AI Transformation Job Trends in the South West

AI Transformation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring AI Transformation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 171 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Permanent jobs citing AI Transformation 2 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.032% 0.10% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.11% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £37,875 - -
25th Percentile £40,313 £97,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £100,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -51.25% - -
75th Percentile £60,313 £102,500 -
90th Percentile £64,625 - -
England median annual salary £72,500 £97,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year -25.64% +2.63% -7.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

AI Transformation 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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,488 2,644 6,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.81% 90.18% 86.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,046 1,471 5,084
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

AI Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

AI Transformation job vacancy trend in the South West

AI Transformation
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AI Transformation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AI Transformation

AI Transformation
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI Transformation in the South West over the 6 months to 13 March 2026.

Salary histogram for AI Transformation in the South West

AI Transformation
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI Transformation within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 March 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
Gloucestershire +8 1 £60,000 -40.00% 1
Bristol - 1 £37,500 - 4
AI Transformation
England

AI Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Vision
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft