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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 132 67
Rank change year-on-year +31 -65 +2
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 67 53 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.05% 1.26% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 1.62% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 34 17 32
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,700 -
25th Percentile £41,875 £55,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +30.61% -9.26%
75th Percentile £80,938 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,125 £111,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +3.45%

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 2,750 3,264 1,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 83.97% 77.49% 92.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,641 1,427 1,335
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,353 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 1 November 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 1 November 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 +15 36 £72,500 +3.57% 49
Essex +4 15 £65,000 +11.11% 8
Hertfordshire +9 9 £92,500 -2.63% 7
Bedfordshire +16 4 £50,000 - 8
Suffolk - 3 £40,000 - 4
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 (4.48%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.99%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.42%) AWS
2 9 (13.43%) Azure
3 5 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (5.97%) GCP
4 4 (5.97%) SaaS
4 4 (5.97%) Serverless
5 3 (4.48%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.48%) Azure AKS
5 3 (4.48%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon Alexa
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.99%) GitHub
6 2 (2.99%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (7.46%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.46%) Redis
2 5 (7.46%) Tableau
3 4 (5.97%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.48%) Big Data
4 3 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.48%) Metadata
4 3 (4.48%) Power BI
5 2 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.99%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.99%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.99%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.99%) MySQL
5 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.99%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.49%) Looker
6 1 (1.49%) Parquet
6 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (13.43%) Git
2 2 (2.99%) JIRA
2 2 (2.99%) MLflow
3 1 (1.49%) GitLab
General
1 19 (28.36%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (20.90%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.94%) Retail
4 6 (8.96%) Finance
5 5 (7.46%) Automotive
6 4 (5.97%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.48%) German Language
7 3 (4.48%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.99%) French Language
8 2 (2.99%) Italian Language
8 2 (2.99%) Local Government
8 2 (2.99%) Publishing
9 1 (1.49%) Agriculture
9 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.49%) Law
9 1 (1.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (17.91%) Senior
2 9 (13.43%) Developer
3 8 (11.94%) Research Scientist
4 7 (10.45%) Pricing Manager
4 7 (10.45%) Technical Manager
5 6 (8.96%) Lead
5 6 (8.96%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Technologist
7 3 (4.48%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 3 (4.48%) Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Machine Learning Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Principal Software Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Developer
8 2 (2.99%) .NET Developer
8 2 (2.99%) Analyst
8 2 (2.99%) Graduate
8 2 (2.99%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.40%) PyTorch
1 13 (19.40%) TensorFlow
2 7 (10.45%) Node.js
2 7 (10.45%) scikit-learn
3 5 (7.46%) HTML
3 5 (7.46%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (5.97%) Hugging Face
4 4 (5.97%) Keras
4 4 (5.97%) NumPy
4 4 (5.97%) Pandas
4 4 (5.97%) React
4 4 (5.97%) RESTful
5 3 (4.48%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.48%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (4.48%) CSS3
5 3 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.48%) Google JAX
5 3 (4.48%) JAX
5 3 (4.48%) Kafka
5 3 (4.48%) MassTransit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.46%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.97%) CUDA
4 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.99%) IoT
5 2 (2.99%) Life Science
5 2 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.49%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (1.49%) Acoustics
6 1 (1.49%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.49%) CRISPR
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.49%) FPGA
6 1 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.49%) Stable Diffusion
6 1 (1.49%) Verilog
6 1 (1.49%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) Linux
1 2 (2.99%) Unix
1 2 (2.99%) Windows
1 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (68.66%) AI
2 29 (43.28%) Data Science
3 17 (25.37%) Mathematics
4 16 (23.88%) LLM
4 16 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (20.90%) Software Engineering
6 10 (14.93%) CI/CD
6 10 (14.93%) Computer Science
6 10 (14.93%) Statistical Modelling
7 9 (13.43%) Analytics
7 9 (13.43%) Computer Vision
7 9 (13.43%) Natural Language Processing
7 9 (13.43%) Statistics
8 8 (11.94%) Containerisation
8 8 (11.94%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (10.45%) Microservices
10 6 (8.96%) Agile
10 6 (8.96%) ETL
10 6 (8.96%) People Management
10 6 (8.96%) Price Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (52.24%) Python
2 10 (14.93%) R
2 10 (14.93%) SQL
3 5 (7.46%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.97%) Java
5 3 (4.48%) C#
5 3 (4.48%) C++
5 3 (4.48%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.99%) C
6 2 (2.99%) PHP
6 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.49%) Fortran
7 1 (1.49%) Go
7 1 (1.49%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 20 (29.85%) Degree
2 7 (10.45%) Postgraduate
2 7 (10.45%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.96%) Numerate Degree
3 6 (8.96%) PhD
4 4 (5.97%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.49%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.49%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.96%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.97%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.99%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.49%) CDISC
4 1 (1.49%) DICOM
4 1 (1.49%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.49%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.49%) HL7
4 1 (1.49%) NIST
4 1 (1.49%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (14.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.97%) Terraform
3 2 (2.99%) Ansible
3 2 (2.99%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.49%) Istio
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.48%) Databricks
2 3 (4.48%) Google
2 3 (4.48%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.49%) Alteryx
3 1 (1.49%) Dell
3 1 (1.49%) Facebook
3 1 (1.49%) Foundry
3 1 (1.49%) HubSpot
3 1 (1.49%) NVIDIA
3 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.49%) Talend
3 1 (1.49%) YouTube
3 1 (1.49%) Zoho