Artificial Intelligence Jobs in the South West

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 97 131
Rank change year-on-year +63 +34 -34
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 206 257 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.91% 2.79% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.39% 3.31% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 98 145 92
10th Percentile £24,000 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £25,078 £43,750 £43,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,471 £58,700 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% -7.92% +27.50%
75th Percentile £79,750 £75,000 £80,627
90th Percentile £98,474 £111,500 £97,061
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Artificial Intelligence 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 3,226 7,759 6,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 92.57% 84.14% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,918 5,562 3,654
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,833 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £39,213
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.16% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64,100 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South West

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the South West.

Salary trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South West

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the South West

Artificial Intelligence
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 Artificial Intelligence within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol +32 94 £49,254 -27.57% 112
Gloucestershire +95 83 £61,250 +28.95% 70
Wiltshire +31 12 £75,000 +27.77% 16
Somerset +8 6 £59,641 +28.95% 17
Dorset -5 6 £92,500 +60.87% 12
Devon +16 2 £105,000 +180.00% 23
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (9.71%) Jupyter
2 5 (2.43%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.97%) Apache
4 2 (0.97%) CMS
4 2 (0.97%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) Camunda
5 1 (0.49%) Luigi
5 1 (0.49%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (4.85%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.49%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.14%) AWS
2 20 (9.71%) Azure
3 13 (6.31%) GCP
4 9 (4.37%) Serverless
5 8 (3.88%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.91%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.91%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.43%) IBM Cloud
8 4 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.94%) Vertex AI
9 3 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.46%) Collibra
9 3 (1.46%) GitHub
9 3 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.46%) OCI
9 3 (1.46%) SaaS
10 2 (0.97%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.97%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.46%) Internet
2 2 (0.97%) InfiniBand
2 2 (0.97%) SMS
3 1 (0.49%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.42%) Big Data
2 7 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.40%) Power BI
3 5 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.43%) MySQL
3 5 (2.43%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.43%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.94%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.94%) Tableau
5 3 (1.46%) Ataccama
5 3 (1.46%) Metadata
6 2 (0.97%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.49%) DB2
7 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.91%) Git
2 5 (2.43%) JIRA
3 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 79 (38.35%) Finance
2 60 (29.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 45 (21.84%) Social Skills
4 32 (15.53%) Banking
4 32 (15.53%) Public Sector
5 24 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.31%) Marketing
7 11 (5.34%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.40%) Legal
9 6 (2.91%) Retail
10 4 (1.94%) Advertising
10 4 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.46%) Automotive
11 3 (1.46%) Electronics
11 3 (1.46%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.97%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.97%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 62 (30.10%) Senior
2 46 (22.33%) Data Scientist
3 24 (11.65%) Senior Data Scientist
4 21 (10.19%) Graduate
4 21 (10.19%) Java Engineer
4 21 (10.19%) Senior Java Engineer
5 20 (9.71%) Sales Executive
6 17 (8.25%) Lead
7 16 (7.77%) Graduate Sales Executive
8 12 (5.83%) Software Engineer
9 10 (4.85%) Developer
9 10 (4.85%) Trainer
10 8 (3.88%) Product Manager
11 7 (3.40%) Architect
12 6 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
13 4 (1.94%) Administrator
13 4 (1.94%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 4 (1.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 4 (1.94%) Test Automation Engineer
13 4 (1.94%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.83%) Node.js
1 12 (5.83%) Software Packaging
2 9 (4.37%) React
3 5 (2.43%) Pandas
4 4 (1.94%) XGBoost
5 3 (1.46%) .NET
5 3 (1.46%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.46%) CSS
5 3 (1.46%) HTML
5 3 (1.46%) Laravel
5 3 (1.46%) OpenCL
5 3 (1.46%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.46%) scikit-learn
5 3 (1.46%) Symfony
5 3 (1.46%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.97%) Hugging Face
6 2 (0.97%) jQuery
6 2 (0.97%) REST
6 2 (0.97%) Spring
6 2 (0.97%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 45 (21.84%) Algorithms
2 40 (19.42%) Cyberattack
3 30 (14.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (10.19%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.88%) e-Learning
6 5 (2.43%) Blockchain
6 5 (2.43%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.43%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.43%) Hackathon
6 5 (2.43%) IoT
6 5 (2.43%) Learning Management System
6 5 (2.43%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.43%) Robotics
7 4 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.94%) Social Media
8 3 (1.46%) CUDA
8 3 (1.46%) Device Driver
8 3 (1.46%) PCIe
8 3 (1.46%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.28%) Linux
2 8 (3.88%) Windows
3 4 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.49%) Android
4 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (40.78%) Machine Learning
2 66 (32.04%) Data Science
3 63 (30.58%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (29.61%) Mathematics
5 59 (28.64%) Agile
6 58 (28.16%) Software Engineering
7 49 (23.79%) Computer Science
8 46 (22.33%) Statistics
9 44 (21.36%) Visualisation
10 42 (20.39%) Analytics
11 41 (19.90%) Data Analysis
11 41 (19.90%) Mentoring
12 40 (19.42%) Exploratory Data Analysis
12 40 (19.42%) OpenUP
13 39 (18.93%) DevOps
14 35 (16.99%) Cybersecurity
15 31 (15.05%) Decision-Making
16 29 (14.08%) Customer Experience
17 28 (13.59%) LLM
18 23 (11.17%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 62 (30.10%) Python
2 55 (26.70%) Java
3 39 (18.93%) JavaScript
4 11 (5.34%) SQL
5 10 (4.85%) C#
6 5 (2.43%) Bash
6 5 (2.43%) Kotlin
6 5 (2.43%) PHP
7 4 (1.94%) C++
7 4 (1.94%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.46%) C
9 2 (0.97%) R
9 2 (0.97%) Scala
9 2 (0.97%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.49%) Lua
10 1 (0.49%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.49%) Rust
10 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (36.41%) Degree
2 60 (29.13%) Security Cleared
3 51 (24.76%) DV Cleared
4 23 (11.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (9.71%) Numerate Degree
6 16 (7.77%) Master's Degree
7 15 (7.28%) PhD
8 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.97%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.37%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.43%) GDPR
3 4 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.46%) GMP
4 3 (1.46%) QA
5 2 (0.97%) NIST
6 1 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.49%) GRC
6 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (16.99%) Docker
2 4 (1.94%) Firmware
2 4 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (15.05%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.40%) Terraform
3 4 (1.94%) Ansible
4 2 (0.97%) Podman
4 2 (0.97%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (7.77%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.80%) IBM
3 11 (5.34%) Google
4 10 (4.85%) PayPal
5 8 (3.88%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.91%) Graphcore
7 5 (2.43%) Databricks
7 5 (2.43%) Oracle
8 4 (1.94%) Cisco
8 4 (1.94%) Dell
8 4 (1.94%) VMware
9 2 (0.97%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.97%) iManage
9 2 (0.97%) SAP
10 1 (0.49%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow