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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 112 119
Rank change year-on-year +36 +7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 137 65 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.88% 1.89% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 2.15% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 103 25 41
10th Percentile £46,250 £39,001 £48,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,738 £95,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +2.11%

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 5,125 3,026 3,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.50% 87.79% 74.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,650 1,624 2,237
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,117
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,283 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% -7.43% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £82,200
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 14 August 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 14 August 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 55 £86,725 +15.63% 65
Hertfordshire +16 38 £60,000 +12.15% 25
Essex +5 33 £90,000 +50.00% 18
Suffolk +20 7 £62,500 -7.41% 5
Norfolk -27 3 £56,000 -12.50% 1
Bedfordshire -9 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 (13.87%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.57%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.38%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.46%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 65 (47.45%) Azure
2 34 (24.82%) Power Platform
3 32 (23.36%) Azure AI
4 29 (21.17%) AWS
5 24 (17.52%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (15.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (13.87%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 19 (13.87%) Azure Logic Apps
7 19 (13.87%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (13.87%) OneDrive
7 19 (13.87%) Power Automate
7 19 (13.87%) PowerApps
8 16 (11.68%) GCP
9 13 (9.49%) dbt
10 12 (8.76%) GitHub
11 10 (7.30%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (5.11%) Snowflake
13 6 (4.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (4.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (4.38%) Dataform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.30%) Broadband
2 4 (2.92%) Firewall
3 3 (2.19%) BGP
3 3 (2.19%) Internet
3 3 (2.19%) LAN
3 3 (2.19%) OSPF
3 3 (2.19%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (2.19%) WAN
4 1 (0.73%) DNS
4 1 (0.73%) VLAN
4 1 (0.73%) VPN
4 1 (0.73%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (37.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 34 (24.82%) Power BI
3 27 (19.71%) MongoDB
4 15 (10.95%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (8.76%) Looker
5 12 (8.76%) Tableau
6 7 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (5.11%) BigQuery
7 6 (4.38%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (4.38%) Metabase
7 6 (4.38%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.46%) Metadata
9 2 (1.46%) Redis
9 2 (1.46%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.73%) Airbyte
10 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.73%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (5.11%) MLflow
2 5 (3.65%) Git
3 1 (0.73%) Poetry
General
1 34 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.76%) Marketing
4 5 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (3.65%) Legal
5 3 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.73%) Automotive
6 1 (0.73%) Finance
6 1 (0.73%) Games
6 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.73%) Law
6 1 (0.73%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 61 (44.53%) Developer
2 32 (23.36%) .NET Developer
2 32 (23.36%) Senior
3 16 (11.68%) Senior Developer
4 11 (8.03%) Lead
5 7 (5.11%) Consultant
5 7 (5.11%) Lead Developer
5 7 (5.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 7 (5.11%) Microsoft 365 Developer
5 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Developer
5 7 (5.11%) Principal Developer
5 7 (5.11%) Senior Microsoft Developer
5 7 (5.11%) Systems Engineer
5 7 (5.11%) Team Leader
6 6 (4.38%) Data Scientist
6 6 (4.38%) Principal Data Scientist
6 6 (4.38%) Research Scientist
6 6 (4.38%) Senior Data Scientist
6 6 (4.38%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 5 (3.65%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (37.23%) .NET
1 51 (37.23%) .NET Core
2 32 (23.36%) ASP.NET
2 32 (23.36%) ASP.NET Core
2 32 (23.36%) ML.NET
3 30 (21.90%) CSS
3 30 (21.90%) HTML
4 23 (16.79%) React
4 23 (16.79%) RESTful
4 23 (16.79%) TensorFlow
5 22 (16.06%) Blazor
5 22 (16.06%) PyTorch
6 19 (13.87%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (13.87%) JSON
6 19 (13.87%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (13.87%) SPFx
7 10 (7.30%) Google JAX
7 10 (7.30%) JAX
8 8 (5.84%) scikit-learn
9 6 (4.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.95%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.76%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.57%) FPGA
4 8 (5.84%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (5.84%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.11%) Digital TV
5 7 (5.11%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (4.38%) Clustering
6 6 (4.38%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.38%) Social Media
6 6 (4.38%) Video\Live Streaming
7 5 (3.65%) BBC
7 5 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.19%) CUDA
8 3 (2.19%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.19%) Over-the-Top Content
8 3 (2.19%) Social Network
9 2 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.46%) IoT
9 2 (1.46%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.19%) Android
2 2 (1.46%) Linux
3 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.73%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.73%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (75.91%) AI
2 41 (29.93%) Agile
3 35 (25.55%) DevOps
3 35 (25.55%) Full-Stack Development
3 35 (25.55%) Technical Leadership
4 34 (24.82%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (24.82%) CI/CD
5 25 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (17.52%) Mentoring
6 24 (17.52%) User Experience
7 22 (16.06%) Data Science
7 22 (16.06%) Multithreading
8 20 (14.60%) Project Management
9 19 (13.87%) Data Engineering
9 19 (13.87%) Document Management
9 19 (13.87%) Observability
9 19 (13.87%) Web Design
10 16 (11.68%) Analytics
11 15 (10.95%) Data Modelling
12 14 (10.22%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (49.64%) SQL
2 51 (37.23%) C#
3 47 (34.31%) Python
4 46 (33.58%) JavaScript
5 21 (15.33%) PowerShell
6 19 (13.87%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.11%) R
8 6 (4.38%) Julia
9 4 (2.92%) Java
9 4 (2.92%) Scala
10 3 (2.19%) Go
11 2 (1.46%) Bash
11 2 (1.46%) C++
12 1 (0.73%) Clojure
12 1 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.73%) Haskell
12 1 (0.73%) OCaml
12 1 (0.73%) Rust
12 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (18.25%) Degree
2 15 (10.95%) DBS Check
3 11 (8.03%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.57%) PhD
5 4 (2.92%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.19%) CCDP
6 3 (2.19%) CCNP
6 3 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.19%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.19%) Postgraduate
7 2 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.84%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (4.38%) GDPR
3 3 (2.19%) QA
3 3 (2.19%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (14.60%) Docker
2 10 (7.30%) Embedded Firmware
2 10 (7.30%) Firmware
3 3 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (10.95%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.19%) FortiGate
2 3 (2.19%) Terraform
3 1 (0.73%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.73%) Podman
Vendors
1 55 (40.15%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.87%) Adobe
3 13 (9.49%) Google
4 9 (6.57%) Databricks
5 6 (4.38%) Cloudera
5 6 (4.38%) Dell
6 5 (3.65%) Apple
6 5 (3.65%) Facebook
6 5 (3.65%) Sony
6 5 (3.65%) Yahoo!
7 3 (2.19%) Cisco
7 3 (2.19%) Forcepoint
7 3 (2.19%) Juniper
7 3 (2.19%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.19%) SonicWALL
7 3 (2.19%) VMware
8 2 (1.46%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.73%) Oracle