Artificial Intelligence Engineer Jobs

AI Engineer
UK

The median AI Engineer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 852 987 1185
Rank change year-on-year +135 +198 -319
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 42 6 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.006% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.006% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 20 4 24
10th Percentile £41,125 £41,938 £53,750
25th Percentile £52,813 £52,344 £59,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £73,125 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +17.94% +7.83%
75th Percentile £121,875 £89,063 £85,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £89,625 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £61,250 £62,000
% change year-on-year -10.20% -1.21% +24.00%

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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +144 31 £90,000 +23.08% 39
UK excluding London +13 21 £55,000 -10.20% 17
London - 11 £115,000 - 21
Scotland - 10 £70,000 - 1
Work from Home +87 5 £55,000 -31.25% 22
North of England - 4 £47,500 - 4
East of England - 3 £90,000 - 3
South East +28 2 - - 6
Yorkshire - 2 £40,000 - 3
Midlands - 2 £65,000 - 1
North West - 2 £55,000 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £55,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 1

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Artificial Intelligence 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 Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (97.62%) Artificial Intelligence
2 30 (71.43%) Python
2 30 (71.43%) Machine Learning
3 23 (54.76%) Computer Vision
3 23 (54.76%) PyTorch
4 22 (52.38%) TensorFlow
4 22 (52.38%) Deep Learning
5 20 (47.62%) Software Engineering
6 19 (45.24%) Algorithms
6 19 (45.24%) Natural Language Processing
6 19 (45.24%) CI/CD
7 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
7 17 (40.48%) AWS
8 14 (33.33%) Finance
8 14 (33.33%) Databricks
8 14 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
9 13 (30.95%) Data Science
9 13 (30.95%) LLM
10 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (28.57%) Analytics
10 12 (28.57%) Azure
11 11 (26.19%) Degree
11 11 (26.19%) scikit-learn
12 10 (23.81%) Keras
12 10 (23.81%) Data Analytics
12 10 (23.81%) GCP
12 10 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (23.81%) Statistical Analysis
12 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared

Artificial Intelligence 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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Simulink
1 2 (4.76%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) AWS
2 14 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 12 (28.57%) Azure
4 10 (23.81%) GCP
5 9 (21.43%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (2.38%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (19.05%) MySQL
3 6 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 4 (9.52%) Big Data
5 2 (4.76%) Data Mining
5 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.76%) Neo4j
5 2 (4.76%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) CircleCI
2 3 (7.14%) GitLab
2 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.76%) Git
3 2 (4.76%) MLflow
3 2 (4.76%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
General
1 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 14 (33.33%) Finance
2 14 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (16.67%) Health Technology
3 7 (16.67%) Law
3 7 (16.67%) Legal
3 7 (16.67%) Marketing
3 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (54.76%) PyTorch
2 22 (52.38%) TensorFlow
3 11 (26.19%) scikit-learn
4 10 (23.81%) Keras
5 9 (21.43%) Flask
5 9 (21.43%) SpaCy
6 7 (16.67%) MXNet
6 7 (16.67%) OpenCV
7 5 (11.90%) OpenVINO
8 4 (9.52%) RESTful
9 3 (7.14%) NumPy
10 2 (4.76%) Django
10 2 (4.76%) FastAPI
10 2 (4.76%) Gensim
10 2 (4.76%) ggplot
10 2 (4.76%) Kafka
10 2 (4.76%) LangChain
10 2 (4.76%) Matplotlib
10 2 (4.76%) NLTK
11 1 (2.38%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 19 (45.24%) Algorithms
2 7 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.76%) IoT
4 2 (4.76%) Social Network
4 2 (4.76%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (2.38%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (97.62%) Artificial Intelligence
2 30 (71.43%) Machine Learning
3 23 (54.76%) Computer Vision
4 22 (52.38%) Deep Learning
5 20 (47.62%) Software Engineering
6 19 (45.24%) CI/CD
6 19 (45.24%) Natural Language Processing
7 13 (30.95%) Data Science
7 13 (30.95%) LLM
8 12 (28.57%) Analytics
8 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (23.81%) Data Analytics
9 10 (23.81%) Generative AI
9 10 (23.81%) Statistical Analysis
10 9 (21.43%) Computer Science
10 9 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (21.43%) Decision Tree
10 9 (21.43%) Reinforcement Learning
10 9 (21.43%) Support Vector Machines
10 9 (21.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (71.43%) Python
2 7 (16.67%) SQL
3 5 (11.90%) Java
3 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
3 5 (11.90%) R
3 5 (11.90%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.76%) C++
4 2 (4.76%) MATLAB
4 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.38%) Bash
5 1 (2.38%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) Go
5 1 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Degree
2 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
3 9 (21.43%) Master's Degree
4 7 (16.67%) PhD
4 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 6 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (4.76%) Kubeflow
3 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (33.33%) Databricks
2 7 (16.67%) Dataiku
2 7 (16.67%) Google
3 2 (4.76%) OpenAI