Machine Learning Jobs

Machine Learning (ML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Machine Learning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Machine Learning over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 115 53
Rank change year-on-year +47 -62 +25
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 3,692 2,824 9,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.52% 2.98% 5.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.20% 3.13% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,669 1,421 2,688
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Machine Learning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +53 2,642 £60,000 -7.69% 424
England +4 2,162 £70,000 - 961
Scotland +68 1,430 £69,500 +6.92% 31
Work from Home -3 964 £67,000 -3.52% 447
London +33 942 £85,000 +6.25% 561
South East +1 359 £65,000 -7.14% 114
North of England -55 292 £55,000 -15.38% 90
South West -6 257 £65,000 -3.09% 63
North West -29 199 £55,000 -8.33% 59
Midlands -33 181 £57,500 +9.52% 48
West Midlands -27 140 £57,500 +9.52% 32
East of England -15 97 £65,000 -7.14% 68
Yorkshire -60 73 £55,000 -20.80% 24
East Midlands -26 41 £50,000 -25.93% 16
North East -22 20 £47,500 -26.92% 9
Northern Ireland +27 11 £100,000 +33.33% 8
Wales -1 11 £67,500 -26.15% 10
Channel Islands - 3 £60,000 -
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
1 380 (10.29%) Apache Spark
2 183 (4.96%) Apache
3 166 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
4 99 (2.68%) FileNet
5 53 (1.44%) SAS
6 25 (0.68%) Confluence
7 18 (0.49%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.35%) Jupyter
9 11 (0.30%) CICS
10 10 (0.27%) nginx
11 6 (0.16%) Kinematics
12 5 (0.14%) Appian
12 5 (0.14%) Luigi
13 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
14 3 (0.081%) IIS
14 3 (0.081%) WordPress
15 2 (0.054%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.054%) CMS
16 1 (0.027%) Documentum
16 1 (0.027%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 67 (1.81%) Simulink
2 59 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.16%) EViews
8 6 (0.16%) Stateflow
9 4 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.11%) Trello
10 2 (0.054%) SPSS
11 1 (0.027%) Blender
Business Applications
1 14 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.14%) Siebel CRM
3 3 (0.081%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.027%) Data Workbench
4 1 (0.027%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.027%) Ripple
4 1 (0.027%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.027%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.027%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,280 (34.67%) AWS
2 865 (23.43%) Azure
3 386 (10.46%) GCP
4 361 (9.78%) Power Platform
5 123 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
5 123 (3.33%) GitHub
6 119 (3.22%) Amazon S3
7 108 (2.93%) SaaS
8 91 (2.46%) Snowflake
9 88 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
10 85 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 85 (2.30%) Serverless
11 80 (2.17%) Datadog
12 79 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 64 (1.73%) Matillion
14 60 (1.63%) Azure Machine Learning
15 57 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 54 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 54 (1.46%) PowerApps
17 49 (1.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (0.95%) DNS
2 27 (0.73%) HTTP
3 21 (0.57%) Firewall
4 17 (0.46%) Internet
5 16 (0.43%) DSL
6 15 (0.41%) Network Security
6 15 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.35%) VPN
8 11 (0.30%) Wireless
9 9 (0.24%) LAN
9 9 (0.24%) WAN
9 9 (0.24%) WLAN
10 7 (0.19%) MQTT
11 6 (0.16%) DHCP
11 6 (0.16%) OpenVPN
12 5 (0.14%) Modbus
12 5 (0.14%) RFID
12 5 (0.14%) SSL
12 5 (0.14%) ZigBee
13 4 (0.11%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 487 (13.19%) NoSQL
2 345 (9.34%) Big Data
3 340 (9.21%) Power BI
4 261 (7.07%) Data Warehouse
5 255 (6.91%) SQL Server
6 224 (6.07%) Data Lake
7 177 (4.79%) Tableau
8 160 (4.33%) Hadoop
9 158 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
10 150 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
11 137 (3.71%) Apache Cassandra
12 131 (3.55%) Apache Hive
13 113 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 101 (2.74%) Apache Ignite
15 100 (2.71%) HBase
16 90 (2.44%) Relational Database
17 89 (2.41%) MongoDB
18 53 (1.44%) Data Mining
19 45 (1.22%) MySQL
20 42 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 325 (8.80%) Git
2 203 (5.50%) JUnit
3 190 (5.15%) Jenkins
4 146 (3.95%) Cypress.io
5 105 (2.84%) Jasmine
6 84 (2.28%) Bitbucket Server
7 83 (2.25%) Selenium
8 60 (1.63%) Karma Test Runner
8 60 (1.63%) Protractor
8 60 (1.63%) WebDriver
9 51 (1.38%) JIRA
10 48 (1.30%) GitLab
11 46 (1.25%) Mockito
12 25 (0.68%) Android Studio
13 21 (0.57%) MLflow
13 21 (0.57%) SoapUI
14 19 (0.51%) JMeter
14 19 (0.51%) Vagrant
15 15 (0.41%) CircleCI
16 14 (0.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,991 (53.93%) Finance
2 1,659 (44.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,464 (39.65%) Law
4 796 (21.56%) Social Skills
5 745 (20.18%) Marketing
6 523 (14.17%) Legal
7 507 (13.73%) Banking
8 302 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
9 287 (7.77%) Investment Banking
10 221 (5.99%) Retail
11 194 (5.25%) Public Sector
12 152 (4.12%) Front Office
13 108 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
14 87 (2.36%) Financial Institution
15 85 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
16 83 (2.25%) Games
17 61 (1.65%) Manufacturing
18 40 (1.08%) Electronics
19 38 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
20 34 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,585 (42.93%) Software Engineer
2 637 (17.25%) Lead
3 631 (17.09%) Senior
4 576 (15.60%) Java Engineer
5 570 (15.44%) Java Software Engineer
6 507 (13.73%) Developer
7 430 (11.65%) Lead Software Engineer
8 349 (9.45%) Python Engineer
9 346 (9.37%) Data Engineer
10 302 (8.18%) Python Software Engineer
11 300 (8.13%) Data Scientist
12 287 (7.77%) Full Stack Engineer
13 279 (7.56%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 242 (6.55%) Architect
15 197 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
16 193 (5.23%) Senior Software Engineer
17 185 (5.01%) AWS Software Engineer
18 176 (4.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 172 (4.66%) Senior Data Scientist
20 154 (4.17%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 550 (14.90%) React
2 400 (10.83%) Spring
3 343 (9.29%) AngularJS
4 298 (8.07%) Kafka
5 253 (6.85%) HTML
6 220 (5.96%) J2EE
7 209 (5.66%) CSS
8 200 (5.42%) Node.js
9 186 (5.04%) TensorFlow
10 181 (4.90%) Hibernate
10 181 (4.90%) PySpark
11 170 (4.60%) JMS
12 165 (4.47%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 163 (4.41%) JSON
14 140 (3.79%) Pandas
15 137 (3.71%) jQuery
16 135 (3.66%) PyTorch
17 129 (3.49%) .NET
18 124 (3.36%) Spring Boot
19 110 (2.98%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 960 (26.00%) Algorithms
2 501 (13.57%) Cloud Native
3 202 (5.47%) Data Structures
4 187 (5.07%) Onboarding
5 178 (4.82%) Public Cloud
6 162 (4.39%) Product Ownership
7 154 (4.17%) Hedge funds
8 150 (4.06%) Fixed Income
9 120 (3.25%) Cyberattack
10 114 (3.09%) Management Information System
11 112 (3.03%) Equities
12 67 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
13 64 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 64 (1.73%) IoT
14 54 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
15 50 (1.35%) Derivative
16 48 (1.30%) Reference Data
17 42 (1.14%) Credit Risk
18 41 (1.11%) Legacy Code
19 36 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 197 (5.34%) Linux
2 145 (3.93%) Unix
3 73 (1.98%) Windows
4 55 (1.49%) Android
5 24 (0.65%) CentOS
6 22 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
7 20 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 19 (0.51%) Windows Server
9 9 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.19%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.081%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.081%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.027%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.027%) Solaris
13 1 (0.027%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,774 (75.14%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2,024 (54.82%) Agile
3 1,986 (53.79%) Software Engineering
4 1,434 (38.84%) CI/CD
5 1,272 (34.45%) SDLC
6 1,190 (32.23%) Operational Stability
7 979 (26.52%) Visualisation
8 889 (24.08%) Community of Practice
9 887 (24.02%) Data Science
10 752 (20.37%) Analytics
11 741 (20.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 666 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
13 640 (17.33%) Computer Science
14 596 (16.14%) Decision-Making
15 534 (14.46%) Risk Management
16 481 (13.03%) Full Stack Development
17 462 (12.51%) Business Intelligence
18 429 (11.62%) Microservices
19 421 (11.40%) Data Engineering
20 410 (11.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,830 (49.57%) Python
2 1,407 (38.11%) SQL
3 1,271 (34.43%) Java
4 429 (11.62%) JavaScript
5 420 (11.38%) TypeScript
6 224 (6.07%) C#
7 162 (4.39%) C++
8 153 (4.14%) Scala
9 151 (4.09%) R
10 112 (3.03%) C
11 102 (2.76%) PL/SQL
12 84 (2.28%) Kotlin
13 66 (1.79%) MATLAB
14 62 (1.68%) Go
15 56 (1.52%) T-SQL
16 28 (0.76%) Fortran
17 27 (0.73%) Bash
17 27 (0.73%) Haskell
18 26 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 25 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 819 (22.18%) Degree
2 271 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 258 (6.99%) Master's Degree
4 240 (6.50%) Security Cleared
5 165 (4.47%) PhD
6 141 (3.82%) SC Cleared
7 90 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 54 (1.46%) DBS Check
9 33 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (0.81%) AWS Certification
11 28 (0.76%) PMI Certification
12 21 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (0.54%) Azure Certification
13 20 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
14 16 (0.43%) CISM
14 16 (0.43%) CISSP
15 10 (0.27%) CRISC
16 9 (0.24%) MBA
17 8 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 7 (0.19%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 70 (1.90%) QA
3 60 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 50 (1.35%) GDPR
5 21 (0.57%) SLA
6 15 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 12 (0.33%) NIST
8 7 (0.19%) Def Stans
8 7 (0.19%) IEC 61508
9 5 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.11%) COBIT
11 3 (0.081%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.081%) GRC
11 3 (0.081%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.054%) PMO
13 1 (0.027%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.027%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.027%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 169 (4.58%) Docker
2 107 (2.90%) HDFS
3 29 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (0.65%) Firmware
5 11 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
6 10 (0.27%) Active Directory
6 10 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.054%) IAG
8 2 (0.054%) KVM
8 2 (0.054%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 389 (10.54%) Kubernetes
2 334 (9.05%) Terraform
3 96 (2.60%) Grafana
4 48 (1.30%) Ansible
5 23 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.19%) Argo
7 7 (0.19%) Graphite
8 6 (0.16%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.081%) Backup Exec
9 3 (0.081%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.081%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.054%) Core Impact
10 2 (0.054%) Podman
10 2 (0.054%) Puppet
11 1 (0.027%) Avamar
11 1 (0.027%) Consul
11 1 (0.027%) Salt
11 1 (0.027%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.027%) vRealize
Vendors
1 457 (12.38%) Databricks
2 379 (10.27%) Microsoft
3 280 (7.58%) Oracle
4 228 (6.18%) Google
5 104 (2.82%) Splunk
6 92 (2.49%) Alteryx
6 92 (2.49%) Informatica
7 91 (2.46%) Dynatrace
8 79 (2.14%) Cloudera
9 41 (1.11%) Xilinx
10 35 (0.95%) OpenAI
11 27 (0.73%) Salesforce
12 20 (0.54%) Bloomberg
13 19 (0.51%) SAP
14 18 (0.49%) Dataiku
14 18 (0.49%) SaltStack
15 16 (0.43%) Cognos
15 16 (0.43%) Pega
15 16 (0.43%) Sybase
16 14 (0.38%) Cisco