Artificial Intelligence Jobs

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 121 75
Rank change year-on-year +77 -46 +33
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 5,014 2,743 7,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.76% 2.89% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.70% 3.03% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,174 1,204 2,268
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £69,922
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.26% +7.57%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% +8.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Artificial Intelligence 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 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence.

Salary trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +133 3,588 £60,000 -11.11% 578
England +56 3,308 £70,000 -6.67% 1,379
Work from Home +30 1,502 £63,500 -9.29% 647
Scotland +103 1,450 £65,000 - 39
London +47 1,248 £87,500 +8.98% 803
South East +98 820 £67,500 -15.63% 185
North of England +67 482 £51,000 -21.54% 136
Midlands +119 329 £56,156 -6.41% 55
North West +53 327 £47,500 -26.92% 89
South West +31 264 £58,700 -13.04% 76
West Midlands +66 168 £59,350 -3.50% 39
East Midlands +86 161 £47,500 -2.56% 16
Yorkshire +40 135 £63,750 -2.45% 38
East of England +33 123 £65,000 - 75
Wales +60 72 £66,633 +58.65% 11
Northern Ireland +56 46 £100,000 +33.33% 8
North East +5 20 £47,500 +2.70% 10
Channel Islands - 3 £60,000 -

Artificial Intelligence
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
1 320 (6.38%) Apache Spark
2 134 (2.67%) Apache
3 132 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
4 99 (1.97%) FileNet
5 69 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 53 (1.06%) nginx
7 52 (1.04%) Confluence
8 44 (0.88%) Oracle Service Bus
8 44 (0.88%) WebLogic
9 36 (0.72%) Camunda
10 33 (0.66%) SAS
11 18 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.28%) IIS
13 13 (0.26%) WordPress
14 11 (0.22%) CICS
14 11 (0.22%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.14%) CMS
15 7 (0.14%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.100%) Appian
16 5 (0.100%) Kinematics
Applications
1 90 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (1.46%) Simulink
4 55 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 37 (0.74%) Chatbot
6 23 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.12%) EViews
8 6 (0.12%) Stateflow
8 6 (0.12%) Trello
9 4 (0.080%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.020%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 44 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 43 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.28%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.100%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.100%) Siebel CRM
6 5 (0.100%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.060%) Shopify
9 2 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.040%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.040%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.040%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.040%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.040%) SAP SD
10 1 (0.020%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.020%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,463 (29.18%) AWS
2 1,436 (28.64%) Azure
3 408 (8.14%) IBM Cloud
4 388 (7.74%) Power Platform
5 332 (6.62%) GCP
6 250 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
7 231 (4.61%) Entra ID
8 201 (4.01%) Serverless
9 174 (3.47%) Amazon S3
10 170 (3.39%) SaaS
11 145 (2.89%) Azure Functions
12 136 (2.71%) Azure Service Bus
13 135 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
14 130 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
15 129 (2.57%) Azure API Management
16 121 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
17 108 (2.15%) PowerApps
18 99 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
19 95 (1.89%) Datadog
20 92 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.43%) 5G
2 216 (4.31%) Broadband
3 39 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 34 (0.68%) DNS
4 34 (0.68%) HTTP
5 30 (0.60%) Firewall
6 19 (0.38%) Network Security
6 19 (0.38%) Unified Communications
6 19 (0.38%) WAN
7 18 (0.36%) Internet
7 18 (0.36%) MQTT
8 17 (0.34%) LAN
8 17 (0.34%) VPN
9 16 (0.32%) DSL
10 11 (0.22%) Intranet
10 11 (0.22%) Wireless
11 10 (0.20%) WLAN
12 9 (0.18%) SAN
13 8 (0.16%) SSL
14 7 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 787 (15.70%) NoSQL
2 502 (10.01%) PostgreSQL
3 393 (7.84%) MongoDB
4 309 (6.16%) Power BI
5 306 (6.10%) SQL Server
6 299 (5.96%) Big Data
7 282 (5.62%) DB2
8 264 (5.27%) Relational Database
9 238 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
10 221 (4.41%) Data Lake
11 180 (3.59%) Oracle Database
12 160 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
13 135 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
13 135 (2.69%) Oracle Database 11g
14 130 (2.59%) Hadoop
15 124 (2.47%) Tableau
16 111 (2.21%) Apache Hive
17 103 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 101 (2.01%) Apache Ignite
19 99 (1.97%) HBase
Development Applications
1 373 (7.44%) Git
2 203 (4.05%) JUnit
3 193 (3.85%) Cypress.io
4 190 (3.79%) Jenkins
5 122 (2.43%) Selenium
6 105 (2.09%) Jasmine
7 95 (1.89%) JIRA
8 84 (1.68%) Bitbucket Server
9 63 (1.26%) WebDriver
10 60 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (1.20%) Protractor
11 57 (1.14%) GitLab
12 46 (0.92%) Mockito
13 25 (0.50%) Android Studio
14 23 (0.46%) JMeter
15 21 (0.42%) SoapUI
16 20 (0.40%) Vagrant
17 16 (0.32%) LabVIEW
18 15 (0.30%) Maven
19 13 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,048 (40.85%) Finance
2 1,958 (39.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,491 (29.74%) Law
4 963 (19.21%) Social Skills
5 839 (16.73%) Marketing
6 600 (11.97%) Public Sector
7 598 (11.93%) Legal
8 583 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
9 507 (10.11%) Banking
10 281 (5.60%) Investment Banking
11 218 (4.35%) Retail
12 199 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
13 149 (2.97%) Front Office
14 108 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
15 92 (1.83%) Manufacturing
16 87 (1.74%) Games
17 81 (1.62%) Financial Institution
18 57 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
19 55 (1.10%) Telecoms
20 41 (0.82%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,610 (32.11%) Software Engineer
2 949 (18.93%) Developer
3 948 (18.91%) Senior
4 702 (14.00%) Lead
5 590 (11.77%) Java Engineer
6 569 (11.35%) Java Software Engineer
7 452 (9.01%) Full Stack Engineer
8 405 (8.08%) Lead Software Engineer
9 353 (7.04%) Python Engineer
10 310 (6.18%) Python Software Engineer
11 306 (6.10%) Architect
12 284 (5.66%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 246 (4.91%) Full Stack Developer
14 243 (4.85%) Data Engineer
15 229 (4.57%) Senior Developer
16 225 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
17 215 (4.29%) Consultant
18 214 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
19 211 (4.21%) Linux Specialist
19 211 (4.21%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 953 (19.01%) React
2 639 (12.74%) AngularJS
3 561 (11.19%) HTML
4 533 (10.63%) .NET
5 521 (10.39%) CSS
6 428 (8.54%) Node.js
7 411 (8.20%) Spring
8 409 (8.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 372 (7.42%) jQuery
10 319 (6.36%) REST
11 318 (6.34%) Kafka
12 310 (6.18%) Web Services
13 281 (5.60%) ASP.NET
14 280 (5.58%) Vue
15 249 (4.97%) ASP.NET Core
16 241 (4.81%) Ember.js
17 238 (4.75%) Backbone.js
18 225 (4.49%) J2EE
19 181 (3.61%) Hibernate
20 170 (3.39%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 1,122 (22.38%) Algorithms
2 499 (9.95%) Cloud Native
3 475 (9.47%) Blockchain
4 426 (8.50%) Data Structures
5 423 (8.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 230 (4.59%) Social Media
7 217 (4.33%) e-Learning
8 182 (3.63%) Onboarding
8 182 (3.63%) Public Cloud
9 152 (3.03%) Hedge funds
10 149 (2.97%) Fixed Income
11 144 (2.87%) Product Ownership
12 134 (2.67%) Management Information System
13 131 (2.61%) IoT
14 102 (2.03%) Equities
15 86 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
16 75 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
17 67 (1.34%) Robotics
18 61 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 56 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 787 (15.70%) Linux
2 372 (7.42%) Windows
3 297 (5.92%) Android
4 256 (5.11%) Apple iOS
5 235 (4.69%) Ubuntu
6 212 (4.23%) Unix
7 66 (1.32%) CentOS
8 45 (0.90%) Solaris
9 42 (0.84%) Debian
10 40 (0.80%) Alpine Linux
11 32 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
11 32 (0.64%) Windows Server
12 23 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 9 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.16%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.14%) AIX
16 6 (0.12%) Windows 10
16 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
17 4 (0.080%) VMS
18 3 (0.060%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,779 (55.42%) Machine Learning
2 2,295 (45.77%) Agile
3 1,991 (39.71%) Software Engineering
4 1,476 (29.44%) CI/CD
5 1,326 (26.45%) SDLC
6 1,219 (24.31%) Operational Stability
7 919 (18.33%) Community of Practice
8 890 (17.75%) Visualisation
9 799 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 799 (15.94%) Full Stack Development
10 701 (13.98%) Computer Science
11 695 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
12 667 (13.30%) DevOps
13 657 (13.10%) Data Science
14 630 (12.56%) Analytics
15 591 (11.79%) Decision-Making
16 537 (10.71%) Risk Management
17 447 (8.92%) Cybersecurity
18 446 (8.90%) Microservices
19 431 (8.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,758 (35.06%) Python
2 1,648 (32.87%) SQL
3 1,452 (28.96%) Java
4 881 (17.57%) JavaScript
5 606 (12.09%) C#
6 531 (10.59%) TypeScript
7 275 (5.48%) Bash
8 237 (4.73%) PL/SQL
9 167 (3.33%) C++
10 120 (2.39%) C
11 118 (2.35%) Scala
12 99 (1.97%) R
13 72 (1.44%) Go
14 65 (1.30%) Kotlin
15 55 (1.10%) PHP
16 53 (1.06%) MATLAB
17 52 (1.04%) T-SQL
18 36 (0.72%) Lua
19 34 (0.68%) PowerShell
20 33 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,020 (20.34%) Degree
2 336 (6.70%) Security Cleared
3 314 (6.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 254 (5.07%) Master's Degree
5 238 (4.75%) SC Cleared
6 132 (2.63%) PhD
7 118 (2.35%) Azure Certification
8 108 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 78 (1.56%) DV Cleared
10 75 (1.50%) AWS Certification
11 60 (1.20%) DBS Check
12 53 (1.06%) PMI Certification
13 47 (0.94%) MCSA
14 46 (0.92%) MCSE
15 31 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
16 26 (0.52%) PMP
17 25 (0.50%) CISSP
18 22 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
19 17 (0.34%) CISM
20 14 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (2.21%) Data Quality
2 87 (1.74%) QA
3 74 (1.48%) SLA
4 45 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 29 (0.58%) WCAG
6 27 (0.54%) GDPR
7 23 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (0.44%) NIST
9 18 (0.36%) PMO
10 12 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.16%) IEC 61508
12 7 (0.14%) Def Stans
12 7 (0.14%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.12%) GRC
13 6 (0.12%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.12%) MiFID
13 6 (0.12%) NCSC
13 6 (0.12%) UCITS
14 5 (0.100%) COBIT
14 5 (0.100%) TickIT
System Software
1 368 (7.34%) Docker
2 245 (4.89%) Active Directory
3 100 (1.99%) HDFS
4 46 (0.92%) Firmware
5 44 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
6 31 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
8 11 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
9 6 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.100%) NFS
10 5 (0.100%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.080%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.060%) vSphere
13 2 (0.040%) IAG
14 1 (0.020%) KVM
14 1 (0.020%) Lustre
14 1 (0.020%) PowerHA
14 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 604 (12.05%) Kubernetes
2 427 (8.52%) Terraform
3 229 (4.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 210 (4.19%) Jamf Pro
5 135 (2.69%) Grafana
6 105 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 61 (1.22%) Ansible
8 44 (0.88%) Data Guard
8 44 (0.88%) Oracle RMAN
9 9 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.14%) Graphite
11 6 (0.12%) Nagios
12 5 (0.100%) SELinux
13 4 (0.080%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.060%) Argo
14 3 (0.060%) Backup Exec
14 3 (0.060%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.060%) NetBackup
15 2 (0.040%) EMC NetWorker
15 2 (0.040%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 735 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 515 (10.27%) Oracle
3 416 (8.30%) IBM
4 401 (8.00%) Red Hat
5 323 (6.44%) Databricks
6 231 (4.61%) Google
7 218 (4.35%) CyberArk
8 210 (4.19%) Tanium
9 168 (3.35%) Dynatrace
10 120 (2.39%) Splunk
11 92 (1.83%) Informatica
12 75 (1.50%) Alteryx
13 73 (1.46%) Cloudera
14 68 (1.36%) OpenAI
15 55 (1.10%) Salesforce
16 47 (0.94%) Sun
17 45 (0.90%) SAP
17 45 (0.90%) Xilinx
18 44 (0.88%) Remedy
19 43 (0.86%) VMware