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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 102 131
Rank change year-on-year +74 +29 -45
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 241 259 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.94% 2.68% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.47% 3.28% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 95 151 80
10th Percentile £24,000 £36,250 £43,125
25th Percentile £25,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £58,700 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% -9.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile £79,500 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,978 £112,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +7.14%

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 3,228 7,892 6,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 92.97% 81.68% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,817 5,677 3,521
10th Percentile £27,150 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £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 28 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 28 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
Gloucestershire +96 96 £67,500 +42.11% 69
Bristol +29 93 £50,000 -28.57% 133
Dorset 0 16 £92,500 +60.87% 22
Devon +25 14 £25,000 -33.33% 19
Wiltshire +30 12 £80,000 +36.29% 22
Somerset +5 7 £50,891 +10.03% 28
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 (8.30%) Jupyter
2 5 (2.07%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.83%) CMS
3 2 (0.83%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) Luigi
Applications
1 19 (7.88%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.41%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.41%) Simulink
2 1 (0.41%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (11.62%) AWS
2 21 (8.71%) Azure
3 13 (5.39%) Serverless
4 11 (4.56%) GCP
5 9 (3.73%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.32%) Amazon S3
6 8 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.07%) SaaS
8 5 (2.07%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.66%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (1.66%) Collibra
9 4 (1.66%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.66%) Vertex AI
10 3 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.24%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.24%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.24%) GitHub
10 3 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.22%) Broadband
2 4 (1.66%) Internet
3 2 (0.83%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.83%) SAN
3 2 (0.83%) SMS
4 1 (0.41%) DNS
4 1 (0.41%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.41%) Firewall
4 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.41%) VPN
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (17.01%) Big Data
2 9 (3.73%) Power BI
3 7 (2.90%) MySQL
3 7 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.66%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.66%) Metadata
4 4 (1.66%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.66%) Tableau
5 3 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.24%) Ataccama
5 3 (1.24%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.24%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.41%) Airbyte
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.41%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (4.56%) JIRA
2 8 (3.32%) Git
3 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.83%) Selenium
4 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.41%) JUnit
4 1 (0.41%) Locust
4 1 (0.41%) Maven
4 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 85 (35.27%) Finance
2 65 (26.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 46 (19.09%) Social Skills
4 40 (16.60%) Public Sector
5 32 (13.28%) Banking
6 27 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (8.30%) Marketing
8 10 (4.15%) Law
8 10 (4.15%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.90%) Games
10 6 (2.49%) Retail
11 5 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.66%) Advertising
12 4 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.24%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.83%) Brand Awareness
14 2 (0.83%) Local Government
14 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 83 (34.44%) Senior
2 45 (18.67%) Data Scientist
3 35 (14.52%) Java Engineer
4 32 (13.28%) Senior Java Engineer
5 24 (9.96%) Senior Data Scientist
6 20 (8.30%) Lead
6 20 (8.30%) Sales Executive
7 19 (7.88%) Software Engineer
7 19 (7.88%) Trainer
8 17 (7.05%) Graduate
9 16 (6.64%) Graduate Sales Executive
10 11 (4.56%) Developer
11 9 (3.73%) Architect
12 6 (2.49%) Embedded Engineer
12 6 (2.49%) Release Engineer
13 5 (2.07%) Product Manager
13 5 (2.07%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 5 (2.07%) Systems Engineer
13 5 (2.07%) Test Automation Engineer
13 5 (2.07%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.39%) React
2 12 (4.98%) Node.js
2 12 (4.98%) Software Packaging
3 9 (3.73%) GraphQL
4 6 (2.49%) Middleware
4 6 (2.49%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 6 (2.49%) WebGL
5 5 (2.07%) Spring
6 4 (1.66%) Pandas
6 4 (1.66%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.66%) XGBoost
7 3 (1.24%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.24%) HTML
7 3 (1.24%) Hugging Face
7 3 (1.24%) Laravel
7 3 (1.24%) OpenCL
7 3 (1.24%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.24%) Serverless Framework
7 3 (1.24%) Symfony
7 3 (1.24%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 46 (19.09%) Algorithms
2 40 (16.60%) Cyberattack
3 36 (14.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (9.13%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.49%) Animation
5 6 (2.49%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.49%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.07%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.07%) Robotics
6 5 (2.07%) Social Media
7 4 (1.66%) e-Learning
7 4 (1.66%) IoT
7 4 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.66%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.24%) CUDA
8 3 (1.24%) Device Driver
8 3 (1.24%) NHS
8 3 (1.24%) PCIe
8 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.83%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.81%) Linux
2 9 (3.73%) Windows
3 6 (2.49%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (36.93%) Machine Learning
2 80 (33.20%) Agile
3 73 (30.29%) Problem-Solving
4 65 (26.97%) Mathematics
5 63 (26.14%) Data Science
6 60 (24.90%) Software Engineering
7 54 (22.41%) Computer Science
8 51 (21.16%) Statistics
9 48 (19.92%) Visualisation
10 47 (19.50%) Analytics
11 41 (17.01%) Data Analysis
12 40 (16.60%) Exploratory Data Analysis
12 40 (16.60%) OpenUP
12 40 (16.60%) SDLC
13 39 (16.18%) Mentoring
14 33 (13.69%) Decision-Making
14 33 (13.69%) DevOps
15 31 (12.86%) Cybersecurity
16 30 (12.45%) LLM
17 29 (12.03%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 66 (27.39%) Java
2 62 (25.73%) Python
3 38 (15.77%) JavaScript
4 10 (4.15%) SQL
5 7 (2.90%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.49%) HLSL
6 6 (2.49%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.07%) Bash
7 5 (2.07%) PHP
8 4 (1.66%) C#
8 4 (1.66%) C++
9 3 (1.24%) C
10 2 (0.83%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.41%) Bicep
11 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.41%) R
11 1 (0.41%) Rust
11 1 (0.41%) Scala
11 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (33.61%) Degree
2 54 (22.41%) Security Cleared
3 51 (21.16%) DV Cleared
4 23 (9.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (8.30%) Master's Degree
5 20 (8.30%) Numerate Degree
6 19 (7.88%) PhD
7 4 (1.66%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.24%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.83%) MBA
9 2 (0.83%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.41%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.73%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.49%) GDPR
3 4 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.24%) GMP
5 2 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.83%) NIST
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) QA
6 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (14.52%) Docker
2 6 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.24%) Firmware
5 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (13.28%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.07%) Terraform
3 4 (1.66%) Ansible
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.83%) Podman
4 2 (0.83%) SmoothWall
5 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (7.88%) PayPal
2 16 (6.64%) IBM
3 15 (6.22%) Red Hat
4 13 (5.39%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.90%) Databricks
5 7 (2.90%) Google
6 6 (2.49%) Cisco
6 6 (2.49%) Graphcore
6 6 (2.49%) VMware
7 5 (2.07%) Oracle
8 4 (1.66%) Dell
9 3 (1.24%) SAP
10 2 (0.83%) EMC
10 2 (0.83%) iManage
10 2 (0.83%) Informatica
10 2 (0.83%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.41%) Meraki
11 1 (0.41%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.41%) Sparx