Artificial Intelligence Programmer Job Trends in Bristol

AI Programmer
South West > Bristol

The median AI Programmer salary in Bristol is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Programmer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.045% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - -
75th Percentile £41,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £37,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Bristol with a recognized job title 2,085 1,269 2,170
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 95.85% 96.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,530 718 1,774
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £32,575
25th Percentile £39,226 £45,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,125 £85,875
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

Artificial Intelligence Programmer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 31 January 2026, Artificial Intelligence Programmer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bristol region featuring Artificial Intelligence Programmer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Neural Network
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Streamlit
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow

Artificial Intelligence Programmer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Neural Network
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft