The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Artificial Intelligence in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Artificial Intelligence over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Rank 806 814 841
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +27
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 56 85 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.052% 0.070% 0.032%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.155% 0.213% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 56 82 22
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +32.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £24,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £72,500 £69,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £23,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +52.17%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
36050 39991 43024
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 33.36% 33.14% 34.58%
Number of salaries quoted 29589 33707 36075
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%

Artificial Intelligence
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Artificial Intelligence Jobs Demand Trend

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the UK.

Artificial Intelligence Salary Trend

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Artificial Intelligence Salary Histogram

Artificial Intelligence
Top 22 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -4 55 £45,000 -
London +41 33 £70,000 +33.33%
South East +2 12 £32,500 -27.77%
Teddington -7 10 £44,500 -1.11%
East of England +3 7 £45,000 +76.47%
Cambridge - 7 £45,000 -
Cambridgeshire - 7 £45,000 -
Hampshire -6 6 £30,000 -33.33%
Winchester - 5 £30,000 -
Brighton - 4 £37,500 -
East Sussex - 4 £37,500 -
South West -11 2 £30,000 -14.28%
Surrey +3 1 £40,000 -46.66%
Southampton -4 1 £25,000 -44.44%
City of London -9 1 £35,000 -37.77%
East Midlands -11 1 £30,000 +22.44%
Bristol -16 1 £30,000 -14.28%
Kent - 1 £35,000 -
Dorset - 1 £30,000 -
Derbyshire - 1 £30,000 -
Derby - 1 £30,000 -
Bournemouth - 1 £30,000 -

Artificial Intelligence
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Artificial Intelligence also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Artificial Intelligence.

1 88 (75.21%) Computer Science
2 76 (64.96%) C++
3 63 (53.85%) Java
4 60 (51.28%) Degree
5 42 (35.90%) Mathematics
6 32 (27.35%) Python
6 32 (27.35%) PhD
7 30 (25.64%) OO
7 30 (25.64%) Games
7 30 (25.64%) Big Data
8 29 (24.79%) Erlang
8 29 (24.79%) C
9 28 (23.93%) Haskell
10 27 (23.08%) Physics
10 27 (23.08%) Hadoop
11 26 (22.22%) Multithreading
12 25 (21.37%) C#
13 24 (20.51%) JavaScript
14 23 (19.66%) PHP
15 22 (18.80%) MySQL
16 21 (17.95%) NoSQL
17 20 (17.09%) Agile Software Development
17 20 (17.09%) Perl
18 19 (16.24%) CSS
18 19 (16.24%) MVC
18 19 (16.24%) Neural Network
19 18 (15.38%) Finance
19 18 (15.38%) HTML5
20 17 (14.53%) XML
20 17 (14.53%) jQuery

Artificial Intelligence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Artificial Intelligence also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Artificial Intelligence. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (16.24%) CSS
2 18 (15.38%) HTML5
3 17 (14.53%) XML
3 17 (14.53%) jQuery
4 15 (12.82%) MapReduce
5 12 (10.26%) HTML
6 11 (9.402%) Lucene
7 8 (6.838%) MFC
7 8 (6.838%) .NET
8 7 (5.983%) Natural Language Processing
8 7 (5.983%) Spring
9 4 (3.419%) Hibernate
10 3 (2.564%) J2EE
10 3 (2.564%) Spring MVC
11 2 (1.709%) .NET Framework
11 2 (1.709%) SOAP
11 2 (1.709%) Underscore.js
12 1 (0.855%) Qt
12 1 (0.855%) Node.js
12 1 (0.855%) Twisted
Application Platforms
1 16 (13.68%) Apache Pig
2 2 (1.709%) SAS
2 2 (1.709%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.709%) MS Excel
1 2 (1.709%) MS Office
2 1 (0.855%) SPSS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.564%) Internet
2 2 (1.709%) SNMP
3 1 (0.855%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.855%) HTTP
3 1 (0.855%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (25.64%) Big Data
2 27 (23.08%) Hadoop
3 22 (18.80%) MySQL
4 21 (17.95%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.128%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.274%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (4.274%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.419%) Apache Hive
8 3 (2.564%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.855%) HBase
9 1 (0.855%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (3.419%) Maven
2 3 (2.564%) Git (software)
2 3 (2.564%) Subversion
3 2 (1.709%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.709%) PEAR
3 2 (1.709%) Capistrano
4 1 (0.855%) ANTLR
4 1 (0.855%) TestNG
4 1 (0.855%) Ant
4 1 (0.855%) JUnit
4 1 (0.855%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.855%) Selenium
General
1 30 (25.64%) Games
2 18 (15.38%) Finance
3 4 (3.419%) Advertising
4 3 (2.564%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.709%) Marketing
5 2 (1.709%) Banking
5 2 (1.709%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.855%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.855%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (41.88%) Developer
2 34 (29.06%) Software Engineer
3 22 (18.80%) Java Developer
4 19 (16.24%) Software Developer
5 18 (15.38%) Programmer
6 16 (13.68%) Software Programmer
7 15 (12.82%) C++ Software Engineer
8 14 (11.97%) C++ Programmer
9 13 (11.11%) C++ Developer
9 13 (11.11%) Graduate
10 12 (10.26%) GUI Developer
10 12 (10.26%) C++/Java Developer
11 11 (9.402%) Data Scientist
12 8 (6.838%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 6 (5.128%) Java Software Engineer
14 5 (4.274%) Research Scientist
15 3 (2.564%) Java Programmer
16 2 (1.709%) Graduate Programmer
16 2 (1.709%) Graduate Software Developer
16 2 (1.709%) Graduate Developer
Miscellaneous
1 88 (75.21%) Computer Science
2 42 (35.90%) Mathematics
3 27 (23.08%) Physics
4 19 (16.24%) Neural Network
5 16 (13.68%) Machine Learning
6 15 (12.82%) Visualisation
7 12 (10.26%) 3D Graphics
8 11 (9.402%) Hedge funds
9 7 (5.983%) Open Source
9 7 (5.983%) Statistics
10 4 (3.419%) Ontologies
10 4 (3.419%) Semantic Web
11 2 (1.709%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.855%) SaaS
12 1 (0.855%) CAN bus
12 1 (0.855%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.855%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.855%) Economics
12 1 (0.855%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.855%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.692%) Windows
2 8 (6.838%) Linux
3 2 (1.709%) Android
3 2 (1.709%) UNIX
4 1 (0.855%) Windows Phone
4 1 (0.855%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.855%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (25.64%) OO
2 26 (22.22%) Multithreading
3 20 (17.09%) Agile Software Development
4 19 (16.24%) MVC
5 15 (12.82%) Software Engineering
6 13 (11.11%) TDD
6 13 (11.11%) OOD
7 12 (10.26%) Parallel Computing
8 11 (9.402%) Data Analysis
9 10 (8.547%) Algorithmic Trading
10 8 (6.838%) Image Processing
11 6 (5.128%) E-Commerce
12 5 (4.274%) RDF
12 5 (4.274%) Pair Programming
12 5 (4.274%) Scrum
13 3 (2.564%) Data Visualisation
13 3 (2.564%) Data Modelling
13 3 (2.564%) Logistic Regression
14 2 (1.709%) Internet Marketing
14 2 (1.709%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 76 (64.96%) C++
2 63 (53.85%) Java
3 32 (27.35%) Python
4 29 (24.79%) Erlang
4 29 (24.79%) C
5 28 (23.93%) Haskell
6 25 (21.37%) C#
7 24 (20.51%) JavaScript
8 23 (19.66%) PHP
9 20 (17.09%) Perl
10 16 (13.68%) PHP5
11 15 (12.82%) Scala
12 12 (10.26%) Clojure
13 10 (8.547%) MATLAB
13 10 (8.547%) F#
14 5 (4.274%) SQL
15 2 (1.709%) Lua
15 2 (1.709%) Fortran
15 2 (1.709%) Delphi
16 1 (0.855%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 60 (51.28%) Degree
2 32 (27.35%) PhD
3 2 (1.709%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.855%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.709%) Nagios
1 2 (1.709%) Ganglia
1 2 (1.709%) Zenoss
1 2 (1.709%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (3.419%) Oracle
2 2 (1.709%) Red Hat
2 2 (1.709%) Microsoft
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