Artificial Intelligence Engineer Jobs in London

AI Engineer
England > London

The median AI Engineer salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 499 635
Rank change year-on-year +130 +136 +224
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 30 11 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.047% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.049% 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 16 9 0
10th Percentile £48,750 - -
25th Percentile £64,500 £90,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £115,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% - -
75th Percentile £103,125 £127,500 -
90th Percentile £117,500 £131,500 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £73,125
% change year-on-year -5.56% +23.08% -8.59%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,488 22,226 33,689
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 94.11% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 16,726 24,705
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
% change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
East London - 2 - -
Central London +30 1 £105,000 +16.67% 3
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 London region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 23 (76.67%) Python
3 16 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (50.00%) Degree
5 14 (46.67%) Finance
6 13 (43.33%) Data Analytics
6 13 (43.33%) Analytics
6 13 (43.33%) Algorithms
6 13 (43.33%) SDLC
7 12 (40.00%) Software Engineering
7 12 (40.00%) Games
8 11 (36.67%) Law
8 11 (36.67%) Thought Leadership
8 11 (36.67%) Business Strategy
8 11 (36.67%) Telehealth
8 11 (36.67%) LLM
9 8 (26.67%) Machine Learning
10 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
10 7 (23.33%) Generative AI
11 6 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 6 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
11 6 (20.00%) Master's Degree
11 6 (20.00%) PhD
11 6 (20.00%) Statistics
11 6 (20.00%) Operations Research
12 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
12 5 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (10.00%) Conversational UI
13 3 (10.00%) Chatbot
13 3 (10.00%) OpenAI

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) Azure AI
2 2 (6.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 2 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.33%) ChatGPT
3 1 (3.33%) Google Gemini
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.33%) Serverless
3 1 (3.33%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Metadata
General
1 14 (46.67%) Finance
2 12 (40.00%) Games
3 11 (36.67%) Law
4 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 3 (10.00%) Advertising
6 2 (6.67%) Electronics
6 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.67%) Marketing
6 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.33%) Banking
7 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) React
1 3 (10.00%) React Native
2 2 (6.67%) CSS
2 2 (6.67%) Next.js
3 1 (3.33%) Flutter
3 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Algorithms
2 5 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.67%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Android
1 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 16 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (43.33%) Analytics
3 13 (43.33%) Data Analytics
3 13 (43.33%) SDLC
4 12 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 11 (36.67%) Business Strategy
5 11 (36.67%) LLM
5 11 (36.67%) Telehealth
5 11 (36.67%) Thought Leadership
6 8 (26.67%) Machine Learning
7 7 (23.33%) Generative AI
8 6 (20.00%) Operations Research
8 6 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
8 6 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 6 (20.00%) Statistics
9 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 3 (10.00%) Event-Driven
9 3 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 3 (10.00%) Event-Driven Programming
Programming Languages
1 23 (76.67%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.33%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (50.00%) Degree
2 6 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 6 (20.00%) PhD
3 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (10.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) Google