Machine Learning Jobs in the Thames Valley

Machine Learning (ML)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 95 135
Rank change year-on-year +42 +40 -30
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 170 167 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.04% 2.48% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.36% 2.92% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 47 148 67
10th Percentile £49,900 £39,373 £32,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £64,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.84% -1.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £107,500
South East median annual salary £76,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.92% -7.14% +13.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,171 5,717 5,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.93% 85.00% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,238 3,953 3,124
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,283 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.57% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the Thames Valley

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Machine Learning in the Thames Valley

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in the Thames Valley

Machine Learning
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 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
Berkshire +46 92 £90,000 +16.13% 45
Buckinghamshire +57 63 £58,000 -10.77% 113
Oxfordshire -12 15 £70,000 +28.44% 36
Machine Learning
South East

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (2.35%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.18%) Apache
2 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.18%) Simulink
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (17.06%) Azure
2 15 (8.82%) Vertex AI
3 14 (8.24%) AWS
3 14 (8.24%) Azure Data Factory
3 14 (8.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 11 (6.47%) GCP
5 7 (4.12%) Azure Machine Learning
5 7 (4.12%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.76%) Azure AI
7 3 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.76%) SaaS
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 2 (1.18%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.59%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 1 (0.59%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) MQTT
1 2 (1.18%) WAN
2 1 (0.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.12%) Data Mining
2 14 (8.24%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.71%) Data Lake
4 7 (4.12%) Power BI
5 6 (3.53%) Tableau
6 4 (2.35%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.76%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.76%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.76%) Weaviate
8 2 (1.18%) Big Data
8 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.59%) Looker
9 1 (0.59%) MySQL
9 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.59%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 12 (7.06%) Git
2 8 (4.71%) Cypress.io
2 8 (4.71%) Selenium
2 8 (4.71%) SoapUI
3 3 (1.76%) MLflow
4 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.59%) JIRA
General
1 84 (49.41%) Retail
2 63 (37.06%) Law
3 56 (32.94%) Manufacturing
4 45 (26.47%) Social Skills
5 39 (22.94%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (12.35%) Finance
7 18 (10.59%) Dutch Language
7 18 (10.59%) Finnish Language
7 18 (10.59%) Norwegian Language
8 17 (10.00%) Marketing
9 7 (4.12%) Public Sector
10 6 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.18%) Advertising
12 2 (1.18%) Automotive
12 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.59%) Aviation
13 1 (0.59%) Games
13 1 (0.59%) Legal
13 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 54 (31.76%) Trainer
2 50 (29.41%) Lead
3 45 (26.47%) Senior
4 18 (10.59%) Data Analytics Director
5 11 (6.47%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 10 (5.88%) Data Scientist
7 8 (4.71%) Development Team Leader
7 8 (4.71%) Software Development Team Leader
7 8 (4.71%) Software Team Leader
7 8 (4.71%) Team Leader
8 6 (3.53%) Architect
8 6 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (3.53%) Developer
9 4 (2.35%) Data Engineer
10 3 (1.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (1.76%) Data Science Leader
10 3 (1.76%) Software Engineer
10 3 (1.76%) Technical Architect
11 2 (1.18%) Applications Developer
11 2 (1.18%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.65%) .NET
2 12 (7.06%) React
3 8 (4.71%) Jest
4 6 (3.53%) PyTorch
4 6 (3.53%) TensorFlow
5 4 (2.35%) CSS
5 4 (2.35%) HTML
5 4 (2.35%) Kafka
5 4 (2.35%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.18%) gRPC
6 2 (1.18%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.18%) Laravel
6 2 (1.18%) NumPy
6 2 (1.18%) Pandas
7 1 (0.59%) GStreamer
7 1 (0.59%) HTML5
7 1 (0.59%) JSON
7 1 (0.59%) Next.js
7 1 (0.59%) Symfony
7 1 (0.59%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 55 (32.35%) Robotics
2 37 (21.76%) Algorithms
3 16 (9.41%) FMCG
4 6 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (3.53%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.53%) IoT
5 4 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.76%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.59%) Acoustics
8 1 (0.59%) Clustering
8 1 (0.59%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.59%) Lidar
8 1 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.71%) Linux
2 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.59%) Unix
2 1 (0.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (89.41%) Artificial Intelligence
2 99 (58.24%) Problem-Solving
3 83 (48.82%) LLM
4 80 (47.06%) Generative AI
5 77 (45.29%) Analytics
6 60 (35.29%) Data Science
7 54 (31.76%) Red Team
8 50 (29.41%) Agile
9 46 (27.06%) Decision-Making
10 40 (23.53%) DevOps
11 37 (21.76%) Natural Language Processing
11 37 (21.76%) Roadmaps
12 36 (21.18%) Data Privacy
13 34 (20.00%) Data Governance
14 32 (18.82%) MLOps
15 31 (18.24%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 30 (17.65%) Data Engineering
16 30 (17.65%) Visualisation
17 27 (15.88%) Product Management
17 27 (15.88%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 38 (22.35%) Python
2 20 (11.76%) SQL
3 14 (8.24%) C#
4 12 (7.06%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.71%) C++
5 8 (4.71%) TypeScript
6 6 (3.53%) R
7 4 (2.35%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.76%) Java
9 1 (0.59%) C
9 1 (0.59%) Fortran
9 1 (0.59%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.59%) PHP
9 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 105 (61.76%) Degree
2 7 (4.12%) SC Cleared
2 7 (4.12%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.53%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.76%) PhD
5 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.59%) HND
6 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.59%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.59%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.18%) GDPR
3 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.59%) GMP
4 1 (0.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) HDFS
3 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (9.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.76%) Kubeflow
2 3 (1.76%) Terraform
3 1 (0.59%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 72 (42.35%) Google
2 66 (38.82%) Databricks
3 54 (31.76%) Adobe
4 31 (18.24%) Microsoft
5 18 (10.59%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.76%) SAP
7 2 (1.18%) F5
8 1 (0.59%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.59%) Veeam
8 1 (0.59%) VMware