Artificial Intelligence Programmer Job Trends in London

AI Programmer
England > London

The median AI Programmer salary in London is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Programmer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.007% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - -
75th Percentile £41,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £37,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 13,788 13,984 20,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 91.72% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9,174 8,055 16,173
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -2.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Artificial Intelligence Programmer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Artificial Intelligence Programmer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Artificial Intelligence Programmer job vacancy trend in London

Artificial Intelligence Programmer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Programmer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Programmer job vacancies in London

Artificial Intelligence Programmer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 6 February 2026, Artificial Intelligence Programmer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Artificial Intelligence Programmer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Neural Network
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Streamlit
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow

Artificial Intelligence Programmer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Neural Network
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft