Machine Learning Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Machine Learning (ML)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 50 92
Rank change year-on-year -23 +42 +39
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 111 175 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.98% 5.20% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 5.54% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 45 47 149
10th Percentile £46,000 £49,900 £39,426
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £75,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +18.11% -2.31%
75th Percentile £68,750 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £94,300 £100,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -7.14%

All Process & 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 4,053 3,156 5,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.13% 93.84% 84.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,725 1,245 3,924
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Machine Learning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Machine Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

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 11 May 2026. 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 -24 52 £50,000 -44.44% 15
Oxfordshire +21 34 £57,500 -17.86% 24
Buckinghamshire -38 25 £64,750 +11.64% 7
Machine Learning
South East

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.90%) Camunda
1 1 (0.90%) Jupyter
1 1 (0.90%) Kinematics
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.62%) Cloud Computing
2 21 (18.92%) AWS
2 21 (18.92%) Azure
3 9 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.41%) dbt
4 6 (5.41%) Snowflake
5 5 (4.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.50%) GCP
6 4 (3.60%) Fivetran
7 3 (2.70%) Azure AI
7 3 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.80%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.80%) SaaS
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.90%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 25 (22.52%) Internet
2 2 (1.80%) Network Security
3 1 (0.90%) Broadband
3 1 (0.90%) Modbus
3 1 (0.90%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.31%) Power BI
2 5 (4.50%) Airbyte
2 5 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.60%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.60%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.70%) Metadata
4 3 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.70%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.90%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.90%) QGIS
6 1 (0.90%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 11 (9.91%) Git
2 3 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.70%) MLflow
2 3 (2.70%) Polyspace
2 3 (2.70%) VectorCAST
3 2 (1.80%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.80%) Selenium
4 1 (0.90%) JUnit
4 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (41.44%) Social Skills
2 25 (22.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (20.72%) Banking
4 14 (12.61%) Manufacturing
5 11 (9.91%) Finance
6 10 (9.01%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.70%) Retail
9 2 (1.80%) Automotive
9 2 (1.80%) Marketing
9 2 (1.80%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Games
Job Titles
1 21 (18.92%) Senior
2 20 (18.02%) Data Engineer
3 16 (14.41%) Lead
3 16 (14.41%) Lecturer
4 10 (9.01%) Associate Director
4 10 (9.01%) Software Engineer
5 5 (4.50%) Data Scientist
5 5 (4.50%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (3.60%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (3.60%) Developer
6 4 (3.60%) Python Engineer
7 3 (2.70%) .NET Developer
7 3 (2.70%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (2.70%) C++ Software Engineer
7 3 (2.70%) Python Software Engineer
8 2 (1.80%) Analytics Manager
8 2 (1.80%) Computer Vision Engineer
8 2 (1.80%) Research Engineer
8 2 (1.80%) Senior Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.41%) .NET
2 5 (4.50%) Blazor
2 5 (4.50%) scikit-learn
3 4 (3.60%) TensorFlow
4 3 (2.70%) .NET Core
4 3 (2.70%) ASP.NET
4 3 (2.70%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (2.70%) Keras
4 3 (2.70%) ML.NET
4 3 (2.70%) pytest
4 3 (2.70%) React
5 2 (1.80%) Django
5 2 (1.80%) LangChain
5 2 (1.80%) NumPy
5 2 (1.80%) Pandas
5 2 (1.80%) Playwright
5 2 (1.80%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.80%) RESTful
5 2 (1.80%) Snowpark
5 2 (1.80%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 29 (26.13%) Life Science
2 24 (21.62%) IoT
3 12 (10.81%) Low-Code
4 10 (9.01%) Hackathon
5 8 (7.21%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.60%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.70%) 3D Printing
7 3 (2.70%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (2.70%) Robotics
8 2 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.80%) Social Network
8 2 (1.80%) Tandem
9 1 (0.90%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.90%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (0.90%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (0.90%) Unix
2 1 (0.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (86.49%) AI
2 45 (40.54%) Analytics
3 37 (33.33%) Data Science
4 31 (27.93%) Agile
5 30 (27.03%) Computer Science
6 26 (23.42%) CI/CD
6 26 (23.42%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (22.52%) Use Case
8 23 (20.72%) Hematology
8 23 (20.72%) Immunology
8 23 (20.72%) User Experience
8 23 (20.72%) Web Development
9 22 (19.82%) Deployment Automation
10 21 (18.92%) Software Engineering
11 18 (16.22%) Validation
12 16 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (14.41%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (14.41%) MLOps
13 15 (13.51%) Data Engineering
13 15 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 39 (35.14%) Python
2 14 (12.61%) SQL
3 8 (7.21%) C#
4 6 (5.41%) C++
4 6 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.50%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.70%) Bash
7 2 (1.80%) R
8 1 (0.90%) Go
8 1 (0.90%) Scala
8 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (54.95%) Degree
2 52 (46.85%) Master's Degree
3 37 (33.33%) PhD
4 23 (20.72%) Postgraduate
5 7 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.80%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.80%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.80%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.41%) Accessibility
2 10 (9.01%) GxP
3 9 (8.11%) Data Quality
4 6 (5.41%) QA
5 3 (2.70%) IEC 61508
5 3 (2.70%) ISO 26262
6 2 (1.80%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.90%) GDPR
7 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (4.50%) Terraform
2 4 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.90%) Argo
3 1 (0.90%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 7 (6.31%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.50%) Databricks
3 2 (1.80%) Google
3 2 (1.80%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.90%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (0.90%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.90%) Pega
4 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.90%) UiPath