Machine Learning Engineer Jobs

Machine Learning Engineer
UK

The median Machine Learning Engineer salary in the UK is £83,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 852 884 1013
Rank change year-on-year +32 +129 -263
Permanent jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 38 93 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.094% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.10% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 30 85 156
10th Percentile £62,750 £47,500 £49,167
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £93,750 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,875 £99,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £92,500 £62,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year +48.00% +2.04% -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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 18 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 18 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 +35 36 £87,500 +16.67% 93
Work from Home +62 20 £92,500 +23.33% 40
UK excluding London -54 19 £92,500 +48.00% 41
London +80 17 £70,000 -6.67% 72
North of England +53 5 £83,750 +52.27% 3
West Midlands +14 5 £83,750 +34.00%
Midlands -8 5 £83,750 +39.58% 1
South West -31 3 £92,500 +15.63% 1
Yorkshire +84 2 £92,500 +23.33%
North West +4 2 £72,500 +31.82% 3
East of England -3 2 £92,500 +23.33% 7
South East -11 2 £92,500 +49.92% 27
Scotland -62 2 £57,500 -
North East - 1 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 38 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 37 (97.37%) Python
3 30 (78.95%) Artificial Intelligence
4 16 (42.11%) Deep Learning
4 16 (42.11%) DevOps
5 15 (39.47%) LLM
5 15 (39.47%) Software Engineering
5 15 (39.47%) Degree
6 14 (36.84%) Computer Science
6 14 (36.84%) Natural Language Processing
7 12 (31.58%) Security Cleared
7 12 (31.58%) AWS
7 12 (31.58%) Kubernetes
8 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
8 11 (28.95%) DV Cleared
9 10 (26.32%) TypeScript
9 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
10 9 (23.68%) MLOps
11 8 (21.05%) Computer Vision
11 8 (21.05%) Data Science
12 7 (18.42%) Generative AI
13 6 (15.79%) PyTorch
13 6 (15.79%) Algorithms
13 6 (15.79%) GCP
13 6 (15.79%) Fintech
13 6 (15.79%) Statistics
14 5 (13.16%) Mathematics
14 5 (13.16%) Neural Network
14 5 (13.16%) Text Mining
14 5 (13.16%) Data Analysis

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 (5.26%) Apache
1 2 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) GCP
3 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.26%) Azure
3 2 (5.26%) Serverless
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) Text Mining
2 2 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.26%) Big Data
2 2 (5.26%) Data Mining
2 2 (5.26%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) MLflow
General
1 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (5.26%) Legal
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Games
4 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.79%) PyTorch
2 5 (13.16%) NumPy
3 4 (10.53%) Flask
3 4 (10.53%) REST
3 4 (10.53%) TensorFlow
4 3 (7.89%) Pandas
4 3 (7.89%) XGBoost
5 2 (5.26%) Hugging Face
5 2 (5.26%) Kafka
5 2 (5.26%) Keras
5 2 (5.26%) SciPy
6 1 (2.63%) Matplotlib
6 1 (2.63%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.63%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 30 (78.95%) Artificial Intelligence
3 16 (42.11%) Deep Learning
3 16 (42.11%) DevOps
4 15 (39.47%) LLM
4 15 (39.47%) Software Engineering
5 14 (36.84%) Computer Science
5 14 (36.84%) Natural Language Processing
6 9 (23.68%) MLOps
7 8 (21.05%) Computer Vision
7 8 (21.05%) Data Science
8 7 (18.42%) Generative AI
9 6 (15.79%) Fintech
9 6 (15.79%) Statistics
10 5 (13.16%) Data Analysis
10 5 (13.16%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (13.16%) Mathematics
10 5 (13.16%) Neural Network
10 5 (13.16%) OO
11 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 37 (97.37%) Python
2 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
2 10 (26.32%) TypeScript
3 3 (7.89%) SQL
4 2 (5.26%) C++
5 1 (2.63%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (39.47%) Degree
2 12 (31.58%) Security Cleared
3 11 (28.95%) DV Cleared
3 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.53%) Master's Degree
5 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (5.26%) PhD
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (31.58%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (5.26%) Databricks
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