Artificial Intelligence Jobs

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 50 121
Rank change year-on-year +8 +71 -42
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 2,671 4,375 3,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.28% 4.71% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.65% 5.43% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,443 1,922 1,401
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £43,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +4.48%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £92,321
90th Percentile £118,990 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,206 £60,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +10.34% -8.19% +17.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Artificial Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47,277 80,571 105,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.52% 86.76% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 25,823 58,144 61,428
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,404 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.26% +3.81%

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 3 April 2025.

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 3 April 2025. 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 +29 2,408 £75,000 +7.14% 6,358
UK excluding London +3 1,606 £66,206 +10.34% 2,249
Work from Home +35 978 £66,225 +5.96% 3,111
London +18 970 £95,000 +11.76% 4,590
South East +28 429 £70,000 +3.70% 691
North of England +33 351 £65,000 +26.79% 501
East of England +90 253 £66,225 +1.88% 268
North West -7 216 £72,500 +52.63% 312
Midlands +15 195 £62,500 +13.64% 279
South West +42 193 £60,000 +2.21% 273
West Midlands +27 145 £60,000 +2.21% 180
Scotland -43 142 £45,000 -30.82% 195
Yorkshire +57 121 £45,000 -25.00% 125
East Midlands +4 50 £65,000 +36.84% 96
Wales +13 25 £62,500 +4.17% 39
Northern Ireland +27 18 £97,500 - 24
North East +43 14 £69,769 +46.88% 65
Isle of Man - 1 - -

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 52 (1.95%) Apache Spark
2 30 (1.12%) Jupyter
3 27 (1.01%) SharePoint
4 26 (0.97%) Apache
5 25 (0.94%) CMS
6 24 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (0.67%) Confluence
8 9 (0.34%) nginx
8 9 (0.34%) WordPress
9 8 (0.30%) Camunda
10 6 (0.22%) Kinematics
10 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.22%) SAS
11 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.11%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.11%) Kentico
14 2 (0.075%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 208 (7.79%) Chatbot
2 38 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.41%) Maya
3 11 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.37%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.19%) Trello
6 4 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.15%) Blender
6 4 (0.15%) Simulink
6 4 (0.15%) SPSS
7 2 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.075%) Autodesk Inventor
7 2 (0.075%) CATIA
7 2 (0.075%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (0.075%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.037%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.037%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 19 (0.71%) Dynamics AX
2 12 (0.45%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 9 (0.34%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.15%) Relativity
7 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.11%) Sprinklr
8 2 (0.075%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.075%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.037%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.037%) Finacle
9 1 (0.037%) GoldMine
9 1 (0.037%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.037%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.037%) SAP LE
9 1 (0.037%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 564 (21.12%) AWS
2 433 (16.21%) Azure
3 218 (8.16%) Power Platform
4 183 (6.85%) GCP
5 124 (4.64%) Serverless
6 118 (4.42%) SaaS
7 82 (3.07%) ChatGPT
8 64 (2.40%) Anthropic Claude
9 60 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 59 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
11 55 (2.06%) IBM Cloud
12 47 (1.76%) GitHub
12 47 (1.76%) Microsoft Copilot
13 45 (1.68%) Power Automate
14 43 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
15 41 (1.54%) Snowflake
16 40 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
17 39 (1.46%) Azure Machine Learning
17 39 (1.46%) PaaS
18 38 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 104 (3.89%) Intrusion Detection
2 36 (1.35%) Firewall
3 31 (1.16%) DNS
4 21 (0.79%) VPN
5 20 (0.75%) DHCP
5 20 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 17 (0.64%) Internet
7 16 (0.60%) WAN
8 15 (0.56%) Network Security
9 12 (0.45%) LAN
10 9 (0.34%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.26%) VoIP
11 7 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.22%) BGP
12 6 (0.22%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.19%) MPLS
13 5 (0.19%) OSPF
13 5 (0.19%) SAN
13 5 (0.19%) VLAN
14 4 (0.15%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (7.30%) Power BI
2 144 (5.39%) Big Data
3 84 (3.14%) NoSQL
4 59 (2.21%) SQL Server
5 55 (2.06%) Tableau
6 48 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
7 41 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (1.46%) Relational Database
9 33 (1.24%) MySQL
10 31 (1.16%) Data Lake
11 30 (1.12%) MongoDB
12 28 (1.05%) BigQuery
12 28 (1.05%) Data Mining
13 26 (0.97%) Metadata
14 23 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (0.82%) Hadoop
16 14 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
17 13 (0.49%) Neo4j
18 12 (0.45%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 155 (5.80%) Git
2 61 (2.28%) JIRA
3 28 (1.05%) Cypress.io
4 27 (1.01%) Selenium
5 24 (0.90%) Jenkins
6 21 (0.79%) GitLab
7 15 (0.56%) Maven
7 15 (0.56%) MLflow
8 11 (0.41%) SoapUI
9 9 (0.34%) Visual Studio
9 9 (0.34%) webpack
10 7 (0.26%) Vite
11 6 (0.22%) JDeveloper
11 6 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
11 6 (0.22%) Terragrunt
12 5 (0.19%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.19%) JUnit
12 5 (0.19%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.15%) Babel
13 4 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 799 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 700 (26.21%) Finance
3 486 (18.20%) Analytical Skills
4 317 (11.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 249 (9.32%) Banking
6 242 (9.06%) Law
7 197 (7.38%) Marketing
8 187 (7.00%) Telecoms
9 134 (5.02%) Games
10 126 (4.72%) Retail
11 124 (4.64%) Public Sector
12 115 (4.31%) Legal
13 112 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
14 100 (3.74%) Manufacturing
15 82 (3.07%) Advertising
16 44 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
16 44 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
17 36 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
17 36 (1.35%) Publishing
18 35 (1.31%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 443 (16.59%) Senior
2 298 (11.16%) Lead
3 286 (10.71%) Architect
4 217 (8.12%) Developer
5 216 (8.09%) Software Engineer
6 173 (6.48%) Analyst
7 145 (5.43%) Trainer
8 133 (4.98%) Data Scientist
9 113 (4.23%) Graduate
10 112 (4.19%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 102 (3.82%) Security Architect
12 89 (3.33%) Data Engineer
12 89 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 86 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
14 83 (3.11%) Senior Manager
15 76 (2.85%) Product Manager
16 69 (2.58%) Junior
17 65 (2.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 63 (2.36%) Digital Analyst
19 61 (2.28%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (9.73%) HTML
2 250 (9.36%) React
3 98 (3.67%) PyTorch
4 94 (3.52%) TensorFlow
5 86 (3.22%) .NET
6 80 (3.00%) AngularJS
7 74 (2.77%) Node.js
8 65 (2.43%) React Native
9 63 (2.36%) scikit-learn
10 60 (2.25%) Software Packaging
11 54 (2.02%) CSS
12 51 (1.91%) Pandas
13 50 (1.87%) NumPy
14 48 (1.80%) REST
15 40 (1.50%) Next.js
16 38 (1.42%) Kafka
17 34 (1.27%) RESTful
18 29 (1.09%) Django
19 27 (1.01%) Jest
19 27 (1.01%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 269 (10.07%) Algorithms
2 178 (6.66%) Management Information System
3 164 (6.14%) Robotics
4 150 (5.62%) Cyberattack
5 125 (4.68%) Blockchain
6 103 (3.86%) Cloud Native
7 74 (2.77%) Product Ownership
8 67 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 58 (2.17%) Onboarding
10 55 (2.06%) Digital Media
11 52 (1.95%) Marketing Technology
12 45 (1.68%) Data Centre
13 40 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
14 39 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
14 39 (1.46%) Hedge funds
15 36 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
16 35 (1.31%) IoT
17 34 (1.27%) Learning Management System
18 33 (1.24%) Derivative
18 33 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 61 (2.28%) Windows
2 56 (2.10%) Linux
3 44 (1.65%) Apple iOS
4 27 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.52%) Android
6 10 (0.37%) Robot Operating System
7 9 (0.34%) Unix
7 9 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.11%) Rocky
12 2 (0.075%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.075%) VMS
13 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 925 (34.63%) Machine Learning
2 729 (27.29%) Analytics
3 641 (24.00%) Agile
4 599 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
5 546 (20.44%) Decision-Making
6 492 (18.42%) Software Engineering
7 434 (16.25%) Data Science
8 416 (15.57%) Generative AI
9 390 (14.60%) Mentoring
10 371 (13.89%) LLM
11 365 (13.67%) Roadmaps
12 327 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
13 316 (11.83%) Computer Science
14 293 (10.97%) DevOps
15 288 (10.78%) Mathematics
16 264 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
17 249 (9.32%) Data Analytics
18 234 (8.76%) Risk Management
19 222 (8.31%) Conversational UI
20 201 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 968 (36.24%) Python
2 405 (15.16%) SQL
3 350 (13.10%) JavaScript
4 257 (9.62%) C#
5 193 (7.23%) Java
6 176 (6.59%) C++
7 146 (5.47%) TypeScript
8 58 (2.17%) R
9 39 (1.46%) Scala
10 33 (1.24%) Bash
10 33 (1.24%) Go
11 31 (1.16%) PowerShell
12 26 (0.97%) C
12 26 (0.97%) PHP
13 24 (0.90%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.71%) MATLAB
15 14 (0.52%) Rust
16 11 (0.41%) Clojure
16 11 (0.41%) Elixir
16 11 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 861 (32.24%) Degree
2 321 (12.02%) Security Cleared
3 217 (8.12%) Master's Degree
4 190 (7.11%) DV Cleared
5 166 (6.21%) PhD
6 146 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 85 (3.18%) SC Cleared
8 50 (1.87%) Azure Certification
9 38 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
10 24 (0.90%) DBS Check
11 22 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (0.79%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.79%) CISA
13 19 (0.71%) ISACA
14 13 (0.49%) CBAP
15 10 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.34%) CCNA
16 9 (0.34%) CISSP
16 9 (0.34%) MBA
17 8 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (2.96%) Accessibility
2 77 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 59 (2.21%) QA
4 58 (2.17%) GDPR
5 46 (1.72%) ITGC
6 27 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 15 (0.56%) SLA
9 13 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (0.49%) NIST
10 10 (0.37%) WCAG
11 9 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.19%) GMP
13 5 (0.19%) NCSC
13 5 (0.19%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.15%) COBIT
15 3 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.075%) MiFID
System Software
1 199 (7.45%) Docker
2 37 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.19%) Firmware
6 5 (0.19%) HDFS
6 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.037%) Xen
8 1 (0.037%) XenApp
8 1 (0.037%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 220 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 88 (3.29%) Terraform
3 21 (0.79%) Ansible
4 20 (0.75%) Grafana
4 20 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (0.41%) SCCM
7 7 (0.26%) Kubeflow
8 6 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.22%) NetBackup
8 6 (0.22%) SCOM
9 5 (0.19%) Nagios
10 4 (0.15%) Argo
11 2 (0.075%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.075%) Istio
11 2 (0.075%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.075%) Podman
11 2 (0.075%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.075%) Puppet
11 2 (0.075%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 270 (10.11%) Microsoft
2 147 (5.50%) PayPal
3 139 (5.20%) Google
4 116 (4.34%) Databricks
5 82 (3.07%) IBM
6 59 (2.21%) OpenAI
7 58 (2.17%) Alteryx
7 58 (2.17%) TikTok
8 57 (2.13%) Oracle
9 53 (1.98%) SAP
10 51 (1.91%) Red Hat
11 41 (1.54%) ServiceNow
12 38 (1.42%) Salesforce
13 24 (0.90%) Adobe
14 15 (0.56%) VMware
15 13 (0.49%) UiPath
16 12 (0.45%) Informatica
16 12 (0.45%) PeopleSoft
17 11 (0.41%) NVIDIA
17 11 (0.41%) SolarWinds