AI Transformation Job Trends in the UK excluding London

AI Transformation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AI Transformation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 629 572
Rank change year-on-year +98 -57 -
Permanent jobs citing AI Transformation 18 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.004% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.005% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 14 2 2
10th Percentile £64,125 £99,000 £65,250
25th Percentile £68,688 £101,250 £73,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £112,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.89% +28.57% -
75th Percentile £113,750 £128,750 £103,125
90th Percentile £141,000 £134,000 £111,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £100,000 £108,750
% change year-on-year -20.00% -8.05% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,315 41,658 31,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 87.28% 79.35% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 16,100 21,305 23,146
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.45% -0.95% -

AI Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

AI Transformation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AI Transformation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AI Transformation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AI Transformation

AI Transformation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI Transformation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Salary histogram for AI Transformation in the UK excluding London

AI Transformation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI Transformation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Midlands +53 6 £120,000 -4.00%
Scotland - 4 £67,500 -
Channel Islands - 3 £80,000 -
South East - 3 £112,500 -
West Midlands - 3 £80,000 -
North of England - 2 £62,500 -
East Midlands +31 1 - -
North East - 1 £55,000 -
North West - 1 £70,000 -
AI Transformation
UK

AI Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (16.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
1 3 (16.67%) GCP
1 3 (16.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Finance
3 6 (33.33%) Retail
4 5 (27.78%) Marketing
5 4 (22.22%) Back Office
5 4 (22.22%) Legal
6 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (5.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
1 4 (22.22%) Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Head of AI
2 3 (16.67%) Head of Digital
2 3 (16.67%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) Lead Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Lead Enterprise Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Sales Director
3 1 (5.56%) Analytics Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Change Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Data Analytics Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Data Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Digital Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Digital Transformation Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 3 (16.67%) Digital Signage
1 3 (16.67%) EPoS
1 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 8 (44.44%) Roadmaps
4 6 (33.33%) CRM
4 6 (33.33%) Customer Experience
5 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (22.22%) B2B
6 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 4 (22.22%) Generative AI
6 4 (22.22%) Product Management
6 4 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (16.67%) Business Transformation
7 3 (16.67%) Customer Insight
7 3 (16.67%) Inventory Management
7 3 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
7 3 (16.67%) Order Management
7 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (16.67%) Robotic Process Automation
7 3 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) GDPR
1 3 (16.67%) SOC 2
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Adobe
1 3 (16.67%) Salesforce