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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 125 124
Rank change year-on-year +45 -1 -17
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 121 48 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.91% 1.53% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 1.67% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 88 23 77
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,254 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% -5.35% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £67,502 £80,001
90th Percentile £96,250 £83,738 £93,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -2.10%

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 4,483 2,882 5,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.63% 91.70% 77.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,094 1,464 3,864
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,977 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,200 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -11 47 £77,175 -2.76% 26
Hertfordshire +18 36 £60,000 +12.15% 23
Essex +10 28 £90,000 +63.64% 18
Suffolk +22 6 £62,500 -5.67% 5
Norfolk -26 3 £56,000 -12.50% 3
Bedfordshire +5 1 - - 5
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 (15.70%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.61%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (5.79%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.65%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 57 (47.11%) Azure
2 33 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 26 (21.49%) AWS
3 26 (21.49%) Azure AI
4 21 (17.36%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (15.70%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 19 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (15.70%) Azure Logic Apps
5 19 (15.70%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (15.70%) OneDrive
5 19 (15.70%) Power Automate
5 19 (15.70%) PowerApps
6 13 (10.74%) GCP
7 12 (9.92%) dbt
8 9 (7.44%) GitHub
8 9 (7.44%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (4.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (4.96%) Dataform
9 6 (4.96%) Snowflake
10 5 (4.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.92%) Broadband
2 3 (2.48%) Internet
3 1 (0.83%) DNS
3 1 (0.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.83%) LTE
3 1 (0.83%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.83%) VLAN
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.83%) WireGuard
3 1 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (37.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 33 (27.27%) Power BI
3 23 (19.01%) MongoDB
4 14 (11.57%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (10.74%) Tableau
6 12 (9.92%) Looker
7 8 (6.61%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (5.79%) Data Lake
9 6 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.96%) BigQuery
9 6 (4.96%) Metabase
9 6 (4.96%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (3.31%) Redis
11 3 (2.48%) Metadata
12 2 (1.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.83%) Big Data
13 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.96%) MLflow
2 1 (0.83%) Git
2 1 (0.83%) Poetry
General
1 31 (25.62%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.61%) Marketing
4 6 (4.96%) Legal
5 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.65%) Finance
6 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.83%) Automotive
7 1 (0.83%) Games
7 1 (0.83%) Law
7 1 (0.83%) Legal Technology
7 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 57 (47.11%) Developer
2 31 (25.62%) Senior
3 26 (21.49%) .NET Developer
4 16 (13.22%) Lead
4 16 (13.22%) Senior Developer
5 9 (7.44%) Lead Developer
5 9 (7.44%) Principal Developer
5 9 (7.44%) Team Leader
6 8 (6.61%) Consultant
6 8 (6.61%) Data Scientist
6 8 (6.61%) Senior Data Scientist
7 7 (5.79%) Microsoft 365 Developer
7 7 (5.79%) Microsoft Developer
7 7 (5.79%) Senior Microsoft Developer
7 7 (5.79%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Principal Data Scientist
8 6 (4.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (37.19%) .NET
1 45 (37.19%) .NET Core
2 29 (23.97%) CSS
2 29 (23.97%) HTML
3 26 (21.49%) ASP.NET
3 26 (21.49%) ASP.NET Core
3 26 (21.49%) ML.NET
4 21 (17.36%) PyTorch
5 20 (16.53%) React
5 20 (16.53%) TensorFlow
6 19 (15.70%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (15.70%) JSON
6 19 (15.70%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (15.70%) SPFx
7 17 (14.05%) Blazor
7 17 (14.05%) RESTful
8 8 (6.61%) scikit-learn
9 6 (4.96%) Kafka
9 6 (4.96%) LangChain
9 6 (4.96%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.22%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.26%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (8.26%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.44%) Algorithms
3 9 (7.44%) FPGA
3 9 (7.44%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (6.61%) Video\Live Streaming
5 6 (4.96%) Clustering
5 6 (4.96%) Digital TV
5 6 (4.96%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.13%) Over-the-Top Content
7 4 (3.31%) CUDA
7 4 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.31%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.31%) Social Media
8 3 (2.48%) BBC
8 3 (2.48%) iPhone
8 3 (2.48%) Social Network
9 2 (1.65%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.65%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.31%) Android
2 2 (1.65%) Linux
3 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (79.34%) AI
2 36 (29.75%) Technical Leadership
3 35 (28.93%) Agile
4 33 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
4 33 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 32 (26.45%) DevOps
6 31 (25.62%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (23.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (22.31%) User Experience
9 25 (20.66%) Data Science
9 25 (20.66%) Mentoring
10 22 (18.18%) Observability
11 20 (16.53%) Project Management
12 19 (15.70%) Document Management
12 19 (15.70%) Web Design
13 18 (14.88%) Analytics
13 18 (14.88%) Data Engineering
14 17 (14.05%) Coaching
14 17 (14.05%) Multithreading
15 15 (12.40%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 59 (48.76%) SQL
2 46 (38.02%) Python
3 45 (37.19%) C#
4 41 (33.88%) JavaScript
5 21 (17.36%) PowerShell
6 19 (15.70%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.61%) R
8 6 (4.96%) Java
8 6 (4.96%) Julia
9 4 (3.31%) Scala
10 3 (2.48%) C++
10 3 (2.48%) Go
11 2 (1.65%) Bash
12 1 (0.83%) Clojure
12 1 (0.83%) Haskell
12 1 (0.83%) OCaml
12 1 (0.83%) Rust
Qualifications
1 23 (19.01%) Degree
2 18 (14.88%) DBS Check
3 7 (5.79%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.31%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.48%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.48%) Postgraduate
6 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.65%) PhD
7 1 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.26%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (4.96%) GDPR
3 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 17 (14.05%) Docker
2 9 (7.44%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (7.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (10.74%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.48%) Kubeflow
3 2 (1.65%) Terraform
4 1 (0.83%) Podman
Vendors
1 48 (39.67%) Microsoft
2 19 (15.70%) Adobe
3 9 (7.44%) Databricks
3 9 (7.44%) Google
4 7 (5.79%) Dell
5 6 (4.96%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.48%) Apple
6 3 (2.48%) Facebook
6 3 (2.48%) Sony
6 3 (2.48%) Yahoo!
7 2 (1.65%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.83%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle