AI Job Trends in London

AI
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in 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 6 40 52
Rank change year-on-year +34 +12 +68
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,131 968 822
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.56% 6.11% 4.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.59% 6.47% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,025 505 535
10th Percentile £43,750 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £89,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +4.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile £102,500 £117,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £130,000 £129,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £76,383
% change year-on-year -6.45% +1.46% +9.12%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,118 14,957 16,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.48% 94.35% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 7,728 8,393 13,166
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

AI job vacancy trend in London

AI
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing AI

AI
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for AI in London

AI
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the 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
Central London +26 303 £80,000 -11.11% 769
South London +51 156 £42,500 -45.16% 13
West London +27 134 £80,000 -9.60% 35
East London +14 72 £24,000 - 53
North London +17 23 £92,500 +39.62% 5
AI
England

AI
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 43 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 35 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.70%) Confluence
4 12 (0.56%) Appian
4 12 (0.56%) CMS
5 8 (0.38%) JBoss
5 8 (0.38%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.28%) Apache
6 6 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
7 5 (0.23%) nginx
8 4 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.19%) Luigi
9 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.14%) WordPress
10 2 (0.094%) Liferay
11 1 (0.047%) concrete5
11 1 (0.047%) Drupal
Applications
1 79 (3.71%) Chatbot
2 55 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.99%) Maya
5 16 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.52%) Sketch
7 6 (0.28%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.23%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.14%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.047%) Blender
10 1 (0.047%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 20 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.38%) Endur
2 8 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
3 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.23%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.19%) Shopify
6 2 (0.094%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.094%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.094%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.094%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.094%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.047%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.047%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.047%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.047%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 506 (23.74%) Azure
2 419 (19.66%) Cloud Computing
3 398 (18.68%) AWS
4 217 (10.18%) SaaS
5 210 (9.85%) GCP
6 184 (8.63%) Power Platform
7 102 (4.79%) GitHub
8 77 (3.61%) Azure AI
9 63 (2.96%) Serverless
10 61 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
11 59 (2.77%) Vertex AI
12 53 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
13 49 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
14 48 (2.25%) Snowflake
15 45 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
16 40 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 38 (1.78%) Power Automate
18 33 (1.55%) Amazon Bedrock
19 32 (1.50%) PaaS
20 31 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 380 (17.83%) Internet
2 14 (0.66%) Firewall
3 12 (0.56%) Broadband
4 10 (0.47%) Network Security
4 10 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (0.42%) HTTP
5 9 (0.42%) VPN
5 9 (0.42%) WAN
6 7 (0.33%) DNS
7 6 (0.28%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.28%) Wireless
8 5 (0.23%) DHCP
8 5 (0.23%) LAN
9 4 (0.19%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.19%) VLAN
10 3 (0.14%) InfiniBand
11 2 (0.094%) AMQP
11 2 (0.094%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.094%) MQTT
11 2 (0.094%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (5.91%) Power BI
2 78 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (3.43%) NoSQL
4 64 (3.00%) Data Lake
5 62 (2.91%) Tableau
6 55 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
7 41 (1.92%) SQL Server
8 39 (1.83%) Big Data
9 37 (1.74%) MongoDB
10 32 (1.50%) Metadata
11 27 (1.27%) Relational Database
12 25 (1.17%) BigQuery
13 24 (1.13%) MySQL
14 20 (0.94%) Pinecone
15 16 (0.75%) Hadoop
16 15 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 13 (0.61%) Looker
17 13 (0.61%) Qlik Sense
18 12 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
18 12 (0.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 65 (3.05%) Git
2 41 (1.92%) JIRA
3 31 (1.45%) MLflow
4 22 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.47%) GitLab
5 10 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
5 10 (0.47%) TeamCity
6 9 (0.42%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.28%) Storybook
8 5 (0.23%) JMeter
8 5 (0.23%) Postman
8 5 (0.23%) Selenium
8 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.23%) Vite
8 5 (0.23%) WebDriver
9 4 (0.19%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.19%) ERwin
9 4 (0.19%) NeoLoad
9 4 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.14%) Charles Proxy
General
1 873 (40.97%) Social Skills
2 506 (23.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 503 (23.60%) Finance
4 500 (23.46%) Banking
5 292 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
6 186 (8.73%) Law
7 144 (6.76%) Legal
8 136 (6.38%) Marketing
9 101 (4.74%) Public Sector
10 94 (4.41%) Retail
11 88 (4.13%) Games
12 73 (3.43%) Telecoms
13 60 (2.82%) Financial Institution
14 51 (2.39%) Manufacturing
15 45 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
16 36 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
17 34 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
18 32 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
19 31 (1.45%) Electronics
20 27 (1.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 401 (18.82%) Senior
2 310 (14.55%) Lecturer
3 180 (8.45%) Lead
4 175 (8.21%) Developer
5 137 (6.43%) Architect
6 125 (5.87%) Consultant
7 111 (5.21%) Analyst
8 86 (4.04%) Software Engineer
9 82 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 69 (3.24%) Data Engineer
11 65 (3.05%) Trainer
12 60 (2.82%) Data Analyst
13 48 (2.25%) Senior Consultant
14 46 (2.16%) Senior Developer
15 44 (2.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 44 (2.06%) IT Manager
15 44 (2.06%) Python Developer
16 43 (2.02%) Senior Manager
17 41 (1.92%) Full-Stack Developer
18 39 (1.83%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (6.29%) React
2 106 (4.97%) REST
3 86 (4.04%) PyTorch
4 84 (3.94%) LangChain
5 76 (3.57%) TensorFlow
6 66 (3.10%) Node.js
7 62 (2.91%) FastAPI
8 60 (2.82%) .NET
9 57 (2.67%) Django
10 47 (2.21%) Flask
10 47 (2.21%) RESTful
11 46 (2.16%) Kafka
12 37 (1.74%) scikit-learn
13 33 (1.55%) GraphQL
13 33 (1.55%) Hugging Face
13 33 (1.55%) Pandas
14 32 (1.50%) AngularJS
15 31 (1.45%) Next.js
16 29 (1.36%) HTML
16 29 (1.36%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 381 (17.88%) IoT
2 128 (6.01%) Cloud Native
3 79 (3.71%) Algorithms
4 78 (3.66%) AI Agents
5 73 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
6 68 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
7 66 (3.10%) Onboarding
8 63 (2.96%) Product Ownership
9 62 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
10 61 (2.86%) Management Information System
11 56 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
12 41 (1.92%) Low-Code
13 37 (1.74%) Data Structures
14 36 (1.69%) Robotics
15 34 (1.60%) Blockchain
15 34 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
16 32 (1.50%) Mobile App
17 30 (1.41%) Life Science
18 28 (1.31%) Reinsurance
19 27 (1.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.25%) Android
2 32 (1.50%) Apple iOS
2 32 (1.50%) Linux
3 25 (1.17%) Windows
4 24 (1.13%) Unix
5 13 (0.61%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.094%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.047%) Solaris
8 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 856 (40.17%) Machine Learning
2 503 (23.60%) Cybersecurity
3 498 (23.37%) User Experience
4 446 (20.93%) Analytics
5 406 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 387 (18.16%) Agile
7 386 (18.11%) Web Development
8 278 (13.05%) Roadmaps
9 264 (12.39%) CI/CD
10 258 (12.11%) DevOps
11 252 (11.83%) Software Engineering
12 238 (11.17%) LLM
13 237 (11.12%) Data Science
14 236 (11.07%) Computer Science
15 227 (10.65%) Business Intelligence
15 227 (10.65%) Generative AI
16 220 (10.32%) Decision-Making
17 217 (10.18%) Mentoring
18 210 (9.85%) Business Strategy
19 170 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 563 (26.42%) Python
2 325 (15.25%) SQL
3 141 (6.62%) TypeScript
4 111 (5.21%) JavaScript
5 75 (3.52%) Java
6 68 (3.19%) C#
7 35 (1.64%) C++
8 33 (1.55%) Go
9 30 (1.41%) Kotlin
10 25 (1.17%) PowerShell
11 23 (1.08%) Bash
12 22 (1.03%) PHP
13 19 (0.89%) R
14 17 (0.80%) Rust
14 17 (0.80%) Scala
15 15 (0.70%) Swift
16 11 (0.52%) Bicep
16 11 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.19%) C
17 4 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 880 (41.30%) Degree
2 537 (25.20%) Master's Degree
3 472 (22.15%) PhD
4 378 (17.74%) Postgraduate
5 151 (7.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 79 (3.71%) Security Cleared
7 63 (2.96%) SC Cleared
8 40 (1.88%) DV Cleared
9 35 (1.64%) Azure Certification
10 32 (1.50%) Numerate Degree
11 30 (1.41%) CISSP
12 26 (1.22%) PMI Certification
13 25 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
14 22 (1.03%) AWS Certification
14 22 (1.03%) CISA
14 22 (1.03%) PMP
15 21 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
15 21 (0.99%) CISM
16 19 (0.89%) ACCA
17 17 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.87%) Data Quality
2 72 (3.38%) GDPR
3 64 (3.00%) QA
4 44 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 36 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.45%) EU AI Act
7 22 (1.03%) Solvency II
8 21 (0.99%) HIPAA
8 21 (0.99%) PSD2
9 20 (0.94%) IFRS
10 19 (0.89%) SLA
11 16 (0.75%) GAAP
12 15 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.56%) NIST
14 10 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.47%) EMIR
15 9 (0.42%) GRC
16 6 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.28%) SOC 2
17 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 148 (6.95%) Docker
2 19 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.47%) Firmware
4 3 (0.14%) GPFS
4 3 (0.14%) Lustre
4 3 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.094%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.094%) NFS
5 2 (0.094%) vSphere
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.047%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 139 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 114 (5.35%) Terraform
3 35 (1.64%) Ansible
4 19 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.56%) Grafana
6 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.47%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.19%) Argo
10 2 (0.094%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.094%) Puppet
11 1 (0.047%) Cilium
11 1 (0.047%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.047%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.047%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.047%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.047%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.047%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.047%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 279 (13.09%) Microsoft
2 126 (5.91%) Google
3 102 (4.79%) Databricks
4 70 (3.28%) OpenAI
5 63 (2.96%) PayPal
6 50 (2.35%) SAP
7 44 (2.06%) Alteryx
8 41 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 33 (1.55%) Bloomberg
10 31 (1.45%) Fortinet
11 28 (1.31%) Oracle
12 27 (1.27%) Adobe
12 27 (1.27%) Foundry
13 26 (1.22%) Palantir
14 24 (1.13%) Dell
14 24 (1.13%) Palo Alto
15 23 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
16 20 (0.94%) NVIDIA
17 18 (0.84%) Cisco
18 15 (0.70%) Blue Prism