AI Model Optimisation Job Trends in England

AI Model Optimisation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring AI Model Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 738 648 747
Rank change year-on-year -90 +99 -6
Permanent jobs citing AI Model Optimisation 11 9 2
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.011% 0.021% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.023% 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 2
10th Percentile £75,000 £62,000 £63,875
25th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +20.00% -1.79%
75th Percentile £96,875 £88,750 £74,063
90th Percentile £119,750 £90,000 £74,625
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% +20.00% -1.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

AI Model Optimisation 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71,357 38,940 57,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.40% 88.80% 81.14%
Number of salaries quoted 50,719 22,637 35,999
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%

AI Model Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI Model Optimisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

AI Model Optimisation job vacancy trend in England

AI Model Optimisation
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AI Model Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AI Model Optimisation

AI Model Optimisation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI Model Optimisation in England over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for AI Model Optimisation in England

AI Model Optimisation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI Model Optimisation within the England region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
London -43 8 £90,000 +9.09% 31
South West -73 1 £85,000 - 6
North of England - 1 £90,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £90,000 -
AI Model Optimisation
UK

AI Model Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Vertex AI
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Big Data
2 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Redis
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
1 5 (45.45%) Financial Institution
1 5 (45.45%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analytics Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) Data Analytics Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) Data Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) Data Scientist
1 3 (27.27%) Risk Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Vision Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics Scientist
2 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Data Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) PyTorch
2 1 (9.09%) Hugging Face
2 1 (9.09%) ONNX
2 1 (9.09%) OpenCV
2 1 (9.09%) Qwen
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Algorithms
1 5 (45.45%) Credit Risk
1 5 (45.45%) Data Structures
2 3 (27.27%) AI Agents
2 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) AI
1 11 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 9 (81.82%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (72.73%) Computer Science
4 6 (54.55%) Data Science
5 5 (45.45%) Analytics
5 5 (45.45%) Business Case
5 5 (45.45%) Data Analysis
5 5 (45.45%) Fraud Detection
5 5 (45.45%) LLM
5 5 (45.45%) Market Research
5 5 (45.45%) Predictive Modelling
5 5 (45.45%) Scorecard
5 5 (45.45%) Storytelling
5 5 (45.45%) Visualisation
6 4 (36.36%) Prompt Engineering
6 4 (36.36%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
7 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
7 3 (27.27%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Go
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Degree
2 5 (45.45%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Mistral