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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 115 62
Rank change year-on-year +48 -53 +9
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 3,041 2,362 9,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.36% 2.93% 5.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 3.07% 5.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,276 1,379 2,712
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +4.35%

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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
UK excluding London +44 2,085 £65,000 - 270
England +14 1,951 £75,000 +3.45% 336
Scotland +67 1,002 £70,000 +7.69% 9
London +42 847 £87,500 +9.38% 119
Work from Home -11 723 £70,000 +3.70% 220
North of England -9 351 £60,000 -11.11% 73
South East +26 316 £65,000 -6.47% 65
North West +15 281 £60,000 -2.04% 44
South West -10 212 £64,387 -5.31% 52
Midlands -79 121 £62,500 +11.11% 24
West Midlands -57 86 £62,500 +8.70% 12
East of England -19 62 £70,000 -6.67% 25
Yorkshire -42 47 £67,500 -3.57% 14
East Midlands -30 34 £61,250 +11.36% 12
North East -6 23 £68,940 +12.55% 15
Northern Ireland +21 8 £100,000 +33.33% 19
Wales +15 8 £67,500 -3.57% 7
Channel Islands - 4 £61,000 -
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

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
1 237 (7.79%) Apache Spark
2 151 (4.97%) Apache
3 148 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (3.22%) FileNet
5 40 (1.32%) SAS
6 27 (0.89%) Confluence
7 17 (0.56%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.36%) CICS
9 10 (0.33%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.26%) Kinematics
11 7 (0.23%) nginx
12 6 (0.20%) Luigi
13 5 (0.16%) Appian
13 5 (0.16%) ThingWorx
14 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
15 3 (0.099%) ArcGIS
15 3 (0.099%) CMS
16 2 (0.066%) IIS
17 1 (0.033%) Tuxedo
17 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 92 (3.03%) Simulink
2 37 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.16%) Trello
8 2 (0.066%) Stateflow
9 1 (0.033%) Blender
9 1 (0.033%) EViews
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 35 (1.15%) Aladdin
2 14 (0.46%) Ripple
3 3 (0.099%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.033%) Data Workbench
5 1 (0.033%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.033%) Maximo
5 1 (0.033%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 976 (32.09%) AWS
2 636 (20.91%) Azure
3 326 (10.72%) GCP
4 215 (7.07%) Power Platform
5 122 (4.01%) Amazon S3
6 113 (3.72%) GitHub
7 105 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
8 79 (2.60%) Datadog
9 76 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
10 74 (2.43%) SaaS
11 65 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 65 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 62 (2.04%) Serverless
13 59 (1.94%) Azure Machine Learning
14 54 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 48 (1.58%) PowerApps
16 44 (1.45%) Snowflake
17 42 (1.38%) Power Automate
18 28 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
19 26 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 30 (0.99%) Internet
2 15 (0.49%) Firewall
3 11 (0.36%) Network Security
4 10 (0.33%) DNS
5 9 (0.30%) HTTP
6 7 (0.23%) RFID
6 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.20%) DHCP
7 6 (0.20%) Modbus
7 6 (0.20%) VPN
7 6 (0.20%) Wireless
8 4 (0.13%) SNMP
8 4 (0.13%) SSL
8 4 (0.13%) ZigBee
9 3 (0.099%) Broadband
9 3 (0.099%) GPRS
9 3 (0.099%) LAN
9 3 (0.099%) SAN
9 3 (0.099%) WAN
9 3 (0.099%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 405 (13.32%) NoSQL
2 236 (7.76%) Big Data
3 197 (6.48%) Power BI
4 147 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
5 139 (4.57%) Tableau
6 136 (4.47%) Elasticsearch
7 127 (4.18%) Data Lake
8 122 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
9 119 (3.91%) Apache Cassandra
10 101 (3.32%) Apache Ignite
11 88 (2.89%) Relational Database
12 85 (2.80%) SQL Server
13 82 (2.70%) Hadoop
14 76 (2.50%) Apache Hive
15 62 (2.04%) HBase
16 50 (1.64%) MongoDB
17 41 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
18 35 (1.15%) Qlik Sense
19 30 (0.99%) Data Mining
20 29 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 306 (10.06%) Git
2 194 (6.38%) JUnit
3 154 (5.06%) Jenkins
4 147 (4.83%) Cypress.io
5 106 (3.49%) Jasmine
6 83 (2.73%) Selenium
7 60 (1.97%) Bitbucket Server
7 60 (1.97%) Karma Test Runner
7 60 (1.97%) Protractor
7 60 (1.97%) WebDriver
8 53 (1.74%) JIRA
9 48 (1.58%) Mockito
10 33 (1.09%) Vagrant
11 28 (0.92%) GitLab
12 25 (0.82%) Android Studio
12 25 (0.82%) MLflow
13 21 (0.69%) JMeter
13 21 (0.69%) SoapUI
14 18 (0.59%) Bitbucket
15 11 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,453 (47.78%) Finance
2 1,389 (45.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,053 (34.63%) Law
4 645 (21.21%) Social Skills
5 436 (14.34%) Marketing
6 431 (14.17%) Legal
7 420 (13.81%) Banking
8 260 (8.55%) Investment Banking
9 247 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
10 165 (5.43%) Front Office
11 101 (3.32%) Retail
12 90 (2.96%) Public Sector
13 65 (2.14%) Games
14 64 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
15 50 (1.64%) Financial Institution
16 39 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
17 38 (1.25%) Manufacturing
18 31 (1.02%) Electronics
19 28 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
19 28 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,294 (42.55%) Software Engineer
2 536 (17.63%) Senior
3 503 (16.54%) Lead
4 418 (13.75%) Developer
5 414 (13.61%) Java Engineer
6 408 (13.42%) Java Software Engineer
7 331 (10.88%) Lead Software Engineer
8 273 (8.98%) Python Engineer
9 255 (8.39%) Architect
10 246 (8.09%) Python Software Engineer
11 226 (7.43%) Data Scientist
12 223 (7.33%) Full Stack Engineer
13 214 (7.04%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 212 (6.97%) Data Engineer
15 162 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
16 144 (4.74%) AWS Engineer
17 143 (4.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 141 (4.64%) Senior Data Scientist
19 140 (4.60%) Python Developer
20 134 (4.41%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 479 (15.75%) React
2 296 (9.73%) Spring
3 273 (8.98%) AngularJS
4 253 (8.32%) Kafka
5 236 (7.76%) HTML
6 209 (6.87%) J2EE
7 191 (6.28%) CSS
8 188 (6.18%) Node.js
9 183 (6.02%) Hibernate
10 167 (5.49%) JSON
11 162 (5.33%) JMS
12 157 (5.16%) PySpark
12 157 (5.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 155 (5.10%) TensorFlow
14 142 (4.67%) jQuery
15 115 (3.78%) .NET
16 112 (3.68%) PyTorch
17 111 (3.65%) Pandas
18 102 (3.35%) Redux
19 100 (3.29%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 721 (23.71%) Algorithms
2 384 (12.63%) Cloud Native
3 259 (8.52%) Cyberattack
4 163 (5.36%) Hedge funds
5 159 (5.23%) Fixed Income
6 155 (5.10%) Onboarding
7 126 (4.14%) Data Structures
8 119 (3.91%) Equities
9 113 (3.72%) Product Ownership
10 95 (3.12%) Public Cloud
11 85 (2.80%) Management Information System
12 84 (2.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 67 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
14 61 (2.01%) Derivative
15 48 (1.58%) IoT
16 36 (1.18%) Data Centre
17 33 (1.09%) Credit Risk
17 33 (1.09%) Reinsurance
18 32 (1.05%) Reference Data
19 25 (0.82%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 194 (6.38%) Linux
2 101 (3.32%) Unix
3 68 (2.24%) Android
4 58 (1.91%) Windows
5 39 (1.28%) CentOS
6 38 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
7 35 (1.15%) Ubuntu
8 17 (0.56%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.099%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.099%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.033%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.033%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.033%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.033%) Solaris
12 1 (0.033%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,178 (71.62%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1,737 (57.12%) Software Engineering
3 1,728 (56.82%) Agile
4 1,053 (34.63%) CI/CD
5 940 (30.91%) SDLC
6 835 (27.46%) Operational Stability
7 703 (23.12%) Visualisation
8 685 (22.53%) Problem-Solving
9 618 (20.32%) Community of Practice
10 586 (19.27%) Data Science
11 573 (18.84%) Computer Science
12 556 (18.28%) Analytics
13 546 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 468 (15.39%) Decision-Making
15 451 (14.83%) Data Engineering
16 436 (14.34%) Risk Management
17 428 (14.07%) Mentoring
18 387 (12.73%) Full Stack Development
19 363 (11.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 314 (10.33%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 1,417 (46.60%) Python
2 1,005 (33.05%) SQL
3 964 (31.70%) Java
4 398 (13.09%) JavaScript
5 365 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 216 (7.10%) C++
7 200 (6.58%) C#
8 117 (3.85%) C
9 107 (3.52%) Scala
10 102 (3.35%) R
11 97 (3.19%) Kotlin
12 64 (2.10%) PL/SQL
13 58 (1.91%) MATLAB
14 51 (1.68%) Go
15 35 (1.15%) PowerShell
16 33 (1.09%) T-SQL
17 30 (0.99%) Bash
18 20 (0.66%) Fortran
19 19 (0.62%) PHP
19 19 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 736 (24.20%) Degree
2 277 (9.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 268 (8.81%) Security Cleared
4 232 (7.63%) Master's Degree
5 170 (5.59%) SC Cleared
6 123 (4.04%) PhD
7 105 (3.45%) DV Cleared
8 51 (1.68%) DBS Check
9 34 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 22 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
10 22 (0.72%) PMI Certification
11 18 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (0.56%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.53%) CISM
14 15 (0.49%) CISSP
15 13 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.33%) CRISC
16 10 (0.33%) MBA
17 8 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (4.11%) Data Quality
2 64 (2.10%) QA
3 35 (1.15%) GDPR
4 34 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 16 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 12 (0.39%) NIST
7 8 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.20%) Def Stans
8 6 (0.20%) IEC 61508
9 5 (0.16%) SLA
10 3 (0.099%) GRC
10 3 (0.099%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.099%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.066%) COBIT
11 2 (0.066%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.033%) IEC 61131
12 1 (0.033%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.033%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 167 (5.49%) Docker
2 64 (2.10%) HDFS
3 15 (0.49%) Firmware
4 13 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.36%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.36%) Time Sharing Option
6 10 (0.33%) Active Directory
6 10 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.13%) KVM
7 4 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.066%) IAG
Systems Management
1 351 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 258 (8.48%) Terraform
3 91 (2.99%) Grafana
4 63 (2.07%) Ansible
5 22 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.23%) Argo
7 7 (0.23%) Graphite
8 5 (0.16%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.16%) Nagios
9 4 (0.13%) Cacti
10 3 (0.099%) Backup Exec
10 3 (0.099%) Kibana
10 3 (0.099%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.099%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.066%) Puppet
12 1 (0.033%) Core Impact
12 1 (0.033%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.033%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.033%) Salt
Vendors
1 342 (11.25%) Databricks
2 244 (8.02%) Microsoft
3 229 (7.53%) Google
4 215 (7.07%) Oracle
5 99 (3.26%) Splunk
6 85 (2.80%) Dynatrace
7 79 (2.60%) Informatica
8 78 (2.56%) Xilinx
9 63 (2.07%) Alteryx
10 37 (1.22%) Bloomberg
10 37 (1.22%) Cloudera
10 37 (1.22%) OpenAI
11 35 (1.15%) BISAM
12 22 (0.72%) Salesforce
13 16 (0.53%) Pega
14 15 (0.49%) SAP
15 12 (0.39%) Apple
15 12 (0.39%) Dell
16 11 (0.36%) IBM
16 11 (0.36%) VMware