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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 120 79
Rank change year-on-year +75 -41 +34
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 4,940 3,010 6,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.01% 2.90% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.83% 3.03% 4.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,096 1,310 2,234
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% +4.55%

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 84,683 99,249 149,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,831 58,284 83,142
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,182 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 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 2 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 +128 3,562 £60,000 -11.11% 667
England +55 3,211 £70,000 -3.45% 1,323
Scotland +111 1,503 £65,000 - 41
Work from Home +22 1,459 £62,500 -10.71% 646
London +60 1,206 £85,000 +6.25% 660
South East +98 772 £67,500 -15.63% 236
North of England +63 475 £51,528 -19.52% 123
Midlands +119 328 £55,000 -13.04% 88
North West +68 320 £47,500 -20.83% 78
South West +31 260 £58,100 -10.62% 92
West Midlands +83 172 £60,000 -7.69% 48
East Midlands +89 159 £47,500 -5.00% 40
Yorkshire +34 135 £61,250 -6.27% 39
East of England +38 121 £65,000 - 108
Wales +65 69 £66,633 +48.07% 8
Northern Ireland +61 36 £130,000 +73.33% 11
North East +9 20 £51,250 -6.82% 7
Channel Islands - 2 - -

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
1 332 (6.72%) Apache Spark
2 118 (2.39%) Apache
3 117 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 101 (2.04%) FileNet
5 81 (1.64%) SharePoint
6 55 (1.11%) nginx
7 53 (1.07%) Confluence
8 45 (0.91%) Oracle Service Bus
8 45 (0.91%) WebLogic
9 37 (0.75%) SAS
10 36 (0.73%) Camunda
11 18 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.28%) IIS
13 12 (0.24%) WordPress
14 11 (0.22%) CICS
14 11 (0.22%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.14%) CMS
15 7 (0.14%) OpenStack
16 6 (0.12%) Drupal
17 5 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 90 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (1.34%) Chatbot
4 56 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 55 (1.11%) Simulink
6 23 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.14%) Trello
9 6 (0.12%) EViews
9 6 (0.12%) Stateflow
10 4 (0.081%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.020%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
11 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 45 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 44 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.28%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.16%) Siebel CRM
6 7 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.10%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.081%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.081%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.061%) 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%) Primavera
11 1 (0.020%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,454 (29.43%) AWS
2 1,375 (27.83%) Azure
3 395 (8.00%) IBM Cloud
4 392 (7.94%) Power Platform
5 341 (6.90%) GCP
6 254 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
7 234 (4.74%) Entra ID
8 203 (4.11%) Serverless
9 186 (3.77%) SaaS
10 173 (3.50%) Amazon S3
11 140 (2.83%) Azure Functions
12 133 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
13 132 (2.67%) Azure Service Bus
14 126 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
15 125 (2.53%) Azure API Management
16 124 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
17 102 (2.06%) PowerApps
18 97 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
18 97 (1.96%) GitHub
19 95 (1.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.49%) 5G
2 216 (4.37%) Broadband
3 38 (0.77%) TCP/IP
4 37 (0.75%) DNS
5 31 (0.63%) Firewall
6 30 (0.61%) HTTP
7 19 (0.38%) Network Security
7 19 (0.38%) Unified Communications
7 19 (0.38%) WAN
8 18 (0.36%) DSL
8 18 (0.36%) VPN
9 17 (0.34%) Internet
9 17 (0.34%) LAN
10 14 (0.28%) MQTT
11 11 (0.22%) Intranet
11 11 (0.22%) Wireless
12 9 (0.18%) SAN
12 9 (0.18%) WLAN
13 8 (0.16%) SSL
14 7 (0.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 789 (15.97%) NoSQL
2 497 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
3 387 (7.83%) MongoDB
4 312 (6.32%) SQL Server
5 310 (6.28%) Big Data
6 305 (6.17%) Power BI
7 270 (5.47%) DB2
8 254 (5.14%) Relational Database
9 222 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
10 210 (4.25%) Data Lake
11 191 (3.87%) Oracle Database
12 163 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
13 150 (3.04%) Oracle Database 11g
14 134 (2.71%) Apache Cassandra
14 134 (2.71%) Hadoop
15 117 (2.37%) Apache Hive
16 112 (2.27%) Tableau
17 102 (2.06%) HBase
18 101 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 96 (1.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 363 (7.35%) Git
2 201 (4.07%) Jenkins
2 201 (4.07%) JUnit
3 181 (3.66%) Cypress.io
4 126 (2.55%) Selenium
5 105 (2.13%) Jasmine
6 99 (2.00%) JIRA
7 86 (1.74%) Bitbucket Server
8 63 (1.28%) WebDriver
9 61 (1.23%) GitLab
10 60 (1.21%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (1.21%) Protractor
11 45 (0.91%) Mockito
12 25 (0.51%) Android Studio
13 21 (0.43%) JMeter
14 20 (0.40%) SoapUI
15 15 (0.30%) LabVIEW
15 15 (0.30%) Maven
16 12 (0.24%) Vagrant
16 12 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,074 (41.98%) Finance
2 1,986 (40.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,530 (30.97%) Law
4 923 (18.68%) Social Skills
5 873 (17.67%) Marketing
6 595 (12.04%) Legal
7 592 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
8 586 (11.86%) Public Sector
9 523 (10.59%) Banking
10 287 (5.81%) Investment Banking
11 227 (4.60%) Retail
12 177 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
13 128 (2.59%) Front Office
14 118 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
15 90 (1.82%) Manufacturing
16 88 (1.78%) Financial Institution
17 70 (1.42%) Games
18 59 (1.19%) Telecoms
19 52 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
20 39 (0.79%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,576 (31.90%) Software Engineer
2 933 (18.89%) Senior
3 893 (18.08%) Developer
4 701 (14.19%) Lead
5 602 (12.19%) Java Engineer
6 583 (11.80%) Java Software Engineer
7 448 (9.07%) Full Stack Engineer
8 410 (8.30%) Lead Software Engineer
9 338 (6.84%) Python Engineer
10 317 (6.42%) Architect
11 292 (5.91%) Python Software Engineer
12 284 (5.75%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 252 (5.10%) Data Engineer
14 248 (5.02%) Senior Developer
15 228 (4.62%) Full Stack Developer
16 218 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
17 211 (4.27%) Linux Specialist
17 211 (4.27%) Technical Specialist
18 205 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
19 200 (4.05%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 960 (19.43%) React
2 627 (12.69%) AngularJS
3 556 (11.26%) HTML
4 531 (10.75%) .NET
5 521 (10.55%) CSS
6 422 (8.54%) Node.js
7 418 (8.46%) Spring
8 397 (8.04%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 359 (7.27%) jQuery
10 326 (6.60%) Kafka
11 312 (6.32%) REST
12 292 (5.91%) Web Services
13 269 (5.45%) ASP.NET
14 267 (5.40%) Vue
15 237 (4.80%) ASP.NET Core
16 229 (4.64%) Ember.js
17 226 (4.57%) Backbone.js
17 226 (4.57%) J2EE
18 180 (3.64%) Hibernate
19 171 (3.46%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 1,098 (22.23%) Algorithms
2 501 (10.14%) Cloud Native
3 457 (9.25%) Blockchain
4 415 (8.40%) Data Structures
5 410 (8.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 229 (4.64%) Social Media
7 207 (4.19%) e-Learning
8 194 (3.93%) Public Cloud
9 180 (3.64%) Onboarding
10 150 (3.04%) Product Ownership
11 131 (2.65%) Hedge funds
11 131 (2.65%) Management Information System
12 128 (2.59%) Fixed Income
13 111 (2.25%) IoT
14 84 (1.70%) Equities
15 82 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
16 74 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
17 71 (1.44%) Robotics
18 60 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 52 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 750 (15.18%) Linux
2 360 (7.29%) Windows
3 280 (5.67%) Android
4 250 (5.06%) Apple iOS
5 226 (4.57%) Ubuntu
6 224 (4.53%) Unix
7 59 (1.19%) CentOS
8 45 (0.91%) Solaris
9 42 (0.85%) Debian
10 40 (0.81%) Alpine Linux
11 32 (0.65%) Windows Server
12 23 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
13 15 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 10 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 9 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
16 7 (0.14%) VMS
16 7 (0.14%) Windows 10
17 6 (0.12%) AIX
17 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
18 3 (0.061%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,744 (55.55%) Machine Learning
2 2,338 (47.33%) Agile
3 1,947 (39.41%) Software Engineering
4 1,500 (30.36%) CI/CD
5 1,362 (27.57%) SDLC
6 1,256 (25.43%) Operational Stability
7 939 (19.01%) Community of Practice
8 891 (18.04%) Visualisation
9 804 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 773 (15.65%) Full Stack Development
11 691 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
12 689 (13.95%) Computer Science
13 658 (13.32%) Data Science
14 647 (13.10%) Analytics
15 638 (12.91%) DevOps
16 590 (11.94%) Decision-Making
17 543 (10.99%) Risk Management
18 458 (9.27%) Microservices
19 456 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
20 431 (8.72%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,677 (33.95%) Python
2 1,652 (33.44%) SQL
3 1,442 (29.19%) Java
4 854 (17.29%) JavaScript
5 594 (12.02%) C#
6 512 (10.36%) TypeScript
7 271 (5.49%) Bash
8 257 (5.20%) PL/SQL
9 136 (2.75%) C++
10 127 (2.57%) Scala
11 104 (2.11%) C
12 100 (2.02%) R
13 72 (1.46%) Go
14 62 (1.26%) PHP
15 54 (1.09%) T-SQL
16 53 (1.07%) Kotlin
17 47 (0.95%) MATLAB
18 36 (0.73%) Lua
19 35 (0.71%) PowerShell
19 35 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,046 (21.17%) Degree
2 305 (6.17%) Security Cleared
3 294 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 230 (4.66%) Master's Degree
5 213 (4.31%) SC Cleared
6 131 (2.65%) PhD
7 106 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 92 (1.86%) Azure Certification
9 53 (1.07%) PMI Certification
10 48 (0.97%) AWS Certification
10 48 (0.97%) DV Cleared
11 47 (0.95%) MCSA
12 46 (0.93%) MCSE
13 43 (0.87%) DBS Check
14 33 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
15 26 (0.53%) PMP
16 25 (0.51%) CISSP
17 24 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
18 17 (0.34%) CISM
19 14 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 78 (1.58%) QA
3 76 (1.54%) SLA
4 48 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 35 (0.71%) WCAG
6 26 (0.53%) GDPR
7 23 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (0.45%) NIST
9 19 (0.38%) PMO
10 13 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.14%) IEC 61508
11 7 (0.14%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.12%) COBIT
12 6 (0.12%) Def Stans
12 6 (0.12%) GRC
12 6 (0.12%) NCSC
13 5 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.10%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.10%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.10%) TickIT
System Software
1 385 (7.79%) Docker
2 247 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 103 (2.09%) HDFS
4 45 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
5 41 (0.83%) Firmware
6 34 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
8 11 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
9 6 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.081%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.061%) NFS
11 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.061%) vSphere
12 2 (0.040%) IAG
13 1 (0.020%) KVM
13 1 (0.020%) Lustre
13 1 (0.020%) QEMU
13 1 (0.020%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 586 (11.86%) Kubernetes
2 423 (8.56%) Terraform
3 230 (4.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 211 (4.27%) Jamf Pro
5 139 (2.81%) Grafana
6 105 (2.13%) Prometheus
7 45 (0.91%) Data Guard
7 45 (0.91%) Oracle RMAN
8 39 (0.79%) Ansible
9 10 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.14%) Graphite
11 5 (0.10%) SELinux
12 4 (0.081%) Argo
12 4 (0.081%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.081%) Nagios
12 4 (0.081%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.061%) Backup Exec
13 3 (0.061%) SCCM
14 2 (0.040%) EMC NetWorker
14 2 (0.040%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 745 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 535 (10.83%) Oracle
3 406 (8.22%) IBM
4 388 (7.85%) Red Hat
5 320 (6.48%) Databricks
6 228 (4.62%) Google
7 218 (4.41%) CyberArk
8 210 (4.25%) Tanium
9 166 (3.36%) Dynatrace
10 120 (2.43%) Splunk
11 92 (1.86%) Informatica
12 80 (1.62%) Alteryx
13 75 (1.52%) Cloudera
14 63 (1.28%) OpenAI
15 53 (1.07%) Salesforce
16 47 (0.95%) SAP
16 47 (0.95%) Sun
17 46 (0.93%) Remedy
18 42 (0.85%) VMware
19 38 (0.77%) ServiceNow