Machine Learning Engineer Jobs in the South West

Machine Learning Engineer
England > South West

The median Machine Learning Engineer salary in the South West is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 291 260
Rank change year-on-year +112 -31 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 3 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.085% 0.011% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.011% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - £60,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £66,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -35.48% +29.17%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £93,750
90th Percentile - - £95,000
England median annual salary £97,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 3,321 8,876 6,184
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 96.20% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,034 6,472 3,844
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £79,925
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Machine Learning Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the South West

Machine Learning Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the South West

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Bristol +53 3 £50,000 - 2
Machine Learning Engineer
England

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Machine Learning Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Machine Learning Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 2 (66.67%) Information Retrieval
2 2 (66.67%) PhD
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Statistics
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
2 2 (66.67%) Reinsurance
2 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Hugging Face
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Semantic Search
2 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Hugging Face
1 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (66.67%) Reinsurance
2 1 (33.33%) Biopharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Information Retrieval
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Semantic Search
2 2 (66.67%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) Biotechnology
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
1 2 (66.67%) PhD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks