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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 120 79
Rank change year-on-year +76 -41 +32
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 4,977 2,957 6,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.02% 2.92% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.87% 3.05% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,118 1,265 2,198
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,407 £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 £93,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £107,500
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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 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 9 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 3,580 £60,000 -11.11% 613
England +53 3,245 £70,000 -3.45% 1,289
Scotland +108 1,501 £65,000 - 35
Work from Home +27 1,460 £62,500 -10.71% 697
London +58 1,228 £85,000 +6.25% 671
South East +96 780 £67,500 -15.63% 211
North of England +65 480 £55,000 -14.10% 113
Midlands +112 334 £55,000 -13.04% 61
North West +64 320 £47,500 -21.97% 76
South West +30 257 £58,700 -9.69% 85
West Midlands +73 172 £60,000 -9.43% 43
East Midlands +88 163 £47,500 -2.56% 18
Yorkshire +42 140 £62,500 -4.36% 32
East of England +46 121 £65,000 - 97
Wales +57 70 £67,500 +50.00% 10
Northern Ireland +56 37 £100,000 +33.33% 12
North East +12 20 £51,250 -6.82% 6
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
1 328 (6.59%) Apache Spark
2 127 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
3 125 (2.51%) Apache
4 100 (2.01%) FileNet
5 76 (1.53%) SharePoint
6 55 (1.11%) nginx
7 51 (1.02%) Confluence
8 44 (0.88%) Oracle Service Bus
8 44 (0.88%) WebLogic
9 38 (0.76%) SAS
10 36 (0.72%) Camunda
11 19 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.28%) IIS
13 12 (0.24%) Jupyter
13 12 (0.24%) WordPress
14 11 (0.22%) CICS
15 7 (0.14%) CMS
15 7 (0.14%) OpenStack
16 6 (0.12%) Drupal
17 5 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 89 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (1.35%) Chatbot
4 60 (1.21%) Simulink
5 55 (1.11%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.46%) 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 (0.080%) 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 44 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 44 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.16%) Siebel CRM
5 7 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.10%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.060%) Shopify
9 2 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.040%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.040%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.040%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.040%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.040%) SAP SD
10 1 (0.020%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.020%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,463 (29.40%) AWS
2 1,404 (28.21%) Azure
3 408 (8.20%) IBM Cloud
4 388 (7.80%) Power Platform
5 344 (6.91%) GCP
6 256 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
7 233 (4.68%) Entra ID
8 207 (4.16%) Serverless
9 186 (3.74%) SaaS
10 175 (3.52%) Amazon S3
11 145 (2.91%) Azure Functions
12 137 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
13 131 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
14 130 (2.61%) Azure API Management
14 130 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
15 124 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
16 104 (2.09%) PowerApps
17 98 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
18 95 (1.91%) Datadog
19 93 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.46%) 5G
2 216 (4.34%) Broadband
3 39 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 37 (0.74%) DNS
5 30 (0.60%) Firewall
5 30 (0.60%) HTTP
6 19 (0.38%) Network Security
6 19 (0.38%) Unified Communications
7 18 (0.36%) DSL
7 18 (0.36%) Internet
7 18 (0.36%) VPN
7 18 (0.36%) WAN
8 16 (0.32%) LAN
9 14 (0.28%) MQTT
10 11 (0.22%) Intranet
10 11 (0.22%) Wireless
11 9 (0.18%) SAN
11 9 (0.18%) WLAN
12 8 (0.16%) SSL
13 7 (0.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 798 (16.03%) NoSQL
2 496 (9.97%) PostgreSQL
3 398 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 313 (6.29%) SQL Server
5 307 (6.17%) Big Data
6 303 (6.09%) Power BI
7 283 (5.69%) DB2
8 258 (5.18%) Relational Database
9 230 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
10 221 (4.44%) Data Lake
11 176 (3.54%) Oracle Database
12 161 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
13 135 (2.71%) Oracle Database 11g
14 134 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
14 134 (2.69%) Hadoop
15 120 (2.41%) Tableau
16 117 (2.35%) Apache Hive
17 102 (2.05%) HBase
18 101 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 93 (1.87%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 372 (7.47%) Git
2 201 (4.04%) JUnit
3 196 (3.94%) Jenkins
4 187 (3.76%) Cypress.io
5 125 (2.51%) Selenium
6 105 (2.11%) Jasmine
7 96 (1.93%) JIRA
8 86 (1.73%) Bitbucket Server
9 63 (1.27%) WebDriver
10 60 (1.21%) GitLab
10 60 (1.21%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (1.21%) Protractor
11 45 (0.90%) Mockito
12 25 (0.50%) Android Studio
13 21 (0.42%) JMeter
13 21 (0.42%) SoapUI
14 15 (0.30%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.30%) Maven
15 14 (0.28%) Vagrant
16 12 (0.24%) CircleCI
General
1 2,088 (41.95%) Finance
2 1,994 (40.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,535 (30.84%) Law
4 932 (18.73%) Social Skills
5 867 (17.42%) Marketing
6 597 (12.00%) Legal
7 596 (11.98%) Public Sector
8 583 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
9 526 (10.57%) Banking
10 287 (5.77%) Investment Banking
11 220 (4.42%) Retail
12 188 (3.78%) Presentation Skills
13 141 (2.83%) Front Office
14 114 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
15 89 (1.79%) Manufacturing
16 88 (1.77%) Financial Institution
17 82 (1.65%) Games
18 54 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
19 53 (1.06%) Telecoms
20 38 (0.76%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,596 (32.07%) Software Engineer
2 927 (18.63%) Senior
3 905 (18.18%) Developer
4 705 (14.17%) Lead
5 602 (12.10%) Java Engineer
6 583 (11.71%) Java Software Engineer
7 458 (9.20%) Full Stack Engineer
8 411 (8.26%) Lead Software Engineer
9 347 (6.97%) Python Engineer
10 310 (6.23%) Architect
11 303 (6.09%) Python Software Engineer
12 289 (5.81%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 248 (4.98%) Data Engineer
14 234 (4.70%) Full Stack Developer
15 228 (4.58%) Senior Developer
16 219 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
17 211 (4.24%) Linux Specialist
17 211 (4.24%) Technical Specialist
18 210 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
19 206 (4.14%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 974 (19.57%) React
2 638 (12.82%) AngularJS
3 563 (11.31%) HTML
4 540 (10.85%) .NET
5 527 (10.59%) CSS
6 426 (8.56%) Node.js
7 419 (8.42%) Spring
8 409 (8.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 371 (7.45%) jQuery
10 324 (6.51%) REST
11 320 (6.43%) Kafka
12 305 (6.13%) Web Services
13 280 (5.63%) Vue
14 279 (5.61%) ASP.NET
15 249 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
16 241 (4.84%) Ember.js
17 238 (4.78%) Backbone.js
18 226 (4.54%) J2EE
19 180 (3.62%) Hibernate
20 171 (3.44%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 1,124 (22.58%) Algorithms
2 503 (10.11%) Cloud Native
3 483 (9.70%) Blockchain
4 427 (8.58%) Data Structures
5 423 (8.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 228 (4.58%) Social Media
7 215 (4.32%) e-Learning
8 193 (3.88%) Public Cloud
9 182 (3.66%) Onboarding
10 152 (3.05%) Product Ownership
11 144 (2.89%) Hedge funds
12 141 (2.83%) Fixed Income
13 131 (2.63%) Management Information System
14 124 (2.49%) IoT
15 94 (1.89%) Equities
16 82 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
17 74 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
18 64 (1.29%) Robotics
19 62 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 52 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 768 (15.43%) Linux
2 372 (7.47%) Windows
3 293 (5.89%) Android
4 262 (5.26%) Apple iOS
5 229 (4.60%) Ubuntu
6 223 (4.48%) Unix
7 61 (1.23%) CentOS
8 44 (0.88%) Solaris
9 42 (0.84%) Debian
10 40 (0.80%) Alpine Linux
11 32 (0.64%) Windows Server
12 25 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
13 17 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 10 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 9 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
16 7 (0.14%) Windows 10
17 6 (0.12%) AIX
17 6 (0.12%) VMS
17 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
18 3 (0.060%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,771 (55.68%) Machine Learning
2 2,347 (47.16%) Agile
3 1,965 (39.48%) Software Engineering
4 1,497 (30.08%) CI/CD
5 1,358 (27.29%) SDLC
6 1,257 (25.26%) Operational Stability
7 940 (18.89%) Community of Practice
8 899 (18.06%) Visualisation
9 806 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 790 (15.87%) Full Stack Development
11 695 (13.96%) Computer Science
12 689 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
13 666 (13.38%) Data Science
14 644 (12.94%) DevOps
15 635 (12.76%) Analytics
16 600 (12.06%) Decision-Making
17 543 (10.91%) Risk Management
18 457 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
19 456 (9.16%) Microservices
20 437 (8.78%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,716 (34.48%) Python
2 1,661 (33.37%) SQL
3 1,453 (29.19%) Java
4 869 (17.46%) JavaScript
5 605 (12.16%) C#
6 521 (10.47%) TypeScript
7 273 (5.49%) Bash
8 242 (4.86%) PL/SQL
9 142 (2.85%) C++
10 127 (2.55%) Scala
11 107 (2.15%) C
12 99 (1.99%) R
13 72 (1.45%) Go
14 59 (1.19%) PHP
15 56 (1.13%) Kotlin
16 53 (1.06%) T-SQL
17 49 (0.98%) MATLAB
18 36 (0.72%) Lua
19 34 (0.68%) PowerShell
19 34 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,054 (21.18%) Degree
2 310 (6.23%) Security Cleared
3 300 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 245 (4.92%) Master's Degree
5 217 (4.36%) SC Cleared
6 134 (2.69%) PhD
7 107 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 104 (2.09%) Azure Certification
9 61 (1.23%) AWS Certification
10 55 (1.11%) DBS Check
10 55 (1.11%) DV Cleared
11 53 (1.06%) PMI Certification
12 47 (0.94%) MCSA
13 46 (0.92%) MCSE
14 32 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
15 26 (0.52%) PMP
16 25 (0.50%) CISSP
17 23 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
18 17 (0.34%) CISM
19 14 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (2.07%) Data Quality
2 80 (1.61%) QA
3 75 (1.51%) SLA
4 49 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 33 (0.66%) WCAG
6 27 (0.54%) GDPR
7 23 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (0.44%) 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%) Def Stans
12 6 (0.12%) GRC
12 6 (0.12%) NCSC
13 5 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.10%) COBIT
13 5 (0.10%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.10%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.10%) TickIT
System Software
1 380 (7.64%) Docker
2 246 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 103 (2.07%) HDFS
4 44 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
5 41 (0.82%) Firmware
6 34 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
8 11 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
9 6 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.080%) NFS
11 4 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.060%) vSphere
13 2 (0.040%) IAG
14 1 (0.020%) KVM
14 1 (0.020%) Lustre
14 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 587 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 418 (8.40%) Terraform
3 229 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 211 (4.24%) Jamf Pro
5 138 (2.77%) Grafana
6 106 (2.13%) Prometheus
7 44 (0.88%) Data Guard
7 44 (0.88%) Oracle RMAN
8 42 (0.84%) Ansible
9 10 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.14%) Graphite
11 5 (0.10%) Nagios
11 5 (0.10%) SELinux
12 4 (0.080%) Argo
12 4 (0.080%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.080%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.060%) Backup Exec
14 2 (0.040%) EMC NetWorker
14 2 (0.040%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.040%) SCCM
Vendors
1 738 (14.83%) Microsoft
2 520 (10.45%) Oracle
3 418 (8.40%) IBM
4 401 (8.06%) Red Hat
5 329 (6.61%) Databricks
6 228 (4.58%) Google
7 218 (4.38%) CyberArk
8 210 (4.22%) Tanium
9 167 (3.36%) Dynatrace
10 120 (2.41%) Splunk
11 92 (1.85%) Informatica
12 80 (1.61%) Alteryx
13 75 (1.51%) Cloudera
14 66 (1.33%) OpenAI
15 53 (1.06%) Salesforce
16 46 (0.92%) Sun
17 45 (0.90%) Remedy
17 45 (0.90%) SAP
18 42 (0.84%) VMware
19 39 (0.78%) ServiceNow