Machine Learning Jobs in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 74 130
Rank change year-on-year +15 +56 -34
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 1,708 2,620 1,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.28% 3.20% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 4.00% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 262 943 701
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,429 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,528 £96,539 £95,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,226
% change year-on-year +14.29% -0.32% -6.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,272 65,552 52,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.80% 80.15% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 17,777 44,406 28,140
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 June 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 +79 506 £72,500 +11.54% 1,271
North of England +47 467 £60,000 +9.09% 1,128
Midlands +139 388 £65,000 +8.33% 615
North West +2 294 £62,500 +13.64% 640
East Midlands +134 225 £65,000 +30.00% 257
West Midlands +70 161 £50,500 -15.83% 354
Yorkshire +104 150 £64,000 +28.00% 399
South West +42 133 £67,500 +3.85% 533
Scotland -44 133 £70,000 - 405
East of England +25 74 £66,254 +1.93% 691
North East +50 23 £47,500 - 89
Wales +43 6 £67,000 -0.74% 118
Northern Ireland +34 3 - - 111
Channel Islands -1 3 £80,000 +33.33%
Isle of Man +14 1 - -
Machine Learning
UK

Machine Learning
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 53 (3.10%) Apache Spark
2 23 (1.35%) Jupyter
3 13 (0.76%) Apache
4 11 (0.64%) SharePoint
5 9 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.53%) SAS
6 8 (0.47%) Camunda
6 8 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.23%) Confluence
7 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.059%) Luigi
Applications
1 14 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.12%) Simulink
3 2 (0.12%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.059%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.059%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.059%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 430 (25.18%) Azure
2 426 (24.94%) AWS
3 334 (19.56%) GCP
4 91 (5.33%) Serverless
5 82 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 38 (2.22%) Vertex AI
8 23 (1.35%) Azure Machine Learning
9 22 (1.29%) Amazon S3
9 22 (1.29%) Amazon SageMaker
9 22 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 18 (1.05%) GitHub
12 13 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (0.64%) SaaS
15 10 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 65 (3.81%) Broadband
2 6 (0.35%) Internet
3 5 (0.29%) Firewall
3 5 (0.29%) SAN
3 5 (0.29%) VPN
4 4 (0.23%) DHCP
4 4 (0.23%) DNS
4 4 (0.23%) LoRaWAN
4 4 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.18%) PuTTY
5 3 (0.18%) WAN
6 2 (0.12%) MQTT
6 2 (0.12%) NAS
6 2 (0.12%) Skype
6 2 (0.12%) VLAN
7 1 (0.059%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.059%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (6.21%) Big Data
2 59 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 58 (3.40%) Power BI
4 50 (2.93%) NoSQL
5 44 (2.58%) Data Mining
6 31 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (1.76%) SQL Server
8 25 (1.46%) Hadoop
8 25 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (1.35%) Tableau
10 20 (1.17%) MySQL
11 16 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (0.94%) MongoDB
11 16 (0.94%) Relational Database
12 12 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (0.70%) Apache Hive
12 12 (0.70%) Redis
13 10 (0.59%) Cloud Spanner
14 9 (0.53%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.47%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 58 (3.40%) Git
2 18 (1.05%) JIRA
3 15 (0.88%) Jenkins
3 15 (0.88%) JUnit
4 10 (0.59%) Selenium
5 9 (0.53%) GitLab
5 9 (0.53%) Maven
6 6 (0.35%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.35%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.29%) Gradle
7 5 (0.29%) MLflow
8 4 (0.23%) Locust
9 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
9 3 (0.18%) RStudio
10 2 (0.12%) JMeter
10 2 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.12%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.059%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.059%) webpack
General
1 777 (45.49%) Retail
2 754 (44.15%) Manufacturing
3 379 (22.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 304 (17.80%) Finance
5 293 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
6 285 (16.69%) Law
7 203 (11.89%) Social Skills
8 192 (11.24%) Dutch Language
8 192 (11.24%) Finnish Language
8 192 (11.24%) Norwegian Language
9 104 (6.09%) Marketing
10 94 (5.50%) Banking
11 48 (2.81%) Catalan Language
12 43 (2.52%) Legal
13 42 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.35%) Public Sector
15 15 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.64%) Automotive
16 11 (0.64%) Investment Banking
17 10 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 730 (42.74%) Trainer
2 432 (25.29%) Senior
3 357 (20.90%) Software Engineer
4 191 (11.18%) Senior Software Engineer
5 118 (6.91%) Lead
6 97 (5.68%) Data Scientist
7 80 (4.68%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 70 (4.10%) Java Engineer
8 70 (4.10%) Java Software Engineer
9 56 (3.28%) Developer
10 37 (2.17%) Senior Data Scientist
11 36 (2.11%) Python Engineer
12 33 (1.93%) Python Software Engineer
13 31 (1.81%) Lead Software Engineer
14 25 (1.46%) Data Analytics Director
15 24 (1.41%) Data Engineer
15 24 (1.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 24 (1.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 22 (1.29%) Architect
17 19 (1.11%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (12.35%) Node.js
2 198 (11.59%) .NET
3 80 (4.68%) React
4 77 (4.51%) HTML
5 68 (3.98%) Spring
6 61 (3.57%) TensorFlow
7 58 (3.40%) PyTorch
8 53 (3.10%) Kafka
9 43 (2.52%) Spring Boot
10 39 (2.28%) scikit-learn
11 36 (2.11%) REST
12 35 (2.05%) RESTful
13 25 (1.46%) CSS
13 25 (1.46%) PySpark
14 20 (1.17%) NumPy
14 20 (1.17%) Pandas
15 19 (1.11%) AngularJS
16 18 (1.05%) Hugging Face
17 14 (0.82%) Keras
17 14 (0.82%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 730 (42.74%) Robotics
2 246 (14.40%) Self-Motivation
3 218 (12.76%) Cyberattack
4 205 (12.00%) Algorithms
5 172 (10.07%) Linux Command Line
6 51 (2.99%) Cloud Native
7 43 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 28 (1.64%) Public Cloud
9 18 (1.05%) FMCG
9 18 (1.05%) Management Information System
10 16 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (0.88%) IoT
12 14 (0.82%) Mobile App
13 12 (0.70%) Reference Data
14 9 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
15 8 (0.47%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.47%) Onboarding
16 7 (0.41%) AI Agents
16 7 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 205 (12.00%) Linux
2 20 (1.17%) Windows
3 13 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.53%) Unix
5 6 (0.35%) Android
5 6 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.12%) CentOS
7 2 (0.12%) Debian
7 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.059%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,284 (75.18%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1,056 (61.83%) Problem-Solving
3 826 (48.36%) LLM
4 814 (47.66%) Generative AI
5 720 (42.15%) Red Team
6 602 (35.25%) Data Privacy
7 551 (32.26%) Agile
8 425 (24.88%) Software Engineering
9 384 (22.48%) Data Science
10 318 (18.62%) Mentoring
11 283 (16.57%) Data Engineering
12 269 (15.75%) Analytics
13 259 (15.16%) CI/CD
14 222 (13.00%) Microservices
15 217 (12.70%) User Experience
16 199 (11.65%) Scrum
17 198 (11.59%) Visualisation
18 191 (11.18%) Cloud Security
19 186 (10.89%) Computer Science
20 183 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 563 (32.96%) Python
2 383 (22.42%) Java
3 304 (17.80%) JavaScript
4 255 (14.93%) C++
5 227 (13.29%) SQL
6 222 (13.00%) Rust
7 179 (10.48%) Go
8 151 (8.84%) TypeScript
9 100 (5.85%) C#
10 94 (5.50%) R
11 58 (3.40%) PHP
12 55 (3.22%) MATLAB
13 51 (2.99%) C
14 48 (2.81%) Dart
14 48 (2.81%) Ruby
15 17 (1.00%) Bash
16 15 (0.88%) PowerShell
17 12 (0.70%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.70%) Scala
18 11 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,045 (61.18%) Degree
2 262 (15.34%) Security Cleared
3 239 (13.99%) DV Cleared
4 189 (11.07%) AWS Certification
5 174 (10.19%) AWS Certified Developer
6 172 (10.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 108 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 101 (5.91%) PhD
9 56 (3.28%) Master's Degree
10 28 (1.64%) Numerate Degree
11 18 (1.05%) SC Cleared
12 15 (0.88%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.53%) Postgraduate
14 3 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.18%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.12%) MBA
15 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (2.05%) Data Quality
2 32 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.35%) GDPR
4 13 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 12 (0.70%) QA
6 11 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.29%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.18%) GxP
10 2 (0.12%) GMP
10 2 (0.12%) SLA
11 1 (0.059%) GLP
11 1 (0.059%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.059%) NIST
11 1 (0.059%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 97 (5.68%) Docker
2 10 (0.59%) HDFS
2 10 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.29%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.18%) Apache Flume
6 3 (0.18%) LXC
Systems Management
1 107 (6.26%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.34%) Terraform
3 29 (1.70%) Grafana
4 19 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.94%) Ansible
6 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.23%) Netcool
6 4 (0.23%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 4 (0.23%) SCOM
6 4 (0.23%) Tivoli
7 3 (0.18%) Kibana
7 3 (0.18%) Kubeflow
7 3 (0.18%) logstash
7 3 (0.18%) Oozie
7 3 (0.18%) Puppet
8 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.12%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.12%) SCCM
8 2 (0.12%) SCOrch
8 2 (0.12%) SCSM
Vendors
1 795 (46.55%) Google
2 784 (45.90%) Databricks
3 720 (42.15%) Adobe
4 81 (4.74%) Microsoft
5 42 (2.46%) OpenAI
5 42 (2.46%) Oracle
6 25 (1.46%) Splunk
7 19 (1.11%) Dynatrace
8 12 (0.70%) SAP
8 12 (0.70%) ServiceNow
9 10 (0.59%) VMware
10 9 (0.53%) IBM
11 7 (0.41%) Foundry
12 6 (0.35%) Informatica
12 6 (0.35%) PayPal
13 5 (0.29%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.29%) Palantir
13 5 (0.29%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.23%) Sybase
15 3 (0.18%) MicroStrategy