Machine Learning Engineer Job Trends in England

Machine Learning Engineer
UK > England

The median Machine Learning Engineer salary in England is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 559 648
Rank change year-on-year -17 +89 +253
Permanent jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 29 117 36
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.055% 0.24% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.26% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 23 107 29
10th Percentile £45,250 £75,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £77,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £95,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +35.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £119,000 - £98,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £95,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -28.95% +35.71% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 47,747 44,477 47,148
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 92.70% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 30,178 23,217 36,932
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,800
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.81% -6.02%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Machine Learning Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Machine Learning Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Machine Learning Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Machine Learning Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Machine Learning Engineer job vacancies in England

Machine Learning Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer in England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

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 13 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
London +43 18 £70,500 -25.79% 45
South East +4 5 £67,500 -15.63% 42
South West +9 4 £62,500 +40.45% 15
North of England +7 1 £71,000 -29.00% 19
Yorkshire -16 1 £71,000 -29.00% 8
Machine Learning Engineer
UK

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Machine Learning Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Machine Learning Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 28 (96.55%) Python
3 22 (75.86%) MLOps
4 16 (55.17%) CI/CD
5 14 (48.28%) Data Science
6 13 (44.83%) AWS
6 13 (44.83%) Azure
7 12 (41.38%) DevOps
8 11 (37.93%) AI
8 11 (37.93%) PyTorch
9 10 (34.48%) SQL
10 9 (31.03%) Clean Code
10 9 (31.03%) Data Management
11 8 (27.59%) Analytics
11 8 (27.59%) Degree
11 8 (27.59%) GCP
11 8 (27.59%) MLflow
12 7 (24.14%) Data Visualisation
12 7 (24.14%) Decision-Making
12 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
12 7 (24.14%) Statistical Modelling
12 7 (24.14%) TensorFlow
12 7 (24.14%) Visualisation
13 6 (20.69%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (20.69%) Collaborative Working
13 6 (20.69%) Data Munging
13 6 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
13 6 (20.69%) Data Quality
13 6 (20.69%) ETL
13 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) AWS
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) GCP
3 6 (20.69%) Azure Machine Learning
3 6 (20.69%) Power Platform
4 5 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
4 5 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (17.24%) Serverless
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (10.34%) SaaS
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Power BI
2 3 (10.34%) Big Data
2 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) MLflow
2 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Electronics
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.45%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) PyTorch
2 7 (24.14%) TensorFlow
3 3 (10.34%) Hugging Face
3 3 (10.34%) Pandas
4 2 (6.90%) Dask
4 2 (6.90%) Kafka
4 2 (6.90%) NumPy
4 2 (6.90%) scikit-learn
4 2 (6.90%) SciPy
5 1 (3.45%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.45%) gRPC
5 1 (3.45%) LangGraph
5 1 (3.45%) OpenCL
5 1 (3.45%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.34%) Animation
2 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.34%) Life Science
3 1 (3.45%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.45%) CUDA
3 1 (3.45%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Android
3 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 22 (75.86%) MLOps
3 16 (55.17%) CI/CD
4 14 (48.28%) Data Science
5 12 (41.38%) DevOps
6 11 (37.93%) AI
7 9 (31.03%) Clean Code
7 9 (31.03%) Data Management
8 8 (27.59%) Analytics
9 7 (24.14%) Data Visualisation
9 7 (24.14%) Decision-Making
9 7 (24.14%) Statistical Modelling
9 7 (24.14%) Visualisation
10 6 (20.69%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (20.69%) Data Munging
10 6 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (20.69%) ETL
10 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (13.79%) Mathematics
11 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (96.55%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) R
4 4 (13.79%) C++
4 4 (13.79%) MATLAB
5 3 (10.34%) Bash
6 1 (3.45%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) Julia
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Degree
2 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) Master's Degree
3 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
2 3 (10.34%) Kubeflow
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Databricks
2 2 (6.90%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) SAP