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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 114 59
Rank change year-on-year +103 -55 +41
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 419 77 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 10.30% 2.05% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.27% 2.39% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 29 43 36
10th Percentile £34,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £39,377 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +18.46% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £98,750 £84,063
90th Percentile £98,000 £100,000 £93,125
England median annual salary £80,000 £77,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.90% -0.65% +10.71%

All Process and 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 3,157 3,216 1,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 77.64% 85.42% 92.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,831 1,346 1,250
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £69,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +65 198 £92,500 +8.82% 101
Essex +41 152 £65,000 -15.58% 105
Cambridgeshire +17 36 £57,500 -20.69% 101
Norfolk +21 17 - - 34
Suffolk 0 16 £40,000 -54.80% 33
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 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.48%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 358 (85.44%) Cloud Computing
2 9 (2.15%) AWS
3 8 (1.91%) Azure
4 7 (1.67%) Amazon Alexa
5 5 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (0.95%) SaaS
6 4 (0.95%) Serverless
7 3 (0.72%) Amazon S3
7 3 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (0.72%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.48%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (0.48%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (0.48%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (0.48%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (0.48%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (0.48%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.48%) GCP
8 2 (0.48%) GitHub
8 2 (0.48%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 358 (85.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.95%) DynamoDB
1 4 (0.95%) Tableau
2 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (0.72%) Metadata
3 2 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.48%) Big Data
3 2 (0.48%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.48%) Delta Lake
3 2 (0.48%) MySQL
3 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.48%) Power BI
3 2 (0.48%) Spark SQL
4 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.24%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.24%) Looker
4 1 (0.24%) Parquet
4 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.24%) Redis
4 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Git
2 2 (0.48%) MLflow
3 1 (0.24%) GitLab
General
1 374 (89.26%) Social Skills
2 358 (85.44%) Banking
2 358 (85.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (1.91%) German Language
5 7 (1.67%) French Language
5 7 (1.67%) Italian Language
6 5 (1.19%) Finance
6 5 (1.19%) Retail
7 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
7 3 (0.72%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.48%) Automotive
8 2 (0.48%) Local Government
9 1 (0.24%) Billing
9 1 (0.24%) Games
9 1 (0.24%) Law
9 1 (0.24%) Marketing
9 1 (0.24%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 286 (68.26%) Lecturer
2 10 (2.39%) Senior
3 7 (1.67%) Research Scientist
4 5 (1.19%) Consultant
4 5 (1.19%) Lead
4 5 (1.19%) Machine Learning Consultant
4 5 (1.19%) Software Engineer
5 4 (0.95%) Developer
5 4 (0.95%) Pricing Manager
5 4 (0.95%) Technical Manager
5 4 (0.95%) Technologist
6 3 (0.72%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (0.72%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 3 (0.72%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 3 (0.72%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (0.72%) Principal Software Engineer
7 2 (0.48%) Account Executive
7 2 (0.48%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (0.48%) Senior Developer
7 2 (0.48%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.58%) TensorFlow
2 14 (3.34%) PyTorch
3 6 (1.43%) scikit-learn
4 5 (1.19%) Google JAX
4 5 (1.19%) JAX
4 5 (1.19%) Keras
4 5 (1.19%) Node.js
5 4 (0.95%) Hugging Face
5 4 (0.95%) NumPy
5 4 (0.95%) Pandas
6 3 (0.72%) Kafka
6 3 (0.72%) React
7 2 (0.48%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.48%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (0.48%) Metaflow
7 2 (0.48%) Nuxt
7 2 (0.48%) PySpark
7 2 (0.48%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.48%) Vue
7 2 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 359 (85.68%) IoT
2 8 (1.91%) Onboarding
3 7 (1.67%) Algorithms
4 6 (1.43%) CUDA
5 5 (1.19%) Cloud Native
6 3 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (0.72%) Life Science
7 2 (0.48%) 3D Graphics
7 2 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.24%) Acoustics
8 1 (0.24%) Biopharmaceutical
8 1 (0.24%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.24%) FPGA
8 1 (0.24%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.24%) Omics
8 1 (0.24%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.24%) Stable Diffusion
8 1 (0.24%) Verilog
8 1 (0.24%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.48%) Linux
1 2 (0.48%) Unix
1 2 (0.48%) Windows
1 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (94.51%) AI
2 358 (85.44%) Cybersecurity
2 358 (85.44%) User Experience
2 358 (85.44%) Web Development
3 22 (5.25%) Data Science
4 13 (3.10%) Mathematics
5 12 (2.86%) LLM
5 12 (2.86%) Software Engineering
6 10 (2.39%) Computer Science
6 10 (2.39%) Computer Vision
7 9 (2.15%) CI/CD
7 9 (2.15%) Coaching
8 8 (1.91%) Containerisation
8 8 (1.91%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (1.91%) Process Improvement
9 7 (1.67%) Natural Language Processing
9 7 (1.67%) Performance Management
9 7 (1.67%) Performance Metrics
9 7 (1.67%) Programme Management
9 7 (1.67%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 30 (7.16%) Python
2 8 (1.91%) SQL
3 6 (1.43%) R
4 3 (0.72%) C++
4 3 (0.72%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.48%) C
5 2 (0.48%) Java
5 2 (0.48%) PHP
6 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.24%) Fortran
6 1 (0.24%) Go
6 1 (0.24%) SystemVerilog
6 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 379 (90.45%) Degree
2 362 (86.40%) PhD
2 362 (86.40%) Postgraduate
3 361 (86.16%) Master's Degree
4 7 (1.67%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (0.95%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.24%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.95%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.72%) GDPR
3 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.24%) CDISC
4 1 (0.24%) DICOM
4 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.24%) HL7
4 1 (0.24%) NIST
4 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 6 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.72%) Terraform
3 2 (0.48%) Ansible
3 2 (0.48%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.24%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (1.91%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.72%) Databricks
2 3 (0.72%) OpenAI
3 2 (0.48%) Google
4 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.24%) Dell
4 1 (0.24%) Foundry
4 1 (0.24%) HubSpot
4 1 (0.24%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.24%) Talend
4 1 (0.24%) Zoho