer
5 13 (2.88%) Lead
6 10 (2.21%) Data Scientist
6 10 (2.21%) Senior Data Scientist
7 9 (1.99%) Consultant
8 8 (1.77%) Lead Developer
8 8 (1.77%) Principal Developer
8 8 (1.77%) Team Leader
9 7 (1.55%) Microsoft 365 Developer
9 7 (1.55%) Microsoft Developer
9 7 (1.55%) Senior Microsoft Developer
9 7 (1.55%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (1.33%) Data Engineer
10 6 (1.33%) Principal Data Scientist
10 6 (1.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 5 (1.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 4 (0.88%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.09%) PyTorch
1 23 (5.09%) TensorFlow
2 20 (4.42%) .NET
2 20 (4.42%) .NET Core
3 19 (4.20%) CSS
3 19 (4.20%) HTML
4 16 (3.54%) HTML5 Canvas
4 16 (3.54%) JSON
4 16 (3.54%) Microsoft Graph
4 16 (3.54%) SPFx
5 9 (1.99%) scikit-learn
6 7 (1.55%) Google JAX
6 7 (1.55%) JAX
7 6 (1.33%) Kafka
7 6 (1.33%) LangChain
7 6 (1.33%) LlamaIndex
7 6 (1.33%) pgvector
8 5 (1.11%) NumPy
8 5 (1.11%) React
9 4 (0.88%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 359 (79.42%) IoT
2 15 (3.32%) Cloud Native
3 9 (1.99%) Algorithms
3 9 (1.99%) Product Ownership
4 8 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (1.77%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.55%) CUDA
6 6 (1.33%) Clustering
6 6 (1.33%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
8 4 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (0.88%) Over-the-Top Content
9 3 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.44%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.44%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.44%) Digital TV
10 2 (0.44%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.44%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.22%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.44%) Linux
2 1 (0.22%) Android
2 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (93.14%) AI
2 383 (84.73%) User Experience
3 359 (79.42%) Web Development
4 358 (79.20%) Cybersecurity
5 28 (6.19%) Business Intelligence
6 24 (5.31%) Data Science
6 24 (5.31%) Technical Leadership
7 19 (4.20%) Agile
7 19 (4.20%) CI/CD
7 19 (4.20%) Coaching
8 18 (3.98%) Analytics
8 18 (3.98%) Observability
9 17 (3.76%) Mentoring
9 17 (3.76%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (3.76%) Project Management
10 16 (3.54%) Document Management
10 16 (3.54%) Web Design
11 15 (3.32%) Data Engineering
12 14 (3.10%) Computer Science
12 14 (3.10%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 44 (9.73%) Python
2 33 (7.30%) SQL
3 23 (5.09%) JavaScript
4 20 (4.42%) C#
5 16 (3.54%) PowerShell
5 16 (3.54%) TypeScript
6 9 (1.99%) R
7 6 (1.33%) Java
7 6 (1.33%) Julia
8 3 (0.66%) Go
9 2 (0.44%) C++
9 2 (0.44%) Scala
10 1 (0.22%) Haskell
10 1 (0.22%) OCaml
10 1 (0.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 390 (86.28%) Degree
2 361 (79.87%) Master's Degree
2 361 (79.87%) Postgraduate
3 360 (79.65%) PhD
4 16 (3.54%) DBS Check
5 4 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.66%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.21%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (1.33%) GDPR
3 1 (0.22%) EU AI Act
3 1 (0.22%) NIST
3 1 (0.22%) QA
System Software
1 8 (1.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.66%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.44%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 22 (4.87%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.54%) Adobe
3 8 (1.77%) Databricks
3 8 (1.77%) Dell
4 6 (1.33%) Cloudera
5 4 (0.88%) Google
6 2 (0.44%) NVIDIA
6 2 (0.44%) Typelevel
7 1 (0.22%) Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle