Machine Learning Engineer Jobs in England

Machine Learning Engineer
UK > England

The median Machine Learning Engineer salary in England is £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 818 854
Rank change year-on-year +255 +36 +106
Permanent jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 105 26 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.031% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.032% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 96 19 84
10th Percentile £76,727 £61,250 £47,875
25th Percentile £77,000 £65,000 £61,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £86,250
90th Percentile - £99,000 £99,625
UK median annual salary £95,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +26.67% - +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 42,728 80,514 84,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.43% 94.48% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,644 60,209 53,453
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,415 £38,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,915 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,822 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Machine Learning Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning Engineer in England

Machine Learning Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Machine Learning Engineer in England

Machine Learning Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning Engineer in England

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
North of England +88 25 £100,000 +33.33% 6
South East - 23 £80,000 - 28
London +125 21 £97,500 +39.29% 130
East of England +61 17 £100,000 +8.11% 7
Midlands +66 14 £88,500 +18.00% 3
North West +26 13 £85,253 - 5
Yorkshire - 10 £100,000 -
East Midlands - 8 £88,500 - 2
West Midlands +53 6 £88,500 +18.00% 1
South West +112 3 £50,000 - 4
North East +49 2 £88,500 +18.00% 1
Machine Learning Engineer
UK

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Machine Learning Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Machine Learning Engineer in the job title.

1 105 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 100 (95.24%) Python
3 98 (93.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 85 (80.95%) LLM
5 84 (80.00%) AWS
6 79 (75.24%) Decision-Making
7 77 (73.33%) Generative AI
8 75 (71.43%) Workflow
9 73 (69.52%) API Integration
9 73 (69.52%) Task Automation
10 20 (19.05%) Data Science
11 15 (14.29%) Azure
12 14 (13.33%) Degree
13 13 (12.38%) Algorithms
13 13 (12.38%) scikit-learn
14 12 (11.43%) TensorFlow
15 11 (10.48%) PyTorch
15 11 (10.48%) MLOps
16 10 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
16 10 (9.52%) Kubernetes
16 10 (9.52%) GCP
16 10 (9.52%) Docker
16 10 (9.52%) Computer Science
17 9 (8.57%) Natural Language Processing
17 9 (8.57%) PhD
17 9 (8.57%) Azure Machine Learning
17 9 (8.57%) Master's Degree
18 8 (7.62%) Containerisation
18 8 (7.62%) Analytics
18 8 (7.62%) Software Engineering

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.86%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 84 (80.00%) AWS
2 15 (14.29%) Azure
3 10 (9.52%) GCP
4 9 (8.57%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (3.81%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (2.86%) GitHub
6 3 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.90%) SaaS
8 1 (0.95%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.95%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.95%) MySQL
2 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.95%) Text Mining
2 1 (0.95%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Git
1 5 (4.76%) MLflow
2 3 (2.86%) GitLab
3 2 (1.90%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.95%) JIRA
General
1 6 (5.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (2.86%) Finance
2 3 (2.86%) Law
2 3 (2.86%) Legal
3 2 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (1.90%) Banking
3 2 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (0.95%) Electronics
4 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (0.95%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.38%) scikit-learn
2 12 (11.43%) TensorFlow
3 11 (10.48%) PyTorch
4 7 (6.67%) Pandas
5 4 (3.81%) Keras
5 4 (3.81%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.90%) Anaconda
6 2 (1.90%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.90%) Flask
6 2 (1.90%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.90%) Metaflow
6 2 (1.90%) NumPy
6 2 (1.90%) OpenCV
6 2 (1.90%) SciPy
6 2 (1.90%) XGBoost
7 1 (0.95%) Kafka
7 1 (0.95%) LangChain
7 1 (0.95%) Laravel
7 1 (0.95%) React
7 1 (0.95%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.38%) Algorithms
2 3 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.90%) AI Agents
3 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.90%) Reinsurance
3 2 (1.90%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.95%) Acoustics
4 1 (0.95%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.95%) IoT
4 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.95%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.81%) Linux
2 3 (2.86%) VMS
2 3 (2.86%) Windows
3 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 98 (93.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 85 (80.95%) LLM
4 79 (75.24%) Decision-Making
5 77 (73.33%) Generative AI
6 75 (71.43%) Workflow
7 73 (69.52%) API Integration
7 73 (69.52%) Task Automation
8 20 (19.05%) Data Science
9 11 (10.48%) MLOps
10 10 (9.52%) Computer Science
10 10 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (8.57%) Natural Language Processing
12 8 (7.62%) Analytics
12 8 (7.62%) Containerisation
12 8 (7.62%) Software Engineering
13 7 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
13 7 (6.67%) Deep Learning
13 7 (6.67%) DevOps
14 6 (5.71%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 100 (95.24%) Python
2 6 (5.71%) SQL
3 3 (2.86%) Bash
3 3 (2.86%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.86%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.90%) R
5 1 (0.95%) C++
5 1 (0.95%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (13.33%) Degree
2 9 (8.57%) Master's Degree
2 9 (8.57%) PhD
3 5 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.95%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (0.95%) GDPR
1 1 (0.95%) QA
System Software
1 10 (9.52%) Docker
2 6 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.81%) Terraform
3 3 (2.86%) Packer
4 2 (1.90%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.95%) Argo
5 1 (0.95%) Grafana
5 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (4.76%) Databricks
2 4 (3.81%) Google
3 2 (1.90%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.95%) NVIDIA