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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 122 97
Rank change year-on-year +8 -25 -26
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 62 52 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.83% 1.17% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.58% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 31 24 25
10th Percentile £35,000 £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £44,375 £52,813 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,908 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,738 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £104,500 £90,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -

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 2,937 3,297 2,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 86.64% 74.16% 92.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,562 1,781 1,380
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,312 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.59% -1.27% +2.86%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning 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 17 September 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 17 September 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
Cambridgeshire +19 33 £75,000 +29.31% 48
Essex 0 13 £52,908 -9.56% 11
Hertfordshire +11 8 £92,500 -2.63% 13
Bedfordshire -6 4 £50,000 -13.04% 3
Suffolk - 4 £40,000 - 1
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.84%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.74%) AWS
2 7 (11.29%) Azure
3 5 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (6.45%) GCP
4 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.84%) Serverless
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (3.23%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.23%) GitHub
6 2 (3.23%) SaaS
7 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Firewall
1 1 (1.61%) VLAN
1 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (11.29%) Tableau
2 6 (9.68%) Redis
3 5 (8.06%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.45%) Big Data
4 4 (6.45%) DynamoDB
4 4 (6.45%) Power BI
5 3 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.23%) Data Mining
6 2 (3.23%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.23%) Metadata
6 2 (3.23%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.61%) Looker
7 1 (1.61%) MySQL
7 1 (1.61%) Parquet
7 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Git
2 2 (3.23%) JIRA
2 2 (3.23%) MLflow
3 1 (1.61%) GitLab
General
1 20 (32.26%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Finance
4 8 (12.90%) Retail
5 3 (4.84%) Automotive
5 3 (4.84%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.84%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.23%) Local Government
6 2 (3.23%) Publishing
7 1 (1.61%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Law
7 1 (1.61%) Marketing
7 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (16.13%) Senior
2 9 (14.52%) Research Scientist
3 8 (12.90%) Lead
4 7 (11.29%) Developer
4 7 (11.29%) Pricing Manager
4 7 (11.29%) Software Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Technical Manager
5 5 (8.06%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Technologist
7 3 (4.84%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 3 (4.84%) Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Machine Learning Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Principal Software Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Graduate
8 2 (3.23%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.74%) PyTorch
2 10 (16.13%) TensorFlow
3 7 (11.29%) Node.js
4 6 (9.68%) scikit-learn
5 5 (8.06%) HTML
5 5 (8.06%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (6.45%) Google JAX
6 4 (6.45%) Hugging Face
6 4 (6.45%) JAX
6 4 (6.45%) NumPy
6 4 (6.45%) Pandas
6 4 (6.45%) React
7 3 (4.84%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (4.84%) CSS3
7 3 (4.84%) Entity Framework
7 3 (4.84%) HTML5
7 3 (4.84%) MassTransit
7 3 (4.84%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.45%) CUDA
3 3 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.23%) IoT
4 2 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.61%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.61%) FPGA
5 1 (1.61%) Genomics
5 1 (1.61%) Life Science
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Omics
5 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.61%) Robotics
5 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.61%) Verilog
5 1 (1.61%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Linux
2 2 (3.23%) Unix
3 1 (1.61%) Android
3 1 (1.61%) CentOS
3 1 (1.61%) Debian
3 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.61%) Windows
3 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (69.35%) Artificial Intelligence
2 30 (48.39%) Data Science
3 18 (29.03%) Mathematics
4 17 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (22.58%) LLM
6 12 (19.35%) Software Engineering
7 10 (16.13%) CI/CD
7 10 (16.13%) Computer Science
7 10 (16.13%) Statistical Modelling
8 9 (14.52%) Analytics
8 9 (14.52%) Statistics
9 8 (12.90%) Containerisation
10 7 (11.29%) Computer Vision
10 7 (11.29%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (11.29%) Microservices
10 7 (11.29%) Natural Language Processing
11 6 (9.68%) ETL
11 6 (9.68%) People Management
11 6 (9.68%) Physics
11 6 (9.68%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (54.84%) Python
2 10 (16.13%) R
2 10 (16.13%) SQL
3 5 (8.06%) Java
4 4 (6.45%) C++
4 4 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.84%) C
5 3 (4.84%) C#
5 3 (4.84%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.61%) Bash
7 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.61%) Fortran
7 1 (1.61%) Go
7 1 (1.61%) PHP
7 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.61%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 14 (22.58%) Degree
2 7 (11.29%) Postgraduate
2 7 (11.29%) Security Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) Numerate Degree
4 5 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.45%) PhD
5 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.84%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.61%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) Data Quality
1 4 (6.45%) GDPR
2 3 (4.84%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.23%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.61%) CDISC
4 1 (1.61%) DICOM
4 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.61%) HL7
4 1 (1.61%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (16.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.06%) Terraform
3 2 (3.23%) Ansible
3 2 (3.23%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.61%) Grafana
4 1 (1.61%) Istio
4 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.61%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.84%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.23%) Databricks
3 2 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (1.61%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.61%) Facebook
4 1 (1.61%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.61%) Talend
4 1 (1.61%) YouTube
4 1 (1.61%) Zoho