Machine Learning Job Trends in the Midlands

Machine Learning (ML)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 116 155
Rank change year-on-year +103 +39 -65
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 1,116 112 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 11.20% 2.15% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.50% 2.33% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 60 71 132
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £77,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £84,375
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.60% +10.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,696 4,812 8,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 77.22% 92.27% 84.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,390 2,557 6,541
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -7.62%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,050 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
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 the Midlands

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Machine Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in the Midlands

Machine Learning
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
West Midlands +108 969 £63,500 +41.11% 48
East Midlands +36 158 £62,500 -12.28% 57
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (0.81%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.090%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.090%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.090%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.090%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.090%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 1,054 (94.44%) Cloud Computing
2 26 (2.33%) Azure
3 21 (1.88%) AWS
4 7 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (0.54%) Power Platform
6 5 (0.45%) GCP
7 4 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.27%) SaaS
9 2 (0.18%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.18%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.18%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.18%) ChatGPT
9 2 (0.18%) GitHub
9 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.18%) Serverless
9 2 (0.18%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.090%) Azure AI
10 1 (0.090%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.090%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 1,045 (93.64%) Internet
2 2 (0.18%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (0.72%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.72%) Tableau
3 7 (0.63%) Data Mining
4 6 (0.54%) Power BI
5 5 (0.45%) Delta Lake
6 4 (0.36%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.36%) Metadata
7 2 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.090%) Big Data
8 1 (0.090%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.090%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.090%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.090%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.090%) Power Query
8 1 (0.090%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.090%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 9 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (0.18%) Cypress.io
2 2 (0.18%) MLflow
2 2 (0.18%) Selenium
3 1 (0.090%) Appium
3 1 (0.090%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.090%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.090%) Gatling
3 1 (0.090%) GitLab
3 1 (0.090%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.090%) JMeter
3 1 (0.090%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.090%) Postman
3 1 (0.090%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.090%) SonarQube
General
1 1,062 (95.16%) Social Skills
2 1,047 (93.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,045 (93.64%) Banking
4 23 (2.06%) Finance
5 16 (1.43%) Manufacturing
6 13 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (0.81%) Retail
8 5 (0.45%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.27%) Legal
9 3 (0.27%) Social Housing
10 2 (0.18%) Advertising
10 2 (0.18%) Law
11 1 (0.090%) Back Office
11 1 (0.090%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 783 (70.16%) Lecturer
2 10 (0.90%) Trainee
3 9 (0.81%) Data Engineer
3 9 (0.81%) Head of Engineering
4 8 (0.72%) Data Scientist
5 7 (0.63%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
5 7 (0.63%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (0.63%) Programmer
5 7 (0.63%) Trainee Programmer
6 6 (0.54%) Azure Data Engineer
6 6 (0.54%) Developer
6 6 (0.54%) Lead
7 5 (0.45%) Senior
8 4 (0.36%) Head of Data Science
9 3 (0.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (0.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 3 (0.27%) Software Engineer
10 2 (0.18%) Architect
10 2 (0.18%) Data Architect
10 2 (0.18%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.90%) scikit-learn
2 9 (0.81%) Hugging Face
2 9 (0.81%) Matplotlib
2 9 (0.81%) NumPy
2 9 (0.81%) Pandas
2 9 (0.81%) Streamlit
3 7 (0.63%) PySpark
3 7 (0.63%) PyTorch
3 7 (0.63%) TensorFlow
4 4 (0.36%) .NET
4 4 (0.36%) React
5 3 (0.27%) HTML
5 3 (0.27%) JSON
6 2 (0.18%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.18%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.18%) OpenCV
6 2 (0.18%) Playwright
6 2 (0.18%) Spring
6 2 (0.18%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1,046 (93.73%) IoT
2 13 (1.16%) Algorithms
3 3 (0.27%) Cloud Native
3 3 (0.27%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (0.27%) Product Ownership
4 2 (0.18%) Credit Risk
4 2 (0.18%) CUDA
4 2 (0.18%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (0.18%) Lidar
4 2 (0.18%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 2 (0.18%) Robotics
4 2 (0.18%) SCADA
4 2 (0.18%) Self-Driving Car
4 2 (0.18%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.090%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (0.090%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.090%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.090%) FMCG
5 1 (0.090%) Linked Data
5 1 (0.090%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.18%) Robot Operating System
1 2 (0.18%) Windows
2 1 (0.090%) Kali Linux
2 1 (0.090%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,100 (98.57%) AI
2 1,047 (93.82%) Cybersecurity
3 1,046 (93.73%) User Experience
4 1,045 (93.64%) Web Development
5 25 (2.24%) Data Science
6 19 (1.70%) Analytics
6 19 (1.70%) Decision-Making
7 16 (1.43%) LLM
7 16 (1.43%) Visualisation
8 14 (1.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (1.16%) CI/CD
10 12 (1.08%) Data Governance
10 12 (1.08%) Prompt Engineering
10 12 (1.08%) Workflow
11 11 (0.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (0.99%) Conversational UI
11 11 (0.99%) Data Engineering
11 11 (0.99%) DevOps
11 11 (0.99%) E-Commerce
11 11 (0.99%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 50 (4.48%) Python
2 28 (2.51%) SQL
3 11 (0.99%) JavaScript
4 5 (0.45%) C#
4 5 (0.45%) Java
5 4 (0.36%) R
5 4 (0.36%) T-SQL
6 3 (0.27%) C++
6 3 (0.27%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.18%) Bicep
7 2 (0.18%) Scala
8 1 (0.090%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.090%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1,055 (94.53%) Degree
2 1,048 (93.91%) Master's Degree
3 1,047 (93.82%) PhD
4 1,045 (93.64%) Postgraduate
5 9 (0.81%) AWS Certification
5 9 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.18%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.18%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.18%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.090%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (0.81%) Data Quality
2 8 (0.72%) GDPR
3 2 (0.18%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.18%) QA
4 1 (0.090%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (0.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.18%) Grafana
2 2 (0.18%) Terraform
3 1 (0.090%) Argo
3 1 (0.090%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.090%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 25 (2.24%) Microsoft
2 10 (0.90%) Databricks
3 4 (0.36%) SAP
4 2 (0.18%) Civica
4 2 (0.18%) Google
4 2 (0.18%) Northgate
4 2 (0.18%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.18%) Orchard
4 2 (0.18%) Zoho
5 1 (0.090%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.090%) Facebook
5 1 (0.090%) Foundry
5 1 (0.090%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.090%) Palantir
5 1 (0.090%) Splunk
5 1 (0.090%) Veracode