Machine Learning Job Trends in London

Machine Learning (ML)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 72 80
Rank change year-on-year +39 +8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 1,012 549 784
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.93% 4.11% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.95% 4.27% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 341 356 575
10th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £53,751
25th Percentile £68,000 £67,000 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +2.94% +12.50%
75th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £152,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.60% +10.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,563 12,852 20,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 85.29% 96.19% 91.66%
Number of salaries quoted 9,463 7,581 15,888
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £54,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Machine Learning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in London

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Machine Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in London over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in London

Machine Learning
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the London region over the 6 months to 17 March 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
South London +77 139 - - 12
West London +46 138 - - 31
Central London +1 111 £87,500 +16.67% 208
East London +26 75 £40,000 -42.86% 27
North London - 21 - - 8
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 36 (3.56%) Apache Spark
2 25 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.58%) Appian
4 14 (1.38%) Jupyter
5 8 (0.79%) Confluence
5 8 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.59%) CMS
7 5 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.30%) Apache
10 2 (0.20%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.20%) SAS
11 1 (0.099%) Kinematics
11 1 (0.099%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (1.19%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (0.99%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.30%) Shopify
4 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.099%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.099%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.099%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 382 (37.75%) Cloud Computing
2 240 (23.72%) AWS
3 236 (23.32%) Azure
4 153 (15.12%) GCP
5 79 (7.81%) Power Platform
6 53 (5.24%) Azure AI
7 37 (3.66%) Azure Machine Learning
7 37 (3.66%) SaaS
8 31 (3.06%) Amazon SageMaker
9 28 (2.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (2.77%) Vertex AI
10 26 (2.57%) Serverless
11 25 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
12 24 (2.37%) GitHub
13 22 (2.17%) dbt
14 21 (2.08%) PaaS
15 20 (1.98%) Snowflake
16 18 (1.78%) Power Automate
17 17 (1.68%) Anthropic Claude
18 16 (1.58%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 375 (37.06%) Internet
2 49 (4.84%) Broadband
3 8 (0.79%) Network Security
4 7 (0.69%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.40%) Firewall
5 4 (0.40%) WAN
6 2 (0.20%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.099%) 4G
7 1 (0.099%) 5G
7 1 (0.099%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.099%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.099%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.099%) VLAN
7 1 (0.099%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.099%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (6.92%) Power BI
2 43 (4.25%) Data Lake
3 36 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (3.26%) NoSQL
5 29 (2.87%) Tableau
6 24 (2.37%) BigQuery
7 22 (2.17%) Big Data
7 22 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (2.08%) Metadata
9 20 (1.98%) SQL Server
10 19 (1.88%) Pinecone
11 18 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.68%) Hadoop
13 15 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (1.28%) MySQL
15 12 (1.19%) Redis
16 11 (1.09%) Looker
16 11 (1.09%) MongoDB
17 9 (0.89%) Apache Hive
18 6 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (4.25%) MLflow
2 25 (2.47%) Git
3 9 (0.89%) JIRA
4 8 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.40%) Balsamiq
5 4 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.20%) GitLab
7 1 (0.099%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.099%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.099%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.099%) TeamCity
General
1 585 (57.81%) Social Skills
2 426 (42.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 417 (41.21%) Banking
4 191 (18.87%) Finance
5 96 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
6 69 (6.82%) Marketing
7 54 (5.34%) Retail
8 33 (3.26%) Manufacturing
9 29 (2.87%) Telecoms
10 28 (2.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 25 (2.47%) Public Sector
12 24 (2.37%) Law
13 23 (2.27%) Legal
14 20 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.68%) Financial Institution
16 16 (1.58%) Electronics
17 12 (1.19%) Games
17 12 (1.19%) German Language
17 12 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 312 (30.83%) Lecturer
2 158 (15.61%) Senior
3 80 (7.91%) Lead
4 72 (7.11%) Architect
5 56 (5.53%) Data Engineer
6 54 (5.34%) Software Engineer
7 52 (5.14%) Data Scientist
8 42 (4.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 38 (3.75%) Analyst
10 37 (3.66%) Consultant
10 37 (3.66%) Developer
11 25 (2.47%) Data Analyst
11 25 (2.47%) Systems Engineer
12 23 (2.27%) Senior Data Scientist
13 21 (2.08%) Data Architect
14 19 (1.88%) Scala Engineer
14 19 (1.88%) Solutions Architect
15 18 (1.78%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 16 (1.58%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 14 (1.38%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (8.89%) PyTorch
2 73 (7.21%) TensorFlow
3 47 (4.64%) Kafka
4 46 (4.55%) scikit-learn
5 45 (4.45%) gRPC
6 44 (4.35%) LangChain
7 39 (3.85%) REST
8 35 (3.46%) React
9 31 (3.06%) Pandas
10 30 (2.96%) FastAPI
10 30 (2.96%) RESTful
11 29 (2.87%) Hugging Face
12 27 (2.67%) Django
13 25 (2.47%) OAuth
14 19 (1.88%) NumPy
15 18 (1.78%) PySpark
16 17 (1.68%) Flask
17 15 (1.48%) Faiss
17 15 (1.48%) Node.js
17 15 (1.48%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 380 (37.55%) IoT
2 79 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (7.31%) Cloud Native
4 59 (5.83%) Algorithms
5 41 (4.05%) AI Agents
6 40 (3.95%) Video\Live Streaming
7 32 (3.16%) Over-the-Top Content
8 30 (2.96%) Management Information System
9 26 (2.57%) Data Structures
10 25 (2.47%) Life Science
11 23 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (2.08%) Pharmacovigilance
13 19 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.88%) Product Ownership
14 18 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (1.78%) Low-Code
15 13 (1.28%) Onboarding
16 12 (1.19%) FMCG
16 12 (1.19%) Public Cloud
17 10 (0.99%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 32 (3.16%) Linux
2 19 (1.88%) Android
3 11 (1.09%) Ubuntu
3 11 (1.09%) Windows
4 9 (0.89%) Unix
5 8 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.099%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.099%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.099%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 860 (84.98%) AI
2 416 (41.11%) Cybersecurity
3 400 (39.53%) User Experience
4 384 (37.94%) Web Development
5 239 (23.62%) Data Science
6 219 (21.64%) Analytics
7 173 (17.09%) CI/CD
8 131 (12.94%) LLM
9 129 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
10 127 (12.55%) Computer Science
11 124 (12.25%) Generative AI
12 121 (11.96%) Containerisation
13 117 (11.56%) Software Engineering
14 116 (11.46%) Data Modelling
15 111 (10.97%) Data Pipeline
16 105 (10.38%) MLOps
17 103 (10.18%) DevOps
18 101 (9.98%) Data Engineering
19 97 (9.58%) Decision-Making
20 93 (9.19%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 331 (32.71%) Python
2 144 (14.23%) SQL
3 60 (5.93%) Go
4 50 (4.94%) Java
5 40 (3.95%) Scala
6 31 (3.06%) TypeScript
7 28 (2.77%) JavaScript
8 25 (2.47%) C#
8 25 (2.47%) C++
9 22 (2.17%) Bash
10 20 (1.98%) Kotlin
10 20 (1.98%) R
11 19 (1.88%) PHP
12 17 (1.68%) Rust
13 12 (1.19%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.59%) C
15 4 (0.40%) Bicep
15 4 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.20%) Groovy
16 2 (0.20%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 564 (55.73%) Degree
2 457 (45.16%) Master's Degree
3 424 (41.90%) PhD
4 378 (37.35%) Postgraduate
5 74 (7.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (4.84%) Security Cleared
7 35 (3.46%) SC Cleared
8 25 (2.47%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.68%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.48%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.99%) ACCA
11 10 (0.99%) CIMA
11 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 9 (0.89%) CISSP
13 8 (0.79%) CISA
13 8 (0.79%) CRISC
14 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.59%) CISM
14 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 53 (5.24%) GDPR
3 27 (2.67%) EU AI Act
4 22 (2.17%) HIPAA
4 22 (2.17%) Solvency II
5 21 (2.08%) PSD2
6 13 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.28%) QA
7 9 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.59%) SLA
9 4 (0.40%) IFRS
10 3 (0.30%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.30%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.099%) GMP
System Software
1 127 (12.55%) Docker
2 11 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 107 (10.57%) Kubernetes
2 48 (4.74%) Terraform
3 14 (1.38%) Ansible
4 12 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.49%) Grafana
6 3 (0.30%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.099%) Argo
8 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 82 (8.10%) Microsoft
2 63 (6.23%) Databricks
3 53 (5.24%) Google
4 48 (4.74%) OpenAI
5 30 (2.96%) Typelevel
6 22 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 20 (1.98%) Dell
8 18 (1.78%) SAP
9 17 (1.68%) Palantir
10 16 (1.58%) NVIDIA
11 12 (1.19%) Automation Anywhere
11 12 (1.19%) Foundry
11 12 (1.19%) UiPath
12 9 (0.89%) Cisco
12 9 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (0.89%) Fortinet
12 9 (0.89%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.59%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.59%) Oracle
14 5 (0.49%) Ericsson