Machine Learning Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Machine Learning (ML)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 41 48
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +10
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 3 11 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 0.74% 2.43% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 2.83% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile - £59,950 £60,625
25th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £85,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -35.00% -14.53%
75th Percentile £81,875 £67,500 -
90th Percentile £82,250 £70,350 -
East Midlands median annual salary £61,250 £77,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% +40.00% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 317 389 368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 78.47% 86.06% 87.41%
Number of salaries quoted 224 149 301
10th Percentile £27,575 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,188 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £64,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
East Midlands median annual salary £44,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% -4.76%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Machine Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Northampton -12 3 £77,500 +19.23% 12
Machine Learning
East Midlands

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Technology
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Credit Risk Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) R
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Zoho