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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 67 123
Rank change year-on-year +6 +56 -24
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 1,695 2,700 1,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.24% 3.43% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 4.23% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 260 936 714
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £50,464
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -5.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £81,563 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,528 £96,539 £95,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% - -6.67%

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 36,702 63,852 53,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 91.70% 81.13% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 17,877 43,309 28,442
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,890 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +1.82% -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 9 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 9 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 +83 495 £67,500 +3.85% 1,075
North of England +43 463 £64,000 +16.36% 420
Midlands +133 383 £59,625 +3.70% 156
North West -9 292 £67,500 +22.73% 267
East Midlands +138 220 £65,000 +30.00% 76
West Midlands +64 161 £50,500 -15.83% 74
Yorkshire +97 148 £64,000 +34.58% 106
Scotland -46 138 £70,000 - 154
South West +25 133 £60,000 -7.69% 200
East of England +18 72 £65,127 +0.20% 218
North East +48 23 £62,500 +31.58% 48
Wales +38 6 £67,000 -0.74% 38
Northern Ireland +35 3 - - 55
Channel Islands -1 3 £80,000 +33.33% 57
Isle of Man +12 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 51 (3.01%) Apache Spark
2 23 (1.36%) Jupyter
3 13 (0.77%) Apache
4 11 (0.65%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.47%) Camunda
5 8 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.24%) Confluence
6 4 (0.24%) SAS
6 4 (0.24%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.12%) Luigi
8 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.12%) Simulink
4 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.059%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.059%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.059%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.059%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 425 (25.07%) AWS
2 418 (24.66%) Azure
3 324 (19.12%) GCP
4 96 (5.66%) Serverless
5 84 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (3.48%) Power Platform
7 26 (1.53%) Amazon SageMaker
8 25 (1.47%) Vertex AI
9 24 (1.42%) Amazon S3
9 24 (1.42%) Azure Machine Learning
10 21 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 17 (1.00%) GitHub
12 14 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (0.77%) Snowflake
14 12 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (0.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (3.83%) Broadband
2 8 (0.47%) Internet
3 6 (0.35%) VPN
4 5 (0.29%) Firewall
4 5 (0.29%) SAN
5 4 (0.24%) DHCP
5 4 (0.24%) DNS
5 4 (0.24%) LoRaWAN
5 4 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.18%) WAN
7 2 (0.12%) MQTT
7 2 (0.12%) NAS
7 2 (0.12%) Skype
7 2 (0.12%) VLAN
8 1 (0.059%) PuTTY
8 1 (0.059%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.059%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (5.90%) Big Data
2 59 (3.48%) Data Lake
3 58 (3.42%) Power BI
4 50 (2.95%) NoSQL
5 37 (2.18%) Data Mining
6 29 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (1.53%) SQL Server
8 25 (1.47%) Tableau
9 23 (1.36%) Hadoop
10 19 (1.12%) MySQL
11 17 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (1.00%) Relational Database
12 16 (0.94%) MongoDB
13 12 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (0.71%) Redis
14 10 (0.59%) Apache Hive
14 10 (0.59%) Cloud Spanner
15 8 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (0.47%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 56 (3.30%) Git
2 17 (1.00%) JIRA
3 15 (0.88%) JUnit
4 14 (0.83%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.65%) Selenium
6 10 (0.59%) GitLab
7 9 (0.53%) Maven
8 8 (0.47%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.29%) Gradle
9 5 (0.29%) MLflow
10 4 (0.24%) Locust
11 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
11 3 (0.18%) RStudio
11 3 (0.18%) SoapUI
12 2 (0.12%) JMeter
12 2 (0.12%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.12%) Vite
12 2 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 770 (45.43%) Retail
2 759 (44.78%) Manufacturing
3 383 (22.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 306 (18.05%) Finance
5 284 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
6 272 (16.05%) Law
7 194 (11.45%) Social Skills
8 192 (11.33%) Dutch Language
8 192 (11.33%) Finnish Language
8 192 (11.33%) Norwegian Language
9 106 (6.25%) Marketing
10 95 (5.60%) Banking
11 48 (2.83%) Catalan Language
12 44 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
13 38 (2.24%) Legal
14 22 (1.30%) Public Sector
15 17 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (0.71%) Automotive
17 10 (0.59%) Investment Banking
17 10 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 730 (43.07%) Trainer
2 431 (25.43%) Senior
3 356 (21.00%) Software Engineer
4 192 (11.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 117 (6.90%) Lead
6 99 (5.84%) Data Scientist
7 77 (4.54%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 70 (4.13%) Java Engineer
8 70 (4.13%) Java Software Engineer
9 56 (3.30%) Developer
10 39 (2.30%) Senior Data Scientist
11 34 (2.01%) Python Engineer
12 31 (1.83%) Lead Software Engineer
12 31 (1.83%) Python Software Engineer
13 25 (1.47%) Architect
13 25 (1.47%) Data Analytics Director
14 24 (1.42%) Data Engineer
14 24 (1.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 24 (1.42%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 18 (1.06%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (12.68%) Node.js
2 199 (11.74%) .NET
3 81 (4.78%) React
4 77 (4.54%) HTML
5 68 (4.01%) Spring
6 59 (3.48%) TensorFlow
7 58 (3.42%) PyTorch
8 55 (3.24%) Kafka
9 43 (2.54%) Spring Boot
10 38 (2.24%) scikit-learn
11 37 (2.18%) REST
12 33 (1.95%) RESTful
13 25 (1.47%) CSS
14 24 (1.42%) PySpark
15 21 (1.24%) NumPy
16 18 (1.06%) AngularJS
16 18 (1.06%) Hugging Face
17 17 (1.00%) Pandas
18 14 (0.83%) Keras
18 14 (0.83%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 730 (43.07%) Robotics
2 246 (14.51%) Self-Motivation
3 218 (12.86%) Cyberattack
4 197 (11.62%) Algorithms
5 172 (10.15%) Linux Command Line
6 49 (2.89%) Cloud Native
7 43 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 30 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 18 (1.06%) FMCG
10 17 (1.00%) IoT
10 17 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.00%) Management Information System
11 15 (0.88%) Mobile App
12 12 (0.71%) Reference Data
13 10 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (0.41%) Credit Risk
15 7 (0.41%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.41%) Onboarding
15 7 (0.41%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 206 (12.15%) Linux
2 19 (1.12%) Windows
3 13 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.41%) 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%) VMS
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,280 (75.52%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1,048 (61.83%) Problem-Solving
3 822 (48.50%) LLM
4 804 (47.43%) Generative AI
5 720 (42.48%) Red Team
6 596 (35.16%) Data Privacy
7 536 (31.62%) Agile
8 422 (24.90%) Software Engineering
9 371 (21.89%) Data Science
10 315 (18.58%) Mentoring
11 278 (16.40%) Data Engineering
12 258 (15.22%) Analytics
13 257 (15.16%) CI/CD
14 223 (13.16%) Microservices
15 212 (12.51%) User Experience
16 199 (11.74%) Scrum
17 193 (11.39%) Cloud Security
18 191 (11.27%) Visualisation
19 185 (10.91%) Computer Science
19 185 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 560 (33.04%) Python
2 384 (22.65%) Java
3 309 (18.23%) JavaScript
4 254 (14.99%) C++
5 224 (13.22%) SQL
6 223 (13.16%) Rust
7 180 (10.62%) Go
8 154 (9.09%) TypeScript
9 99 (5.84%) C#
10 89 (5.25%) R
11 59 (3.48%) PHP
12 55 (3.24%) MATLAB
13 51 (3.01%) C
14 48 (2.83%) Dart
14 48 (2.83%) Ruby
15 15 (0.88%) PowerShell
16 14 (0.83%) Bash
16 14 (0.83%) Scala
17 12 (0.71%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,039 (61.30%) Degree
2 256 (15.10%) Security Cleared
3 238 (14.04%) DV Cleared
4 187 (11.03%) AWS Certification
5 174 (10.27%) AWS Certified Developer
6 172 (10.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 108 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 97 (5.72%) PhD
9 52 (3.07%) Master's Degree
10 27 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
11 14 (0.83%) Azure Certification
12 13 (0.77%) SC Cleared
13 5 (0.29%) 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
16 1 (0.059%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (2.01%) Accessibility
2 33 (1.95%) Data Quality
3 25 (1.47%) GDPR
4 13 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
4 13 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 10 (0.59%) QA
6 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.29%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.18%) GMP
8 3 (0.18%) GxP
9 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.12%) SLA
10 1 (0.059%) GLP
10 1 (0.059%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.059%) NIST
10 1 (0.059%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 99 (5.84%) Docker
2 10 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.47%) HDFS
4 7 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.29%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.18%) LXC
8 1 (0.059%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 109 (6.43%) Kubernetes
2 38 (2.24%) Terraform
3 30 (1.77%) Grafana
4 20 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.94%) Ansible
6 4 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.24%) Netcool
6 4 (0.24%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 4 (0.24%) Puppet
6 4 (0.24%) SCOM
6 4 (0.24%) Tivoli
7 3 (0.18%) Kubeflow
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
9 1 (0.059%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.059%) logstash
9 1 (0.059%) Oozie
Vendors
1 782 (46.14%) Databricks
2 781 (46.08%) Google
3 720 (42.48%) Adobe
4 73 (4.31%) Microsoft
5 42 (2.48%) Oracle
6 34 (2.01%) OpenAI
7 25 (1.47%) Splunk
8 19 (1.12%) Dynatrace
9 12 (0.71%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.59%) SAP
10 10 (0.59%) VMware
11 9 (0.53%) IBM
12 6 (0.35%) PayPal
13 5 (0.29%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.29%) Palantir
13 5 (0.29%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.24%) Informatica
14 4 (0.24%) Sybase
15 3 (0.18%) Murex
15 3 (0.18%) Xilinx