Machine Learning Jobs in the West Midlands

Machine Learning (ML)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 126 108
Rank change year-on-year +62 -18 +11
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 160 140 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.83% 1.77% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.20% 2.19% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 25 130 67
10th Percentile £29,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,250 £63,000
90th Percentile £70,500 £90,000 £79,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,814 6,401 5,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.20% 81.10% 96.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,573 4,665 3,155
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,350 £30,602
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the West Midlands

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Machine Learning in the West Midlands

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in the West Midlands

Machine Learning
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Staffordshire +57 97 - - 22
Birmingham +13 22 £45,000 -28.00% 31
Coventry +13 19 £57,500 -4.17% 13
Herefordshire +11 7 - - 2
Warwickshire +4 6 £30,000 -60.00% 14
Shropshire +16 5 £65,000 -10.34% 10
Worcestershire +4 2 - - 3
Wolverhampton +18 1 £47,500 - 2
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (1.25%) Jupyter
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
1 2 (1.25%) Skype for Business
2 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (10.63%) Azure
2 12 (7.50%) AWS
2 12 (7.50%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (3.13%) GCP
4 5 (3.13%) Serverless
5 4 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.88%) Datadog
7 2 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.25%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.25%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.50%) DHCP
1 4 (2.50%) DNS
1 4 (2.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.25%) Broadband
2 2 (1.25%) Firewall
2 2 (1.25%) SAN
2 2 (1.25%) Skype
3 1 (0.63%) VoIP
3 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.50%) Power BI
2 10 (6.25%) Big Data
3 6 (3.75%) MySQL
3 6 (3.75%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.25%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.25%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.25%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.25%) Tableau
5 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.63%) Metadata
5 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.63%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.63%) Power Query
5 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.63%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Git
2 3 (1.88%) GitLab
3 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.63%) Postman
3 1 (0.63%) RStudio
General
1 111 (69.38%) Manufacturing
2 106 (66.25%) Retail
3 28 (17.50%) Dutch Language
3 28 (17.50%) Finnish Language
3 28 (17.50%) Norwegian Language
4 27 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.63%) Social Skills
6 15 (9.38%) Finance
7 7 (4.38%) Catalan Language
7 7 (4.38%) Marketing
8 6 (3.75%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.13%) Automotive
9 5 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.13%) Law
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 106 (66.25%) Trainer
2 16 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 9 (5.63%) Senior
4 8 (5.00%) Analyst
4 8 (5.00%) Data Analyst
4 8 (5.00%) Developer
5 6 (3.75%) Support Analyst
6 4 (2.50%) Lead
6 4 (2.50%) Senior Data Scientist
7 3 (1.88%) Data Engineer
7 3 (1.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (1.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (1.25%) C++ Developer
8 2 (1.25%) C++ Software Developer
8 2 (1.25%) Lead Data Scientist
8 2 (1.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 2 (1.25%) Python Developer
8 2 (1.25%) Software Developer
9 1 (0.63%) Lead Data Engineer
9 1 (0.63%) Network Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.63%) HTML
2 4 (2.50%) .NET
2 4 (2.50%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.88%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.88%) Entity Framework
4 2 (1.25%) CSS
4 2 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.25%) Next.js
4 2 (1.25%) OpenMP
4 2 (1.25%) React
4 2 (1.25%) RESTful
4 2 (1.25%) Vue
5 1 (0.63%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.63%) Ionic Framework
5 1 (0.63%) JSON
5 1 (0.63%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.63%) Spring
5 1 (0.63%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.63%) Symfony
5 1 (0.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 105 (65.63%) Robotics
2 8 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.13%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.50%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.25%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.25%) CUDA
6 2 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.25%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.25%) SIMD
7 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.63%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.63%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.13%) Linux
2 4 (2.50%) Windows
2 4 (2.50%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.88%) Android
3 3 (1.88%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.25%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (88.75%) Artificial Intelligence
2 124 (77.50%) Problem-Solving
3 110 (68.75%) Generative AI
4 107 (66.88%) LLM
5 105 (65.63%) Red Team
6 84 (52.50%) Data Privacy
7 26 (16.25%) Computer Science
8 24 (15.00%) Analytics
9 23 (14.38%) Mathematics
10 22 (13.75%) Data Science
11 14 (8.75%) Agile
11 14 (8.75%) Data Analysis
12 13 (8.13%) Biology
12 13 (8.13%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (8.13%) Chemistry
13 12 (7.50%) Data Analytics
14 11 (6.88%) Decision-Making
14 11 (6.88%) Statistics
15 10 (6.25%) Exploratory Data Analysis
16 9 (5.63%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (17.50%) Python
1 28 (17.50%) SQL
2 17 (10.63%) C#
2 17 (10.63%) R
3 16 (10.00%) Java
4 14 (8.75%) C++
5 12 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.88%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.00%) PHP
8 7 (4.38%) C
8 7 (4.38%) Dart
8 7 (4.38%) MATLAB
8 7 (4.38%) Ruby
8 7 (4.38%) Rust
9 2 (1.25%) Bash
9 2 (1.25%) Perl
9 2 (1.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 134 (83.75%) Degree
2 11 (6.88%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.63%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.25%) PhD
5 2 (1.25%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) CCNA
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.88%) QA
2 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.25%) SLA
3 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (5.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.88%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.88%) LXC
3 2 (1.25%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.50%) SCOM
3 3 (1.88%) Terraform
4 2 (1.25%) Ansible
4 2 (1.25%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.25%) Puppet
4 2 (1.25%) SCCM
4 2 (1.25%) SCOrch
4 2 (1.25%) SCSM
Vendors
1 111 (69.38%) Google
2 109 (68.13%) Databricks
3 105 (65.63%) Adobe
4 7 (4.38%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.88%) Splunk
6 2 (1.25%) ArcSight
6 2 (1.25%) Oracle
6 2 (1.25%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.25%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.25%) VMware
7 1 (0.63%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.63%) Cisco
7 1 (0.63%) SAP
7 1 (0.63%) Tagetik