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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 59 82
Rank change year-on-year +33 +23 -3
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 1,008 720 654
As % of all permanent jobs in London 7.35% 4.55% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.30% 4.83% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 347 430 487
10th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,375 £67,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £120,000 £102,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £122,500 £138,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £77,000 £76,383
% change year-on-year +3.90% +0.81% +9.12%

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 12,140 14,907 16,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.57% 94.29% 92.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,761 8,382 13,294
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,881 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +0.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 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
South London - 134 - - 40
West London +41 124 £70,000 -9.09% 21
Central London +14 119 £85,000 +25.93% 455
East London - 68 £40,000 - 23
North London +22 23 £92,500 +15.63% 3
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 53 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 29 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.59%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.09%) Appian
5 7 (0.69%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.60%) Confluence
7 5 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.50%) CMS
8 3 (0.30%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.20%) Luigi
9 2 (0.20%) SAS
10 1 (0.099%) Apache
10 1 (0.099%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.099%) nginx
10 1 (0.099%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (0.79%) Chatbot
1 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.20%) Sketch
4 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (0.40%) Elite 3E
2 4 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.30%) Shopify
4 2 (0.20%) Adaptiv
5 1 (0.099%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.099%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.099%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.099%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.099%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 380 (37.70%) Cloud Computing
2 257 (25.50%) Azure
3 253 (25.10%) AWS
4 122 (12.10%) GCP
5 72 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 49 (4.86%) Vertex AI
7 47 (4.66%) Azure AI
8 44 (4.37%) SaaS
9 40 (3.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 37 (3.67%) Serverless
11 31 (3.08%) Amazon SageMaker
12 27 (2.68%) Amazon Bedrock
13 26 (2.58%) Azure Machine Learning
13 26 (2.58%) GitHub
14 24 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
15 22 (2.18%) PaaS
16 17 (1.69%) OpenShift
17 16 (1.59%) Snowflake
18 15 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (1.49%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 375 (37.20%) Internet
2 5 (0.50%) Network Security
3 4 (0.40%) Broadband
3 4 (0.40%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.20%) Firewall
5 1 (0.099%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.099%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.95%) Power BI
2 57 (5.65%) NoSQL
3 41 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (3.87%) Data Lake
5 36 (3.57%) Big Data
6 32 (3.17%) Metadata
7 28 (2.78%) Hadoop
8 27 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (2.08%) SQL Server
11 15 (1.49%) Tableau
12 13 (1.29%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.29%) Pinecone
13 12 (1.19%) MySQL
14 8 (0.79%) Apache Hive
14 8 (0.79%) Relational Database
15 7 (0.69%) DynamoDB
15 7 (0.69%) Power Query
15 7 (0.69%) Redis
16 5 (0.50%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 31 (3.08%) MLflow
2 26 (2.58%) Git
3 11 (1.09%) JIRA
4 10 (0.99%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (0.30%) Charles Proxy
5 3 (0.30%) Fiddler
5 3 (0.30%) Maven
5 3 (0.30%) Postman
5 3 (0.30%) Selenium
5 3 (0.30%) TestNG
5 3 (0.30%) WebDriver
5 3 (0.30%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.20%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.20%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.20%) GitLab
6 2 (0.20%) Xcode
7 1 (0.099%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.099%) CMake
7 1 (0.099%) MSBuild
General
1 610 (60.52%) Social Skills
2 421 (41.77%) Banking
3 408 (40.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 218 (21.63%) Finance
5 118 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
6 78 (7.74%) Marketing
7 45 (4.46%) Retail
8 43 (4.27%) Manufacturing
9 41 (4.07%) Law
9 41 (4.07%) Telecoms
10 39 (3.87%) Legal
11 27 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 26 (2.58%) Public Sector
13 24 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (2.28%) Electronics
15 22 (2.18%) Financial Institution
16 19 (1.88%) Games
17 13 (1.29%) German Language
17 13 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
18 9 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 310 (30.75%) Lecturer
2 153 (15.18%) Senior
3 96 (9.52%) Lead
4 65 (6.45%) Architect
4 65 (6.45%) Data Scientist
5 50 (4.96%) Developer
6 48 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 45 (4.46%) Consultant
8 38 (3.77%) Software Engineer
9 32 (3.17%) Senior Consultant
10 31 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 29 (2.88%) Senior Data Scientist
12 26 (2.58%) Gen AI Consultant
13 23 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (2.08%) Analyst
15 20 (1.98%) Data Architect
15 20 (1.98%) Graduate
16 19 (1.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 18 (1.79%) Technical Engineer
18 17 (1.69%) Graduate Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (8.53%) PyTorch
2 70 (6.94%) TensorFlow
3 61 (6.05%) LangChain
4 51 (5.06%) Kafka
5 46 (4.56%) scikit-learn
6 42 (4.17%) REST
7 41 (4.07%) Pandas
7 41 (4.07%) React
8 31 (3.08%) FastAPI
9 27 (2.68%) Hugging Face
10 26 (2.58%) RESTful
11 25 (2.48%) Django
11 25 (2.48%) Node.js
12 23 (2.28%) NumPy
13 18 (1.79%) PySpark
14 17 (1.69%) OAuth
15 16 (1.59%) Flask
16 14 (1.39%) gRPC
16 14 (1.39%) Vue
17 13 (1.29%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 378 (37.50%) IoT
2 69 (6.85%) Algorithms
3 56 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 55 (5.46%) Distributed Systems
5 41 (4.07%) AI Agents
5 41 (4.07%) Management Information System
6 40 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (3.67%) Product Ownership
8 26 (2.58%) Data Structures
9 25 (2.48%) Low-Code
10 24 (2.38%) Life Science
11 21 (2.08%) Pharmacovigilance
12 20 (1.98%) Onboarding
13 19 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (1.69%) FMCG
15 16 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
16 15 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
17 11 (1.09%) Data Centre
18 9 (0.89%) e-Learning
18 9 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.28%) Android
1 23 (2.28%) Linux
2 15 (1.49%) Apple iOS
3 11 (1.09%) Unix
3 11 (1.09%) Windows
4 6 (0.60%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.099%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.099%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 860 (85.32%) AI
2 419 (41.57%) Cybersecurity
3 409 (40.58%) User Experience
4 384 (38.10%) Web Development
5 223 (22.12%) Analytics
6 220 (21.83%) Data Science
7 170 (16.87%) Computer Science
8 150 (14.88%) CI/CD
9 141 (13.99%) LLM
10 139 (13.79%) DevOps
11 130 (12.90%) Agile
12 129 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
13 127 (12.60%) MLOps
14 118 (11.71%) Generative AI
15 109 (10.81%) Data Pipeline
16 107 (10.62%) Decision-Making
17 101 (10.02%) Data Engineering
18 98 (9.72%) Data Governance
19 97 (9.62%) Data Modelling
20 96 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 309 (30.65%) Python
2 154 (15.28%) SQL
3 60 (5.95%) Java
4 36 (3.57%) TypeScript
5 35 (3.47%) JavaScript
6 32 (3.17%) Bash
7 28 (2.78%) Scala
8 27 (2.68%) R
9 25 (2.48%) Go
10 24 (2.38%) C++
11 23 (2.28%) Kotlin
12 21 (2.08%) C#
13 20 (1.98%) PHP
14 14 (1.39%) Rust
15 9 (0.89%) Bicep
16 8 (0.79%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.50%) MATLAB
19 4 (0.40%) C
20 3 (0.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 628 (62.30%) Degree
2 491 (48.71%) Master's Degree
3 435 (43.15%) PhD
4 378 (37.50%) Postgraduate
5 106 (10.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (3.67%) Security Cleared
7 30 (2.98%) SC Cleared
8 20 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
10 10 (0.99%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.89%) MCP
12 8 (0.79%) CISM
12 8 (0.79%) CISSP
13 7 (0.69%) CISA
13 7 (0.69%) CRISC
14 6 (0.60%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.60%) PMP
15 5 (0.50%) PMI Certification
16 4 (0.40%) ACCA
16 4 (0.40%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (7.64%) Data Quality
2 50 (4.96%) GDPR
3 26 (2.58%) EU AI Act
3 26 (2.58%) QA
4 22 (2.18%) Solvency II
5 21 (2.08%) HIPAA
5 21 (2.08%) PSD2
6 18 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.09%) SLA
8 9 (0.89%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.30%) IFRS
12 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.20%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.20%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.099%) IFRS 17
13 1 (0.099%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 94 (9.33%) Docker
2 7 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.099%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.099%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 88 (8.73%) Kubernetes
2 42 (4.17%) Terraform
3 15 (1.49%) Ansible
4 11 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.89%) Kubeflow
6 3 (0.30%) Grafana
7 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.20%) Puppet
8 1 (0.099%) Argo
8 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.099%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (7.84%) Databricks
2 76 (7.54%) Google
3 74 (7.34%) Microsoft
4 48 (4.76%) OpenAI
5 35 (3.47%) SAP
6 18 (1.79%) Dell
7 16 (1.59%) NVIDIA
8 14 (1.39%) Palo Alto
9 13 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
9 13 (1.29%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.09%) Palantir
11 9 (0.89%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.69%) Automation Anywhere
12 7 (0.69%) Oracle
12 7 (0.69%) UiPath
13 6 (0.60%) Adobe
13 6 (0.60%) iManage
14 5 (0.50%) Ericsson
14 5 (0.50%) Mavenir
14 5 (0.50%) Nokia