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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 96 113
Rank change year-on-year +84 +17 -13
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 431 64 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 7.87% 2.47% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.88% 2.68% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 37 39 87
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,254 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% -5.35% +3.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £80,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
England median annual salary £76,750 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.32% +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 3,962 2,388 4,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 72.37% 92.34% 83.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,306 1,334 3,465
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,650 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,313 £33,000
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 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £77,500
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 25 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 25 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 +68 209 £57,500 -25.32% 20
Essex +35 146 £90,000 +16.88% 12
Cambridgeshire +3 44 £80,000 +7.02% 20
Norfolk -1 18 £37,500 -57.63% 7
Suffolk +8 13 - - 2
Bedfordshire +9 1 - - 2
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 8 (1.86%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 358 (83.06%) Cloud Computing
2 23 (5.34%) Azure
3 18 (4.18%) AWS
4 17 (3.94%) Power Platform
5 12 (2.78%) GCP
6 11 (2.55%) dbt
7 8 (1.86%) Amazon Alexa
8 6 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 6 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.39%) OneDrive
8 6 (1.39%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.39%) PowerApps
8 6 (1.39%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.16%) Dataform
10 4 (0.93%) Azure AI
11 3 (0.70%) GitHub
11 3 (0.70%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 358 (83.06%) Internet
2 7 (1.62%) Broadband
3 1 (0.23%) LTE
3 1 (0.23%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.94%) Power BI
2 13 (3.02%) Tableau
3 11 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.55%) Looker
4 10 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (1.86%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (1.39%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (1.16%) Metabase
7 5 (1.16%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.93%) Redis
9 2 (0.46%) Big Data
9 2 (0.46%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.46%) Metadata
10 1 (0.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (1.39%) MLflow
2 2 (0.46%) Git
General
1 375 (87.01%) Social Skills
2 360 (83.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 358 (83.06%) Banking
4 22 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (1.86%) French Language
5 8 (1.86%) German Language
5 8 (1.86%) Italian Language
6 2 (0.46%) Finance
6 2 (0.46%) Games
6 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (0.46%) Legal
6 2 (0.46%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.23%) Automotive
7 1 (0.23%) Billing
Job Titles
1 286 (66.36%) Lecturer
2 21 (4.87%) Developer
3 19 (4.41%) Senior
4 9 (2.09%) Data Scientist
4 9 (2.09%) Lead
4 9 (2.09%) Senior Data Scientist
5 8 (1.86%) Senior Developer
6 7 (1.62%) Consultant
6 7 (1.62%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (1.39%) Data Engineer
7 6 (1.39%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 5 (1.16%) Principal Data Scientist
9 4 (0.93%) .NET Developer
9 4 (0.93%) Lead Developer
9 4 (0.93%) Machine Learning Consultant
9 4 (0.93%) Principal Developer
9 4 (0.93%) Research Engineer
9 4 (0.93%) Research Scientist
9 4 (0.93%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (0.93%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.34%) TensorFlow
2 22 (5.10%) PyTorch
3 10 (2.32%) .NET
3 10 (2.32%) .NET Core
4 9 (2.09%) CSS
4 9 (2.09%) HTML
4 9 (2.09%) scikit-learn
5 7 (1.62%) Google JAX
5 7 (1.62%) JAX
6 6 (1.39%) HTML5 Canvas
6 6 (1.39%) JSON
6 6 (1.39%) Kafka
6 6 (1.39%) LangChain
6 6 (1.39%) LlamaIndex
6 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (1.39%) pgvector
6 6 (1.39%) SPFx
7 5 (1.16%) Keras
7 5 (1.16%) React
8 4 (0.93%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 358 (83.06%) IoT
2 11 (2.55%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.32%) Algorithms
4 9 (2.09%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.62%) CUDA
6 6 (1.39%) Clustering
6 6 (1.39%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.16%) Product Ownership
8 4 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (0.70%) Over-the-Top Content
10 2 (0.46%) 3D Graphics
10 2 (0.46%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.46%) Digital TV
10 2 (0.46%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.46%) Life Science
10 2 (0.46%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.23%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.46%) Linux
2 1 (0.23%) Android
2 1 (0.23%) Windows
2 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (94.66%) AI
2 369 (85.61%) User Experience
3 359 (83.29%) Web Development
4 358 (83.06%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (5.10%) Data Science
6 17 (3.94%) Analytics
6 17 (3.94%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (3.94%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (3.48%) Coaching
7 15 (3.48%) Computer Science
8 14 (3.25%) Data Engineering
9 13 (3.02%) CI/CD
9 13 (3.02%) Generative AI
10 12 (2.78%) Data Modelling
10 12 (2.78%) Observability
10 12 (2.78%) Prototyping
11 11 (2.55%) Agile
11 11 (2.55%) Mentoring
12 10 (2.32%) Mathematics
12 10 (2.32%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 40 (9.28%) Python
2 22 (5.10%) SQL
3 13 (3.02%) JavaScript
4 10 (2.32%) C#
5 8 (1.86%) R
6 6 (1.39%) Java
6 6 (1.39%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.39%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.16%) Julia
8 2 (0.46%) Go
9 1 (0.23%) C++
9 1 (0.23%) PHP
9 1 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 387 (89.79%) Degree
2 361 (83.76%) Master's Degree
2 361 (83.76%) PhD
2 361 (83.76%) Postgraduate
3 11 (2.55%) DBS Check
4 4 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (0.70%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.09%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (1.39%) GDPR
3 1 (0.23%) EU AI Act
3 1 (0.23%) NIST
3 1 (0.23%) QA
System Software
1 6 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.46%) Kubeflow
1 2 (0.46%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (3.02%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.86%) Databricks
2 8 (1.86%) Dell
3 6 (1.39%) Adobe
3 6 (1.39%) Cloudera
4 4 (0.93%) Google
5 2 (0.46%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.23%) Foundry
6 1 (0.23%) Typelevel