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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 57 115
Rank change year-on-year +18 +58 -24
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 174 151 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.34% 4.43% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.39% 4.84% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 24 83 61
10th Percentile £46,500 £51,700 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +15.38% +10.64%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £125,250 £100,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +7.69%

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 3,227 3,123 3,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.49% 91.69% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,748 1,396 2,454
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £39,021
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,000 £76,009 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +22 104 £73,750 -10.61% 168
Buckinghamshire +6 47 £62,500 +4.17% 37
Oxfordshire +13 23 £68,750 -6.78% 45
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 3 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.15%) CMS
3 1 (0.57%) Kinematics
Applications
1 12 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 32 (18.39%) AWS
3 25 (14.37%) Azure
4 20 (11.49%) Power Platform
5 16 (9.20%) GCP
6 6 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.45%) dbt
6 6 (3.45%) Serverless
6 6 (3.45%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.87%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (2.87%) SaaS
8 4 (2.30%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.30%) Fivetran
9 3 (1.72%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.72%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.72%) GitHub
9 3 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.15%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 60 (34.48%) Internet
2 2 (1.15%) 5G
2 2 (1.15%) 802.11
2 2 (1.15%) LAN
2 2 (1.15%) Network Security
2 2 (1.15%) VoIP
2 2 (1.15%) WAN
2 2 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.15%) Wireless
2 2 (1.15%) WLAN
3 1 (0.57%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.34%) Power BI
2 16 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (6.90%) Data Lake
3 12 (6.90%) Metadata
4 4 (2.30%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.72%) MySQL
6 2 (1.15%) Airbyte
6 2 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.15%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.15%) Looker
6 2 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (1.15%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.15%) Tableau
7 1 (0.57%) Big Data
7 1 (0.57%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.57%) QGIS
7 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.60%) Git
2 7 (4.02%) MLflow
3 3 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 91 (52.30%) Social Skills
2 58 (33.33%) Banking
2 58 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 55 (31.61%) Finance
4 33 (18.97%) Marketing
5 30 (17.24%) Pharmaceutical
6 19 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (8.05%) Law
8 10 (5.75%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.72%) Games
10 2 (1.15%) Retail
11 1 (0.57%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 48 (27.59%) Lecturer
2 47 (27.01%) Lead
3 29 (16.67%) Senior
4 15 (8.62%) Analyst
5 13 (7.47%) Data Analyst
6 12 (6.90%) Architect
6 12 (6.90%) Commercial Analyst
6 12 (6.90%) Commercial Data Analyst
6 12 (6.90%) Data Architect
6 12 (6.90%) Procurement Analyst
6 12 (6.90%) Senior Architect
6 12 (6.90%) Senior Data Architect
7 6 (3.45%) Software Engineer
8 5 (2.87%) Associate Director
8 5 (2.87%) Senior Manager
9 4 (2.30%) Analytics Manager
9 4 (2.30%) Data Engineer
9 4 (2.30%) Data Scientist
9 4 (2.30%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 4 (2.30%) Senior Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.75%) FHIR
2 6 (3.45%) scikit-learn
3 5 (2.87%) PyTorch
4 4 (2.30%) .NET
4 4 (2.30%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.72%) Keras
5 3 (1.72%) Node.js
5 3 (1.72%) NumPy
5 3 (1.72%) Pandas
5 3 (1.72%) React
5 3 (1.72%) Sequelize
5 3 (1.72%) TypeORM
6 2 (1.15%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.15%) ADO
6 2 (1.15%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (1.15%) Blazor
6 2 (1.15%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.15%) LangChain
6 2 (1.15%) RESTful
6 2 (1.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 60 (34.48%) IoT
2 55 (31.61%) Life Science
3 12 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (6.90%) FMCG
4 10 (5.75%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.75%) Omics
5 6 (3.45%) Sports Betting
6 5 (2.87%) Hackathon
6 5 (2.87%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.72%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.72%) Animation
8 3 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.15%) BYOD
9 2 (1.15%) CCTV
9 2 (1.15%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.15%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.57%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.72%) Linux
2 1 (0.57%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (94.25%) AI
2 72 (41.38%) Analytics
3 70 (40.23%) Data Science
4 67 (38.51%) Computer Science
5 60 (34.48%) Cybersecurity
6 59 (33.91%) User Experience
7 58 (33.33%) Web Development
8 54 (31.03%) Generative AI
9 49 (28.16%) Hematology
9 49 (28.16%) Immunology
10 47 (27.01%) Roadmaps
11 45 (25.86%) Agile
12 42 (24.14%) Use Case
13 37 (21.26%) Deployment Automation
14 33 (18.97%) Decision-Making
15 31 (17.82%) Digital Twin
16 30 (17.24%) Data Governance
16 30 (17.24%) Disruptive Innovation
16 30 (17.24%) Enterprise Architecture
16 30 (17.24%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (15.52%) Python
2 9 (5.17%) SQL
3 7 (4.02%) TypeScript
4 6 (3.45%) C++
5 5 (2.87%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.72%) C#
7 2 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.15%) Java
8 1 (0.57%) Bash
8 1 (0.57%) Go
8 1 (0.57%) R
8 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 130 (74.71%) Degree
2 100 (57.47%) Master's Degree
3 98 (56.32%) PhD
4 58 (33.33%) Postgraduate
5 2 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.15%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (22.99%) GxP
2 20 (11.49%) Accessibility
3 18 (10.34%) Data Quality
4 10 (5.75%) CDISC
4 10 (5.75%) HL7
5 2 (1.15%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 8 (4.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.87%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.30%) Kubeflow
3 3 (1.72%) Ansible
3 3 (1.72%) Terraform
4 2 (1.15%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (2.87%) Salesforce
2 2 (1.15%) Alteryx
2 2 (1.15%) Concur
2 2 (1.15%) Google
2 2 (1.15%) HubSpot
2 2 (1.15%) OpenAI
2 2 (1.15%) Ruckus Wireless
2 2 (1.15%) SAP
2 2 (1.15%) Talend
2 2 (1.15%) Zoho
3 1 (0.57%) Databricks
3 1 (0.57%) Mapbox
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.57%) NVIDIA