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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 131 132
Rank change year-on-year +19 +1 -7
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 210 344 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.48% 2.06% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 2.43% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 98 283 234
10th Percentile £51,250 £40,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,250 £43,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +14.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £84,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £104,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -3.45%

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 7,705 14,150 14,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.03% 84.80% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,103 9,942 8,229
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £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 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +26 114 £75,000 +15.38% 174
Berkshire +55 88 £90,000 +16.13% 28
Surrey +56 35 £77,000 +46.67% 41
Middlesex +19 33 - - 5
Hampshire +17 24 £57,500 -17.86% 47
Oxfordshire -3 15 £70,000 +28.44% 34
Buckinghamshire +20 11 £60,000 -7.69% 117
East Sussex +28 3 £87,500 +45.83% 132
West Sussex +32 1 £42,500 -42.18% 12
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 13 (6.19%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.86%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.95%) Simulink
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.48%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 47 (22.38%) Azure
2 34 (16.19%) AWS
3 25 (11.90%) Power Platform
4 17 (8.10%) Azure Data Factory
4 17 (8.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 15 (7.14%) Vertex AI
6 13 (6.19%) GCP
7 10 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
8 9 (4.29%) IBM Watson
9 7 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.86%) PaaS
10 6 (2.86%) Serverless
11 5 (2.38%) Azure App Service
11 5 (2.38%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.43%) Internet
2 2 (0.95%) MQTT
2 2 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.90%) Data Mining
1 25 (11.90%) Power BI
2 18 (8.57%) NoSQL
3 15 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 13 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (5.24%) Big Data
6 9 (4.29%) Data Lake
6 9 (4.29%) QlikView
6 9 (4.29%) Tableau
7 5 (2.38%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.90%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.90%) Parquet
8 4 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (1.43%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.43%) Weaviate
10 2 (0.95%) MySQL
11 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.48%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (9.52%) Git
2 13 (6.19%) Cypress.io
3 8 (3.81%) Selenium
3 8 (3.81%) SoapUI
4 5 (2.38%) Vite
4 5 (2.38%) webpack
5 4 (1.90%) JIRA
6 3 (1.43%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.43%) MLflow
7 2 (0.95%) CMake
7 2 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.95%) TestRail
8 1 (0.48%) GitLab
General
1 76 (36.19%) Law
2 48 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 42 (20.00%) Finance
4 41 (19.52%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (19.52%) Retail
5 21 (10.00%) Marketing
6 13 (6.19%) Games
7 12 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.71%) Telecoms
8 10 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (4.29%) Manufacturing
10 7 (3.33%) Automotive
11 4 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.95%) Advertising
12 2 (0.95%) Aviation
12 2 (0.95%) Electronics
12 2 (0.95%) Legal
12 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 59 (28.10%) Lead
2 54 (25.71%) Senior
3 26 (12.38%) Software Engineer
4 23 (10.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 18 (8.57%) Data Analytics Director
6 17 (8.10%) Data Scientist
7 15 (7.14%) Gen AI Engineer
8 14 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 13 (6.19%) Developer
10 10 (4.76%) Gen AI Software Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Analytics Manager
11 9 (4.29%) Architect
11 9 (4.29%) Audit Manager
11 9 (4.29%) Data Analytics Manager
11 9 (4.29%) Data Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Data Manager
11 9 (4.29%) Risk Manager
11 9 (4.29%) Technology Risk Manager
12 8 (3.81%) Software Development Team Leader
12 8 (3.81%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.90%) React
2 21 (10.00%) .NET
3 15 (7.14%) REST
4 13 (6.19%) Jest
5 12 (5.71%) HTML
6 9 (4.29%) CSS
6 9 (4.29%) PyTorch
6 9 (4.29%) TensorFlow
7 8 (3.81%) WPF
8 7 (3.33%) WinForms
9 6 (2.86%) .NET Framework
9 6 (2.86%) Kafka
9 6 (2.86%) Next.js
9 6 (2.86%) Node.js
9 6 (2.86%) scikit-learn
9 6 (2.86%) Vue
10 5 (2.38%) Enzyme
10 5 (2.38%) Svelte
10 5 (2.38%) Vulkan
10 5 (2.38%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 53 (25.24%) Algorithms
2 16 (7.62%) FMCG
3 10 (4.76%) Robotics
4 9 (4.29%) Blockchain
5 7 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.33%) IoT
6 6 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.86%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.38%) 3D Graphics
7 5 (2.38%) CUDA
8 4 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.43%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.48%) Acoustics
11 1 (0.48%) Biopharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Industry 4.0
11 1 (0.48%) Lidar
11 1 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.19%) Linux
2 8 (3.81%) Windows
3 3 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.48%) Android
4 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (84.29%) Artificial Intelligence
2 88 (41.90%) Analytics
3 76 (36.19%) Agile
4 73 (34.76%) Data Science
5 65 (30.95%) Decision-Making
6 60 (28.57%) LLM
7 58 (27.62%) DevOps
7 58 (27.62%) Generative AI
8 57 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (22.38%) Natural Language Processing
9 47 (22.38%) Software Engineering
10 45 (21.43%) MLOps
11 41 (19.52%) Data Governance
12 39 (18.57%) CI/CD
13 36 (17.14%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 35 (16.67%) Roadmaps
15 33 (15.71%) Data Engineering
16 31 (14.76%) Data Analytics
16 31 (14.76%) Strategic Thinking
16 31 (14.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 102 (48.57%) Python
2 47 (22.38%) SQL
3 28 (13.33%) C#
4 23 (10.95%) JavaScript
5 22 (10.48%) R
6 18 (8.57%) C++
7 14 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.71%) Go
9 10 (4.76%) PL/SQL
10 7 (3.33%) Scala
11 6 (2.86%) C
11 6 (2.86%) Clojure
11 6 (2.86%) Elixir
11 6 (2.86%) Fortran
11 6 (2.86%) Java
11 6 (2.86%) MATLAB
11 6 (2.86%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.86%) Rust
12 5 (2.38%) Bash
12 5 (2.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 72 (34.29%) Degree
2 17 (8.10%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.71%) Master's Degree
4 10 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.81%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.33%) PhD
7 3 (1.43%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.48%) CSQE
9 1 (0.48%) HND
9 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.48%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (18.57%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.24%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.43%) GDPR
3 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.95%) GMP
4 2 (0.95%) QA
4 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.48%) GLP
5 1 (0.48%) GxP
5 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 24 (11.43%) Docker
2 4 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.95%) HDFS
5 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.81%) Terraform
3 3 (1.43%) Ansible
3 3 (1.43%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 42 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.43%) Databricks
3 20 (9.52%) Google
4 18 (8.57%) OpenAI
5 9 (4.29%) IBM
6 8 (3.81%) Oracle
7 5 (2.38%) SAP
8 4 (1.90%) Informatica
8 4 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.90%) VMware
9 2 (0.95%) F5
10 1 (0.48%) Foundry
10 1 (0.48%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.48%) Palantir
10 1 (0.48%) Veeam