Machine Learning Jobs in the South East

Machine Learning (ML)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 121 137
Rank change year-on-year +77 +16 -18
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 523 383 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.18% 2.19% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.75% 2.66% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 57 327 205
10th Percentile £49,000 £40,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £101,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% -3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,093 14,383 11,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 90.15% 82.10% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,809 9,867 7,438
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,760 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.38% -12.00% +4.17%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the South East

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the South East.

Salary trend for Machine Learning in the South East

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the South East over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in the South East

Machine Learning
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Thames Valley +74 321 £80,000 +25.98% 107
Berkshire +62 163 £92,500 +37.04% 41
Buckinghamshire +60 149 £76,250 +27.08% 15
East Sussex +58 113 £80,000 -13.51% 5
Surrey +36 41 £85,000 +70.00% 32
Hampshire -8 25 £55,000 -15.38% 37
Middlesex +1 18 - - 13
Oxfordshire -11 9 £65,000 +19.27% 53
Kent +19 5 £42,500 -50.00% 18
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.25%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.53%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.15%) Apache
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.38%) Simulink
2 2 (0.38%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 131 (25.05%) Azure
2 73 (13.96%) AWS
3 68 (13.00%) GCP
4 42 (8.03%) Vertex AI
5 32 (6.12%) Serverless
6 26 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (2.87%) Power Platform
8 13 (2.49%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (2.29%) Azure AI
9 12 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (1.34%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.34%) PaaS
10 7 (1.34%) SaaS
11 6 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (0.96%) Azure App Service
12 5 (0.96%) Azure Functions
12 5 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (0.96%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.78%) Broadband
2 2 (0.38%) Internet
2 2 (0.38%) MQTT
2 2 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.71%) Data Lake
2 40 (7.65%) Data Mining
3 16 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (2.87%) Power BI
5 14 (2.68%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.49%) Big Data
7 11 (2.10%) Hadoop
7 11 (2.10%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.96%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.76%) Parquet
10 3 (0.57%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.57%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.57%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.57%) QlikView
10 3 (0.57%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.38%) Metadata
11 2 (0.38%) MySQL
11 2 (0.38%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.19%) Looker
Development Applications
1 7 (1.34%) Git
2 6 (1.15%) MLflow
3 4 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.76%) JIRA
4 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.38%) JMeter
4 2 (0.38%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.38%) Selenium
4 2 (0.38%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.19%) GitLab
5 1 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 294 (56.21%) Retail
2 245 (46.85%) Manufacturing
3 157 (30.02%) Law
4 135 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
5 119 (22.75%) Social Skills
6 64 (12.24%) Dutch Language
6 64 (12.24%) Finnish Language
6 64 (12.24%) Norwegian Language
7 47 (8.99%) Finance
8 39 (7.46%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (4.97%) Legal
10 22 (4.21%) Marketing
11 16 (3.06%) Catalan Language
12 8 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.96%) Electronics
15 4 (0.76%) Games
16 2 (0.38%) Advertising
16 2 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 240 (45.89%) Trainer
2 143 (27.34%) Senior
3 70 (13.38%) Lead
4 28 (5.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 25 (4.78%) Data Analytics Director
6 20 (3.82%) Software Engineer
7 13 (2.49%) Senior Manager
8 12 (2.29%) Product Delivery Manager
8 12 (2.29%) Product Manager
9 11 (2.10%) Developer
10 10 (1.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (1.34%) Architect
12 6 (1.15%) C++ Software Engineer
12 6 (1.15%) Data Scientist
12 6 (1.15%) Gen AI Engineer
12 6 (1.15%) Gen AI Software Engineer
13 5 (0.96%) Senior Developer
14 4 (0.76%) .NET Developer
14 4 (0.76%) Design Engineer
14 4 (0.76%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.40%) HTML
2 21 (4.02%) PyTorch
2 21 (4.02%) TensorFlow
3 16 (3.06%) .NET
3 16 (3.06%) React
4 13 (2.49%) Hugging Face
4 13 (2.49%) Kafka
4 13 (2.49%) LangChain
5 9 (1.72%) REST
6 7 (1.34%) .NET Framework
7 6 (1.15%) CSS
7 6 (1.15%) scikit-learn
7 6 (1.15%) WPF
8 5 (0.96%) NumPy
8 5 (0.96%) Pandas
9 4 (0.76%) Qt
10 3 (0.57%) JSON
10 3 (0.57%) Laravel
10 3 (0.57%) WinForms
11 2 (0.38%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 243 (46.46%) Robotics
2 60 (11.47%) Algorithms
3 39 (7.46%) Analytical Mindset
4 25 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.06%) FMCG
6 14 (2.68%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.29%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.91%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.72%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.96%) 3D Graphics
12 4 (0.76%) IoT
13 3 (0.57%) Biopharmaceutical
13 3 (0.57%) Blockchain
13 3 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (0.57%) FPGA
14 2 (0.38%) Augmented Reality
14 2 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
14 2 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.38%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.29%) Linux
2 8 (1.53%) Windows
3 3 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (0.57%) Unix
3 3 (0.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.19%) Android
4 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (82.79%) Artificial Intelligence
2 368 (70.36%) Problem-Solving
3 312 (59.66%) Generative AI
4 311 (59.46%) LLM
5 240 (45.89%) Red Team
6 218 (41.68%) Data Privacy
7 177 (33.84%) Data Science
8 163 (31.17%) Agile
9 131 (25.05%) Analytics
10 117 (22.37%) Roadmaps
11 77 (14.72%) DevOps
12 73 (13.96%) Actionable Insight
13 72 (13.77%) MLOps
14 63 (12.05%) Data Engineering
15 59 (11.28%) CI/CD
15 59 (11.28%) Use Case
16 57 (10.90%) Decision-Making
17 55 (10.52%) Strategic Thinking
17 55 (10.52%) Visualisation
18 54 (10.33%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (17.21%) Python
2 51 (9.75%) SQL
3 44 (8.41%) TypeScript
4 34 (6.50%) C#
5 33 (6.31%) C++
6 26 (4.97%) JavaScript
6 26 (4.97%) R
7 22 (4.21%) Java
7 22 (4.21%) MATLAB
8 18 (3.44%) PHP
8 18 (3.44%) Rust
9 17 (3.25%) C
10 16 (3.06%) Dart
10 16 (3.06%) Ruby
11 7 (1.34%) Go
12 5 (0.96%) Bicep
13 4 (0.76%) Bash
13 4 (0.76%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.76%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.38%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 368 (70.36%) Degree
2 43 (8.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (7.27%) Master's Degree
4 34 (6.50%) PhD
5 14 (2.68%) Security Cleared
6 9 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.53%) SC Cleared
8 5 (0.96%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.78%) Accessibility
2 11 (2.10%) GDPR
3 9 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.34%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.57%) GxP
5 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.38%) GMP
6 2 (0.38%) QA
6 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.19%) GLP
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (3.25%) Docker
2 4 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.38%) HDFS
5 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (3.63%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.49%) Grafana
2 13 (2.49%) Prometheus
3 8 (1.53%) Terraform
4 5 (0.96%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.57%) Ansible
6 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 298 (56.98%) Google
2 260 (49.71%) Databricks
3 240 (45.89%) Adobe
4 55 (10.52%) Microsoft
5 43 (8.22%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.49%) Foundry
7 5 (0.96%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.76%) Oracle
8 4 (0.76%) SAP
8 4 (0.76%) VMware
9 3 (0.57%) IBM
9 3 (0.57%) Xilinx
10 1 (0.19%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.19%) Palantir
10 1 (0.19%) Veeam
10 1 (0.19%) Xero