AI Job Trends in the City of London

AI
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 35 84
Rank change year-on-year +26 +49 +28
Permanent jobs citing AI 273 186 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 13.04% 6.85% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.89% 7.17% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 208 103 63
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,100
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £59,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% -2.94%
75th Percentile £102,500 £111,250 £111,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £130,000 £128,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% +3.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,833 2,593 2,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.54% 95.47% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,357 1,694 2,415
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,350
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

AI job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AI

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AI in the City of London

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Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the City of London region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
London Bridge - 1 £140,000 -
AI
Central London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 9 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.93%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.20%) Confluence
4 4 (1.47%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.10%) Apache
6 2 (0.73%) Luigi
7 1 (0.37%) Appian
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 15 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.73%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (1.47%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.73%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 100 (36.63%) Azure
2 53 (19.41%) AWS
3 36 (13.19%) GCP
4 31 (11.36%) Power Platform
5 29 (10.62%) SaaS
6 25 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (5.86%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (4.03%) Serverless
9 10 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (3.30%) Snowflake
11 8 (2.93%) GitHub
12 7 (2.56%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.56%) Azure AI
12 7 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (2.56%) PaaS
13 6 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.83%) DHCP
2 4 (1.47%) Firewall
2 4 (1.47%) Network Security
2 4 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.10%) DNS
3 3 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.73%) Broadband
4 2 (0.73%) DOCSIS
4 2 (0.73%) DSL
4 2 (0.73%) GPON
4 2 (0.73%) Internet
4 2 (0.73%) IPv4
4 2 (0.73%) IPv6
4 2 (0.73%) PPP
4 2 (0.73%) RTP
4 2 (0.73%) VoIP
4 2 (0.73%) VPN
4 2 (0.73%) WAN
5 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.69%) Power BI
2 20 (7.33%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (6.23%) Big Data
4 16 (5.86%) Data Lake
5 15 (5.49%) SQL Server
6 12 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (3.66%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.56%) Metadata
9 6 (2.20%) BigQuery
9 6 (2.20%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.83%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.83%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.83%) Tableau
11 3 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.73%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.73%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (4.03%) Git
1 11 (4.03%) JIRA
2 10 (3.66%) Octopus Deploy
2 10 (3.66%) TeamCity
3 4 (1.47%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.10%) ESLint
5 2 (0.73%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.73%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.73%) ERwin
5 2 (0.73%) MLflow
5 2 (0.73%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.37%) Gradle
6 1 (0.37%) Postman
General
1 89 (32.60%) Finance
2 77 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.19%) Legal
4 25 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (5.49%) Banking
7 14 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (4.76%) Retail
9 12 (4.40%) Law
10 6 (2.20%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.20%) Front Office
11 5 (1.83%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.47%) Back Office
12 4 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.47%) Marketing
13 3 (1.10%) Advertising
13 3 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.10%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (19.05%) Senior
2 37 (13.55%) Lead
3 27 (9.89%) Developer
4 19 (6.96%) Architect
5 18 (6.59%) Consultant
6 15 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (5.13%) Accountant
7 14 (5.13%) Data Engineer
7 14 (5.13%) Financial Accountant
8 13 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 13 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 12 (4.40%) React Developer
9 12 (4.40%) Software Engineer
10 11 (4.03%) Graduate
10 11 (4.03%) Lead Developer
10 11 (4.03%) Python Developer
11 10 (3.66%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 10 (3.66%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (3.30%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.82%) React
2 19 (6.96%) .NET
3 18 (6.59%) Node.js
4 11 (4.03%) Django
5 10 (3.66%) Kafka
5 10 (3.66%) Next.js
6 9 (3.30%) FastAPI
6 9 (3.30%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.30%) RESTful
7 8 (2.93%) CSS
7 8 (2.93%) Flask
7 8 (2.93%) React Native
8 7 (2.56%) LangChain
8 7 (2.56%) TensorFlow
9 6 (2.20%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.83%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.83%) Hugging Face
10 5 (1.83%) Redux
10 5 (1.83%) Vue
10 5 (1.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.96%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.13%) Social Network
3 12 (4.40%) AI Agents
3 12 (4.40%) Algorithms
3 12 (4.40%) Virtual Team
4 11 (4.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (4.03%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.93%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.56%) Blockchain
7 7 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.56%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.20%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.20%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.47%) Derivative
9 4 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.73%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.20%) Linux
2 5 (1.83%) Android
2 5 (1.83%) Windows
3 3 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.73%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.73%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.37%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (28.94%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (26.01%) Machine Learning
3 66 (24.18%) Analytics
4 45 (16.48%) Agile
5 41 (15.02%) DevOps
6 39 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 36 (13.19%) Full-Stack Development
7 36 (13.19%) Generative AI
8 34 (12.45%) Data Science
9 33 (12.09%) LLM
10 32 (11.72%) Business Intelligence
10 32 (11.72%) CI/CD
11 29 (10.62%) Computer Science
11 29 (10.62%) Roadmaps
12 28 (10.26%) Data Governance
13 27 (9.89%) Decision-Making
14 26 (9.52%) Coaching
14 26 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (9.52%) Software Engineering
15 22 (8.06%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 90 (32.97%) Python
2 64 (23.44%) SQL
3 29 (10.62%) TypeScript
4 21 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.96%) C#
6 13 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.66%) Java
8 5 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.83%) Scala
9 4 (1.47%) C++
9 4 (1.47%) R
9 4 (1.47%) Rust
10 3 (1.10%) Bash
10 3 (1.10%) Go
11 2 (0.73%) Bicep
11 2 (0.73%) C
12 1 (0.37%) Korn
12 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 38 (13.92%) Degree
2 15 (5.49%) ACCA
3 12 (4.40%) Master's Degree
4 11 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.56%) CISSP
6 6 (2.20%) CISM
6 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.20%) PhD
6 6 (2.20%) Postgraduate
7 5 (1.83%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.83%) PMP
8 4 (1.47%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.47%) CISA
8 4 (1.47%) CRISC
8 4 (1.47%) MCP
8 4 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.10%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.73%) MBA
10 2 (0.73%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.13%) IFRS
2 13 (4.76%) GAAP
3 12 (4.40%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.30%) GDPR
6 6 (2.20%) QA
7 4 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.10%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.73%) EMIR
9 2 (0.73%) GRC
9 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.73%) MiFID
9 2 (0.73%) NIST
9 2 (0.73%) PMO
9 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.37%) ITGC
10 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (4.40%) Docker
2 6 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (6.96%) Terraform
2 13 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.10%) Ansible
5 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.73%) Puppet
6 1 (0.37%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.37%) Grafana
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 33 (12.09%) Databricks
3 14 (5.13%) Google
4 8 (2.93%) OpenAI
5 5 (1.83%) Informatica
5 5 (1.83%) Oracle
5 5 (1.83%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.47%) Intapp
6 4 (1.47%) SAP
7 3 (1.10%) Dell
7 3 (1.10%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.10%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.73%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.73%) Foundry
8 2 (0.73%) IBM
8 2 (0.73%) iManage
8 2 (0.73%) Rapid7
8 2 (0.73%) Thales
8 2 (0.73%) VMware