Machine Learning Engineer Jobs

Machine Learning Engineer
UK

The median Machine Learning Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
10 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 865 885 982
Rank change year-on-year +20 +97 -231
Permanent jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 33 95 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.094% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.10% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 25 84 148
10th Percentile £57,750 £47,875 £49,042
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,588 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £86,250 £83,125
90th Percentile £96,500 £99,625 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year +38.46% +6.12% -5.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 +37 31 £80,000 +6.67% 74
London +81 17 £70,000 -6.67% 45
Work from Home +50 16 £92,500 +23.33% 40
UK excluding London -37 14 £90,000 +38.46% 28
West Midlands 0 4 £75,000 +20.00% 2
Midlands -16 4 £75,000 +25.00% 3
North of England +49 3 £83,750 +31.37% 5
East of England +12 2 £92,500 +23.33% 6
South West -24 2 £71,250 -8.06% 2
Scotland -58 2 £57,500 -
Yorkshire +88 1 £92,500 +23.33% 1
North West +3 1 - - 3
South East -7 1 £92,500 +49.92% 10
North East - 1 £75,000 - 1

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 featuring Machine Learning Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 31 (93.94%) Python
3 25 (75.76%) Artificial Intelligence
4 15 (45.45%) Deep Learning
4 15 (45.45%) LLM
5 14 (42.42%) Natural Language Processing
5 14 (42.42%) Degree
6 13 (39.39%) Computer Science
7 12 (36.36%) AWS
8 11 (33.33%) DevOps
9 9 (27.27%) MLOps
9 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
10 8 (24.24%) Computer Vision
11 7 (21.21%) Data Science
11 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
11 7 (21.21%) Fintech
11 7 (21.21%) Generative AI
11 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
12 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
12 6 (18.18%) DV Cleared
12 6 (18.18%) TypeScript
12 6 (18.18%) Statistics
12 6 (18.18%) JavaScript
12 6 (18.18%) GCP
13 5 (15.15%) Algorithms
13 5 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
13 5 (15.15%) PyTorch
13 5 (15.15%) OO
13 5 (15.15%) Mathematics
13 5 (15.15%) Neural Network

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (6.06%) Apache
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) GCP
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
3 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.06%) Azure
3 2 (6.06%) Serverless
4 1 (3.03%) ChatGPT
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Text Mining
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (6.06%) Big Data
2 2 (6.06%) Data Mining
2 2 (6.06%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) MLflow
General
1 4 (12.12%) Finance
1 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Legal
3 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Games
3 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) NumPy
1 5 (15.15%) PyTorch
2 4 (12.12%) Flask
2 4 (12.12%) REST
2 4 (12.12%) TensorFlow
3 3 (9.09%) Pandas
3 3 (9.09%) XGBoost
4 2 (6.06%) Hugging Face
4 2 (6.06%) Kafka
4 2 (6.06%) Keras
4 2 (6.06%) SciPy
5 1 (3.03%) Babylonjs
5 1 (3.03%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.06%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.03%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 25 (75.76%) Artificial Intelligence
3 15 (45.45%) Deep Learning
3 15 (45.45%) LLM
4 14 (42.42%) Natural Language Processing
5 13 (39.39%) Computer Science
6 11 (33.33%) DevOps
7 9 (27.27%) MLOps
7 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
8 8 (24.24%) Computer Vision
9 7 (21.21%) Data Science
9 7 (21.21%) Fintech
9 7 (21.21%) Generative AI
10 6 (18.18%) Statistics
11 5 (15.15%) Data Analysis
11 5 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
11 5 (15.15%) Mathematics
11 5 (15.15%) Neural Network
11 5 (15.15%) OO
12 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 31 (93.94%) Python
2 6 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 6 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 3 (9.09%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) C++
5 1 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (42.42%) Degree
2 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
3 6 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.09%) Master's Degree
5 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.06%) PhD
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Google
2 2 (6.06%) Databricks
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