Machine Learning Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 43 68
Rank change year-on-year -94 +25 +54
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 868 1,626 2,637
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.30% 5.47% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 6.00% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 645 258 941
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,938 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £96,539
UK median annual salary £75,000 £79,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.36% +13.21% -

All Process & 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 46,645 27,091 62,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.61% 91.21% 80.08%
Number of salaries quoted 32,592 13,719 43,802
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,968 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Machine Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Machine Learning

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 15 June 2026.

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 15 June 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
South East -69 229 £63,750 -5.56% 201
North of England -91 225 £65,000 +2.77% 143
South West -46 131 £60,000 -11.11% 94
North West -58 128 £67,500 +3.85% 87
East of England +41 119 £68,750 +5.56% 58
Midlands -119 110 £60,000 -4.00% 53
East Midlands -72 63 £52,500 -19.23% 23
Yorkshire -87 57 £67,500 +5.47% 38
West Midlands -97 46 £60,000 +29.73% 29
North East -31 40 £48,000 -7.69% 18
Scotland -53 36 £65,000 -7.14% 23
Wales -39 14 £54,000 -19.40% 17
Northern Ireland -31 4 £62,500 - 11
Machine Learning
UK

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 51 (5.88%) Jupyter
2 30 (3.46%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.30%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.81%) Apache
6 3 (0.35%) IIS
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.23%) Confluence
7 2 (0.23%) Luigi
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.12%) Camunda
8 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 51 (5.88%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.23%) Fusion 360
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 337 (38.82%) Azure
2 259 (29.84%) AWS
3 118 (13.59%) Azure AI
4 104 (11.98%) GCP
5 91 (10.48%) Power Platform
6 79 (9.10%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (6.45%) GitHub
8 53 (6.11%) Cloud Computing
9 50 (5.76%) Snowflake
10 45 (5.18%) GitHub Copilot
11 43 (4.95%) Azure Machine Learning
12 37 (4.26%) SaaS
13 33 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
14 32 (3.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 32 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
15 27 (3.11%) Amazon S3
16 25 (2.88%) dbt
17 21 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (2.30%) Power Automate
18 20 (2.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.03%) Broadband
2 15 (1.73%) Internet
3 7 (0.81%) VLAN
4 6 (0.69%) MQTT
5 5 (0.58%) BGP
5 5 (0.58%) Firewall
5 5 (0.58%) Network Security
5 5 (0.58%) OSPF
5 5 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.46%) DNS
6 4 (0.46%) IPFIX
6 4 (0.46%) SNMP
6 4 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.23%) VPN
7 2 (0.23%) WireGuard
8 1 (0.12%) AMQP
8 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.12%) LTE
8 1 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (12.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 95 (10.94%) MongoDB
3 78 (8.99%) Power BI
4 51 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 42 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
6 25 (2.88%) Big Data
7 24 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (2.53%) Data Lake
9 21 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (2.42%) Tableau
10 20 (2.30%) Looker
11 19 (2.19%) NoSQL
12 14 (1.61%) Metadata
13 13 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (1.38%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.38%) Redis
15 11 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
16 9 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
17 7 (0.81%) DynamoDB
17 7 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 49 (5.65%) Visual Studio Code
2 38 (4.38%) Git
3 19 (2.19%) MLflow
4 12 (1.38%) GitLab
5 10 (1.15%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.58%) JIRA
7 4 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.46%) Selenium
8 3 (0.35%) Polyspace
8 3 (0.35%) VectorCAST
9 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.23%) Gradle
9 2 (0.23%) JUnit
9 2 (0.23%) Maven
9 2 (0.23%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.12%) JMeter
10 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.12%) Poetry
General
1 180 (20.74%) Finance
2 137 (15.78%) Social Skills
3 107 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (9.45%) Manufacturing
5 71 (8.18%) Retail
6 29 (3.34%) Marketing
7 27 (3.11%) Public Sector
8 26 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 25 (2.88%) Advertising
10 24 (2.76%) Banking
11 19 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (1.50%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.50%) Games
13 10 (1.15%) Automotive
13 10 (1.15%) Law
13 10 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.92%) Legal
15 8 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.46%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 200 (23.04%) Developer
2 140 (16.13%) Senior
3 112 (12.90%) Data Scientist
4 101 (11.64%) Data Engineer
5 100 (11.52%) Lead
6 92 (10.60%) .NET Developer
7 70 (8.06%) Software Engineer
8 57 (6.57%) Architect
9 55 (6.34%) Senior Data Scientist
10 46 (5.30%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 46 (5.30%) Programmer
10 46 (5.30%) Trainee
10 46 (5.30%) Trainee Programmer
11 39 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 35 (4.03%) Python Engineer
13 29 (3.34%) Lead Data Scientist
14 27 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
15 26 (3.00%) Engineering Manager
15 26 (3.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 26 (3.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (15.44%) .NET
2 105 (12.10%) .NET Core
3 90 (10.37%) ASP.NET
3 90 (10.37%) ASP.NET Core
3 90 (10.37%) ML.NET
4 84 (9.68%) CSS
4 84 (9.68%) HTML
5 77 (8.87%) scikit-learn
6 76 (8.76%) PyTorch
6 76 (8.76%) React
7 75 (8.64%) Hugging Face
8 67 (7.72%) TensorFlow
9 64 (7.37%) Pandas
10 63 (7.26%) Blazor
11 62 (7.14%) NumPy
12 61 (7.03%) RESTful
13 52 (5.99%) Matplotlib
14 50 (5.76%) Streamlit
15 33 (3.80%) LangChain
16 30 (3.46%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 92 (10.60%) Algorithms
2 61 (7.03%) Cloud Native
3 41 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 34 (3.92%) Life Science
6 27 (3.11%) AI Agents
7 25 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (2.88%) Video\Live Streaming
8 21 (2.42%) Low-Code
9 16 (1.84%) Robotics
10 13 (1.50%) Digital TV
10 13 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.50%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.38%) BBC
11 12 (1.38%) Over-the-Top Content
11 12 (1.38%) Social Media
12 11 (1.27%) iPhone
12 11 (1.27%) Social Network
13 10 (1.15%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.04%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.84%) Linux
2 14 (1.61%) Android
3 4 (0.46%) Windows
4 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.23%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 702 (80.88%) AI
2 219 (25.23%) Agile
3 216 (24.88%) Data Science
4 203 (23.39%) Analytics
5 196 (22.58%) CI/CD
6 164 (18.89%) LLM
7 156 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
7 156 (17.97%) Roadmaps
8 152 (17.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 150 (17.28%) Software Engineering
10 143 (16.47%) DevOps
11 111 (12.79%) Visualisation
12 108 (12.44%) Mentoring
13 107 (12.33%) Data Engineering
14 94 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 92 (10.60%) Data Governance
16 91 (10.48%) Computer Science
16 91 (10.48%) Data Modelling
16 91 (10.48%) Data Pipeline
17 90 (10.37%) OO
Programming Languages
1 427 (49.19%) Python
2 269 (30.99%) SQL
3 165 (19.01%) C#
4 131 (15.09%) JavaScript
5 49 (5.65%) TypeScript
6 45 (5.18%) Java
7 33 (3.80%) C++
8 26 (3.00%) R
9 23 (2.65%) Go
10 22 (2.53%) PowerShell
10 22 (2.53%) Scala
11 15 (1.73%) Bash
12 10 (1.15%) Julia
13 7 (0.81%) Rust
14 6 (0.69%) PHP
15 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.35%) Bicep
16 3 (0.35%) C
16 3 (0.35%) Ruby
17 2 (0.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 133 (15.32%) Degree
2 55 (6.34%) Security Cleared
3 53 (6.11%) Master's Degree
4 52 (5.99%) AWS Certification
5 49 (5.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 40 (4.61%) PhD
7 34 (3.92%) DBS Check
8 33 (3.80%) SC Cleared
9 32 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (2.42%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.46%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.35%) MBA
13 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.35%) Postgraduate
14 2 (0.23%) CISA
14 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.12%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 24 (2.76%) GDPR
3 21 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.42%) QA
4 7 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (0.81%) GxP
5 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.69%) SLA
6 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.35%) IEC 61508
6 3 (0.35%) ISO 26262
6 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.23%) Def Stans
7 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.23%) IFRS
7 2 (0.23%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.23%) ISO 13485
7 2 (0.23%) NCSC
7 2 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 97 (11.18%) Docker
2 22 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.27%) Firmware
4 9 (1.04%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 98 (11.29%) Kubernetes
2 53 (6.11%) Terraform
3 11 (1.27%) Grafana
4 9 (1.04%) Ansible
5 7 (0.81%) Kubeflow
5 7 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.58%) Nagios
7 4 (0.46%) Puppet
8 3 (0.35%) Podman
9 2 (0.23%) Istio
9 2 (0.23%) linkerd
9 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.23%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.12%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 235 (27.07%) Microsoft
2 83 (9.56%) Databricks
3 53 (6.11%) Google
4 20 (2.30%) Facebook
5 19 (2.19%) Adobe
6 13 (1.50%) OpenAI
7 11 (1.27%) Apple
7 11 (1.27%) Sony
7 11 (1.27%) Yahoo!
8 8 (0.92%) Dell
8 8 (0.92%) SAP
8 8 (0.92%) Typelevel
9 7 (0.81%) Cloudera
9 7 (0.81%) Oracle
10 6 (0.69%) Foundry
11 4 (0.46%) Meraki
12 3 (0.35%) Confluent
12 3 (0.35%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.35%) NVIDIA
12 3 (0.35%) Rockwell