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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 51
Rank change year-on-year -3 +38 +129
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,535 3,189 3,256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.61% 10.39% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.42% 11.48% 5.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,264 784 1,321
10th Percentile £34,825 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,500 £35,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,908 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +6.51% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,914 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,274 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.62% -5.32% -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 48,155 27,788 61,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.19% 90.57% 80.17%
Number of salaries quoted 33,844 14,241 42,806
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +12 1,415 £67,500 +28.57% 439
South East -2 1,031 £60,000 +28.34% 669
Midlands -8 732 £55,000 -7.76% 228
North West +31 694 £70,000 +8.63% 275
Yorkshire -3 526 £65,000 +153.66% 117
South West +1 499 £62,500 +4.17% 212
East of England +20 489 £60,000 -9.39% 157
West Midlands -6 458 £55,000 -4.35% 137
East Midlands -15 273 £52,500 -14.29% 91
Scotland -1 214 £70,000 +21.74% 95
North East 0 195 £65,000 +106.35% 51
Wales +20 133 £55,000 -19.12% 46
Northern Ireland +8 52 £72,500 +20.83% 56
AI
UK

AI
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 70 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.12%) Jupyter
3 43 (0.95%) CMS
4 32 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (0.71%) Confluence
5 29 (0.64%) WordPress
6 28 (0.62%) Apache Spark
7 25 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 23 (0.51%) Apache
9 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.088%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.066%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.066%) SAS
12 2 (0.044%) Apache Qpid
12 2 (0.044%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.044%) IIS
12 2 (0.044%) nginx
12 2 (0.044%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.022%) Moodle
13 1 (0.022%) Umbraco
Applications
1 932 (20.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (1.74%) Chatbot
3 45 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
5 15 (0.33%) Photoshop
5 15 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.33%) UserZoom
6 13 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 11 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 11 (0.24%) InDesign
8 10 (0.22%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.20%) Simulink
10 3 (0.066%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.066%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.044%) Trello
12 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.022%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.022%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (0.53%) Cloudability
2 15 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.18%) Sage 50
5 7 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.066%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.066%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.066%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.044%) Q-Pulse
9 2 (0.044%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.044%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.022%) FIS Private Capital Suite
10 1 (0.022%) Infor SunSystems
10 1 (0.022%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.022%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.022%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.022%) SAP EHS
10 1 (0.022%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,960 (43.22%) Azure
2 1,373 (30.28%) Azure AI
3 1,110 (24.48%) Power Platform
4 585 (12.90%) AWS
5 256 (5.64%) SaaS
6 196 (4.32%) GCP
7 182 (4.01%) GitHub
8 181 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
9 168 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
10 128 (2.82%) Microsoft Copilot
11 123 (2.71%) Serverless
12 105 (2.32%) Adobe Analytics
13 75 (1.65%) GitHub Copilot
14 73 (1.61%) Snowflake
15 71 (1.57%) Figma
16 69 (1.52%) Power Automate
17 67 (1.48%) Anthropic Claude
18 60 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
19 59 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
20 57 (1.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 186 (4.10%) Broadband
2 54 (1.19%) Firewall
3 37 (0.82%) VPN
4 34 (0.75%) DNS
5 27 (0.60%) Internet
6 25 (0.55%) Network Security
7 20 (0.44%) Unified Communications
8 17 (0.37%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.37%) VLAN
9 16 (0.35%) MQTT
10 15 (0.33%) DHCP
11 8 (0.18%) VoIP
11 8 (0.18%) Wireless
12 7 (0.15%) Intranet
13 6 (0.13%) HTTP
14 5 (0.11%) BGP
14 5 (0.11%) DMZ
14 5 (0.11%) OSPF
14 5 (0.11%) SNMP
14 5 (0.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,018 (22.45%) Power BI
2 923 (20.35%) Tableau
3 159 (3.51%) MongoDB
4 144 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 130 (2.87%) SQL Server
6 70 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
7 63 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 48 (1.06%) Metadata
10 43 (0.95%) NoSQL
11 35 (0.77%) Relational Database
12 33 (0.73%) Redis
13 31 (0.68%) Big Data
14 30 (0.66%) MySQL
15 28 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
16 26 (0.57%) Looker
17 24 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
18 23 (0.51%) BigQuery
19 17 (0.37%) DynamoDB
19 17 (0.37%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 113 (2.49%) Git
2 54 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
3 43 (0.95%) JIRA
4 41 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 37 (0.82%) GitLab
6 33 (0.73%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.49%) Snyk
8 19 (0.42%) Postman
8 19 (0.42%) Selenium
9 17 (0.37%) MLflow
10 14 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.31%) JUnit
11 10 (0.22%) Maven
12 9 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
13 8 (0.18%) JMeter
14 7 (0.15%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.13%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.13%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.13%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.13%) Spock
General
1 1,867 (41.17%) Social Skills
2 586 (12.92%) Finance
3 335 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
4 301 (6.64%) Marketing
5 285 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 210 (4.63%) Games
7 184 (4.06%) Retail
8 154 (3.40%) Public Sector
9 138 (3.04%) Manufacturing
10 128 (2.82%) Legal
11 109 (2.40%) Law
12 90 (1.98%) Banking
13 89 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
14 72 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
15 50 (1.10%) Automotive
16 48 (1.06%) Advertising
17 41 (0.90%) Electronics
18 29 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
19 28 (0.62%) Aerospace
20 26 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,038 (22.89%) Analyst
2 886 (19.54%) Data Analyst
3 880 (19.40%) Junior
4 866 (19.10%) Junior Analyst
5 865 (19.07%) Junior Data Analyst
6 524 (11.55%) Senior
7 483 (10.65%) Developer
8 434 (9.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 418 (9.22%) Lead
10 259 (5.71%) Architect
11 242 (5.34%) Software Engineer
12 160 (3.53%) Data Engineer
13 148 (3.26%) .NET Developer
14 101 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
15 85 (1.87%) Senior Developer
16 84 (1.85%) Software Developer
17 81 (1.79%) Consultant
18 75 (1.65%) Data Scientist
18 75 (1.65%) Full-Stack Developer
19 71 (1.57%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (6.31%) .NET
2 209 (4.61%) React
3 154 (3.40%) CSS
4 151 (3.33%) HTML
5 139 (3.07%) ASP.NET
6 134 (2.95%) ASP.NET Core
7 133 (2.93%) .NET Core
8 117 (2.58%) ML.NET
9 103 (2.27%) RESTful
10 100 (2.21%) Node.js
11 91 (2.01%) REST
12 90 (1.98%) Blazor
13 66 (1.46%) scikit-learn
14 64 (1.41%) Vue
15 57 (1.26%) NumPy
15 57 (1.26%) Pandas
16 54 (1.19%) AngularJS
16 54 (1.19%) Hugging Face
17 52 (1.15%) Matplotlib
18 51 (1.12%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 193 (4.26%) Cloud Native
2 179 (3.95%) Social Media
3 118 (2.60%) Product Ownership
4 113 (2.49%) AI Agents
5 109 (2.40%) Algorithms
6 103 (2.27%) Robotics
7 94 (2.07%) Onboarding
8 93 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
9 82 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
10 70 (1.54%) Mobile App
11 64 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 58 (1.28%) Low-Code
13 53 (1.17%) Data Centre
14 42 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
14 42 (0.93%) Virtual Team
15 41 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
16 40 (0.88%) Life Science
17 37 (0.82%) Driving Licence
18 36 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
19 34 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.49%) Windows
2 95 (2.09%) Linux
3 61 (1.35%) Android
4 43 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 42 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.49%) VMS
7 8 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.088%) Debian
11 3 (0.066%) Gentoo
12 2 (0.044%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.044%) Unix
12 2 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.022%) AIX
13 1 (0.022%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,073 (23.66%) Business Intelligence
2 761 (16.78%) Machine Learning
3 715 (15.77%) Agile
4 681 (15.02%) Analytics
5 547 (12.06%) CI/CD
6 503 (11.09%) Roadmaps
7 494 (10.89%) Software Engineering
8 481 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
9 436 (9.61%) DevOps
10 406 (8.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 388 (8.56%) Decision-Making
12 384 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 339 (7.48%) Mentoring
14 334 (7.36%) LLM
15 317 (6.99%) Full-Stack Development
16 283 (6.24%) Customer Experience
17 241 (5.31%) Cybersecurity
18 237 (5.23%) Generative AI
19 231 (5.09%) Data Science
20 220 (4.85%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1,912 (42.16%) Python
2 1,336 (29.46%) SQL
3 328 (7.23%) C#
4 281 (6.20%) JavaScript
5 156 (3.44%) TypeScript
6 150 (3.31%) Java
7 107 (2.36%) C++
8 74 (1.63%) PowerShell
9 61 (1.35%) Bash
10 41 (0.90%) Go
11 36 (0.79%) C
12 34 (0.75%) Bicep
13 29 (0.64%) Rust
14 25 (0.55%) PHP
14 25 (0.55%) R
15 20 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
16 19 (0.42%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.37%) Ruby
18 16 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 12 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,220 (26.90%) Azure Certification
2 342 (7.54%) Degree
3 203 (4.48%) Security Cleared
4 126 (2.78%) SC Cleared
5 98 (2.16%) AWS Certification
6 90 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 71 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 66 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.17%) ACCA
9 53 (1.17%) CIMA
10 49 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 43 (0.95%) DBS Check
12 40 (0.88%) PhD
13 33 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 23 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.35%) CISSP
16 12 (0.26%) HNC
17 11 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
17 11 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (4.72%) Accessibility
2 171 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 115 (2.54%) GDPR
4 106 (2.34%) QA
5 61 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.04%) WCAG
7 42 (0.93%) GRC
8 41 (0.90%) SLA
9 38 (0.84%) NIST
10 26 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 22 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
11 22 (0.49%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 14 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 14 (0.31%) NCSC
13 11 (0.24%) PMO
14 10 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 9 (0.20%) GxP
15 9 (0.20%) IFRS
15 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 199 (4.39%) Docker
2 59 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.44%) Firmware
6 17 (0.37%) vSphere
7 15 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.20%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.066%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 202 (4.45%) Kubernetes
2 156 (3.44%) Terraform
3 37 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.68%) Ansible
5 30 (0.66%) Grafana
6 23 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.22%) Podman
8 8 (0.18%) Kubeflow
8 8 (0.18%) Proxmox
8 8 (0.18%) Puppet
9 5 (0.11%) Functional Safety
9 5 (0.11%) Nagios
10 4 (0.088%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.088%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.088%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.066%) Argo
11 3 (0.066%) cPanel
11 3 (0.066%) Plesk
12 2 (0.044%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,552 (34.22%) Microsoft
2 159 (3.51%) Adobe
3 132 (2.91%) Google
4 105 (2.32%) Databricks
5 76 (1.68%) OpenAI
6 74 (1.63%) Cisco
6 74 (1.63%) Dell
7 51 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 51 (1.12%) ServiceNow
8 48 (1.06%) Oracle
9 43 (0.95%) Apple
10 33 (0.73%) VMware
11 31 (0.68%) SAP
12 29 (0.64%) HubSpot
13 27 (0.60%) Facebook
14 26 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
15 25 (0.55%) Sage
15 25 (0.55%) Tenable
16 22 (0.49%) Palo Alto
17 19 (0.42%) Foundry