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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 50
Rank change year-on-year -1 +36 +119
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,311 3,047 3,386
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.47% 10.29% 4.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.29% 11.28% 5.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,063 763 1,336
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -13.60%
75th Percentile £82,875 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,296 £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 46,411 27,001 62,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.63% 91.19% 80.25%
Number of salaries quoted 32,394 13,652 43,629
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,819 £32,988 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 13 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 13 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 1,327 £67,500 +22.73% 536
South East +2 995 £60,000 +20.00% 677
Midlands -8 713 £55,000 -4.35% 229
North West +31 649 £72,500 +11.54% 337
Yorkshire -5 501 £65,000 +153.66% 145
East of England +26 468 £60,000 -9.39% 175
South West +3 466 £60,000 - 242
West Midlands -5 450 £55,000 -4.35% 155
East Midlands -12 262 £52,500 -8.70% 72
Scotland +1 205 £70,000 +38.76% 103
North East +6 177 £65,000 +64.56% 56
Wales +19 115 £53,585 -22.34% 40
Northern Ireland +11 52 £72,500 - 40
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 66 (1.53%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.18%) Jupyter
3 41 (0.95%) CMS
4 31 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 30 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.67%) Confluence
7 27 (0.63%) WordPress
8 21 (0.49%) Apache
9 16 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.14%) IIS
10 6 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.093%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.070%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.046%) Apache Qpid
13 2 (0.046%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.046%) nginx
13 2 (0.046%) SAS
14 1 (0.023%) Moodle
14 1 (0.023%) Umbraco
Applications
1 935 (21.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (1.81%) Chatbot
3 49 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.35%) UserZoom
6 13 (0.30%) Photoshop
7 12 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
8 11 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 9 (0.21%) Simulink
10 8 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
10 8 (0.19%) InDesign
10 8 (0.19%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.070%) Camtasia
11 3 (0.070%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.046%) Trello
13 1 (0.023%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.023%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.023%) Notion
13 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (0.56%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.19%) Sage 50
5 7 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.093%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.046%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.046%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.046%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.023%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.023%) Maximo
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.023%) Primavera
9 1 (0.023%) Q-Pulse
9 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.023%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.023%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,871 (43.40%) Azure
2 1,326 (30.76%) Azure AI
3 1,086 (25.19%) Power Platform
4 551 (12.78%) AWS
5 238 (5.52%) SaaS
6 180 (4.18%) GCP
7 156 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
8 143 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
9 142 (3.29%) GitHub
10 114 (2.64%) Microsoft Copilot
11 106 (2.46%) Adobe Analytics
12 101 (2.34%) Serverless
13 74 (1.72%) Figma
14 73 (1.69%) Snowflake
15 62 (1.44%) GitHub Copilot
16 60 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
17 58 (1.35%) Anthropic Claude
18 57 (1.32%) Power Automate
19 54 (1.25%) Entra ID
20 49 (1.14%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 186 (4.31%) Broadband
2 48 (1.11%) Firewall
3 29 (0.67%) DNS
4 26 (0.60%) VPN
5 25 (0.58%) Network Security
6 24 (0.56%) Unified Communications
7 17 (0.39%) Internet
7 17 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.37%) MQTT
9 15 (0.35%) VLAN
10 14 (0.32%) DHCP
11 10 (0.23%) VoIP
12 7 (0.16%) Wireless
13 6 (0.14%) DMZ
13 6 (0.14%) HTTP
13 6 (0.14%) Intranet
14 5 (0.12%) BGP
14 5 (0.12%) OSPF
15 4 (0.093%) RTP
15 4 (0.093%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,005 (23.31%) Power BI
2 925 (21.46%) Tableau
3 124 (2.88%) MongoDB
4 121 (2.81%) SQL Server
5 100 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 61 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 60 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (1.14%) Data Lake
9 43 (1.00%) Metadata
9 43 (1.00%) NoSQL
10 33 (0.77%) Big Data
11 29 (0.67%) Redis
11 29 (0.67%) Relational Database
12 26 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
12 26 (0.60%) Looker
13 25 (0.58%) MySQL
14 23 (0.53%) BigQuery
15 22 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.35%) DynamoDB
17 14 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 96 (2.23%) Git
2 53 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
3 40 (0.93%) JIRA
4 31 (0.72%) GitLab
4 31 (0.72%) Jenkins
5 29 (0.67%) Claude Code
6 22 (0.51%) Snyk
7 18 (0.42%) MLflow
8 17 (0.39%) Postman
9 16 (0.37%) Selenium
10 13 (0.30%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.30%) JUnit
11 10 (0.23%) Maven
12 9 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
13 8 (0.19%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.16%) JMeter
15 6 (0.14%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.14%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.14%) SpecFlow
16 5 (0.12%) Vite
General
1 1,813 (42.06%) Social Skills
2 540 (12.53%) Finance
3 331 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
4 290 (6.73%) Marketing
5 285 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 209 (4.85%) Games
7 172 (3.99%) Retail
8 131 (3.04%) Public Sector
9 129 (2.99%) Legal
10 122 (2.83%) Manufacturing
11 99 (2.30%) Law
12 89 (2.06%) Banking
13 84 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
14 62 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
15 50 (1.16%) Automotive
16 39 (0.90%) Electronics
17 38 (0.88%) Advertising
18 29 (0.67%) Telecoms
19 26 (0.60%) Aerospace
19 26 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,027 (23.82%) Analyst
2 882 (20.46%) Data Analyst
3 880 (20.41%) Junior
4 866 (20.09%) Junior Analyst
5 865 (20.06%) Junior Data Analyst
6 470 (10.90%) Senior
7 425 (9.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 415 (9.63%) Developer
9 392 (9.09%) Lead
10 233 (5.40%) Architect
11 210 (4.87%) Software Engineer
12 147 (3.41%) Data Engineer
13 112 (2.60%) .NET Developer
14 89 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
15 77 (1.79%) Software Developer
16 75 (1.74%) Consultant
17 73 (1.69%) Senior Developer
18 70 (1.62%) Designer
18 70 (1.62%) Full-Stack Developer
19 68 (1.58%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (5.59%) .NET
2 187 (4.34%) React
3 126 (2.92%) CSS
4 123 (2.85%) HTML
5 102 (2.37%) ASP.NET
6 100 (2.32%) .NET Core
7 97 (2.25%) ASP.NET Core
8 93 (2.16%) Node.js
9 89 (2.06%) REST
10 85 (1.97%) RESTful
11 82 (1.90%) ML.NET
12 69 (1.60%) Blazor
13 66 (1.53%) scikit-learn
14 58 (1.35%) NumPy
14 58 (1.35%) Pandas
15 56 (1.30%) Vue
16 54 (1.25%) AngularJS
16 54 (1.25%) Hugging Face
17 52 (1.21%) Matplotlib
18 50 (1.16%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 177 (4.11%) Social Media
2 168 (3.90%) Cloud Native
3 116 (2.69%) Product Ownership
4 109 (2.53%) Robotics
5 108 (2.51%) Algorithms
6 98 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 97 (2.25%) AI Agents
8 90 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
9 73 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 66 (1.53%) Mobile App
11 64 (1.48%) Management Information System
12 60 (1.39%) Low-Code
13 50 (1.16%) Data Centre
14 49 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
15 45 (1.04%) Life Science
16 37 (0.86%) Virtual Team
17 35 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
18 34 (0.79%) Driving Licence
19 31 (0.72%) Public Cloud
20 28 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 92 (2.13%) Windows
2 86 (1.99%) Linux
3 53 (1.23%) Android
4 39 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 35 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.32%) VMS
7 6 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.14%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.070%) Unix
10 2 (0.046%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.046%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.023%) AIX
11 1 (0.023%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.023%) Debian
11 1 (0.023%) Gentoo
11 1 (0.023%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,062 (24.63%) Business Intelligence
2 696 (16.14%) Machine Learning
3 661 (15.33%) Agile
4 641 (14.87%) Analytics
5 484 (11.23%) CI/CD
6 470 (10.90%) Roadmaps
7 452 (10.48%) Software Engineering
8 438 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
9 397 (9.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 382 (8.86%) DevOps
11 349 (8.10%) Decision-Making
12 348 (8.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 321 (7.45%) LLM
14 292 (6.77%) Mentoring
15 278 (6.45%) Customer Experience
16 271 (6.29%) Full-Stack Development
17 230 (5.34%) Cybersecurity
17 230 (5.34%) Data Science
18 220 (5.10%) Generative AI
19 193 (4.48%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1,882 (43.66%) Python
2 1,263 (29.30%) SQL
3 271 (6.29%) C#
4 238 (5.52%) JavaScript
5 149 (3.46%) Java
6 130 (3.02%) TypeScript
7 89 (2.06%) C++
8 57 (1.32%) PowerShell
9 46 (1.07%) Bash
10 35 (0.81%) C
11 34 (0.79%) Go
12 31 (0.72%) R
13 24 (0.56%) Rust
14 22 (0.51%) PHP
15 20 (0.46%) Bicep
16 17 (0.39%) Kotlin
17 16 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 15 (0.35%) T-SQL
19 13 (0.30%) Ruby
19 13 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,211 (28.09%) Azure Certification
2 323 (7.49%) Degree
3 183 (4.24%) Security Cleared
4 111 (2.57%) SC Cleared
5 106 (2.46%) AWS Certification
6 77 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 69 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 68 (1.58%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.18%) ACCA
9 51 (1.18%) CIMA
10 49 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 43 (1.00%) DBS Check
12 41 (0.95%) PhD
13 31 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (0.35%) CISSP
15 13 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.28%) HNC
17 11 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
18 10 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
19 8 (0.19%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (4.80%) Accessibility
2 155 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 107 (2.48%) GDPR
4 100 (2.32%) QA
5 57 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.09%) WCAG
7 41 (0.95%) GRC
8 39 (0.90%) NIST
9 34 (0.79%) SLA
10 26 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 19 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 13 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 12 (0.28%) NCSC
16 11 (0.26%) GxP
17 10 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
17 10 (0.23%) PMO
17 10 (0.23%) SOC 2
18 9 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 161 (3.73%) Docker
2 52 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
3 48 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.44%) Firmware
5 14 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
7 8 (0.19%) vSphere
8 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.070%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 167 (3.87%) Kubernetes
2 128 (2.97%) Terraform
3 34 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (0.65%) Grafana
5 27 (0.63%) Ansible
6 21 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.19%) Podman
7 8 (0.19%) Proxmox
7 8 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.16%) Kubeflow
9 6 (0.14%) Puppet
10 5 (0.12%) Functional Safety
10 5 (0.12%) Nagios
11 4 (0.093%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.093%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.093%) SolarWinds Orion
11 4 (0.093%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.070%) Argo
13 2 (0.046%) cPanel
13 2 (0.046%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,492 (34.61%) Microsoft
2 169 (3.92%) Adobe
3 114 (2.64%) Google
4 104 (2.41%) Databricks
5 75 (1.74%) Dell
6 71 (1.65%) Cisco
7 69 (1.60%) OpenAI
8 53 (1.23%) Salesforce
9 51 (1.18%) Apple
10 49 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 45 (1.04%) Oracle
12 29 (0.67%) HubSpot
13 27 (0.63%) SAP
14 26 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
15 25 (0.58%) Tenable
16 22 (0.51%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.51%) Sage
16 22 (0.51%) VMware
17 20 (0.46%) Facebook
18 12 (0.28%) Splunk