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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 111 116
Rank change year-on-year +30 +5 -8
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 143 61 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.84% 1.78% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 2.05% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 112 29 29
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £48,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +43.18% -26.67% +13.21%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,738 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,000 £99,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% +3.33%

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 5,435 2,969 3,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.11% 86.66% 73.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,989 1,589 1,931
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £38,052
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -13.46% -5.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -7 57 £86,725 +15.63% 155
Hertfordshire +9 40 £60,000 -35.14% 58
Essex +4 36 £90,000 +70.11% 30
Suffolk +16 7 £62,500 +56.25% 10
Norfolk - 2 £56,000 - 9
Bedfordshire -11 1 - - 15
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 18 (12.59%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.40%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 63 (44.06%) Azure
2 32 (22.38%) Azure AI
3 31 (21.68%) Power Platform
4 25 (17.48%) AWS
5 24 (16.78%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (13.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (12.59%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 18 (12.59%) Azure Logic Apps
7 18 (12.59%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (12.59%) OneDrive
7 18 (12.59%) Power Automate
7 18 (12.59%) PowerApps
8 14 (9.79%) GCP
9 12 (8.39%) GitHub
10 11 (7.69%) dbt
11 10 (6.99%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (4.20%) Dataform
13 5 (3.50%) Snowflake
14 4 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.29%) Broadband
2 4 (2.80%) Firewall
3 3 (2.10%) BGP
3 3 (2.10%) Internet
3 3 (2.10%) LAN
3 3 (2.10%) OSPF
3 3 (2.10%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (2.10%) WAN
4 1 (0.70%) DNS
4 1 (0.70%) VLAN
4 1 (0.70%) VPN
4 1 (0.70%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (34.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 31 (21.68%) Power BI
3 26 (18.18%) MongoDB
4 13 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (6.99%) Looker
5 10 (6.99%) Tableau
6 6 (4.20%) Metabase
7 5 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.50%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.80%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.80%) Milvus
8 4 (2.80%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.40%) Metadata
9 2 (1.40%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (3.50%) MLflow
2 4 (2.80%) Git
3 1 (0.70%) Poetry
General
1 35 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.39%) Marketing
4 4 (2.80%) Legal
5 3 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.70%) Automotive
6 1 (0.70%) Finance
6 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.70%) Law
6 1 (0.70%) Legal Technology
6 1 (0.70%) Military
6 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (39.16%) Developer
2 32 (22.38%) .NET Developer
3 28 (19.58%) Senior
4 14 (9.79%) Senior Developer
5 9 (6.29%) Lead
6 7 (4.90%) Microsoft 365 Developer
6 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Developer
6 7 (4.90%) Research Scientist
6 7 (4.90%) Senior Microsoft Developer
7 6 (4.20%) Data Scientist
7 6 (4.20%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 6 (4.20%) Principal Data Scientist
7 6 (4.20%) Python Engineer
7 6 (4.20%) Senior Data Scientist
8 5 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (3.50%) Consultant
8 5 (3.50%) Lead Developer
8 5 (3.50%) Principal Developer
8 5 (3.50%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (3.50%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (34.97%) .NET
1 50 (34.97%) .NET Core
2 32 (22.38%) ASP.NET
2 32 (22.38%) ASP.NET Core
2 32 (22.38%) ML.NET
3 28 (19.58%) CSS
3 28 (19.58%) HTML
4 23 (16.08%) React
4 23 (16.08%) RESTful
5 22 (15.38%) Blazor
5 22 (15.38%) TensorFlow
6 21 (14.69%) PyTorch
7 18 (12.59%) HTML5 Canvas
7 18 (12.59%) JSON
7 18 (12.59%) Microsoft Graph
7 18 (12.59%) SPFx
8 12 (8.39%) Google JAX
8 12 (8.39%) JAX
9 5 (3.50%) scikit-learn
10 4 (2.80%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.59%) Algorithms
2 11 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.29%) FPGA
4 7 (4.90%) Digital TV
5 6 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.20%) Social Media
6 5 (3.50%) BBC
6 5 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.50%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.50%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (2.80%) Clustering
7 4 (2.80%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.10%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.10%) Over-the-Top Content
8 3 (2.10%) Social Network
9 2 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.40%) IoT
9 2 (1.40%) iPhone
9 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.10%) Android
2 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.70%) Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (76.22%) AI
2 39 (27.27%) Agile
3 33 (23.08%) DevOps
3 33 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 32 (22.38%) CI/CD
4 32 (22.38%) Technical Leadership
5 31 (21.68%) Business Intelligence
6 22 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 22 (15.38%) Multithreading
6 22 (15.38%) User Experience
7 21 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (13.29%) Data Science
9 18 (12.59%) Document Management
9 18 (12.59%) Project Management
9 18 (12.59%) Web Design
10 17 (11.89%) Analytics
11 16 (11.19%) Data Engineering
11 16 (11.19%) Observability
11 16 (11.19%) Software Engineering
12 12 (8.39%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 65 (45.45%) SQL
2 50 (34.97%) C#
3 44 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 43 (30.07%) Python
5 20 (13.99%) PowerShell
6 18 (12.59%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.20%) Julia
7 6 (4.20%) R
8 4 (2.80%) Java
8 4 (2.80%) Scala
9 2 (1.40%) Bash
9 2 (1.40%) C++
9 2 (1.40%) Go
10 1 (0.70%) Clojure
10 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.70%) Haskell
10 1 (0.70%) OCaml
10 1 (0.70%) Rust
10 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (16.78%) Degree
2 12 (8.39%) DBS Check
2 12 (8.39%) PhD
2 12 (8.39%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.80%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.10%) CCDP
4 3 (2.10%) CCNP
4 3 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.10%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.59%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (2.80%) GDPR
3 3 (2.10%) SLA
4 2 (1.40%) QA
System Software
1 18 (12.59%) Docker
2 10 (6.99%) Embedded Firmware
2 10 (6.99%) Firmware
3 3 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (10.49%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.10%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.70%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 55 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.59%) Adobe
3 13 (9.09%) Google
4 7 (4.90%) Databricks
5 5 (3.50%) Apple
5 5 (3.50%) Facebook
5 5 (3.50%) Sony
5 5 (3.50%) Yahoo!
6 4 (2.80%) Cloudera
6 4 (2.80%) Dell
7 3 (2.10%) Cisco
7 3 (2.10%) Forcepoint
7 3 (2.10%) Juniper
7 3 (2.10%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.10%) SonicWALL
7 3 (2.10%) VMware
8 2 (1.40%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.70%) Oracle