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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 50
Rank change year-on-year -3 +37 +116
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,669 3,232 3,230
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.68% 9.97% 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.49% 11.17% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,365 807 1,314
10th Percentile £35,000 £24,900 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £36,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,908 £62,125
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.87% -7.96%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £82,500
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 49,223 28,941 61,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.46% 89.29% 79.97%
Number of salaries quoted 34,638 15,278 42,344
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,701 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,225 £32,951 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,738 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,295 £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% -9.09%

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 4 July 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in the UK excluding London

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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 4 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 1,452 £67,500 +28.57% 690
South East -3 1,061 £60,000 +33.33% 840
Midlands -8 742 £55,000 -7.76% 320
North West +31 713 £70,000 +19.66% 421
Yorkshire 0 540 £65,000 +153.66% 194
South West +2 514 £62,500 +4.17% 278
East of England +17 498 £60,000 -9.39% 212
West Midlands -5 465 £57,500 - 207
East Midlands -15 276 £52,500 -14.29% 113
Scotland -1 221 £70,000 +7.69% 179
North East -1 199 £65,000 +106.35% 78
Wales +21 143 £60,000 -11.44% 59
Northern Ireland +3 68 £74,830 -14.48% 62
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 76 (1.63%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.09%) Jupyter
3 45 (0.96%) CMS
4 33 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (0.69%) Confluence
6 29 (0.62%) WordPress
7 27 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 27 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 24 (0.51%) Apache
9 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.086%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.086%) SAS
11 3 (0.064%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.043%) Apache Qpid
12 2 (0.043%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.043%) IIS
12 2 (0.043%) nginx
12 2 (0.043%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.021%) Moodle
13 1 (0.021%) Umbraco
Applications
1 934 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (1.84%) Chatbot
3 47 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
5 15 (0.32%) Photoshop
5 15 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.32%) UserZoom
6 13 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 11 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 11 (0.24%) InDesign
8 10 (0.21%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.19%) Simulink
10 3 (0.064%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.064%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.043%) 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 (0.51%) Cloudability
2 15 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.17%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.17%) Sage 50
5 6 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.086%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.086%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.064%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.064%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.043%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.021%) Infor SunSystems
9 1 (0.021%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.021%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.021%) Primavera
9 1 (0.021%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.021%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.021%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,022 (43.31%) Azure
2 1,399 (29.96%) Azure AI
3 1,120 (23.99%) Power Platform
4 603 (12.91%) AWS
5 268 (5.74%) SaaS
6 201 (4.30%) GCP
7 200 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
8 196 (4.20%) GitHub
9 177 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
10 134 (2.87%) Microsoft Copilot
11 126 (2.70%) Serverless
12 105 (2.25%) Adobe Analytics
13 86 (1.84%) GitHub Copilot
14 77 (1.65%) Snowflake
15 74 (1.58%) Entra ID
16 71 (1.52%) Anthropic Claude
16 71 (1.52%) Power Automate
17 69 (1.48%) Figma
18 61 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
19 60 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 186 (3.98%) Broadband
2 56 (1.20%) Firewall
3 38 (0.81%) VPN
4 35 (0.75%) DNS
5 31 (0.66%) Internet
6 25 (0.54%) Network Security
7 19 (0.41%) Unified Communications
8 18 (0.39%) VLAN
9 17 (0.36%) TCP/IP
10 16 (0.34%) DHCP
10 16 (0.34%) MQTT
11 13 (0.28%) VoIP
12 8 (0.17%) Wireless
13 7 (0.15%) Intranet
14 6 (0.13%) BGP
14 6 (0.13%) CTI
14 6 (0.13%) DMZ
14 6 (0.13%) HTTP
15 5 (0.11%) SNMP
15 5 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,023 (21.91%) Power BI
2 924 (19.79%) Tableau
3 184 (3.94%) MongoDB
4 165 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 131 (2.81%) SQL Server
6 72 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
7 64 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
8 53 (1.14%) Data Lake
9 50 (1.07%) Metadata
10 43 (0.92%) NoSQL
11 38 (0.81%) Relational Database
12 34 (0.73%) Redis
13 31 (0.66%) Big Data
13 31 (0.66%) MySQL
14 29 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
15 26 (0.56%) Looker
16 23 (0.49%) BigQuery
16 23 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
17 18 (0.39%) Pinecone
18 17 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 116 (2.48%) Git
2 54 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
3 48 (1.03%) JIRA
4 42 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 37 (0.79%) GitLab
6 34 (0.73%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.47%) Snyk
8 19 (0.41%) Postman
8 19 (0.41%) Selenium
9 17 (0.36%) MLflow
10 14 (0.30%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.30%) JUnit
11 10 (0.21%) Maven
12 9 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
12 9 (0.19%) JMeter
13 6 (0.13%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.13%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.13%) SpecFlow
13 6 (0.13%) Spock
13 6 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,909 (40.89%) Social Skills
2 601 (12.87%) Finance
3 341 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
4 308 (6.60%) Marketing
5 290 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 211 (4.52%) Games
7 189 (4.05%) Retail
8 167 (3.58%) Public Sector
9 144 (3.08%) Legal
10 143 (3.06%) Manufacturing
11 126 (2.70%) Law
12 91 (1.95%) Banking
13 89 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
14 78 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
15 52 (1.11%) Advertising
16 51 (1.09%) Automotive
17 40 (0.86%) Electronics
18 30 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
19 29 (0.62%) Aerospace
20 27 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,042 (22.32%) Analyst
2 887 (19.00%) Data Analyst
3 880 (18.85%) Junior
4 866 (18.55%) Junior Analyst
5 865 (18.53%) Junior Data Analyst
6 559 (11.97%) Senior
7 514 (11.01%) Developer
8 441 (9.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 428 (9.17%) Lead
10 287 (6.15%) Architect
11 250 (5.35%) Software Engineer
12 171 (3.66%) .NET Developer
13 167 (3.58%) Data Engineer
14 107 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
15 88 (1.88%) Senior Developer
16 86 (1.84%) Software Developer
17 82 (1.76%) Consultant
18 78 (1.67%) Data Scientist
19 76 (1.63%) Full-Stack Developer
20 71 (1.52%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (6.55%) .NET
2 221 (4.73%) React
3 167 (3.58%) CSS
4 163 (3.49%) HTML
5 161 (3.45%) ASP.NET
6 156 (3.34%) ASP.NET Core
7 151 (3.23%) .NET Core
8 139 (2.98%) ML.NET
9 117 (2.51%) RESTful
10 104 (2.23%) Node.js
11 103 (2.21%) Blazor
12 95 (2.03%) REST
13 66 (1.41%) Vue
14 65 (1.39%) scikit-learn
15 56 (1.20%) NumPy
15 56 (1.20%) Pandas
16 54 (1.16%) AngularJS
16 54 (1.16%) Hugging Face
17 51 (1.09%) LangChain
17 51 (1.09%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 199 (4.26%) Cloud Native
2 182 (3.90%) Social Media
3 125 (2.68%) AI Agents
4 119 (2.55%) Product Ownership
5 110 (2.36%) Algorithms
6 103 (2.21%) Robotics
7 100 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
8 97 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 84 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
10 74 (1.58%) Mobile App
11 67 (1.43%) Management Information System
12 58 (1.24%) Low-Code
13 54 (1.16%) Data Centre
14 46 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
15 42 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
15 42 (0.90%) Virtual Team
16 38 (0.81%) Driving Licence
17 37 (0.79%) Life Science
18 36 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
19 35 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 117 (2.51%) Windows
2 99 (2.12%) Linux
3 64 (1.37%) Android
4 45 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 42 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.47%) VMS
7 8 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.086%) Debian
11 3 (0.064%) Gentoo
12 2 (0.043%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.043%) Unix
12 2 (0.043%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.021%) AIX
13 1 (0.021%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.021%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,077 (23.07%) Business Intelligence
2 800 (17.13%) Machine Learning
3 744 (15.93%) Agile
4 702 (15.04%) Analytics
5 570 (12.21%) CI/CD
6 519 (11.12%) Roadmaps
7 508 (10.88%) Software Engineering
8 499 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
9 463 (9.92%) DevOps
10 415 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 410 (8.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 395 (8.46%) Decision-Making
13 364 (7.80%) Mentoring
14 346 (7.41%) LLM
15 341 (7.30%) Full-Stack Development
16 289 (6.19%) Customer Experience
17 266 (5.70%) Cybersecurity
18 238 (5.10%) Generative AI
19 231 (4.95%) Data Science
20 229 (4.90%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1,926 (41.25%) Python
2 1,359 (29.11%) SQL
3 351 (7.52%) C#
4 301 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 165 (3.53%) TypeScript
6 154 (3.30%) Java
7 113 (2.42%) C++
8 76 (1.63%) PowerShell
9 61 (1.31%) Bash
10 41 (0.88%) Go
11 38 (0.81%) C
12 35 (0.75%) Bicep
13 31 (0.66%) Rust
14 25 (0.54%) PHP
15 23 (0.49%) R
16 20 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
17 19 (0.41%) Kotlin
18 18 (0.39%) Ruby
19 16 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 12 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,220 (26.13%) Azure Certification
2 349 (7.47%) Degree
3 211 (4.52%) Security Cleared
4 133 (2.85%) SC Cleared
5 99 (2.12%) AWS Certification
6 97 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 71 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 67 (1.43%) Master's Degree
9 54 (1.16%) ACCA
9 54 (1.16%) CIMA
10 49 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 43 (0.92%) DBS Check
12 38 (0.81%) PhD
13 34 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 32 (0.69%) CISSP
15 23 (0.49%) CISM
15 23 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
16 19 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
17 16 (0.34%) A+ Certification
18 13 (0.28%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (4.69%) Accessibility
2 174 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 119 (2.55%) GDPR
4 107 (2.29%) QA
5 64 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (0.96%) WCAG
7 43 (0.92%) GRC
8 41 (0.88%) SLA
9 39 (0.84%) NIST
10 26 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 23 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
11 23 (0.49%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.32%) NCSC
13 14 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 14 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 11 (0.24%) PMO
15 10 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.19%) IFRS
16 9 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 215 (4.60%) Docker
2 76 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.45%) Firmware
6 17 (0.36%) vSphere
7 15 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.19%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.064%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 217 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 162 (3.47%) Terraform
3 53 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.73%) Ansible
5 31 (0.66%) Grafana
6 23 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.21%) Podman
8 8 (0.17%) Kubeflow
8 8 (0.17%) Proxmox
8 8 (0.17%) Puppet
9 5 (0.11%) Functional Safety
9 5 (0.11%) Nagios
9 5 (0.11%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.086%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.086%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.086%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.064%) Argo
11 3 (0.064%) cPanel
11 3 (0.064%) Plesk
12 2 (0.043%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,609 (34.46%) Microsoft
2 160 (3.43%) Adobe
3 140 (3.00%) Google
4 105 (2.25%) Databricks
5 80 (1.71%) Cisco
5 80 (1.71%) OpenAI
6 74 (1.58%) Dell
7 52 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 51 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 49 (1.05%) Oracle
10 46 (0.99%) Apple
11 34 (0.73%) VMware
12 32 (0.69%) Facebook
12 32 (0.69%) SAP
13 29 (0.62%) HubSpot
14 27 (0.58%) Sage
15 26 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
16 25 (0.54%) Tenable
17 22 (0.47%) Palo Alto
18 20 (0.43%) Foundry