AI Job Trends in the UK excluding London

AI
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 50
Rank change year-on-year -4 +38 +115
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,836 3,359 3,141
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.78% 9.95% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.59% 11.25% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,497 824 1,235
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £35,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,892 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% +2.23% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,295 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.59% -5.29% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,409 29,867 58,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.64% 88.46% 80.14%
Number of salaries quoted 35,488 16,001 40,489
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,800
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

AI job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AI
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

AI
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in the UK excluding London

AI
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +13 1,496 £67,500 +24.34% 586
South East -2 1,093 £60,000 +33.33% 753
Midlands -8 766 £55,000 -8.33% 271
North West +25 742 £70,000 +20.69% 360
Yorkshire -2 544 £65,000 +85.71% 152
South West +5 543 £62,500 +4.17% 557
East of England +17 506 £60,000 -9.38% 175
West Midlands -5 483 £57,500 -2.95% 181
East Midlands -17 282 £52,500 -16.00% 90
Scotland -4 226 £70,000 +7.69% 138
North East -4 210 £65,000 +106.35% 77
Wales +23 157 £60,000 -10.45% 43
Northern Ireland -2 79 £74,830 -14.48% 74
AI
UK

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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:

Application Platforms
1 82 (1.70%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.05%) Jupyter
3 45 (0.93%) CMS
4 36 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (0.70%) Confluence
6 29 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 29 (0.60%) WordPress
7 27 (0.56%) Apache
7 27 (0.56%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.083%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.083%) SAS
10 3 (0.062%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.041%) Apache Qpid
11 2 (0.041%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.041%) IIS
11 2 (0.041%) nginx
11 2 (0.041%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.021%) Moodle
12 1 (0.021%) Umbraco
Applications
1 939 (19.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (1.88%) Chatbot
3 48 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
5 17 (0.35%) Photoshop
6 15 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.31%) UserZoom
7 13 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
7 13 (0.27%) InDesign
8 11 (0.23%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.19%) Simulink
10 3 (0.062%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.062%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.041%) Trello
12 1 (0.021%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.021%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (0.50%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.17%) Sage 50
6 4 (0.083%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.083%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.062%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.062%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.062%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.041%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.041%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.021%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.021%) Infor SunSystems
9 1 (0.021%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.021%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.021%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.021%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.021%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,076 (42.93%) Azure
2 1,414 (29.24%) Azure AI
3 1,139 (23.55%) Power Platform
4 629 (13.01%) AWS
5 271 (5.60%) SaaS
6 216 (4.47%) GCP
7 213 (4.40%) GitHub
8 207 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
9 183 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
10 139 (2.87%) Microsoft Copilot
11 130 (2.69%) Serverless
12 105 (2.17%) Adobe Analytics
13 97 (2.01%) GitHub Copilot
14 89 (1.84%) Entra ID
15 82 (1.70%) Snowflake
16 79 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
17 74 (1.53%) Power Automate
18 69 (1.43%) Figma
19 66 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
20 62 (1.28%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 186 (3.85%) Broadband
2 55 (1.14%) Firewall
3 39 (0.81%) VPN
4 36 (0.74%) Internet
5 35 (0.72%) DNS
6 24 (0.50%) Network Security
7 18 (0.37%) VLAN
8 17 (0.35%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.35%) Unified Communications
9 16 (0.33%) DHCP
9 16 (0.33%) MQTT
9 16 (0.33%) VoIP
10 9 (0.19%) CTI
10 9 (0.19%) Wireless
11 7 (0.14%) BGP
11 7 (0.14%) Intranet
11 7 (0.14%) WAN
12 6 (0.12%) DMZ
12 6 (0.12%) HTTP
13 5 (0.10%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,034 (21.38%) Power BI
2 926 (19.15%) Tableau
3 203 (4.20%) MongoDB
4 176 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 140 (2.89%) SQL Server
6 74 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
7 72 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
8 56 (1.16%) Data Lake
9 52 (1.08%) Metadata
10 50 (1.03%) NoSQL
11 41 (0.85%) Relational Database
12 36 (0.74%) MySQL
13 35 (0.72%) Redis
14 33 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
15 32 (0.66%) Big Data
16 26 (0.54%) Looker
17 24 (0.50%) BigQuery
18 23 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
19 20 (0.41%) DynamoDB
19 20 (0.41%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 127 (2.63%) Git
2 54 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
3 50 (1.03%) JIRA
4 45 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 42 (0.87%) GitLab
6 36 (0.74%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.45%) Snyk
8 19 (0.39%) Postman
8 19 (0.39%) Selenium
9 17 (0.35%) MLflow
10 16 (0.33%) JUnit
11 14 (0.29%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.23%) Maven
13 9 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
13 9 (0.19%) JMeter
14 8 (0.17%) Spock
15 7 (0.14%) Visual Studio
16 6 (0.12%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.12%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,949 (40.30%) Social Skills
2 619 (12.80%) Finance
3 354 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 317 (6.56%) Marketing
5 300 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 210 (4.34%) Games
7 193 (3.99%) Retail
8 181 (3.74%) Public Sector
9 160 (3.31%) Legal
10 149 (3.08%) Manufacturing
11 147 (3.04%) Law
12 92 (1.90%) Banking
13 91 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
14 81 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
15 58 (1.20%) Advertising
16 52 (1.08%) Automotive
17 40 (0.83%) Electronics
18 30 (0.62%) Aerospace
19 29 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
19 29 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,050 (21.71%) Analyst
2 891 (18.42%) Data Analyst
3 882 (18.24%) Junior
4 866 (17.91%) Junior Analyst
5 865 (17.89%) Junior Data Analyst
6 600 (12.41%) Senior
7 549 (11.35%) Developer
8 450 (9.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 436 (9.02%) Lead
10 314 (6.49%) Architect
11 269 (5.56%) Software Engineer
12 185 (3.83%) .NET Developer
13 175 (3.62%) Data Engineer
14 111 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
15 98 (2.03%) Senior Developer
16 90 (1.86%) Software Developer
17 85 (1.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
18 84 (1.74%) Consultant
18 84 (1.74%) Senior Manager
19 83 (1.72%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (6.72%) .NET
2 235 (4.86%) React
3 180 (3.72%) CSS
4 178 (3.68%) ASP.NET
5 176 (3.64%) HTML
6 172 (3.56%) ASP.NET Core
7 162 (3.35%) .NET Core
8 152 (3.14%) ML.NET
9 126 (2.61%) RESTful
10 112 (2.32%) Blazor
11 111 (2.30%) Node.js
12 99 (2.05%) REST
13 67 (1.39%) scikit-learn
13 67 (1.39%) Vue
14 57 (1.18%) AngularJS
15 56 (1.16%) Pandas
16 55 (1.14%) NumPy
17 54 (1.12%) Hugging Face
18 53 (1.10%) Kafka
19 52 (1.08%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 206 (4.26%) Cloud Native
2 183 (3.78%) Social Media
3 139 (2.87%) AI Agents
4 122 (2.52%) Product Ownership
5 111 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 107 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
7 103 (2.13%) Robotics
8 102 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 88 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
10 74 (1.53%) Mobile App
11 72 (1.49%) Management Information System
12 58 (1.20%) Data Centre
13 55 (1.14%) Low-Code
14 52 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
15 46 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
16 42 (0.87%) Virtual Team
17 41 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
18 38 (0.79%) Driving Licence
18 38 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
19 34 (0.70%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 122 (2.52%) Windows
2 109 (2.25%) Linux
3 64 (1.32%) Android
4 45 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 42 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 23 (0.48%) VMS
7 8 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.10%) Debian
9 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.062%) Gentoo
10 3 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.041%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.041%) Unix
12 1 (0.021%) AIX
12 1 (0.021%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.021%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,095 (22.64%) Business Intelligence
2 821 (16.98%) Machine Learning
3 787 (16.27%) Agile
4 721 (14.91%) Analytics
5 604 (12.49%) CI/CD
6 541 (11.19%) Software Engineering
7 533 (11.02%) Roadmaps
8 525 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
9 487 (10.07%) DevOps
10 444 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 412 (8.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 405 (8.37%) Decision-Making
13 389 (8.04%) Mentoring
14 369 (7.63%) LLM
15 367 (7.59%) Full-Stack Development
16 303 (6.27%) Cybersecurity
17 296 (6.12%) Customer Experience
18 241 (4.98%) Generative AI
19 239 (4.94%) Workflow
20 238 (4.92%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,958 (40.49%) Python
2 1,394 (28.83%) SQL
3 375 (7.75%) C#
4 321 (6.64%) JavaScript
5 177 (3.66%) TypeScript
6 167 (3.45%) Java
7 119 (2.46%) C++
8 79 (1.63%) PowerShell
9 63 (1.30%) Bash
10 43 (0.89%) Go
11 41 (0.85%) C
12 37 (0.77%) Bicep
13 36 (0.74%) Rust
14 26 (0.54%) PHP
15 22 (0.45%) R
16 20 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
17 19 (0.39%) Kotlin
17 19 (0.39%) Ruby
18 18 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 13 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,220 (25.23%) Azure Certification
2 359 (7.42%) Degree
3 234 (4.84%) Security Cleared
4 147 (3.04%) SC Cleared
5 103 (2.13%) AWS Certification
5 103 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 81 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 66 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 55 (1.14%) ACCA
8 55 (1.14%) CIMA
9 49 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 44 (0.91%) CISSP
11 42 (0.87%) DBS Check
12 38 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 35 (0.72%) CISM
13 35 (0.72%) PhD
14 31 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
15 28 (0.58%) A+ Certification
16 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (0.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (4.53%) Accessibility
2 180 (3.72%) Data Quality
3 119 (2.46%) GDPR
4 114 (2.36%) QA
5 63 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (0.95%) WCAG
7 43 (0.89%) GRC
8 42 (0.87%) SLA
9 38 (0.79%) NIST
10 26 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 24 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (0.48%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 15 (0.31%) NCSC
14 13 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 11 (0.23%) PMO
16 10 (0.21%) SOC 2
17 9 (0.19%) IFRS
17 9 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 8 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 233 (4.82%) Docker
2 90 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.43%) Firmware
6 17 (0.35%) vSphere
7 16 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.19%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.062%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 235 (4.86%) Kubernetes
2 174 (3.60%) Terraform
3 67 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (0.72%) Ansible
5 32 (0.66%) Grafana
6 24 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.21%) Podman
7 10 (0.21%) Puppet
8 8 (0.17%) Kubeflow
8 8 (0.17%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.12%) SolarWinds Orion
10 5 (0.10%) Functional Safety
10 5 (0.10%) Nagios
10 5 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.083%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.083%) Argo
11 4 (0.083%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.062%) cPanel
12 3 (0.062%) Plesk
13 2 (0.041%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,664 (34.41%) Microsoft
2 162 (3.35%) Adobe
3 152 (3.14%) Google
4 110 (2.27%) Databricks
5 90 (1.86%) OpenAI
6 86 (1.78%) Cisco
7 74 (1.53%) Dell
8 56 (1.16%) Salesforce
9 53 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 51 (1.05%) Oracle
11 48 (0.99%) Apple
12 36 (0.74%) Facebook
13 35 (0.72%) VMware
14 34 (0.70%) SAP
15 28 (0.58%) HubSpot
15 28 (0.58%) Sage
16 27 (0.56%) CyberArk
17 26 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
18 25 (0.52%) Tenable
19 22 (0.45%) Palo Alto