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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 16 46
Rank change year-on-year +10 +30 +125
Permanent jobs citing AI 6,543 2,857 3,430
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 9.69% 9.82% 4.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.66% 10.69% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,909 736 1,296
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £35,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,340 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.52% -5.23% -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 47,902 26,728 60,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.97% 91.91% 81.23%
Number of salaries quoted 31,346 13,231 42,531
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £34,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 3 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 3 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 +22 2,265 £67,500 +22.73% 779
Midlands +5 1,687 £55,000 -4.35% 317
North West +44 1,514 £72,500 +11.54% 489
West Midlands +7 1,348 £55,000 -4.35% 203
South East +5 1,179 £62,500 +25.00% 705
East of England +33 599 £60,000 -9.39% 201
Yorkshire 0 585 £65,000 +85.71% 216
South West 0 463 £60,000 - 307
East Midlands -10 350 £52,500 -8.70% 112
Scotland +3 201 £70,000 +43.59% 159
North East +5 166 £65,000 +64.56% 77
Wales +29 128 £53,171 -22.94% 62
Northern Ireland +10 55 £80,000 - 101
Channel Islands +1 2 - -
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 64 (0.98%) SharePoint
2 51 (0.78%) Jupyter
3 38 (0.58%) CMS
4 31 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.43%) Confluence
6 25 (0.38%) WordPress
7 20 (0.31%) Apache
8 14 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.11%) IIS
10 5 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.076%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.046%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.031%) Apache Qpid
12 2 (0.031%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.015%) Moodle
13 1 (0.015%) nginx
13 1 (0.015%) OpenEdge
13 1 (0.015%) SAS
13 1 (0.015%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,045 (15.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (1.16%) Chatbot
3 55 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.24%) UserZoom
6 12 (0.18%) Photoshop
7 11 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 10 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 9 (0.14%) Simulink
10 7 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 7 (0.11%) InDesign
11 6 (0.092%) MS Visio
12 3 (0.046%) Camtasia
12 3 (0.046%) Stateflow
13 2 (0.031%) Trello
14 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.015%) Microsoft Project
14 1 (0.015%) Revit
14 1 (0.015%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.37%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.12%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.12%) Sage 50
3 8 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.061%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.061%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.046%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.046%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.031%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.031%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.031%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.015%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.015%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.015%) Maximo
7 1 (0.015%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.015%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.015%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.015%) Primavera
7 1 (0.015%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,349 (35.90%) Cloud Computing
2 1,930 (29.50%) Azure
3 1,406 (21.49%) Azure AI
4 1,188 (18.16%) Power Platform
5 522 (7.98%) AWS
6 215 (3.29%) SaaS
7 168 (2.57%) GCP
8 145 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
9 129 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
10 125 (1.91%) GitHub
11 109 (1.67%) Adobe Analytics
12 102 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
13 89 (1.36%) Serverless
14 75 (1.15%) Figma
15 73 (1.12%) Snowflake
16 61 (0.93%) GitHub Copilot
17 54 (0.83%) Anthropic Claude
18 53 (0.81%) Entra ID
18 53 (0.81%) Power Automate
19 45 (0.69%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2,300 (35.15%) Internet
2 179 (2.74%) Broadband
3 45 (0.69%) Firewall
4 27 (0.41%) DNS
5 26 (0.40%) Unified Communications
6 25 (0.38%) Network Security
7 22 (0.34%) VPN
8 17 (0.26%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.23%) MQTT
10 14 (0.21%) VLAN
11 13 (0.20%) DHCP
12 12 (0.18%) VoIP
13 7 (0.11%) Wireless
14 6 (0.092%) DMZ
14 6 (0.092%) HTTP
14 6 (0.092%) Telepresence
14 6 (0.092%) WebEx
15 5 (0.076%) BGP
15 5 (0.076%) Intranet
15 5 (0.076%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,107 (16.92%) Power BI
2 1,032 (15.77%) Tableau
3 113 (1.73%) SQL Server
4 94 (1.44%) MongoDB
5 76 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 59 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (0.76%) Data Lake
8 49 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
9 43 (0.66%) Metadata
10 35 (0.53%) NoSQL
11 33 (0.50%) Big Data
12 26 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
12 26 (0.40%) Looker
13 25 (0.38%) Relational Database
14 22 (0.34%) Redis
15 21 (0.32%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.29%) MySQL
17 17 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
18 14 (0.21%) DynamoDB
18 14 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 89 (1.36%) Git
2 53 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
3 37 (0.57%) JIRA
4 29 (0.44%) GitLab
5 27 (0.41%) Claude Code
6 25 (0.38%) Jenkins
7 22 (0.34%) Snyk
8 18 (0.28%) MLflow
9 15 (0.23%) Postman
9 15 (0.23%) Selenium
10 13 (0.20%) JUnit
11 12 (0.18%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.15%) Maven
12 10 (0.15%) Visual Studio
13 9 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
14 6 (0.092%) SpecFlow
15 5 (0.076%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.076%) JMeter
15 5 (0.076%) Mockito
15 5 (0.076%) SonarQube
General
1 4,178 (63.85%) Social Skills
2 2,574 (39.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,376 (36.31%) Banking
4 536 (8.19%) Finance
5 324 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
6 279 (4.26%) Marketing
7 202 (3.09%) Games
8 166 (2.54%) Retail
9 131 (2.00%) Legal
10 120 (1.83%) Public Sector
11 112 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 96 (1.47%) Law
13 73 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
14 58 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
15 48 (0.73%) Automotive
16 39 (0.60%) Electronics
17 32 (0.49%) Advertising
18 30 (0.46%) Telecoms
19 25 (0.38%) Aerospace
19 25 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,752 (26.78%) Lecturer
2 1,124 (17.18%) Analyst
3 989 (15.12%) Data Analyst
4 988 (15.10%) Junior
5 974 (14.89%) Junior Analyst
6 973 (14.87%) Junior Data Analyst
7 443 (6.77%) Senior
8 412 (6.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 372 (5.69%) Lead
10 356 (5.44%) Developer
11 212 (3.24%) Architect
12 183 (2.80%) Software Engineer
13 140 (2.14%) Data Engineer
14 85 (1.30%) .NET Developer
15 80 (1.22%) Solutions Architect
16 74 (1.13%) Consultant
17 70 (1.07%) Designer
18 69 (1.05%) Data Scientist
19 67 (1.02%) Software Developer
20 66 (1.01%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (3.18%) .NET
2 160 (2.45%) React
3 111 (1.70%) CSS
4 109 (1.67%) HTML
5 81 (1.24%) REST
6 78 (1.19%) ASP.NET
7 77 (1.18%) Node.js
8 74 (1.13%) .NET Core
9 73 (1.12%) ASP.NET Core
10 70 (1.07%) RESTful
11 65 (0.99%) scikit-learn
12 59 (0.90%) ML.NET
13 58 (0.89%) NumPy
13 58 (0.89%) Pandas
14 54 (0.83%) AngularJS
14 54 (0.83%) Hugging Face
15 52 (0.79%) Matplotlib
16 51 (0.78%) Blazor
17 50 (0.76%) Streamlit
17 50 (0.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2,314 (35.37%) IoT
2 168 (2.57%) Social Media
3 149 (2.28%) Cloud Native
4 117 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 114 (1.74%) Robotics
6 106 (1.62%) Onboarding
7 105 (1.60%) Algorithms
8 77 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
9 74 (1.13%) AI Agents
10 66 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
11 62 (0.95%) Mobile App
12 58 (0.89%) Management Information System
13 57 (0.87%) Low-Code
14 52 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
15 51 (0.78%) Data Centre
16 49 (0.75%) Life Science
17 36 (0.55%) Public Cloud
17 36 (0.55%) Virtual Team
18 33 (0.50%) Driving Licence
19 30 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 85 (1.30%) Windows
2 73 (1.12%) Linux
3 50 (0.76%) Android
4 38 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 32 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.18%) VMS
7 6 (0.092%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.076%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.061%) Unix
10 3 (0.046%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.015%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.015%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.015%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,950 (45.09%) Machine Learning
2 2,510 (38.36%) Cybersecurity
3 2,459 (37.58%) User Experience
4 2,321 (35.47%) Web Development
5 1,162 (17.76%) Business Intelligence
6 635 (9.71%) Agile
7 612 (9.35%) Analytics
8 455 (6.95%) Roadmaps
9 447 (6.83%) CI/CD
10 418 (6.39%) Problem-Solving
11 414 (6.33%) Software Engineering
12 395 (6.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 360 (5.50%) DevOps
14 342 (5.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 326 (4.98%) Decision-Making
16 298 (4.55%) LLM
17 277 (4.23%) Mentoring
18 272 (4.16%) Customer Experience
19 231 (3.53%) Data Science
20 229 (3.50%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,969 (30.09%) Python
2 1,331 (20.34%) SQL
3 229 (3.50%) C#
4 204 (3.12%) JavaScript
5 140 (2.14%) Java
6 108 (1.65%) TypeScript
7 76 (1.16%) C++
8 55 (0.84%) PowerShell
9 43 (0.66%) Bash
10 35 (0.53%) R
11 34 (0.52%) C
12 27 (0.41%) Go
13 20 (0.31%) PHP
14 17 (0.26%) Kotlin
14 17 (0.26%) Rust
15 16 (0.24%) Bicep
15 16 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 16 (0.24%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.20%) Scala
17 10 (0.15%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 2,598 (39.71%) Degree
2 2,358 (36.04%) Master's Degree
3 2,330 (35.61%) PhD
4 2,294 (35.06%) Postgraduate
5 1,318 (20.14%) Azure Certification
6 172 (2.63%) Security Cleared
7 111 (1.70%) AWS Certification
8 102 (1.56%) SC Cleared
9 66 (1.01%) DV Cleared
10 63 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
11 49 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 48 (0.73%) ACCA
12 48 (0.73%) CIMA
13 43 (0.66%) DBS Check
14 28 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (0.24%) CISSP
16 12 (0.18%) HNC
16 12 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
18 8 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (3.09%) Accessibility
2 151 (2.31%) Data Quality
3 95 (1.45%) QA
4 94 (1.44%) GDPR
5 55 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (0.72%) WCAG
7 40 (0.61%) GRC
7 40 (0.61%) NIST
8 29 (0.44%) SLA
9 27 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.26%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 14 (0.21%) GxP
14 12 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 10 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.15%) PMO
15 10 (0.15%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.14%) IFRS
16 9 (0.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 143 (2.19%) Docker
2 52 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
3 45 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.29%) Firmware
5 12 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.11%) vSphere
8 5 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.061%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.046%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 148 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 116 (1.77%) Terraform
3 32 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (0.41%) Grafana
5 24 (0.37%) Ansible
6 21 (0.32%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.12%) Proxmox
9 7 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 7 (0.11%) Podman
10 6 (0.092%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (0.092%) Puppet
11 5 (0.076%) Functional Safety
11 5 (0.076%) Nagios
12 4 (0.061%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.061%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.061%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.046%) Argo
14 2 (0.031%) cPanel
14 2 (0.031%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,561 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 181 (2.77%) Adobe
3 105 (1.60%) Databricks
4 99 (1.51%) Google
5 73 (1.12%) Dell
6 65 (0.99%) Cisco
7 61 (0.93%) OpenAI
8 57 (0.87%) Apple
9 56 (0.86%) Salesforce
10 48 (0.73%) ServiceNow
11 46 (0.70%) Oracle
12 28 (0.43%) HubSpot
13 26 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
14 25 (0.38%) Tenable
15 24 (0.37%) SAP
16 22 (0.34%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.32%) VMware
18 17 (0.26%) Sage
19 13 (0.20%) Splunk
20 12 (0.18%) Facebook