Machine Learning Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Machine Learning Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 740 706
Rank change year-on-year +233 -34 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 79 19 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.027% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.028% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 11 16 42
10th Percentile £45,000 £59,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £67,813 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £92,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +45.10% +4.08%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,750 £81,875
90th Percentile £93,778 £94,375 £95,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £83,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.48% +11.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,898 67,972 52,779
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 94.88% 89.24%
Number of salaries quoted 18,484 47,985 30,138
10th Percentile £26,951 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Machine Learning Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
South East +114 29 £70,000 -24.32% 54
East of England +68 28 - - 13
South West +130 9 £50,000 -45.95% 5
North of England +45 8 £82,626 -1.34% 17
North West +3 7 £82,626 +13.97% 11
Midlands +60 4 - - 10
West Midlands +54 2 - - 4
East Midlands - 2 - - 6
Scotland +121 1 £70,000 +21.74% 6
North East +39 1 - - 3
Machine Learning Engineer
UK

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, Machine Learning Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Machine Learning Engineer in the job title.

1 79 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 77 (97.47%) Python
3 74 (93.67%) Data Science
4 71 (89.87%) Problem-Solving
4 71 (89.87%) Degree
5 70 (88.61%) AWS
5 70 (88.61%) GCP
6 69 (87.34%) Azure
6 69 (87.34%) PhD
7 68 (86.08%) Mentoring
8 67 (84.81%) Analytical Skills
9 66 (83.54%) CI/CD
10 65 (82.28%) Clean Code
10 65 (82.28%) AWS Lambda
10 65 (82.28%) Personalization
10 65 (82.28%) Self-Motivation
10 65 (82.28%) Serverless
10 65 (82.28%) Creative Thinking
10 65 (82.28%) Performance Metrics
10 65 (82.28%) TypeScript
10 65 (82.28%) Broadband
10 65 (82.28%) Agile
11 12 (15.19%) Artificial Intelligence
12 8 (10.13%) Algorithms
13 7 (8.86%) TensorFlow
13 7 (8.86%) scikit-learn
14 6 (7.59%) PyTorch
15 5 (6.33%) Master's Degree
15 5 (6.33%) Deep Learning
15 5 (6.33%) Natural Language Processing

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 70 (88.61%) AWS
1 70 (88.61%) GCP
2 69 (87.34%) Azure
3 65 (82.28%) AWS Lambda
3 65 (82.28%) Serverless
4 2 (2.53%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (82.28%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
1 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.27%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Git
2 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
General
1 67 (84.81%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (3.80%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.53%) Banking
3 2 (2.53%) Finance
4 1 (1.27%) Electronics
4 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) scikit-learn
1 7 (8.86%) TensorFlow
2 6 (7.59%) PyTorch
3 3 (3.80%) Keras
4 2 (2.53%) Hugging Face
5 1 (1.27%) Flask
5 1 (1.27%) Google JAX
5 1 (1.27%) GStreamer
5 1 (1.27%) Laravel
5 1 (1.27%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.27%) NumPy
5 1 (1.27%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.27%) Pandas
5 1 (1.27%) React
5 1 (1.27%) SciPy
5 1 (1.27%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 65 (82.28%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (10.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.53%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.27%) Acoustics
4 1 (1.27%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.27%) IoT
4 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.27%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.27%) Linux
1 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 74 (93.67%) Data Science
3 71 (89.87%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (86.08%) Mentoring
5 66 (83.54%) CI/CD
6 65 (82.28%) Agile
6 65 (82.28%) Clean Code
6 65 (82.28%) Creative Thinking
6 65 (82.28%) Performance Metrics
6 65 (82.28%) Personalization
7 12 (15.19%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (6.33%) Deep Learning
8 5 (6.33%) Natural Language Processing
8 5 (6.33%) Statistics
9 4 (5.06%) Computer Science
9 4 (5.06%) Mathematics
9 4 (5.06%) MLOps
9 4 (5.06%) Software Engineering
10 3 (3.80%) LLM
10 3 (3.80%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 77 (97.47%) Python
2 65 (82.28%) TypeScript
3 2 (2.53%) R
4 1 (1.27%) C++
4 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (89.87%) Degree
2 69 (87.34%) PhD
3 5 (6.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (1.27%) GDPR
1 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (3.80%) Google
2 1 (1.27%) Databricks
2 1 (1.27%) NVIDIA