AI Job Trends in Central London

AI
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 17 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 +35 +33
Permanent jobs citing AI 391 236 154
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 10.49% 11.19% 4.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.96% 11.68% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 265 157 89
10th Percentile £53,750 £36,150 £51,450
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +13.92% +5.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £116,500 £152,500 £130,000
London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year - -2.86% +9.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,018 2,020 2,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 80.98% 95.78% 92.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,175 1,547 2,193
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,029
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £53,046
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

AI job vacancy trend in Central London

AI
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AI

AI
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Central London over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in Central London

AI
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Central London region over the 6 months to 18 August 2026. 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
City of London +8 366 £90,000 -2.70% 326
City of Westminster +5 18 £75,561 - 17
Camden +5 11 £30,088 - 1
West End of London +9 8 £60,561 -6.83% 20
AI
London

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 19 (4.86%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.09%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.81%) Apache
4 7 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.53%) Confluence
6 5 (1.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Camunda
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.53%) UserZoom
2 4 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 14 (3.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 81 (20.72%) Azure
2 47 (12.02%) SaaS
3 42 (10.74%) AWS
4 38 (9.72%) Power Platform
5 26 (6.65%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (6.39%) GCP
6 25 (6.39%) Microsoft Copilot
7 19 (4.86%) Snowflake
8 14 (3.58%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (3.07%) Copilot Studio
10 10 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
11 9 (2.30%) Azure AI
11 9 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.30%) Figma
11 9 (2.30%) PaaS
12 8 (2.05%) Adobe Analytics
12 8 (2.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (2.05%) ChatGPT
12 8 (2.05%) dbt
12 8 (2.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.07%) Broadband
2 7 (1.79%) Internet
3 2 (0.51%) Network Security
4 1 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.26%) DHCP
4 1 (0.26%) DNS
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
4 1 (0.26%) HTTP
4 1 (0.26%) Intranet
4 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.26%) SMS
4 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.37%) Power BI
3 16 (4.09%) Data Lake
3 16 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.84%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (3.32%) Metadata
6 12 (3.07%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.81%) Big Data
8 10 (2.56%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.56%) Tableau
9 9 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (2.30%) BigQuery
9 9 (2.30%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.30%) MySQL
10 7 (1.79%) Looker
10 7 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.77%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.77%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.51%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.51%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 12 (3.07%) Git
2 9 (2.30%) MLflow
3 7 (1.79%) JIRA
4 4 (1.02%) Gradle
4 4 (1.02%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.77%) GitLab
6 2 (0.51%) Selenium
6 2 (0.51%) Vite
7 1 (0.26%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.26%) TestRail
7 1 (0.26%) XCUITest
General
1 91 (23.27%) Finance
2 64 (16.37%) Social Skills
3 22 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (5.63%) Marketing
4 19 (4.86%) Law
5 18 (4.60%) Legal
6 16 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.84%) Games
8 14 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.81%) Banking
9 11 (2.81%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.30%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.05%) Legal Technology
12 7 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.53%) Front Office
13 6 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.28%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.02%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.77%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 79 (20.20%) Senior
2 77 (19.69%) Lead
3 53 (13.55%) Architect
4 41 (10.49%) Developer
5 27 (6.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 27 (6.91%) Data Engineer
5 27 (6.91%) Solutions Architect
6 25 (6.39%) Python Engineer
7 23 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 19 (4.86%) Data Scientist
9 17 (4.35%) Analyst
10 16 (4.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 16 (4.09%) Lead Data Engineer
11 15 (3.84%) Consultant
11 15 (3.84%) Senior Data Scientist
12 12 (3.07%) Senior Manager
12 12 (3.07%) Software Engineer
13 11 (2.81%) Data Architect
13 11 (2.81%) Python Developer
14 9 (2.30%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.14%) React
2 23 (5.88%) LangChain
3 18 (4.60%) Kafka
4 17 (4.35%) PyTorch
5 15 (3.84%) .NET
6 11 (2.81%) Spring
6 11 (2.81%) Spring Boot
6 11 (2.81%) TensorFlow
7 10 (2.56%) LlamaIndex
8 9 (2.30%) HTML
8 9 (2.30%) REST
8 9 (2.30%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.05%) LangGraph
10 7 (1.79%) pgvector
11 6 (1.53%) FastAPI
11 6 (1.53%) NestJS
11 6 (1.53%) Node.js
12 5 (1.28%) OAuth
13 4 (1.02%) OpenID
13 4 (1.02%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.23%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (7.67%) AI Agents
4 14 (3.58%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.07%) Social Media
6 9 (2.30%) Social Network
7 8 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (2.05%) Low-Code
7 8 (2.05%) Taxonomies
8 7 (1.79%) Clustering
8 7 (1.79%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.53%) Biopharmaceutical
10 5 (1.28%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.28%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.02%) Lidar
11 4 (1.02%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.02%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.77%) PropTech
12 3 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.53%) Windows
2 5 (1.28%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.02%) Linux
4 3 (0.77%) Android
5 2 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (25.32%) Analytics
2 95 (24.30%) Machine Learning
3 66 (16.88%) LLM
4 63 (16.11%) Generative AI
5 51 (13.04%) Data Science
6 49 (12.53%) Agile
7 46 (11.76%) CI/CD
8 44 (11.25%) Roadmaps
9 42 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (10.74%) Data Pipeline
10 41 (10.49%) Data Engineering
10 41 (10.49%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 37 (9.46%) Business Intelligence
11 37 (9.46%) Decision-Making
12 36 (9.21%) Stakeholder Management
13 34 (8.70%) Observability
14 33 (8.44%) Software Engineering
15 32 (8.18%) Full-Stack Development
16 30 (7.67%) Data Modelling
16 30 (7.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 101 (25.83%) Python
2 44 (11.25%) SQL
3 26 (6.65%) Java
4 21 (5.37%) TypeScript
5 18 (4.60%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.09%) C#
7 5 (1.28%) Go
8 3 (0.77%) Bicep
8 3 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.77%) Kotlin
8 3 (0.77%) Swift
9 2 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.51%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.51%) Scala
9 2 (0.51%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.26%) C
10 1 (0.26%) C++
10 1 (0.26%) R
10 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (7.67%) Degree
2 12 (3.07%) Master's Degree
2 12 (3.07%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.81%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.30%) ACCA
5 7 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.79%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.53%) MBA
7 5 (1.28%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.28%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.77%) CISSP
8 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.51%) CISM
9 2 (0.51%) CRISC
9 2 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.21%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.81%) GDPR
2 11 (2.81%) IFRS
3 10 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.56%) QA
4 7 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.02%) EU AI Act
6 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.26%) COBIT
8 1 (0.26%) Dublin Core
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.26%) NIST
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (6.14%) Docker
2 7 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (7.93%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.58%) Terraform
3 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.51%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (0.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 63 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.95%) Databricks
3 17 (4.35%) Dell
4 15 (3.84%) OpenAI
5 12 (3.07%) Google
6 8 (2.05%) Adobe
6 8 (2.05%) Informatica
7 7 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.53%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.53%) Denodo
8 6 (1.53%) Teradata
9 5 (1.28%) Foundry
10 4 (1.02%) Solace
11 3 (0.77%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.77%) HubSpot
11 3 (0.77%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.77%) VMware
12 2 (0.51%) Apple
12 2 (0.51%) Oracle
12 2 (0.51%) SAP