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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 111 66
Rank change year-on-year +104 -45 +23
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 423 68 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 10.11% 1.94% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.58% 2.23% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 34 36 41
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £40,313 £54,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £84,063 £90,625 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £77,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.90% +2.67% +7.14%

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 3,114 3,050 2,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.46% 86.82% 86.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,823 1,204 1,476
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +67 200 £92,500 +20.13% 45
Essex +41 150 £65,000 -15.58% 48
Cambridgeshire +21 41 £55,000 -8.33% 57
Norfolk +18 17 - - 35
Suffolk +1 15 £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 (0.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.47%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 358 (84.63%) Cloud Computing
2 10 (2.36%) Azure
3 9 (2.13%) AWS
4 8 (1.89%) Amazon Alexa
5 4 (0.95%) GCP
5 4 (0.95%) SaaS
5 4 (0.95%) Serverless
6 3 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (0.71%) Azure AKS
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (0.47%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (0.47%) GitHub
7 2 (0.47%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.24%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.24%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 358 (84.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (1.42%) Tableau
2 4 (0.95%) Big Data
2 4 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (0.95%) Redis
3 3 (0.71%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.47%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.47%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.47%) MySQL
4 2 (0.47%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.47%) Power BI
5 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.24%) Looker
5 1 (0.24%) Metadata
5 1 (0.24%) Parquet
5 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Git
2 1 (0.24%) GitLab
General
1 372 (87.94%) Social Skills
2 358 (84.63%) Banking
2 358 (84.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (3.07%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (2.13%) German Language
5 8 (1.89%) French Language
5 8 (1.89%) Italian Language
6 5 (1.18%) Finance
7 4 (0.95%) Retail
8 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.71%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.47%) Automotive
9 2 (0.47%) Local Government
10 1 (0.24%) Billing
10 1 (0.24%) Games
10 1 (0.24%) Law
10 1 (0.24%) Marketing
10 1 (0.24%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 286 (67.61%) Lecturer
2 12 (2.84%) Senior
3 10 (2.36%) Research Scientist
4 8 (1.89%) Software Engineer
5 7 (1.65%) Consultant
5 7 (1.65%) Machine Learning Consultant
6 6 (1.42%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (1.42%) Developer
7 5 (1.18%) Data Scientist
8 4 (0.95%) Data Engineer
9 3 (0.71%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 3 (0.71%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
9 3 (0.71%) Data Science Developer
9 3 (0.71%) JavaScript Engineer
9 3 (0.71%) Lead
9 3 (0.71%) Pricing Manager
9 3 (0.71%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (0.71%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (0.71%) UI Engineer
9 3 (0.71%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.78%) TensorFlow
2 14 (3.31%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.89%) Node.js
4 7 (1.65%) Google JAX
4 7 (1.65%) JAX
5 6 (1.42%) React
6 5 (1.18%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.18%) scikit-learn
6 5 (1.18%) Vue
7 4 (0.95%) Hugging Face
7 4 (0.95%) NumPy
7 4 (0.95%) Pandas
8 3 (0.71%) Kafka
8 3 (0.71%) Keras
8 3 (0.71%) Matplotlib
8 3 (0.71%) Seaborn
9 2 (0.47%) Nuxt
9 2 (0.47%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.24%) FHIR
10 1 (0.24%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 359 (84.87%) IoT
2 9 (2.13%) Onboarding
3 8 (1.89%) Algorithms
3 8 (1.89%) CUDA
4 5 (1.18%) Cloud Native
5 4 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (0.71%) Life Science
7 2 (0.47%) 3D Graphics
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%) Verilog
8 1 (0.24%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.47%) Linux
1 2 (0.47%) Windows
1 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (94.09%) AI
2 361 (85.34%) User Experience
3 358 (84.63%) Cybersecurity
3 358 (84.63%) Web Development
4 23 (5.44%) Data Science
5 17 (4.02%) Mathematics
6 15 (3.55%) Computer Science
7 14 (3.31%) Software Engineering
8 13 (3.07%) LLM
9 12 (2.84%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (2.60%) Physics
11 10 (2.36%) Coaching
11 10 (2.36%) Computer Vision
12 9 (2.13%) Process Improvement
13 8 (1.89%) Analytics
13 8 (1.89%) Conversational UI
13 8 (1.89%) Kaizen
13 8 (1.89%) Performance Metrics
13 8 (1.89%) Prototyping
13 8 (1.89%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 33 (7.80%) Python
2 7 (1.65%) R
3 6 (1.42%) JavaScript
3 6 (1.42%) SQL
4 5 (1.18%) Java
5 3 (0.71%) C++
6 2 (0.47%) C
6 2 (0.47%) PHP
7 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.24%) Fortran
7 1 (0.24%) Go
7 1 (0.24%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 383 (90.54%) Degree
2 362 (85.58%) PhD
3 361 (85.34%) Postgraduate
4 360 (85.11%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.65%) Security Cleared
6 6 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
7 5 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.95%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.47%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.24%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.42%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.71%) GDPR
3 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.47%) 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 4 (0.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (0.95%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.47%) Ansible
3 1 (0.24%) Istio
3 1 (0.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (1.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.71%) OpenAI
3 2 (0.47%) Google
4 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.24%) Databricks
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