Artificial Intelligence Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

AI Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median AI Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 736 758
Rank change year-on-year +189 +22 +81
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 28 22 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.031% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.033% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 16 9 2
10th Percentile £64,750 £40,000 £39,125
25th Percentile £67,500 £45,000 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -10.20% -1.21%
75th Percentile £96,250 £77,500 £77,813
90th Percentile £102,500 £90,000 £84,375
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% +29.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,016 67,223 53,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.80% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,742 47,591 30,483
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,906 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,225 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
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 Artificial Intelligence Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +106 14 £100,000 - 47
North of England +56 10 £81,250 +71.05% 12
Yorkshire +64 5 £92,500 +131.25% 1
North West +16 5 £70,000 +27.27% 6
Scotland +118 2 £70,000 - 8
Midlands +62 1 £90,000 +38.46% 1
West Midlands +59 1 £90,000 +20.00% 1
East of England +34 1 £64,000 -28.89% 7
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
UK

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Artificial Intelligence Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 23 (82.14%) Generative AI
3 20 (71.43%) Python
4 17 (60.71%) Machine Learning
5 14 (50.00%) MLOps
6 12 (42.86%) Kubernetes
6 12 (42.86%) Software Engineering
6 12 (42.86%) LLM
7 11 (39.29%) Law
7 11 (39.29%) Accessibility
7 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
8 10 (35.71%) Finance
8 10 (35.71%) Degree
8 10 (35.71%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 9 (32.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 7 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (25.00%) User Experience
11 6 (21.43%) Algorithms
11 6 (21.43%) Rust
11 6 (21.43%) Public Cloud
11 6 (21.43%) Elixir
11 6 (21.43%) SDLC
11 6 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (21.43%) Scala
11 6 (21.43%) Use Case
11 6 (21.43%) Clojure
11 6 (21.43%) REST
12 5 (17.86%) Robotics

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (7.14%) Apache
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) AWS
1 3 (10.71%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (7.14%) GCP
2 2 (7.14%) Serverless
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (3.57%) Azure AI
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
1 2 (7.14%) Pinecone
1 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (7.14%) Weaviate
2 1 (3.57%) Couchbase
2 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) MySQL
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) MLflow
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (39.29%) Law
2 10 (35.71%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Games
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Electronics
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.57%) Marketing
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) REST
2 4 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 4 (14.29%) TensorFlow
3 3 (10.71%) scikit-learn
4 2 (7.14%) Kafka
4 2 (7.14%) NumPy
4 2 (7.14%) Pandas
5 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.57%) Google JAX
5 1 (3.57%) JAX
5 1 (3.57%) OpenCV
5 1 (3.57%) OpenVINO
5 1 (3.57%) React
5 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (21.43%) Algorithms
2 6 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (21.43%) Public Cloud
3 5 (17.86%) Robotics
4 2 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.57%) IoT
5 1 (3.57%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 23 (82.14%) Generative AI
3 17 (60.71%) Machine Learning
4 14 (50.00%) MLOps
5 12 (42.86%) LLM
5 12 (42.86%) Software Engineering
6 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
7 10 (35.71%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 9 (32.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 7 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (25.00%) User Experience
10 6 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (21.43%) SDLC
10 6 (21.43%) Use Case
11 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security
11 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
11 4 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
11 4 (14.29%) Open Source
11 4 (14.29%) Pair Programming
11 4 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) Clojure
2 6 (21.43%) Elixir
2 6 (21.43%) Rust
2 6 (21.43%) Scala
3 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.29%) C++
4 4 (14.29%) Go
5 3 (10.71%) Java
6 2 (7.14%) R
6 2 (7.14%) SQL
7 1 (3.57%) Bash
7 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.14%) PhD
4 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (39.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) SAP