Machine Learning Jobs in the South West

Machine Learning (ML)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 97 94
Rank change year-on-year +30 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 129 267 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.57% 2.59% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% 3.22% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 45 150 148
10th Percentile £41,300 £43,750 £43,125
25th Percentile £47,231 £47,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £67,071
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.09% +34.14%
75th Percentile £83,738 £82,844 £81,250
90th Percentile £119,500 £97,500 £87,575
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,326 8,281 6,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 92.16% 80.19% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,913 5,874 3,487
10th Percentile £26,775 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,436 £54,222
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% -5.14% +8.44%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £80,627
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the South West

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Machine Learning in the South West

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the South West over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in the South West

Machine Learning
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 within the South West region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Gloucestershire +53 55 £55,000 -8.33% 30
Bristol 0 38 £71,991 +2.01% 76
Dorset -4 25 - - 11
Devon +27 3 - - 5
Wiltshire +40 2 £60,000 +26.32% 8
Somerset +8 2 £55,000 +15.79% 21
Cornwall - 2 £42,500 - 2
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
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 20 (15.50%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.33%) SAS
3 2 (1.55%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.55%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.78%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (30.23%) AWS
2 21 (16.28%) GCP
3 19 (14.73%) Azure
4 13 (10.08%) Serverless
5 10 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (6.20%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.88%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.10%) Vertex AI
9 3 (2.33%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.33%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (2.33%) CloudFront
9 3 (2.33%) GitHub
9 3 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.55%) BlazeMeter
11 1 (0.78%) Collibra
11 1 (0.78%) Fivetran
11 1 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.65%) Broadband
2 3 (2.33%) Internet
3 1 (0.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (32.56%) Big Data
2 5 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.88%) Power BI
3 4 (3.10%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.10%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.10%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (2.33%) MySQL
4 3 (2.33%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.33%) Tableau
5 2 (1.55%) GIS
5 2 (1.55%) QGIS
6 1 (0.78%) DB2
6 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.78%) Redis
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (10.08%) Git
2 6 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.88%) Selenium
4 4 (3.10%) JIRA
5 3 (2.33%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.33%) ER Studio
5 3 (2.33%) JUnit
5 3 (2.33%) Locust
5 3 (2.33%) Maven
5 3 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (2.33%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.78%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.78%) Vite
General
1 85 (65.89%) Finance
2 72 (55.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (21.71%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (17.83%) Banking
4 23 (17.83%) Law
5 13 (10.08%) Social Skills
6 12 (9.30%) Marketing
7 3 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.55%) Environmental Health
8 2 (1.55%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.55%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Games
9 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (36.43%) Data Scientist
2 36 (27.91%) Senior
3 31 (24.03%) Software Engineer
4 25 (19.38%) Senior Data Scientist
5 16 (12.40%) Lead
6 12 (9.30%) Python Engineer
6 12 (9.30%) Python Software Engineer
7 9 (6.98%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 8 (6.20%) Java Engineer
8 8 (6.20%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (5.43%) Test Automation Engineer
9 7 (5.43%) Test Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Developer
10 5 (3.88%) Lead Software Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Administrator
11 4 (3.10%) Automation Test Lead
11 4 (3.10%) Linux Administrator
11 4 (3.10%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 4 (3.10%) Systems Administrator
11 4 (3.10%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.40%) React
2 13 (10.08%) Node.js
3 8 (6.20%) PyTorch
3 8 (6.20%) Spring
3 8 (6.20%) TensorFlow
4 5 (3.88%) Kafka
4 5 (3.88%) Pandas
5 4 (3.10%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.10%) XGBoost
6 3 (2.33%) CSS
6 3 (2.33%) HTML
6 3 (2.33%) Hugging Face
6 3 (2.33%) Java EE
6 3 (2.33%) JMS
6 3 (2.33%) Laravel
6 3 (2.33%) OpenCV
6 3 (2.33%) Playwright
6 3 (2.33%) PySpark
6 3 (2.33%) pytest
6 3 (2.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 56 (43.41%) Algorithms
2 40 (31.01%) Cyberattack
3 7 (5.43%) Reinsurance
4 6 (4.65%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.88%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.10%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.10%) Robotics
7 3 (2.33%) Educational Technology
7 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.33%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.33%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.55%) FMCG
8 2 (1.55%) IoT
8 2 (1.55%) Lidar
9 1 (0.78%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.78%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.20%) Linux
2 5 (3.88%) Windows
3 4 (3.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (79.07%) Artificial Intelligence
2 71 (55.04%) Data Science
3 70 (54.26%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (44.19%) Software Engineering
5 55 (42.64%) Visualisation
6 46 (35.66%) Computer Science
7 44 (34.11%) Agile
7 44 (34.11%) Data Analysis
8 43 (33.33%) Statistics
9 42 (32.56%) Mathematics
10 40 (31.01%) Analytics
10 40 (31.01%) Exploratory Data Analysis
10 40 (31.01%) OpenUP
11 37 (28.68%) Decision-Making
12 36 (27.91%) CI/CD
13 35 (27.13%) Mentoring
14 29 (22.48%) DevOps
14 29 (22.48%) LLM
15 23 (17.83%) Microservices
16 20 (15.50%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 72 (55.81%) Python
2 40 (31.01%) Java
3 33 (25.58%) JavaScript
4 16 (12.40%) SQL
5 9 (6.98%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.88%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.88%) R
7 4 (3.10%) Bash
8 3 (2.33%) PHP
9 1 (0.78%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.78%) Scala
9 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (47.29%) Degree
2 54 (41.86%) Security Cleared
3 50 (38.76%) DV Cleared
4 23 (17.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (15.50%) Numerate Degree
6 11 (8.53%) PhD
7 6 (4.65%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.33%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.55%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.55%) MBA
9 2 (1.55%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.78%) APMP
10 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.78%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.20%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.10%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.55%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) GMP
System Software
1 38 (29.46%) Docker
2 4 (3.10%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (27.13%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.75%) Terraform
3 4 (3.10%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (10.08%) Databricks
2 7 (5.43%) Oracle
3 4 (3.10%) Google
3 4 (3.10%) VMware
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.33%) Sybase
5 2 (1.55%) Informatica
6 1 (0.78%) Ariba
6 1 (0.78%) Cognos
6 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.78%) SAP
6 1 (0.78%) Sparx