Artificial Intelligence Engineer Jobs in England

AI Engineer
UK > England

The median AI Engineer salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 634 804 912
Rank change year-on-year +170 +108 +215
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 57 35 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.041% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.043% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 27 24 7
10th Percentile £64,200 £42,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £52,813 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £88,125
90th Percentile £117,500 £127,500 £89,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% +29.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,402 81,024 81,740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.51% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,215 60,436 51,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 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 +121 31 £85,000 -19.05% 197
South East +107 13 £105,000 - 52
North of England +61 9 £70,000 +47.37% 27
North West +2 5 £70,000 +27.27% 18
Yorkshire +67 4 £92,500 +131.25% 3
Midlands +65 1 £90,000 +38.46% 2
West Midlands +56 1 £90,000 +20.00% 2
East of England +38 1 £64,000 -28.89% 4
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
UK

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Artificial Intelligence Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 43 (75.44%) Python
3 30 (52.63%) Generative AI
4 26 (45.61%) Software Engineering
5 25 (43.86%) Law
6 24 (42.11%) Degree
7 23 (40.35%) Finance
7 23 (40.35%) Machine Learning
7 23 (40.35%) LLM
8 22 (38.60%) Algorithms
9 21 (36.84%) SDLC
9 21 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (33.33%) Games
11 18 (31.58%) Analytics
12 15 (26.32%) Data Analytics
12 15 (26.32%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 14 (24.56%) Business Strategy
13 14 (24.56%) Thought Leadership
13 14 (24.56%) MLOps
14 13 (22.81%) CI/CD
15 12 (21.05%) Kubernetes
16 11 (19.30%) JavaScript
16 11 (19.30%) Accessibility
16 11 (19.30%) Telehealth
17 10 (17.54%) Distributed Systems
17 10 (17.54%) Master's Degree
17 10 (17.54%) PhD
18 9 (15.79%) Statistics
18 9 (15.79%) Operations Research
18 9 (15.79%) Greenfield Project

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.26%) Apache
1 3 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.53%) Azure
2 3 (5.26%) AWS
2 3 (5.26%) Azure AI
2 3 (5.26%) GCP
3 2 (3.51%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 2 (3.51%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.51%) Serverless
4 1 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.75%) ChatGPT
4 1 (1.75%) Google Gemini
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (1.75%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) Hadoop
1 2 (3.51%) Pinecone
1 2 (3.51%) Weaviate
2 1 (1.75%) Couchbase
2 1 (1.75%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.75%) Metadata
2 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.75%) Power BI
2 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.26%) MLflow
General
1 25 (43.86%) Law
2 23 (40.35%) Finance
3 19 (33.33%) Games
4 4 (7.02%) Advertising
4 4 (7.02%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Electronics
7 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
7 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.53%) PyTorch
1 6 (10.53%) REST
1 6 (10.53%) TensorFlow
2 4 (7.02%) React
3 3 (5.26%) React Native
3 3 (5.26%) scikit-learn
4 2 (3.51%) CSS
4 2 (3.51%) Kafka
4 2 (3.51%) Next.js
4 2 (3.51%) NumPy
4 2 (3.51%) Pandas
5 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.75%) Flutter
5 1 (1.75%) Google JAX
5 1 (1.75%) JAX
5 1 (1.75%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 22 (38.60%) Algorithms
2 10 (17.54%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (15.79%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (10.53%) Public Cloud
5 4 (7.02%) Robotics
6 2 (3.51%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.51%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.75%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Android
1 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 30 (52.63%) Generative AI
3 26 (45.61%) Software Engineering
4 23 (40.35%) LLM
4 23 (40.35%) Machine Learning
5 21 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (36.84%) SDLC
6 18 (31.58%) Analytics
7 15 (26.32%) Data Analytics
7 15 (26.32%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 14 (24.56%) Business Strategy
8 14 (24.56%) MLOps
8 14 (24.56%) Thought Leadership
9 13 (22.81%) CI/CD
10 11 (19.30%) Telehealth
11 9 (15.79%) Operations Research
11 9 (15.79%) Statistics
12 8 (14.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 8 (14.04%) Prompt Engineering
12 8 (14.04%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 43 (75.44%) Python
2 11 (19.30%) JavaScript
3 6 (10.53%) Clojure
3 6 (10.53%) Elixir
3 6 (10.53%) Rust
3 6 (10.53%) Scala
4 4 (7.02%) Go
4 4 (7.02%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.26%) C++
5 3 (5.26%) Java
6 2 (3.51%) R
6 2 (3.51%) SQL
7 1 (1.75%) C#
Qualifications
1 24 (42.11%) Degree
2 10 (17.54%) Master's Degree
2 10 (17.54%) PhD
3 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.30%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.51%) Docker
1 2 (3.51%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.51%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.02%) OpenAI
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.75%) Databricks
3 1 (1.75%) Google
3 1 (1.75%) SAP