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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 109 93
Rank change year-on-year +32 -16 0
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 118 244 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.39% 2.51% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 3.08% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 44 148 158
10th Percentile £41,100 £43,750 £43,125
25th Percentile £47,231 £47,014 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,954 £64,387 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.78% -4.61% +35.00%
75th Percentile £87,422 £83,469 £82,188
90th Percentile £120,250 £97,500 £90,000
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 3,242 7,925 6,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.08% 81.59% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,822 5,692 3,503
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
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 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 29 May 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 29 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
Gloucestershire +66 55 £55,000 -8.33% 28
Bristol +4 41 £71,991 +2.01% 60
Dorset -15 12 - - 11
Devon +23 3 - - 5
Somerset -1 2 £55,000 +15.79% 12
Cornwall - 2 £42,500 - 2
Wiltshire +43 1 - - 5
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 (16.95%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.54%) SAS
3 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.69%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.85%) Apache
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (27.12%) AWS
2 21 (17.80%) GCP
3 19 (16.10%) Azure
4 13 (11.02%) Serverless
5 10 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (5.93%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.39%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.39%) Vertex AI
9 3 (2.54%) CloudFront
9 3 (2.54%) GitHub
9 3 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.85%) BlazeMeter
10 1 (0.85%) Collibra
10 1 (0.85%) Fivetran
10 1 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.08%) Broadband
2 4 (3.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (35.59%) Big Data
2 6 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.39%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.39%) MySQL
3 4 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.39%) Power BI
4 3 (2.54%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.54%) Tableau
5 2 (1.69%) GIS
5 2 (1.69%) QGIS
5 2 (1.69%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.85%) Metadata
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (9.32%) Git
2 4 (3.39%) JIRA
3 3 (2.54%) ER Studio
3 3 (2.54%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (2.54%) Rational Rhapsody
4 2 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.69%) Selenium
5 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.85%) JUnit
5 1 (0.85%) Locust
5 1 (0.85%) Maven
General
1 74 (62.71%) Finance
2 59 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.41%) Banking
5 14 (11.86%) Social Skills
6 9 (7.63%) Law
7 5 (4.24%) Marketing
8 4 (3.39%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.69%) Environmental Health
10 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Games
11 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (41.53%) Data Scientist
2 35 (29.66%) Senior
3 25 (21.19%) Senior Data Scientist
4 18 (15.25%) Software Engineer
5 14 (11.86%) Lead
6 9 (7.63%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 5 (4.24%) Architect
7 5 (4.24%) Python Engineer
7 5 (4.24%) Python Software Engineer
7 5 (4.24%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (4.24%) Test Engineer
8 4 (3.39%) Administrator
8 4 (3.39%) Automation Test Lead
8 4 (3.39%) Developer
8 4 (3.39%) Lead Test Engineer
8 4 (3.39%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (3.39%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 4 (3.39%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (3.39%) Voice Engineer
9 3 (2.54%) Finance Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.32%) Node.js
2 10 (8.47%) React
3 8 (6.78%) PyTorch
3 8 (6.78%) TensorFlow
4 5 (4.24%) Pandas
5 4 (3.39%) Laravel
5 4 (3.39%) Symfony
5 4 (3.39%) XGBoost
6 3 (2.54%) Hugging Face
6 3 (2.54%) OpenCV
6 3 (2.54%) PySpark
6 3 (2.54%) Spring
7 2 (1.69%) CSS
7 2 (1.69%) HTML
7 2 (1.69%) Kafka
7 2 (1.69%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.69%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.85%) JMS
8 1 (0.85%) Playwright
8 1 (0.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (44.92%) Algorithms
2 40 (33.90%) Cyberattack
3 7 (5.93%) Reinsurance
4 6 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.24%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.39%) IoT
6 4 (3.39%) Robotics
7 3 (2.54%) Educational Technology
7 3 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.54%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.54%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.69%) FMCG
8 2 (1.69%) Lidar
8 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.85%) Biopharmaceutical
9 1 (0.85%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.85%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.78%) Linux
2 4 (3.39%) Windows
2 4 (3.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (75.42%) Artificial Intelligence
2 73 (61.86%) Data Science
3 66 (55.93%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (43.22%) Visualisation
5 47 (39.83%) Computer Science
6 46 (38.98%) Data Analysis
6 46 (38.98%) Software Engineering
7 44 (37.29%) Mathematics
8 43 (36.44%) Statistics
9 41 (34.75%) Analytics
9 41 (34.75%) Exploratory Data Analysis
10 40 (33.90%) OpenUP
11 37 (31.36%) Agile
12 35 (29.66%) Mentoring
13 33 (27.97%) Decision-Making
14 29 (24.58%) DevOps
14 29 (24.58%) LLM
15 25 (21.19%) CI/CD
16 21 (17.80%) Microservices
17 20 (16.95%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 65 (55.08%) Python
2 30 (25.42%) Java
2 30 (25.42%) JavaScript
3 13 (11.02%) SQL
4 7 (5.93%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.24%) R
6 4 (3.39%) Bash
6 4 (3.39%) PHP
6 4 (3.39%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.85%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (51.69%) Degree
2 53 (44.92%) Security Cleared
3 50 (42.37%) DV Cleared
4 23 (19.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (16.95%) Numerate Degree
6 11 (9.32%) PhD
7 7 (5.93%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.69%) MBA
8 2 (1.69%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.85%) APMP
9 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.78%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.39%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (2.54%) GMP
4 2 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 37 (31.36%) Docker
2 4 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (26.27%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.63%) Terraform
3 4 (3.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (8.47%) Databricks
2 4 (3.39%) Google
2 4 (3.39%) VMware
3 3 (2.54%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.54%) Oracle
4 2 (1.69%) Informatica
5 1 (0.85%) Ariba
5 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.85%) SAP
5 1 (0.85%) Sparx
5 1 (0.85%) Sybase