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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 104 88
Rank change year-on-year +34 -16 +7
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 124 245 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.52% 2.51% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 3.08% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 44 149 156
10th Percentile £41,100 £43,750 £43,125
25th Percentile £47,231 £47,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,954 £65,000 £67,285
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% -3.40% +34.57%
75th Percentile £87,422 £82,500 £81,563
90th Percentile £120,250 £97,500 £89,375
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 3,277 7,953 6,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.10% 81.43% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,844 5,709 3,498
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £39,750
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 £69,938
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 30 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 30 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 +68 55 £55,000 -8.33% 163
Bristol -1 41 £71,991 +2.01% 121
Dorset -10 18 - - 82
Devon +18 3 - - 164
Somerset +1 2 £55,000 +15.79% 104
Cornwall - 2 £42,500 -
Wiltshire +41 1 - - 85
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 (16.13%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.42%) SAS
3 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.61%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.81%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (28.23%) AWS
2 21 (16.94%) GCP
3 19 (15.32%) Azure
4 14 (11.29%) Serverless
5 11 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (6.45%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.23%) Vertex AI
9 3 (2.42%) CloudFront
9 3 (2.42%) GitHub
9 3 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (1.61%) BlazeMeter
11 1 (0.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.81%) Fivetran
11 1 (0.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.84%) Broadband
2 5 (4.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (34.68%) Big Data
2 6 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.03%) MySQL
3 5 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.23%) BigQuery
4 4 (3.23%) Power BI
5 3 (2.42%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.42%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.42%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.42%) Tableau
6 2 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.61%) GIS
6 2 (1.61%) QGIS
7 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.81%) Metadata
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.87%) Git
2 4 (3.23%) JIRA
2 4 (3.23%) Selenium
3 3 (2.42%) ER Studio
3 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.42%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (2.42%) Rational Rhapsody
4 2 (1.61%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.61%) Locust
5 1 (0.81%) JUnit
5 1 (0.81%) Maven
General
1 80 (64.52%) Finance
2 65 (52.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (20.16%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (16.13%) Banking
5 15 (12.10%) Law
6 14 (11.29%) Social Skills
7 8 (6.45%) Marketing
8 4 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.61%) Environmental Health
10 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Games
11 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (39.52%) Data Scientist
2 35 (28.23%) Senior
3 25 (20.16%) Senior Data Scientist
4 24 (19.35%) Software Engineer
5 15 (12.10%) Lead
6 9 (7.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 8 (6.45%) Python Engineer
7 8 (6.45%) Python Software Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) Test Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Architect
9 5 (4.03%) Java Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Java Software Engineer
10 4 (3.23%) Administrator
10 4 (3.23%) Automation Test Lead
10 4 (3.23%) Developer
10 4 (3.23%) Lead Test Engineer
10 4 (3.23%) Linux Administrator
10 4 (3.23%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 4 (3.23%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.68%) Node.js
1 12 (9.68%) React
2 8 (6.45%) PyTorch
2 8 (6.45%) TensorFlow
3 5 (4.03%) Pandas
3 5 (4.03%) Spring
4 4 (3.23%) Kafka
4 4 (3.23%) Laravel
4 4 (3.23%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.23%) Symfony
4 4 (3.23%) XGBoost
5 3 (2.42%) CSS
5 3 (2.42%) HTML
5 3 (2.42%) Hugging Face
5 3 (2.42%) OpenCV
5 3 (2.42%) PySpark
6 2 (1.61%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.61%) pytest
6 2 (1.61%) REST
6 2 (1.61%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 56 (45.16%) Algorithms
2 40 (32.26%) Cyberattack
3 7 (5.65%) Reinsurance
4 6 (4.84%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.03%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.23%) IoT
6 4 (3.23%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.23%) Robotics
7 3 (2.42%) Educational Technology
7 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.42%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.42%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.61%) FMCG
8 2 (1.61%) Lidar
8 2 (1.61%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.81%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.45%) Linux
2 4 (3.23%) Windows
2 4 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (76.61%) Artificial Intelligence
2 73 (58.87%) Data Science
3 67 (54.03%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (43.55%) Visualisation
5 52 (41.94%) Software Engineering
6 47 (37.90%) Computer Science
7 46 (37.10%) Data Analysis
8 44 (35.48%) Mathematics
9 43 (34.68%) Statistics
10 42 (33.87%) Agile
10 42 (33.87%) Analytics
11 41 (33.06%) Exploratory Data Analysis
12 40 (32.26%) OpenUP
13 35 (28.23%) Mentoring
14 34 (27.42%) Decision-Making
15 31 (25.00%) CI/CD
16 29 (23.39%) DevOps
16 29 (23.39%) LLM
17 22 (17.74%) Microservices
18 20 (16.13%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 68 (54.84%) Python
2 35 (28.23%) Java
3 31 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.10%) SQL
5 8 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.03%) R
7 4 (3.23%) Bash
7 4 (3.23%) PHP
7 4 (3.23%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.81%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (49.19%) Degree
2 53 (42.74%) Security Cleared
3 50 (40.32%) DV Cleared
4 23 (18.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (16.13%) Numerate Degree
6 11 (8.87%) PhD
7 7 (5.65%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.61%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.61%) MBA
8 2 (1.61%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.81%) APMP
9 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (2.42%) GMP
4 2 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 39 (31.45%) Docker
2 4 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (28.23%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.06%) Terraform
3 4 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (9.68%) Databricks
2 4 (3.23%) Google
2 4 (3.23%) Oracle
2 4 (3.23%) VMware
3 3 (2.42%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.61%) Informatica
5 1 (0.81%) Ariba
5 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.81%) SAP
5 1 (0.81%) Sparx
5 1 (0.81%) Sybase