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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 130 126
Rank change year-on-year +96 -4 -10
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 243 42 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.86% 1.48% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.59% 1.58% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 74 21 80
10th Percentile £47,375 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,750 £54,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,850 £66,254 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.54% -1.85% -3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £67,500 £80,001
90th Percentile £98,875 £83,738 £93,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +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 4,349 2,656 4,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 69.05% 93.36% 79.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,795 1,316 3,710
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £25,809
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,212 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +48 89 £60,000 -7.69% 25
Essex +33 76 £90,000 +63.64% 35
Cambridgeshire -4 51 £81,850 -2.25% 37
Norfolk -4 15 £56,000 -12.50% 4
Suffolk +15 11 £62,500 -5.67% 13
Bedfordshire +8 1 - - 9
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 (7.82%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.29%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.82%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 131 (53.91%) Cloud Computing
2 47 (19.34%) Azure
3 33 (13.58%) Power Platform
4 26 (10.70%) AWS
5 21 (8.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (7.82%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 19 (7.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 19 (7.82%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (7.82%) OneDrive
6 19 (7.82%) Power Automate
6 19 (7.82%) PowerApps
7 15 (6.17%) Azure AI
8 14 (5.76%) GCP
9 12 (4.94%) dbt
10 11 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (2.47%) Dataform
11 6 (2.47%) GitHub
11 6 (2.47%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (2.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 133 (54.73%) Internet
2 10 (4.12%) Broadband
3 1 (0.41%) DNS
3 1 (0.41%) Firewall
3 1 (0.41%) LTE
3 1 (0.41%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.41%) VLAN
3 1 (0.41%) VPN
3 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.41%) WireGuard
3 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.99%) Azure SQL Database
2 33 (13.58%) Power BI
3 15 (6.17%) MongoDB
4 14 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (5.76%) Tableau
5 12 (4.94%) Looker
6 9 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.88%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.47%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.47%) Metabase
8 6 (2.47%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.06%) Redis
10 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.82%) Big Data
10 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.82%) Metadata
11 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.47%) MLflow
2 1 (0.41%) Git
2 1 (0.41%) Poetry
General
1 164 (67.49%) Social Skills
2 134 (55.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 131 (53.91%) Banking
4 24 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.47%) Legal
6 3 (1.23%) French Language
6 3 (1.23%) German Language
6 3 (1.23%) Italian Language
7 2 (0.82%) Finance
7 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.82%) Marketing
8 1 (0.41%) Automotive
8 1 (0.41%) Games
8 1 (0.41%) Law
8 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 102 (41.98%) Lecturer
2 46 (18.93%) Developer
3 32 (13.17%) Senior
4 16 (6.58%) Senior Developer
5 15 (6.17%) .NET Developer
5 15 (6.17%) Lead
6 11 (4.53%) Consultant
7 10 (4.12%) Data Scientist
7 10 (4.12%) Senior Data Scientist
8 9 (3.70%) Lead Developer
8 9 (3.70%) Principal Developer
8 9 (3.70%) Team Leader
9 7 (2.88%) Data Engineer
9 7 (2.88%) Microsoft 365 Developer
9 7 (2.88%) Microsoft Developer
9 7 (2.88%) Senior Microsoft Developer
9 7 (2.88%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (2.47%) Principal Data Scientist
10 6 (2.47%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 5 (2.06%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.99%) .NET
1 34 (13.99%) .NET Core
2 26 (10.70%) CSS
2 26 (10.70%) HTML
3 22 (9.05%) PyTorch
3 22 (9.05%) TensorFlow
4 19 (7.82%) HTML5 Canvas
4 19 (7.82%) JSON
4 19 (7.82%) Microsoft Graph
4 19 (7.82%) SPFx
5 15 (6.17%) ASP.NET
5 15 (6.17%) ASP.NET Core
5 15 (6.17%) ML.NET
6 12 (4.94%) React
7 9 (3.70%) Blazor
7 9 (3.70%) RESTful
7 9 (3.70%) scikit-learn
8 7 (2.88%) Google JAX
8 7 (2.88%) JAX
9 6 (2.47%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 132 (54.32%) IoT
2 15 (6.17%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (3.29%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.88%) CUDA
6 7 (2.88%) FPGA
7 6 (2.47%) Clustering
7 6 (2.47%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.47%) Video\Live Streaming
8 4 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.65%) Digital TV
8 4 (1.65%) Over-the-Top Content
9 3 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.23%) iPhone
9 3 (1.23%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.23%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.23%) Social Media
10 2 (0.82%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.23%) Android
2 2 (0.82%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (87.65%) AI
2 159 (65.43%) User Experience
3 132 (54.32%) Web Development
4 131 (53.91%) Cybersecurity
5 34 (13.99%) Technical Leadership
6 33 (13.58%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (11.11%) Agile
7 27 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 26 (10.70%) Data Science
9 23 (9.47%) Mentoring
10 22 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (8.64%) DevOps
12 20 (8.23%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (8.23%) Observability
12 20 (8.23%) Project Management
13 19 (7.82%) Analytics
13 19 (7.82%) Document Management
13 19 (7.82%) Web Design
14 18 (7.41%) Coaching
15 17 (7.00%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (19.75%) SQL
2 46 (18.93%) Python
3 34 (13.99%) C#
4 33 (13.58%) JavaScript
5 19 (7.82%) PowerShell
5 19 (7.82%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.70%) R
7 6 (2.47%) Java
7 6 (2.47%) Julia
8 4 (1.65%) Scala
9 3 (1.23%) Go
10 2 (0.82%) C++
11 1 (0.41%) Clojure
11 1 (0.41%) Haskell
11 1 (0.41%) OCaml
11 1 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 162 (66.67%) Degree
2 134 (55.14%) Master's Degree
2 134 (55.14%) PhD
2 134 (55.14%) Postgraduate
3 18 (7.41%) DBS Check
4 6 (2.47%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.65%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.23%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.53%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (2.47%) GDPR
3 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 12 (4.94%) Docker
2 6 (2.47%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (2.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.82%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 37 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.82%) Adobe
3 9 (3.70%) Databricks
4 8 (3.29%) Google
5 7 (2.88%) Dell
6 6 (2.47%) Cloudera
7 2 (0.82%) Apple
7 2 (0.82%) Facebook
7 2 (0.82%) Sony
7 2 (0.82%) Typelevel
7 2 (0.82%) Yahoo!
8 1 (0.41%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle