AI Job Trends in Canterbury

AI
Kent > Canterbury

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Canterbury requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 8 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Permanent jobs citing AI 19 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Canterbury 14.07% 4.76% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.27% 6.25% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £77,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Kent median annual salary £55,000 £41,000 £106,000
% change year-on-year +34.15% -61.32% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Canterbury

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 Canterbury.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 104 16 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Canterbury 77.04% 76.19% 89.66%
Number of salaries quoted 46 9 19
10th Percentile £37,250 - £28,750
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -34.62% +18.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £46,250 -
90th Percentile - £46,750 -
Kent median annual salary £45,000 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -10.00%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Canterbury

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

AI job vacancy trend in Canterbury

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canterbury 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:

Applications
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (94.74%) Azure AI
3 12 (63.16%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) Power BI
1 12 (63.16%) Tableau
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) NUnit
General
1 18 (94.74%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Analyst
1 12 (63.16%) Data Analyst
1 12 (63.16%) Junior
1 12 (63.16%) Junior Analyst
1 12 (63.16%) Junior Data Analyst
2 6 (31.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
1 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
1 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (5.26%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (5.26%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) AI Agents
1 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (31.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 1 (5.26%) Agile
3 1 (5.26%) API Design
3 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
3 1 (5.26%) Coaching
3 1 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (5.26%) DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (5.26%) Kanban
3 1 (5.26%) LLM
3 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
3 1 (5.26%) Microservices
3 1 (5.26%) Scrum
3 1 (5.26%) TDD
3 1 (5.26%) Unit Testing
3 1 (5.26%) User Experience
3 1 (5.26%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) Python
2 13 (68.42%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 18 (94.74%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) OpenAI