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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 88 97
Rank change year-on-year +22 +9 -8
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 2,604 2,051 4,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.43% 3.56% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 3.78% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,322 1,161 2,021
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,066 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.74% +8.44% +9.09%

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 63,881 54,318 133,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.08% 94.30% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 30,489 39,141 76,332
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,439 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.69% - +5.00%

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 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Top 19 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 October 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 +16 2,370 £75,000 - 1,947
UK excluding London +40 1,549 £67,500 +3.74% 1,607
London +15 944 £85,000 +5.86% 372
Work from Home -9 816 £77,500 +3.33% 1,143
South East +69 640 £70,000 -0.62% 387
North of England +11 318 £65,000 - 557
South West +4 208 £65,000 -7.14% 90
North West -25 188 £56,509 -13.06% 265
Midlands +22 132 £77,500 +19.23% 425
Yorkshire +40 109 £70,000 -9.68% 233
East of England -22 91 £86,250 +50.00% 103
West Midlands +7 89 £70,000 +7.69% 198
Scotland -14 78 £62,500 -20.45% 26
Northern Ireland +47 46 £86,250 +15.00% 14
East Midlands -19 43 £85,000 +131.29% 227
Wales +48 33 £67,883 +109.84% 20
North East -19 21 £40,000 -27.27% 59
Channel Islands - 2 £61,000 -
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 42 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 41 (1.57%) Apache
3 36 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 27 (1.04%) Confluence
6 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.50%) CMS
8 5 (0.19%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.19%) SAS
9 4 (0.15%) Kinematics
9 4 (0.15%) WordPress
10 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.038%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.038%) Hedera
11 1 (0.038%) Luigi
11 1 (0.038%) nginx
11 1 (0.038%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.038%) Umbraco
Applications
1 80 (3.07%) Simulink
2 43 (1.65%) Chatbot
3 24 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.15%) Sketch
8 3 (0.12%) Fusion 360
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.12%) Siemens NX
8 3 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.12%) Trello
9 2 (0.077%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.038%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.038%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.038%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (1.73%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.19%) GoldMine
3 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.038%) HFM
6 1 (0.038%) Maximo
6 1 (0.038%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.038%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.038%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.038%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.038%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.038%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.038%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.038%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 688 (26.42%) AWS
2 615 (23.62%) Azure
3 204 (7.83%) GCP
4 188 (7.22%) Power Platform
5 114 (4.38%) Serverless
6 107 (4.11%) SaaS
7 101 (3.88%) IBM Cloud
8 79 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
9 73 (2.80%) Microsoft Copilot
10 71 (2.73%) ChatGPT
11 70 (2.69%) Amazon S3
12 68 (2.61%) GitHub
13 65 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
14 63 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
15 62 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
16 61 (2.34%) OCI
17 57 (2.19%) Amazon ECR
17 57 (2.19%) Route 53
18 54 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
19 52 (2.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 110 (4.22%) Intrusion Detection
2 40 (1.54%) Internet
3 37 (1.42%) Firewall
4 27 (1.04%) TCP/IP
5 23 (0.88%) DNS
6 20 (0.77%) Broadband
7 16 (0.61%) NAS
8 14 (0.54%) Network Security
9 13 (0.50%) HTTP
10 10 (0.38%) IPv6
10 10 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
11 9 (0.35%) DHCP
12 6 (0.23%) MQTT
12 6 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.19%) DAB
13 5 (0.19%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.19%) LAN
13 5 (0.19%) SMTP
13 5 (0.19%) VoIP
13 5 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (6.72%) NoSQL
2 170 (6.53%) Power BI
3 131 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
4 111 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
4 111 (4.26%) SQL Server
5 79 (3.03%) Big Data
5 79 (3.03%) Tableau
6 76 (2.92%) Data Lake
7 75 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
8 53 (2.04%) MongoDB
9 47 (1.80%) Relational Database
10 38 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 32 (1.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 32 (1.23%) BigQuery
12 30 (1.15%) MySQL
13 25 (0.96%) DB2
14 19 (0.73%) Apache Ignite
14 19 (0.73%) Metadata
15 18 (0.69%) Data Mining
16 17 (0.65%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 211 (8.10%) Git
2 71 (2.73%) Cypress.io
3 52 (2.00%) Selenium
4 44 (1.69%) JIRA
5 41 (1.57%) Jenkins
6 30 (1.15%) Vagrant
7 27 (1.04%) GitLab
8 25 (0.96%) Visual Studio
9 20 (0.77%) SoapUI
10 16 (0.61%) LabVIEW
11 13 (0.50%) NetBeans
12 11 (0.42%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.35%) JUnit
14 7 (0.27%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.27%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 6 (0.23%) Terragrunt
16 5 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
16 5 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 746 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 497 (19.09%) Finance
3 349 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (10.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 206 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 154 (5.91%) Banking
7 152 (5.84%) Games
8 143 (5.49%) Telecoms
9 135 (5.18%) Law
10 106 (4.07%) Marketing
11 105 (4.03%) Legal
12 91 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
13 80 (3.07%) Front Office
14 72 (2.76%) Retail
15 62 (2.38%) Manufacturing
16 54 (2.07%) Investment Banking
17 50 (1.92%) Military
18 47 (1.80%) Tech for Good
19 36 (1.38%) Electronics
20 32 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 508 (19.51%) Senior
2 485 (18.63%) Developer
3 354 (13.59%) Software Engineer
4 322 (12.37%) Architect
5 242 (9.29%) Lead
6 169 (6.49%) Consultant
7 137 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 135 (5.18%) Software Developer
9 130 (4.99%) Analyst
10 118 (4.53%) Senior Developer
11 107 (4.11%) Security Architect
12 102 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
13 100 (3.84%) Data Scientist
14 94 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
15 80 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
16 79 (3.03%) Business Analyst
16 79 (3.03%) Team Leader
17 75 (2.88%) Junior
17 75 (2.88%) Senior Consultant
18 74 (2.84%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (13.98%) React
2 303 (11.64%) HTML
3 232 (8.91%) .NET
4 193 (7.41%) CSS
5 160 (6.14%) AngularJS
6 80 (3.07%) TensorFlow
7 73 (2.80%) Middleware
8 71 (2.73%) PyTorch
9 65 (2.50%) React Native
10 63 (2.42%) Node.js
11 58 (2.23%) REST
12 55 (2.11%) RESTful
13 54 (2.07%) Jest
14 49 (1.88%) ASP.NET
15 48 (1.84%) Web Services
16 47 (1.80%) Vue
17 46 (1.77%) Pandas
18 43 (1.65%) HTML5
18 43 (1.65%) PySpark
19 42 (1.61%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 249 (9.56%) Algorithms
2 179 (6.87%) Management Information System
3 164 (6.30%) Blockchain
4 107 (4.11%) Cyberattack
4 107 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 105 (4.03%) Cloud Native
6 102 (3.92%) Product Ownership
7 80 (3.07%) Hedge funds
8 79 (3.03%) Fixed Income
8 79 (3.03%) IoT
9 76 (2.92%) Data Structures
10 75 (2.88%) e-Learning
10 75 (2.88%) Equities
11 61 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
12 60 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
13 59 (2.27%) Derivative
13 59 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 45 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
15 38 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
16 37 (1.42%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 239 (9.18%) Linux
2 71 (2.73%) Windows
3 68 (2.61%) Android
4 44 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (1.54%) Embedded Linux
6 39 (1.50%) CentOS
6 39 (1.50%) Ubuntu
6 39 (1.50%) Unix
7 34 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.19%) AIX
9 5 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.19%) Solaris
10 4 (0.15%) SUSE
11 3 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.12%) VMS
11 3 (0.12%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.038%) Rocky
12 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,215 (46.66%) Machine Learning
2 764 (29.34%) Agile
3 574 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
4 555 (21.31%) Software Engineering
5 441 (16.94%) Computer Science
6 411 (15.78%) DevOps
7 387 (14.86%) Analytics
8 345 (13.25%) Data Science
9 320 (12.29%) Mentoring
10 296 (11.37%) Roadmaps
11 279 (10.71%) Generative AI
12 263 (10.10%) Full-Stack Development
13 251 (9.64%) Decision-Making
14 243 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
15 241 (9.25%) CI/CD
16 217 (8.33%) Mathematics
17 199 (7.64%) Stakeholder Management
18 198 (7.60%) Business Intelligence
19 187 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
20 182 (6.99%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 981 (37.67%) Python
2 510 (19.59%) SQL
3 436 (16.74%) JavaScript
4 363 (13.94%) C#
5 331 (12.71%) Java
6 279 (10.71%) TypeScript
7 235 (9.02%) C++
8 108 (4.15%) C
9 62 (2.38%) R
10 54 (2.07%) Bash
11 52 (2.00%) PHP
12 50 (1.92%) Kotlin
13 44 (1.69%) PowerShell
14 38 (1.46%) MATLAB
14 38 (1.46%) Scala
15 37 (1.42%) Fortran
16 34 (1.31%) Go
17 33 (1.27%) Rust
18 23 (0.88%) Ruby
19 15 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 691 (26.54%) Degree
2 538 (20.66%) Security Cleared
3 263 (10.10%) SC Cleared
4 234 (8.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 229 (8.79%) DV Cleared
6 143 (5.49%) Master's Degree
7 72 (2.76%) PhD
8 46 (1.77%) AWS Certification
9 43 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 40 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
11 31 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (1.04%) DBS Check
13 19 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 14 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
16 12 (0.46%) PMI Certification
17 9 (0.35%) CISA
17 9 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
17 9 (0.35%) MBA
18 8 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (3.42%) Data Quality
2 82 (3.15%) QA
3 51 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 26 (1.00%) GDPR
4 26 (1.00%) WCAG
5 25 (0.96%) SLA
6 13 (0.50%) ISO 9001
7 11 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.42%) NIST
8 10 (0.38%) ITGC
9 8 (0.31%) GRC
9 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 8 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
9 8 (0.31%) TickIT
10 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.27%) Def Stans
11 5 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.19%) IEC 61508
12 4 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 252 (9.68%) Docker
2 24 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.81%) Firmware
4 16 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.46%) NFS
6 8 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 7 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.27%) Lustre
7 7 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) Ceph
8 3 (0.12%) GPFS
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.077%) HDFS
9 2 (0.077%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.038%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.038%) PowerHA
10 1 (0.038%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.038%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.038%) XenApp
10 1 (0.038%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 354 (13.59%) Kubernetes
2 194 (7.45%) Terraform
3 71 (2.73%) Ansible
4 64 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.58%) Grafana
6 8 (0.31%) Nagios
7 7 (0.27%) SCCM
8 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.19%) Cacti
9 5 (0.19%) CASB
10 4 (0.15%) Kibana
10 4 (0.15%) Podman
11 3 (0.12%) Argo
11 3 (0.12%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.077%) DameWare
12 2 (0.077%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.077%) QRadar
12 2 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.038%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.038%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 276 (10.60%) Microsoft
2 131 (5.03%) Databricks
3 119 (4.57%) IBM
4 117 (4.49%) Google
4 117 (4.49%) Red Hat
5 79 (3.03%) Xilinx
6 74 (2.84%) OpenAI
7 61 (2.34%) Dynatrace
8 58 (2.23%) TikTok
9 46 (1.77%) Salesforce
10 45 (1.73%) BISAM
10 45 (1.73%) Bloomberg
11 43 (1.65%) Oracle
12 37 (1.42%) SAP
13 32 (1.23%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.65%) VMware
15 16 (0.61%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.54%) Informatica
17 12 (0.46%) Cisco
17 12 (0.46%) Remedy