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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 122 76
Rank change year-on-year +77 -46 +31
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 5,009 2,748 7,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.80% 2.88% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.73% 3.02% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,154 1,202 2,260
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.49% +5.38%
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% +9.00%

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 87,477 90,991 161,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.84% 95.49% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,023 54,512 83,003
10th Percentile £29,250 £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 31 May 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 31 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
UK excluding London +136 3,588 £60,000 -11.11% 551
England +56 3,288 £70,000 -6.67% 1,258
Work from Home +25 1,486 £62,783 -10.31% 605
Scotland +105 1,467 £65,000 - 31
London +54 1,245 £87,500 +9.38% 701
South East +103 813 £65,000 -18.75% 175
North of England +72 478 £50,500 -22.31% 128
Midlands +124 328 £55,000 -8.33% 49
North West +58 324 £47,500 -26.92% 82
South West +25 259 £58,700 -11.40% 77
West Midlands +67 167 £58,700 -7.19% 38
East Midlands +84 161 £47,500 -2.56% 11
Yorkshire +43 134 £62,500 -4.36% 37
East of England +39 123 £65,000 - 80
Wales +61 72 £66,633 +51.44% 9
Northern Ireland +60 46 £100,000 +33.33% 9
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
1 325 (6.49%) Apache Spark
2 134 (2.68%) Apache
3 132 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
4 99 (1.98%) FileNet
5 69 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 53 (1.06%) nginx
7 51 (1.02%) 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%) Drupal
16 5 (0.100%) Umbraco
Applications
1 90 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (1.38%) 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 6 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
7 5 (0.100%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.100%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.060%) Shopify
10 2 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.040%) SAP EWM
10 2 (0.040%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.040%) SAP GRC
10 2 (0.040%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.040%) SAP SD
11 1 (0.020%) Distributed Ledger
11 1 (0.020%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,472 (29.39%) AWS
2 1,434 (28.63%) Azure
3 408 (8.15%) IBM Cloud
4 387 (7.73%) Power Platform
5 333 (6.65%) GCP
6 249 (4.97%) 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 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
12 136 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
13 130 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 129 (2.58%) Azure API Management
15 121 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
16 108 (2.16%) PowerApps
17 99 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
18 95 (1.90%) Datadog
19 92 (1.84%) 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%) DSL
8 17 (0.34%) LAN
8 17 (0.34%) VPN
9 11 (0.22%) Intranet
9 11 (0.22%) Wireless
10 10 (0.20%) WLAN
11 9 (0.18%) SAN
12 8 (0.16%) SSL
13 7 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 788 (15.73%) NoSQL
2 502 (10.02%) PostgreSQL
3 395 (7.89%) MongoDB
4 308 (6.15%) Power BI
5 306 (6.11%) Big Data
5 306 (6.11%) SQL Server
6 283 (5.65%) DB2
7 264 (5.27%) Relational Database
8 237 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
9 221 (4.41%) Data Lake
10 180 (3.59%) Oracle Database
11 160 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
12 135 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
12 135 (2.70%) Oracle Database 11g
13 132 (2.64%) Hadoop
14 125 (2.50%) Tableau
15 113 (2.26%) Apache Hive
16 103 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 101 (2.02%) Apache Ignite
18 100 (2.00%) HBase
Development Applications
1 372 (7.43%) Git
2 203 (4.05%) JUnit
3 193 (3.85%) Cypress.io
4 192 (3.83%) Jenkins
5 122 (2.44%) Selenium
6 105 (2.10%) Jasmine
7 94 (1.88%) JIRA
8 85 (1.70%) 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 18 (0.36%) Vagrant
17 16 (0.32%) LabVIEW
18 15 (0.30%) Maven
19 13 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,063 (41.19%) Finance
2 1,975 (39.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,508 (30.11%) Law
4 960 (19.17%) Social Skills
5 851 (16.99%) Marketing
6 601 (12.00%) Legal
7 600 (11.98%) Public Sector
8 584 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
9 512 (10.22%) Banking
10 285 (5.69%) Investment Banking
11 218 (4.35%) Retail
12 199 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
13 149 (2.97%) Front Office
14 109 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
15 92 (1.84%) Manufacturing
16 87 (1.74%) Games
17 84 (1.68%) Financial Institution
18 57 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
19 55 (1.10%) Telecoms
20 41 (0.82%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,617 (32.28%) Software Engineer
2 943 (18.83%) Developer
3 938 (18.73%) Senior
4 707 (14.11%) Lead
5 595 (11.88%) Java Engineer
6 575 (11.48%) Java Software Engineer
7 457 (9.12%) Full Stack Engineer
8 410 (8.19%) Lead Software Engineer
9 354 (7.07%) Python Engineer
10 311 (6.21%) Python Software Engineer
11 305 (6.09%) Architect
12 289 (5.77%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 245 (4.89%) Data Engineer
13 245 (4.89%) Full Stack Developer
14 227 (4.53%) Senior Developer
15 221 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
16 216 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
17 215 (4.29%) Consultant
18 211 (4.21%) Linux Specialist
18 211 (4.21%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 953 (19.03%) React
2 642 (12.82%) AngularJS
3 562 (11.22%) HTML
4 532 (10.62%) .NET
5 522 (10.42%) CSS
6 428 (8.54%) Node.js
7 414 (8.27%) Spring
8 409 (8.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 372 (7.43%) jQuery
10 321 (6.41%) Kafka
11 320 (6.39%) REST
12 310 (6.19%) Web Services
13 281 (5.61%) ASP.NET
14 280 (5.59%) Vue
15 249 (4.97%) ASP.NET Core
16 241 (4.81%) Ember.js
17 238 (4.75%) Backbone.js
18 226 (4.51%) J2EE
19 181 (3.61%) Hibernate
20 171 (3.41%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 1,126 (22.48%) Algorithms
2 504 (10.06%) Cloud Native
3 475 (9.48%) 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
8 186 (3.71%) Public Cloud
9 184 (3.67%) Onboarding
10 152 (3.03%) Hedge funds
11 149 (2.97%) Fixed Income
12 145 (2.89%) Product Ownership
13 136 (2.72%) Management Information System
14 131 (2.62%) IoT
15 102 (2.04%) Equities
16 86 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
17 75 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
18 67 (1.34%) Robotics
19 61 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 56 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 783 (15.63%) Linux
2 372 (7.43%) Windows
3 295 (5.89%) Android
4 256 (5.11%) Apple iOS
5 233 (4.65%) Ubuntu
6 213 (4.25%) Unix
7 64 (1.28%) CentOS
8 45 (0.90%) Solaris
9 42 (0.84%) Debian
10 40 (0.80%) Alpine Linux
11 32 (0.64%) Windows Server
12 30 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
13 21 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 9 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.16%) Mac OS
16 7 (0.14%) AIX
17 6 (0.12%) Windows 10
17 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
18 4 (0.080%) VMS
19 3 (0.060%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,781 (55.52%) Machine Learning
2 2,312 (46.16%) Agile
3 1,995 (39.83%) Software Engineering
4 1,489 (29.73%) CI/CD
5 1,341 (26.77%) SDLC
6 1,235 (24.66%) Operational Stability
7 929 (18.55%) Community of Practice
8 896 (17.89%) Visualisation
9 805 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 802 (16.01%) Full Stack Development
11 698 (13.93%) Computer Science
12 697 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
13 659 (13.16%) DevOps
14 657 (13.12%) Data Science
15 630 (12.58%) Analytics
16 596 (11.90%) Decision-Making
17 541 (10.80%) Risk Management
18 447 (8.92%) Cybersecurity
18 447 (8.92%) Microservices
19 431 (8.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,755 (35.04%) Python
2 1,656 (33.06%) SQL
3 1,460 (29.15%) Java
4 877 (17.51%) JavaScript
5 605 (12.08%) C#
6 527 (10.52%) TypeScript
7 275 (5.49%) Bash
8 239 (4.77%) PL/SQL
9 162 (3.23%) C++
10 121 (2.42%) Scala
11 118 (2.36%) C
12 99 (1.98%) R
13 72 (1.44%) Go
14 63 (1.26%) 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 1,017 (20.30%) Degree
2 328 (6.55%) Security Cleared
3 310 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 254 (5.07%) Master's Degree
5 232 (4.63%) SC Cleared
6 132 (2.64%) PhD
7 118 (2.36%) Azure Certification
8 108 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 76 (1.52%) AWS Certification
10 71 (1.42%) DV Cleared
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 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 87 (1.74%) QA
3 75 (1.50%) SLA
4 47 (0.94%) 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 (7.35%) Docker
2 245 (4.89%) Active Directory
3 101 (2.02%) 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%) PowerHA
14 1 (0.020%) QEMU
14 1 (0.020%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 601 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 426 (8.50%) Terraform
3 229 (4.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 210 (4.19%) Jamf Pro
5 135 (2.70%) Grafana
6 105 (2.10%) Prometheus
7 59 (1.18%) 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 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 519 (10.36%) Oracle
3 416 (8.31%) IBM
4 401 (8.01%) Red Hat
5 326 (6.51%) Databricks
6 231 (4.61%) Google
7 218 (4.35%) CyberArk
8 210 (4.19%) Tanium
9 168 (3.35%) Dynatrace
10 120 (2.40%) Splunk
11 92 (1.84%) Informatica
12 76 (1.52%) Alteryx
13 74 (1.48%) Cloudera
14 68 (1.36%) OpenAI
15 55 (1.10%) Salesforce
16 47 (0.94%) Sun
17 45 (0.90%) SAP
18 44 (0.88%) Remedy
19 43 (0.86%) ServiceNow
19 43 (0.86%) VMware