Machine Learning Jobs in England

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 118 112
Rank change year-on-year +63 -6 -59
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 2,272 2,042 2,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.61% 2.27% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 2.71% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 553 1,529 1,306
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,474 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% - -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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
London +8 623 £90,000 +5.88% 1,873
South East +79 488 £65,000 - 219
North of England +138 469 £64,000 +16.36% 275
Midlands +120 382 £60,000 +4.35% 114
North West +99 296 £65,000 +18.18% 184
East Midlands +132 220 £65,000 +30.00% 37
West Midlands +62 160 £47,500 -17.39% 75
Yorkshire +109 150 £64,000 +16.36% 67
South West +37 126 £60,000 -6.81% 108
East of England +25 70 £65,627 +0.96% 178
North East +59 23 £62,500 +31.58% 24
Machine Learning
UK

Machine Learning
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
1 102 (4.49%) Apache Spark
2 31 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.23%) Apache
4 24 (1.06%) Jupyter
5 14 (0.62%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.22%) Confluence
6 5 (0.22%) SAS
7 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.088%) Luigi
8 2 (0.088%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.044%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 39 (1.72%) Chatbot
2 18 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.44%) Maya
4 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (0.22%) Blender
5 5 (0.22%) CINEMA 4D
5 5 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.088%) Simulink
6 2 (0.088%) Sketch
7 1 (0.044%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.044%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.044%) SPSS
7 1 (0.044%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Adaptiv
2 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.088%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.088%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.044%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.044%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.044%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.044%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 728 (32.04%) Azure
2 700 (30.81%) AWS
3 555 (24.43%) GCP
4 265 (11.66%) Serverless
5 241 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
6 92 (4.05%) Power Platform
7 40 (1.76%) Amazon S3
8 38 (1.67%) Azure Machine Learning
9 37 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 36 (1.58%) Amazon SageMaker
10 36 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 33 (1.45%) Snowflake
12 32 (1.41%) SaaS
13 29 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
14 27 (1.19%) GitHub
15 24 (1.06%) dbt
16 21 (0.92%) Azure AI
17 20 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
18 19 (0.84%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 215 (9.46%) Broadband
2 16 (0.70%) HTTP
3 11 (0.48%) Internet
3 11 (0.48%) VPN
4 7 (0.31%) DNS
4 7 (0.31%) Firewall
5 4 (0.18%) DHCP
5 4 (0.18%) LoRaWAN
5 4 (0.18%) SAN
5 4 (0.18%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.18%) WAN
6 2 (0.088%) MQTT
6 2 (0.088%) NAS
6 2 (0.088%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.088%) Skype
6 2 (0.088%) VLAN
7 1 (0.044%) BGP
7 1 (0.044%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.044%) Network Security
7 1 (0.044%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (4.97%) Big Data
2 92 (4.05%) Power BI
3 83 (3.65%) Data Lake
4 75 (3.30%) NoSQL
5 69 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
6 50 (2.20%) Tableau
7 45 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
8 43 (1.89%) Relational Database
9 38 (1.67%) Hadoop
10 30 (1.32%) Data Mining
11 28 (1.23%) Metadata
12 27 (1.19%) MySQL
13 26 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
14 24 (1.06%) SQL Server
15 22 (0.97%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
16 18 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (0.75%) MongoDB
18 15 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
19 12 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 80 (3.52%) Git
2 29 (1.28%) GitLab
3 25 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.92%) JIRA
5 19 (0.84%) SonarQube
6 18 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (0.62%) MLflow
8 13 (0.57%) Selenium
9 11 (0.48%) Vite
10 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.31%) SoapUI
12 5 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.22%) Spinnaker
13 4 (0.18%) Postman
14 3 (0.13%) ER Studio
14 3 (0.13%) Locust
14 3 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
14 3 (0.13%) Rational Rhapsody
14 3 (0.13%) RStudio
15 2 (0.088%) Artifactory
General
1 810 (35.65%) Retail
2 786 (34.60%) Manufacturing
3 477 (20.99%) Analytical Skills
4 381 (16.77%) Finance
5 355 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 338 (14.88%) Social Skills
7 263 (11.58%) Law
8 196 (8.63%) Dutch Language
8 196 (8.63%) Finnish Language
8 196 (8.63%) Norwegian Language
9 121 (5.33%) Banking
10 107 (4.71%) Marketing
11 54 (2.38%) Games
12 50 (2.20%) Legal
13 49 (2.16%) Catalan Language
13 49 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
14 37 (1.63%) Public Sector
15 29 (1.28%) Advertising
16 24 (1.06%) Telecoms
17 22 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 750 (33.01%) Trainer
2 683 (30.06%) Senior
3 333 (14.66%) Software Engineer
4 236 (10.39%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 236 (10.39%) Senior Software Engineer
5 206 (9.07%) Lead
6 158 (6.95%) Data Scientist
7 75 (3.30%) Architect
8 73 (3.21%) Senior Data Scientist
9 72 (3.17%) Data Engineer
10 64 (2.82%) Developer
11 48 (2.11%) Python Engineer
12 42 (1.85%) Analyst
13 39 (1.72%) Lead Software Engineer
14 35 (1.54%) Solutions Architect
15 28 (1.23%) Senior Data Engineer
15 28 (1.23%) Senior Manager
16 27 (1.19%) Data Analytics Director
16 27 (1.19%) DevOps Engineer
17 25 (1.10%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (9.99%) Node.js
2 220 (9.68%) .NET
3 100 (4.40%) PyTorch
4 97 (4.27%) TensorFlow
5 86 (3.79%) HTML
6 83 (3.65%) React
7 74 (3.26%) Kafka
8 62 (2.73%) scikit-learn
9 50 (2.20%) REST
10 47 (2.07%) Pandas
11 44 (1.94%) NumPy
12 39 (1.72%) PySpark
13 36 (1.58%) RESTful
14 34 (1.50%) CSS
15 25 (1.10%) LangChain
15 25 (1.10%) OpenCV
16 24 (1.06%) Hugging Face
16 24 (1.06%) SciPy
17 21 (0.92%) AngularJS
17 21 (0.92%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 804 (35.39%) Robotics
2 405 (17.83%) Self-Motivation
3 237 (10.43%) Algorithms
4 224 (9.86%) Cyberattack
5 181 (7.97%) Linux Command Line
6 71 (3.13%) Cloud Native
7 44 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 39 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 37 (1.63%) Management Information System
10 31 (1.36%) FMCG
11 30 (1.32%) Product Ownership
12 27 (1.19%) Public Cloud
13 25 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
13 25 (1.10%) IoT
13 25 (1.10%) Virtual Team
14 20 (0.88%) Credit Risk
14 20 (0.88%) Data Structures
14 20 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
15 16 (0.70%) Blockchain
15 16 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 220 (9.68%) Linux
2 30 (1.32%) Windows
3 15 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.26%) Android
5 5 (0.22%) Mac OS X
5 5 (0.22%) Unix
6 4 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.13%) Debian
7 3 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.13%) VMS
8 2 (0.088%) CentOS
8 2 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,538 (67.69%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1,297 (57.09%) Problem-Solving
3 917 (40.36%) LLM
4 868 (38.20%) Generative AI
5 735 (32.35%) Red Team
6 732 (32.22%) Agile
7 677 (29.80%) Data Science
8 625 (27.51%) Data Privacy
9 524 (23.06%) Mentoring
10 451 (19.85%) Analytics
11 445 (19.59%) Software Engineering
12 436 (19.19%) CI/CD
13 355 (15.63%) Data Engineering
14 289 (12.72%) Computer Science
15 246 (10.83%) Microservices
15 246 (10.83%) User Experience
16 233 (10.26%) Performance Metrics
17 232 (10.21%) Clean Code
18 231 (10.17%) Personalization
19 230 (10.12%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1,022 (44.98%) Python
2 364 (16.02%) Java
3 337 (14.83%) SQL
4 332 (14.61%) JavaScript
5 316 (13.91%) TypeScript
6 293 (12.90%) C++
7 235 (10.34%) Rust
8 197 (8.67%) Go
9 111 (4.89%) R
10 109 (4.80%) C#
11 73 (3.21%) MATLAB
12 68 (2.99%) C
13 61 (2.68%) PHP
14 49 (2.16%) Dart
14 49 (2.16%) Ruby
15 46 (2.02%) Scala
16 19 (0.84%) Bash
16 19 (0.84%) PowerShell
17 12 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 10 (0.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,365 (60.08%) Degree
2 311 (13.69%) PhD
3 284 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 253 (11.14%) DV Cleared
5 205 (9.02%) AWS Certification
6 188 (8.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 182 (8.01%) AWS Certified Developer
8 153 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 118 (5.19%) Master's Degree
10 34 (1.50%) Azure Certification
11 31 (1.36%) SC Cleared
12 29 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
13 13 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.57%) PMI Certification
14 12 (0.53%) PMP
15 9 (0.40%) CFA
16 5 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.22%) MBA
17 4 (0.18%) Postgraduate
18 3 (0.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (2.90%) Data Quality
2 51 (2.24%) Accessibility
3 48 (2.11%) GDPR
4 27 (1.19%) QA
5 26 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 17 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.31%) NIST
9 6 (0.26%) IFRS
9 6 (0.26%) IFRS 9
10 5 (0.22%) GMP
10 5 (0.22%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.18%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.13%) GxP
13 2 (0.088%) SLA
13 2 (0.088%) WCAG
14 1 (0.044%) COBIT
14 1 (0.044%) MiFID
System Software
1 166 (7.31%) Docker
2 12 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.40%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.26%) Apache Flume
6 4 (0.18%) HDFS
6 4 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.13%) LXC
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 163 (7.17%) Kubernetes
2 94 (4.14%) Terraform
3 36 (1.58%) Ansible
4 21 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.84%) Grafana
6 6 (0.26%) Oozie
7 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.18%) Kibana
8 4 (0.18%) SCOM
9 3 (0.13%) Argo
9 3 (0.13%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.13%) Packer
10 2 (0.088%) logstash
10 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.088%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.088%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.088%) Puppet
10 2 (0.088%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.088%) SCSM
10 2 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 873 (38.42%) Databricks
2 838 (36.88%) Google
3 742 (32.66%) Adobe
4 130 (5.72%) Microsoft
5 54 (2.38%) OpenAI
6 33 (1.45%) SAP
7 19 (0.84%) Oracle
7 19 (0.84%) ServiceNow
8 16 (0.70%) Apple
9 12 (0.53%) Palantir
9 12 (0.53%) VMware
9 12 (0.53%) Workday
10 11 (0.48%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.44%) Informatica
11 10 (0.44%) Splunk
12 9 (0.40%) Murex
13 8 (0.35%) IBM
14 7 (0.31%) Foundry
15 6 (0.26%) PayPal
16 5 (0.22%) FIS