Machine Learning Job Trends in the South East

Machine Learning (ML)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 34 122
Rank change year-on-year -62 +88 +13
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 259 509 372
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.65% 5.92% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 6.69% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 213 58 319
10th Percentile £38,840 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,750 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -

All Process & 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 11,298 7,614 13,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.87% 88.57% 81.55%
Number of salaries quoted 8,040 3,982 9,658
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,888 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in the South East

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Machine Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the South East over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

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 13 July 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
Thames Valley -80 86 £62,500 -21.88% 48
Surrey +6 50 £80,000 -5.88% 14
Oxfordshire +27 44 £63,750 -1.92% 12
Hampshire -19 40 £60,000 +9.09% 29
East Sussex -24 39 £85,000 +6.25% 9
Kent +5 31 £55,000 +29.41% 9
Berkshire -63 31 £50,000 -45.95% 29
Buckinghamshire -70 11 £69,750 -8.52% 7
West Sussex - 6 £75,000 - 8
Middlesex +28 2 - - 13
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.77%) Apache Qpid
3 2 (0.77%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.39%) Camunda
4 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 133 (51.35%) Azure
2 72 (27.80%) AWS
3 69 (26.64%) Azure AI
4 34 (13.13%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (12.74%) Snowflake
6 29 (11.20%) GCP
6 29 (11.20%) GitHub
7 27 (10.42%) GitHub Copilot
8 25 (9.65%) Azure Machine Learning
9 23 (8.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 20 (7.72%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.86%) dbt
12 9 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.32%) Fivetran
13 6 (2.32%) SaaS
14 5 (1.93%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (1.93%) Datadog
14 5 (1.93%) Serverless
15 4 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.56%) Internet
2 9 (3.47%) Broadband
3 5 (1.93%) MQTT
4 3 (1.16%) Network Security
5 2 (0.77%) ATM
6 1 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (21.62%) MongoDB
2 44 (16.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 38 (14.67%) SQL Server
4 20 (7.72%) Power BI
5 13 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.47%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.70%) Redis
8 6 (2.32%) Airbyte
9 4 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.16%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.16%) Flink
10 3 (1.16%) Looker
10 3 (1.16%) Metadata
10 3 (1.16%) MySQL
10 3 (1.16%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.77%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (10.04%) Git
2 4 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.16%) JIRA
3 3 (1.16%) Polyspace
3 3 (1.16%) VectorCAST
4 2 (0.77%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.77%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.77%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.77%) Eclipse RCP
4 2 (0.77%) GitLab
4 2 (0.77%) JUnit
4 2 (0.77%) Selenium
4 2 (0.77%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.39%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.29%) Finance
3 22 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.34%) Manufacturing
5 12 (4.63%) Marketing
6 11 (4.25%) Advertising
7 8 (3.09%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.09%) Games
8 7 (2.70%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.70%) Retail
9 5 (1.93%) Banking
9 5 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.54%) Automotive
11 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Law
11 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (30.50%) Developer
2 48 (18.53%) Software Engineer
3 46 (17.76%) .NET Developer
4 42 (16.22%) Senior
5 40 (15.44%) Data Engineer
6 25 (9.65%) Python Engineer
7 23 (8.88%) C++ Software Engineer
7 23 (8.88%) Python Software Engineer
8 22 (8.49%) Full-Stack Developer
9 19 (7.34%) Engineering Manager
10 18 (6.95%) Data Manager
10 18 (6.95%) Finance Manager
11 17 (6.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 16 (6.18%) Senior Data Engineer
13 13 (5.02%) C# Software Engineer
13 13 (5.02%) Lead
14 11 (4.25%) Senior Software Engineer
15 9 (3.47%) Data Scientist
16 6 (2.32%) Architect
16 6 (2.32%) Associate Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (24.71%) .NET
2 46 (17.76%) ASP.NET
2 46 (17.76%) ASP.NET Core
2 46 (17.76%) ML.NET
3 41 (15.83%) CSS
3 41 (15.83%) HTML
4 40 (15.44%) .NET Core
5 30 (11.58%) Blazor
6 28 (10.81%) React
7 23 (8.88%) RESTful
8 17 (6.56%) Kafka
9 12 (4.63%) Ajax
9 12 (4.63%) CSS3
9 12 (4.63%) HTML5
9 12 (4.63%) jQuery
9 12 (4.63%) LESS
9 12 (4.63%) Sass
10 11 (4.25%) Vue
11 9 (3.47%) Laravel
12 8 (3.09%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.18%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.79%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.02%) Algorithms
3 13 (5.02%) Life Science
4 12 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.25%) Low-Code
6 7 (2.70%) Robotics
6 7 (2.70%) Video\Live Streaming
7 6 (2.32%) Augmented Reality
7 6 (2.32%) Hackathon
7 6 (2.32%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.93%) Digital TV
9 4 (1.54%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.54%) iPhone
9 4 (1.54%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.54%) Social Network
10 3 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.18%) Linux
2 4 (1.54%) Android
3 3 (1.16%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (87.64%) AI
2 101 (39.00%) Agile
3 87 (33.59%) CI/CD
4 85 (32.82%) Full-Stack Development
5 68 (26.25%) Software Engineering
6 59 (22.78%) DevOps
6 59 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (21.62%) Analytics
8 48 (18.53%) Roadmaps
9 45 (17.37%) Data Engineering
10 44 (16.99%) Data Governance
11 38 (14.67%) Data Science
12 37 (14.29%) Data Modelling
13 27 (10.42%) Data Architecture
13 27 (10.42%) Regulatory Compliance
14 25 (9.65%) Business Intelligence
14 25 (9.65%) Containerisation
14 25 (9.65%) Data Pipeline
15 24 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (9.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 114 (44.02%) Python
2 83 (32.05%) C#
3 80 (30.89%) SQL
4 60 (23.17%) JavaScript
5 31 (11.97%) C++
6 27 (10.42%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.41%) Java
8 8 (3.09%) Rust
9 7 (2.70%) Go
10 6 (2.32%) Bash
11 5 (1.93%) PHP
12 4 (1.54%) C
12 4 (1.54%) Julia
13 2 (0.77%) Ada
13 2 (0.77%) R
13 2 (0.77%) Scala
13 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.39%) Bicep
14 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 51 (19.69%) Degree
2 33 (12.74%) Master's Degree
3 23 (8.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (8.88%) PhD
4 21 (8.11%) Security Cleared
5 18 (6.95%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.32%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.93%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.39%) CCA
10 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.18%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.63%) QA
3 9 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.16%) GDPR
4 3 (1.16%) IEC 61508
4 3 (1.16%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.77%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.77%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.77%) NIST
5 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 55 (21.24%) Docker
2 22 (8.49%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (21.24%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.88%) Terraform
3 13 (5.02%) Ansible
4 2 (0.77%) Puppet
5 1 (0.39%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.39%) Grafana
5 1 (0.39%) Podman
5 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 80 (30.89%) Microsoft
2 33 (12.74%) Databricks
3 16 (6.18%) Google
4 5 (1.93%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.54%) Facebook
5 4 (1.54%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.16%) Confluent
7 2 (0.77%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.77%) NVIDIA
7 2 (0.77%) Typelevel
7 2 (0.77%) Yahoo!
8 1 (0.39%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.39%) Foundry
8 1 (0.39%) New Relic
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle
8 1 (0.39%) Pega
8 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.39%) UiPath