Edge AI Job Trends in the South West

Edge AI
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Edge AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Edge AI 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.037% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
75th Percentile £87,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £57,661 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year +15.32% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Edge 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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,711 2,650 8,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.67% 86.94% 78.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,806 1,707 5,860
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,113 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,198
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.21% -1.81%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,114 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Edge AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Edge AI job vacancy trend in the South West

Edge AI
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 Edge AI within the South West region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Bristol - 3 £85,000 - 4
Edge AI
England

Edge AI
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Research Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (66.67%) AI Agents
2 2 (66.67%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Data Sharing
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Twin
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Innovation
3 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) PhD