AI Job Trends in England

AI
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 15 62
Rank change year-on-year +7 +47 +41
Permanent jobs citing AI 7,365 4,292 3,134
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.41% 9.90% 3.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.38% 10.97% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,171 1,420 1,904
10th Percentile £38,984 £25,313 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,340 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.52% -5.23% -6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,295 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.59% -5.29% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,714 39,117 72,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.88% 90.26% 82.33%
Number of salaries quoted 45,706 22,312 52,075
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

AI job vacancy trend in England

AI
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AI

AI
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in England over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in England

AI
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the England region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
London +16 2,817 £85,000 -5.56% 2,416
North of England +14 1,511 £67,500 +23.53% 848
South East -2 1,092 £60,000 +33.33% 961
Midlands -8 769 £55,000 -8.33% 446
North West +24 750 £70,000 +19.66% 461
South West +3 547 £62,500 +4.17% 306
Yorkshire -1 547 £65,000 +153.66% 288
East of England +16 509 £60,000 -9.38% 375
West Midlands -5 486 £57,500 -4.17% 229
East Midlands -17 282 £52,500 -16.00% 217
North East -5 214 £65,000 +106.35% 103
AI
UK

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 136 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 103 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 102 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 65 (0.88%) Confluence
5 64 (0.87%) CMS
6 59 (0.80%) Jupyter
7 55 (0.75%) Apache
8 43 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 39 (0.53%) WordPress
10 27 (0.37%) SAS
11 26 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.11%) Camunda
13 7 (0.095%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.068%) Apache Pig
14 5 (0.068%) ColdFusion
15 4 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 4 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
16 3 (0.041%) Appian
16 3 (0.041%) ArcGIS
16 3 (0.041%) WebSphere
Applications
1 856 (11.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 125 (1.70%) Chatbot
3 63 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
4 51 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 45 (0.61%) UserZoom
6 24 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 21 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 18 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 17 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
9 17 (0.23%) Photoshop
10 14 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
11 13 (0.18%) InDesign
12 9 (0.12%) Simulink
13 6 (0.081%) LaTeX
14 5 (0.068%) Camtasia
14 5 (0.068%) SPSS
15 4 (0.054%) Microsoft Project
15 4 (0.054%) Sketch
16 3 (0.041%) Stateflow
16 3 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 47 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.33%) Cloudability
4 18 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
6 7 (0.095%) SAP MDG
7 6 (0.081%) Relativity
8 5 (0.068%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.054%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.054%) Elite 3E
9 4 (0.054%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.054%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.054%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.041%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.041%) Dynamics GP
10 3 (0.041%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.041%) Q-Pulse
10 3 (0.041%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,484 (33.73%) Azure
2 1,348 (18.30%) Azure AI
3 1,280 (17.38%) Power Platform
4 1,223 (16.61%) AWS
5 549 (7.45%) SaaS
6 445 (6.04%) GCP
7 333 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
8 307 (4.17%) GitHub
9 236 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
10 235 (3.19%) Microsoft Copilot
11 224 (3.04%) Snowflake
12 218 (2.96%) Serverless
13 197 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
14 191 (2.59%) Adobe Analytics
15 177 (2.40%) Anthropic Claude
16 152 (2.06%) GitHub Copilot
17 137 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 123 (1.67%) Figma
19 119 (1.62%) Entra ID
20 115 (1.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 332 (4.51%) Broadband
2 99 (1.34%) Internet
3 77 (1.05%) Firewall
4 70 (0.95%) Network Security
5 69 (0.94%) VPN
6 51 (0.69%) DNS
7 30 (0.41%) WAN
8 25 (0.34%) VLAN
9 23 (0.31%) BGP
9 23 (0.31%) TCP/IP
10 21 (0.29%) VoIP
11 20 (0.27%) DHCP
12 18 (0.24%) HTTP
13 16 (0.22%) Unified Communications
14 15 (0.20%) CTI
14 15 (0.20%) OSPF
15 14 (0.19%) MQTT
16 12 (0.16%) VXLAN
17 10 (0.14%) SD-WAN
17 10 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,095 (14.87%) Power BI
2 900 (12.22%) Tableau
3 254 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 209 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
5 205 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 181 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 165 (2.24%) Data Lake
8 155 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
9 123 (1.67%) Metadata
10 104 (1.41%) NoSQL
11 95 (1.29%) Big Data
12 86 (1.17%) MySQL
13 82 (1.11%) Relational Database
14 73 (0.99%) BigQuery
15 68 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
16 48 (0.65%) Looker
17 45 (0.61%) Redis
18 43 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
19 42 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
19 42 (0.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 221 (3.00%) Git
2 118 (1.60%) Claude Code
3 90 (1.22%) JIRA
4 74 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 63 (0.86%) GitLab
6 53 (0.72%) MLflow
7 52 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
8 30 (0.41%) Selenium
9 26 (0.35%) Postman
10 25 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
10 25 (0.34%) Snyk
11 21 (0.29%) JUnit
12 18 (0.24%) Maven
13 17 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.16%) SpecFlow
14 12 (0.16%) Vite
15 11 (0.15%) Gradle
16 9 (0.12%) Mockito
16 9 (0.12%) Spock
17 8 (0.11%) Cucumber
General
1 2,384 (32.37%) Social Skills
2 1,377 (18.70%) Finance
3 633 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
4 508 (6.90%) Marketing
5 413 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 334 (4.53%) Games
7 325 (4.41%) Public Sector
8 294 (3.99%) Legal
9 276 (3.75%) Law
10 254 (3.45%) Retail
11 250 (3.39%) Banking
12 180 (2.44%) Manufacturing
13 147 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
14 143 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
15 101 (1.37%) Advertising
16 90 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
17 83 (1.13%) Financial Institution
18 66 (0.90%) Legal Technology
19 63 (0.86%) Automotive
20 62 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,119 (15.19%) Senior
2 1,065 (14.46%) Analyst
3 815 (11.07%) Data Analyst
4 802 (10.89%) Lead
5 793 (10.77%) Junior
6 759 (10.31%) Junior Analyst
7 754 (10.24%) Junior Data Analyst
8 731 (9.93%) Developer
9 655 (8.89%) Architect
10 604 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 442 (6.00%) Software Engineer
12 286 (3.88%) Data Engineer
13 273 (3.71%) Consultant
14 258 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
15 202 (2.74%) Python Engineer
16 190 (2.58%) .NET Developer
17 162 (2.20%) Data Scientist
18 151 (2.05%) Data Architect
19 133 (1.81%) Full-Stack Developer
20 131 (1.78%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 400 (5.43%) .NET
2 391 (5.31%) React
3 217 (2.95%) CSS
4 210 (2.85%) HTML
5 183 (2.48%) RESTful
6 181 (2.46%) ASP.NET
7 177 (2.40%) LangChain
7 177 (2.40%) REST
8 175 (2.38%) Node.js
9 172 (2.34%) ASP.NET Core
10 155 (2.10%) .NET Core
11 147 (2.00%) Kafka
12 143 (1.94%) ML.NET
13 133 (1.81%) PyTorch
14 119 (1.62%) TensorFlow
15 116 (1.58%) FastAPI
16 111 (1.51%) scikit-learn
17 108 (1.47%) Blazor
18 94 (1.28%) LangGraph
19 91 (1.24%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 497 (6.75%) Cloud Native
2 373 (5.06%) AI Agents
3 293 (3.98%) Onboarding
4 266 (3.61%) Social Media
5 224 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
6 218 (2.96%) Product Ownership
7 154 (2.09%) Algorithms
8 135 (1.83%) Robotics
9 125 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 120 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 116 (1.58%) Low-Code
12 108 (1.47%) Data Centre
13 91 (1.24%) Mobile App
14 86 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
15 79 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
16 75 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
17 69 (0.94%) Blog
18 65 (0.88%) Data Structures
19 63 (0.86%) Public Cloud
19 63 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 173 (2.35%) Windows
2 163 (2.21%) Linux
3 72 (0.98%) Android
4 56 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 45 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 23 (0.31%) VMS
7 14 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.11%) Unix
10 5 (0.068%) Debian
11 4 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.041%) Gentoo
12 3 (0.041%) Robot Operating System
12 3 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.027%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.027%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.014%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.014%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.014%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.014%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,517 (20.60%) Machine Learning
2 1,504 (20.42%) Analytics
3 1,250 (16.97%) Agile
4 1,235 (16.77%) Business Intelligence
5 1,110 (15.07%) Roadmaps
6 991 (13.46%) CI/CD
7 982 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 838 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
9 774 (10.51%) Decision-Making
10 770 (10.45%) LLM
11 745 (10.12%) Mentoring
12 715 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 705 (9.57%) DevOps
14 621 (8.43%) Generative AI
15 620 (8.42%) Full-Stack Development
16 551 (7.48%) Data Science
17 504 (6.84%) Data Engineering
18 469 (6.37%) Stakeholder Management
19 466 (6.33%) Data Modelling
20 464 (6.30%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 2,678 (36.36%) Python
2 1,686 (22.89%) SQL
3 440 (5.97%) C#
4 408 (5.54%) JavaScript
5 334 (4.53%) TypeScript
6 303 (4.11%) Java
7 155 (2.10%) C++
8 120 (1.63%) PowerShell
9 96 (1.30%) Bash
10 84 (1.14%) Go
11 60 (0.81%) Bicep
12 59 (0.80%) C
13 57 (0.77%) PHP
14 47 (0.64%) Rust
15 39 (0.53%) R
16 33 (0.45%) Scala
17 30 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 30 (0.41%) Kotlin
18 29 (0.39%) Ruby
19 24 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,119 (15.19%) Azure Certification
2 747 (10.14%) Degree
3 417 (5.66%) Security Cleared
4 233 (3.16%) SC Cleared
5 190 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 164 (2.23%) AWS Certification
7 142 (1.93%) Master's Degree
8 129 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 94 (1.28%) PhD
10 85 (1.15%) ACCA
11 64 (0.87%) CIMA
11 64 (0.87%) DBS Check
12 58 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 57 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 57 (0.77%) CISSP
14 56 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 41 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
16 25 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 22 (0.30%) CISM
18 21 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 365 (4.96%) Accessibility
2 361 (4.90%) Data Quality
3 212 (2.88%) QA
4 210 (2.85%) GDPR
5 103 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 83 (1.13%) GRC
7 78 (1.06%) WCAG
8 74 (1.00%) NIST
9 58 (0.79%) SLA
10 52 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 38 (0.52%) PMO
12 36 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
13 33 (0.45%) IFRS
14 28 (0.38%) PCI DSS
15 23 (0.31%) HIPAA
16 20 (0.27%) EU AI Act
17 17 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 17 (0.23%) SOC 2
18 16 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
19 13 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 373 (5.06%) Docker
2 100 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 98 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (0.30%) Firmware
6 20 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.24%) vSphere
8 11 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.14%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.081%) IAG
11 3 (0.041%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.014%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 398 (5.40%) Kubernetes
2 324 (4.40%) Terraform
3 60 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 50 (0.68%) Ansible
5 48 (0.65%) Grafana
6 40 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (0.23%) Puppet
9 16 (0.22%) Argo
10 14 (0.19%) Kubeflow
11 10 (0.14%) Podman
12 8 (0.11%) Proxmox
13 7 (0.095%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.081%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.081%) Nagios
15 5 (0.068%) Autotask
15 5 (0.068%) Control-M
15 5 (0.068%) Functional Safety
15 5 (0.068%) SolarWinds Orion
16 4 (0.054%) Istio
Vendors
1 1,921 (26.08%) Microsoft
2 318 (4.32%) Databricks
3 259 (3.52%) Adobe
4 256 (3.48%) Google
5 176 (2.39%) OpenAI
6 129 (1.75%) Dell
7 120 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 103 (1.40%) Oracle
8 103 (1.40%) SAP
9 100 (1.36%) Cisco
10 92 (1.25%) ServiceNow
11 78 (1.06%) Foundry
12 55 (0.75%) HubSpot
13 45 (0.61%) Apple
14 42 (0.57%) Informatica
15 40 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
16 39 (0.53%) VMware
17 38 (0.52%) Palo Alto
18 36 (0.49%) Palantir
19 35 (0.48%) Sage