AI Job Trends in Cambridge

AI
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 38 26
Rank change year-on-year +37 -12 +11
Permanent jobs citing AI 123 21 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 24.02% 4.52% 8.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.78% 5.22% 9.03%
Number of salaries quoted 41 5 30
10th Percentile - £26,450 £38,750
25th Percentile £30,370 £26,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £31,500 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -45.45% -3.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £80,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £87,625
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £42,500 £66,250 £55,500
% change year-on-year -35.85% +19.37% -11.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

AI 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 in Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 413 402 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 80.66% 86.45% 89.63%
Number of salaries quoted 282 192 288
10th Percentile £29,775 £38,750 £28,642
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

AI job vacancy trend in Cambridge

AI
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing AI

AI
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Cambridge over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in Cambridge

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 6 (4.88%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (26.02%) Chatbot
2 29 (23.58%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.32%) SaaS
2 7 (5.69%) Amazon Alexa
2 7 (5.69%) Azure
3 6 (4.88%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.07%) Azure AI
5 4 (3.25%) AWS
6 2 (1.63%) GitHub
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.81%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.81%) dbt
7 1 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.81%) Fivetran
7 1 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.81%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.81%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (0.81%) PaaS
7 1 (0.81%) Serverless
7 1 (0.81%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.88%) Power BI
1 6 (4.88%) Tableau
2 3 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.44%) Redis
3 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.81%) Looker
3 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Git
1 1 (0.81%) Rational DOORS
General
1 59 (47.97%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (24.39%) German Language
3 15 (12.20%) Social Skills
4 13 (10.57%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.69%) Marketing
6 4 (3.25%) Finance
7 2 (1.63%) Automotive
7 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.63%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.81%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.81%) Billing
8 1 (0.81%) Electronics
8 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.81%) Retail
8 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (26.02%) Trainer
2 22 (17.89%) Senior
3 8 (6.50%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 8 (6.50%) Customer Support Specialist
3 8 (6.50%) Support Specialist
4 6 (4.88%) Analyst
4 6 (4.88%) Junior
4 6 (4.88%) Marketing Executive
5 5 (4.07%) Data Analyst
5 5 (4.07%) Junior Analyst
5 5 (4.07%) Junior Data Analyst
5 5 (4.07%) Lead
6 4 (3.25%) Data Engineer
6 4 (3.25%) Research Scientist
6 4 (3.25%) Software Engineer
7 3 (2.44%) Applications Engineer
7 3 (2.44%) Campaign Executive
7 3 (2.44%) Consultant
7 3 (2.44%) Data Scientist
7 3 (2.44%) Research Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (17.89%) HTML
1 22 (17.89%) JSON
1 22 (17.89%) Regular Expression
1 22 (17.89%) XML
2 4 (3.25%) PyTorch
2 4 (3.25%) TensorFlow
3 3 (2.44%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.44%) Google JAX
3 3 (2.44%) JAX
3 3 (2.44%) Node.js
3 3 (2.44%) React
3 3 (2.44%) Vue
4 1 (0.81%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.81%) NumPy
4 1 (0.81%) OpenCL
4 1 (0.81%) OpenMP
4 1 (0.81%) Pandas
4 1 (0.81%) RESTful
4 1 (0.81%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.81%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 38 (30.89%) Onboarding
2 22 (17.89%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (4.88%) Multi-touch
4 4 (3.25%) CUDA
5 2 (1.63%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.63%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.63%) FPGA
5 2 (1.63%) NHS
5 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.63%) Verilog
5 2 (1.63%) VHDL
6 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.81%) ASIC
6 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.81%) IoT
6 1 (0.81%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (43.90%) LLM
2 33 (26.83%) Generative AI
3 32 (26.02%) Analytical Thinking
3 32 (26.02%) Conversational UI
4 29 (23.58%) Open Source
5 28 (22.76%) Data Analysis
6 25 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (16.26%) Chemistry
8 19 (15.45%) Machine Learning
9 12 (9.76%) Physics
10 10 (8.13%) Mathematics
11 9 (7.32%) Collaborative Culture
12 8 (6.50%) Decision-Making
12 8 (6.50%) Risk Management
13 7 (5.69%) A/B Testing
13 7 (5.69%) Actionable Insight
13 7 (5.69%) Analytics
13 7 (5.69%) Software Engineering
14 6 (4.88%) B2B Marketing
14 6 (4.88%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 41 (33.33%) Python
2 7 (5.69%) SQL
3 4 (3.25%) C++
4 3 (2.44%) Java
4 3 (2.44%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.63%) C
6 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.81%) Fortran
6 1 (0.81%) Go
6 1 (0.81%) SystemVerilog
6 1 (0.81%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 87 (70.73%) Degree
2 25 (20.33%) PhD
3 24 (19.51%) Master's Degree
4 9 (7.32%) DBS Check
5 5 (4.07%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.44%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.63%) CISA
7 2 (1.63%) CISM
7 2 (1.63%) CISSP
8 1 (0.81%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.81%) EU AI Act
2 1 (0.81%) NIST
Vendors
1 35 (28.46%) Microsoft
2 32 (26.02%) PayPal
3 7 (5.69%) HubSpot
3 7 (5.69%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.81%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.81%) Foundry
4 1 (0.81%) Google
4 1 (0.81%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.81%) Talend
4 1 (0.81%) Zoho