Machine Learning Jobs

Machine Learning (ML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 68 114
Rank change year-on-year +14 +46 -62
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 2,532 3,706 2,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.52% 3.37% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 4.08% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 599 1,661 1,421
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,751
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £130,500 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,882 90,813 88,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.69% 82.65% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 25,914 62,635 53,651
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £33,825
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning.

Salary trend for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Top 19 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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
England +54 2,354 £80,000 +14.29% 3,933
UK excluding London +14 1,696 £65,000 +8.33% 2,179
Work from Home +69 1,394 £77,500 +19.23% 1,932
London +15 692 £90,000 +5.88% 2,340
South East +84 495 £70,000 +7.69% 986
North of England +51 466 £64,000 +16.36% 415
Midlands +133 385 £61,250 +6.52% 166
North West -3 294 £65,000 +18.18% 272
East Midlands +136 222 £65,000 +30.00% 91
West Midlands +61 161 £50,500 -15.83% 71
Yorkshire +105 148 £64,000 +28.00% 107
Scotland -47 136 £70,000 - 141
South West +32 132 £67,500 +4.84% 178
East of England +19 73 £65,127 +0.20% 206
North East +50 24 £57,250 +20.53% 37
Wales +38 6 £67,000 -0.74% 33
Northern Ireland +35 3 - - 53
Channel Islands -1 3 £80,000 +33.33% 42
Isle of Man +12 1 - -

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 113 (4.46%) Apache Spark
2 35 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (1.34%) Apache
4 23 (0.91%) Jupyter
5 18 (0.71%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.36%) Confluence
6 9 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.32%) Camunda
7 8 (0.32%) SAS
8 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.079%) Luigi
9 2 (0.079%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.039%) CMS
Applications
1 36 (1.42%) Chatbot
2 22 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.36%) Maya
4 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (0.20%) Blender
5 5 (0.20%) CINEMA 4D
6 4 (0.16%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.16%) Sketch
6 4 (0.16%) Trello
7 2 (0.079%) Simulink
8 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.039%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.039%) SPSS
8 1 (0.039%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Adaptiv
2 6 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.12%) SAP SCM
5 2 (0.079%) SAP LE
5 2 (0.079%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.039%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.039%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.039%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 792 (31.28%) AWS
2 782 (30.88%) Azure
3 575 (22.71%) GCP
4 281 (11.10%) Serverless
5 254 (10.03%) AWS Lambda
6 98 (3.87%) Power Platform
7 53 (2.09%) Amazon S3
8 51 (2.01%) Azure Machine Learning
9 46 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 43 (1.70%) Amazon SageMaker
11 40 (1.58%) SaaS
12 36 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 33 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
13 33 (1.30%) Snowflake
14 32 (1.26%) GitHub
15 31 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
16 29 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
17 28 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
17 28 (1.11%) Vertex AI
18 26 (1.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 215 (8.49%) Broadband
2 14 (0.55%) HTTP
2 14 (0.55%) VPN
3 11 (0.43%) Internet
4 8 (0.32%) Firewall
5 7 (0.28%) DNS
5 7 (0.28%) SAN
6 5 (0.20%) WAN
7 4 (0.16%) DHCP
7 4 (0.16%) LoRaWAN
7 4 (0.16%) NAS
7 4 (0.16%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.12%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.079%) MQTT
9 2 (0.079%) Network Security
9 2 (0.079%) PuTTY
9 2 (0.079%) Skype
9 2 (0.079%) VLAN
10 1 (0.039%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.039%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (5.61%) Big Data
2 102 (4.03%) NoSQL
3 97 (3.83%) Power BI
4 88 (3.48%) Data Lake
5 81 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
6 52 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
7 47 (1.86%) Hadoop
8 46 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 42 (1.66%) Tableau
10 38 (1.50%) Data Mining
11 37 (1.46%) SQL Server
12 32 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 30 (1.18%) MySQL
14 28 (1.11%) Metadata
15 23 (0.91%) BigQuery
15 23 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (0.91%) MongoDB
16 21 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
17 20 (0.79%) Apache Hive
17 20 (0.79%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 95 (3.75%) Git
2 34 (1.34%) Jenkins
3 32 (1.26%) GitLab
4 30 (1.18%) JIRA
5 20 (0.79%) SonarQube
6 19 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
7 18 (0.71%) Selenium
8 17 (0.67%) Vite
9 15 (0.59%) JUnit
10 12 (0.47%) MLflow
11 9 (0.36%) Maven
12 8 (0.32%) Spinnaker
13 7 (0.28%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.28%) Locust
14 6 (0.24%) SoapUI
15 5 (0.20%) CircleCI
15 5 (0.20%) ER Studio
15 5 (0.20%) Gradle
16 4 (0.16%) Postman
16 4 (0.16%) rollup.js
General
1 816 (32.23%) Retail
2 788 (31.12%) Manufacturing
3 571 (22.55%) Finance
4 542 (21.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 527 (20.81%) Analytical Skills
6 458 (18.09%) Law
7 396 (15.64%) Social Skills
8 212 (8.37%) Banking
9 196 (7.74%) Dutch Language
9 196 (7.74%) Finnish Language
9 196 (7.74%) Norwegian Language
10 189 (7.46%) Marketing
11 78 (3.08%) Legal
12 49 (1.94%) Catalan Language
12 49 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (1.90%) Games
14 47 (1.86%) Public Sector
15 36 (1.42%) Investment Banking
16 27 (1.07%) Advertising
17 23 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 750 (29.62%) Trainer
2 742 (29.30%) Senior
3 496 (19.59%) Software Engineer
4 271 (10.70%) Lead
5 253 (9.99%) Senior Software Engineer
6 240 (9.48%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 159 (6.28%) Data Scientist
8 93 (3.67%) Developer
9 92 (3.63%) Java Engineer
10 90 (3.55%) Java Software Engineer
10 90 (3.55%) Lead Software Engineer
11 82 (3.24%) Python Engineer
12 78 (3.08%) Data Engineer
13 77 (3.04%) Architect
13 77 (3.04%) Senior Data Scientist
14 50 (1.97%) Analyst
14 50 (1.97%) Python Software Engineer
15 37 (1.46%) AWS Engineer
15 37 (1.46%) Solutions Architect
16 34 (1.34%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (9.04%) .NET
2 228 (9.00%) Node.js
3 123 (4.86%) React
4 107 (4.23%) PyTorch
5 104 (4.11%) TensorFlow
6 103 (4.07%) Kafka
7 96 (3.79%) HTML
8 92 (3.63%) Spring
9 78 (3.08%) REST
10 70 (2.76%) scikit-learn
11 56 (2.21%) Pandas
12 52 (2.05%) RESTful
13 50 (1.97%) PySpark
14 49 (1.94%) Spring Boot
15 48 (1.90%) NumPy
16 46 (1.82%) CSS
17 35 (1.38%) AngularJS
18 29 (1.15%) Hugging Face
19 28 (1.11%) LangChain
20 26 (1.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 802 (31.67%) Robotics
2 404 (15.96%) Self-Motivation
3 295 (11.65%) Algorithms
4 224 (8.85%) Cyberattack
5 181 (7.15%) Linux Command Line
6 128 (5.06%) Cloud Native
7 50 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 49 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 47 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
10 38 (1.50%) Product Ownership
10 38 (1.50%) Public Cloud
11 33 (1.30%) FMCG
12 30 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 25 (0.99%) Credit Risk
14 23 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
15 22 (0.87%) IoT
16 20 (0.79%) Data Structures
17 17 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
17 17 (0.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 222 (8.77%) Linux
2 31 (1.22%) Windows
3 15 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.51%) Unix
5 6 (0.24%) Android
5 6 (0.24%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.20%) Mac OS X
6 5 (0.20%) VMS
7 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.12%) Debian
8 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.079%) CentOS
9 2 (0.079%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,771 (69.94%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1,378 (54.42%) Problem-Solving
3 926 (36.57%) LLM
4 912 (36.02%) Agile
5 896 (35.39%) Generative AI
6 735 (29.03%) Red Team
7 727 (28.71%) Data Science
8 633 (25.00%) Data Privacy
9 614 (24.25%) Software Engineering
10 588 (23.22%) CI/CD
11 544 (21.48%) Mentoring
12 508 (20.06%) Analytics
13 383 (15.13%) Data Engineering
14 311 (12.28%) Computer Science
15 269 (10.62%) Visualisation
16 266 (10.51%) Microservices
17 260 (10.27%) Decision-Making
18 253 (9.99%) User Experience
19 252 (9.95%) DevOps
20 240 (9.48%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,098 (43.36%) Python
2 479 (18.92%) Java
3 392 (15.48%) SQL
4 346 (13.67%) JavaScript
5 333 (13.15%) TypeScript
6 303 (11.97%) C++
7 235 (9.28%) Rust
8 201 (7.94%) Go
9 125 (4.94%) C#
10 114 (4.50%) R
11 75 (2.96%) C
12 72 (2.84%) MATLAB
13 59 (2.33%) PHP
14 50 (1.97%) Scala
15 49 (1.94%) Dart
15 49 (1.94%) Ruby
16 23 (0.91%) PowerShell
17 20 (0.79%) Bash
18 15 (0.59%) Kotlin
19 14 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,391 (54.94%) Degree
2 315 (12.44%) PhD
3 291 (11.49%) Security Cleared
4 255 (10.07%) DV Cleared
5 214 (8.45%) AWS Certification
6 194 (7.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 184 (7.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 165 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 121 (4.78%) Master's Degree
10 35 (1.38%) SC Cleared
11 34 (1.34%) Azure Certification
12 31 (1.22%) Numerate Degree
13 19 (0.75%) PMI Certification
14 18 (0.71%) PMP
15 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
16 13 (0.51%) CFA
17 9 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
18 7 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
18 7 (0.28%) Postgraduate
19 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (3.16%) Data Quality
2 55 (2.17%) GDPR
3 53 (2.09%) Accessibility
4 29 (1.15%) QA
5 22 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 19 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.32%) NIST
9 7 (0.28%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.24%) IFRS
10 6 (0.24%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.16%) WCAG
12 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.12%) GxP
13 2 (0.079%) GMP
13 2 (0.079%) SLA
14 1 (0.039%) GLP
14 1 (0.039%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.039%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 183 (7.23%) Docker
2 12 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.39%) HDFS
4 7 (0.28%) Apache Flume
4 7 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.12%) LXC
6 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 208 (8.21%) Kubernetes
2 125 (4.94%) Terraform
3 44 (1.74%) Ansible
4 36 (1.42%) Grafana
5 26 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.28%) Oozie
7 5 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.16%) Argo
8 4 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.16%) Kubeflow
8 4 (0.16%) Netcool
8 4 (0.16%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 4 (0.16%) Puppet
8 4 (0.16%) SCOM
8 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.16%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.12%) Kibana
9 3 (0.12%) logstash
9 3 (0.12%) Packer
10 2 (0.079%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 879 (34.72%) Databricks
2 860 (33.97%) Google
3 744 (29.38%) Adobe
4 148 (5.85%) Microsoft
5 68 (2.69%) OpenAI
6 48 (1.90%) Oracle
7 38 (1.50%) SAP
8 34 (1.34%) Splunk
9 27 (1.07%) ServiceNow
10 19 (0.75%) Dynatrace
11 16 (0.63%) Murex
12 14 (0.55%) Apple
13 12 (0.47%) Palantir
13 12 (0.47%) Salesforce
13 12 (0.47%) VMware
13 12 (0.47%) Workday
14 11 (0.43%) Foundry
14 11 (0.43%) Informatica
15 10 (0.39%) Cloudera
16 9 (0.36%) MuleSoft