AI Job Trends in Saffron Walden

AI
Essex > Saffron Walden

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Saffron Walden requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing AI 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Saffron Walden 6.52% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.50% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £40,000 - -
25th Percentile £41,875 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
75th Percentile £72,500 - -
90th Percentile £83,000 - -
Essex median annual salary £57,500 £88,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -35.03% +86.32% +6.66%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Saffron Walden

AI 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 Saffron Walden.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40 5 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Saffron Walden 86.96% 62.50% 54.17%
Number of salaries quoted 39 5 6
10th Percentile £39,750 £31,600 £26,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £30,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +23.53% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £57,500 £46,563
90th Percentile £85,000 £59,000 £58,750
Essex median annual salary £45,000 £50,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.89% +12.22% -14.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Saffron Walden

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Saffron Walden.

AI job vacancy trend in Saffron Walden

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Salary Trend in Saffron Walden

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Saffron Walden citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Saffron Walden citing AI

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Salary Histogram in Saffron Walden

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Saffron Walden over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in Saffron Walden

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Saffron Walden 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LTE
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) HR Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Procurement Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Research Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Research Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) RF Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Senior RF Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) SciPy
1 1 (33.33%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) FPGA
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Batch Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Control
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Experimental Design
2 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Signal Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CIPD
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft