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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 14 51
Rank change year-on-year -2 +37 +127
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,464 3,128 3,326
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.54% 10.31% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.35% 11.36% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,205 770 1,339
10th Percentile £34,600 £24,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,500 £35,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,971 £81,250
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 47,744 27,543 63,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.98% 90.77% 79.70%
Number of salaries quoted 33,496 14,077 44,073
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,851 £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 £81,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%

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 23 June 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 23 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 +13 1,396 £67,500 +26.42% 438
South East -1 1,018 £60,000 +20.00% 660
Midlands -8 726 £55,000 -5.91% 204
North West +29 684 £70,000 +7.69% 276
Yorkshire -3 521 £65,000 +153.66% 119
South West +1 488 £62,500 +4.17% 192
East of England +19 483 £60,000 -9.39% 157
West Midlands -5 457 £55,000 -4.35% 115
East Midlands -12 268 £52,500 -12.50% 89
Scotland +1 211 £70,000 +38.76% 80
North East -1 191 £65,000 +106.35% 47
Wales +14 120 £54,000 -21.74% 42
Northern Ireland +8 52 £72,500 - 54
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 69 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.14%) Jupyter
3 42 (0.94%) CMS
4 32 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (0.69%) Confluence
6 30 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 28 (0.63%) WordPress
8 23 (0.52%) Apache
9 22 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.090%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.067%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.067%) SAS
13 2 (0.045%) Apache Qpid
13 2 (0.045%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.045%) IIS
13 2 (0.045%) nginx
13 2 (0.045%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.022%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.022%) WildFly
Applications
1 930 (20.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (1.77%) Chatbot
3 45 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.34%) UserZoom
6 14 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
6 14 (0.31%) Photoshop
7 12 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 10 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
8 10 (0.22%) InDesign
9 9 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.20%) Simulink
10 3 (0.067%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.067%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.045%) Trello
12 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.022%) Notion
12 1 (0.022%) Revit
12 1 (0.022%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (0.54%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.18%) Sage 50
5 7 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.090%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.067%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.067%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.067%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.045%) Q-Pulse
8 2 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.045%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.022%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.022%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.022%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.022%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.022%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.022%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.022%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,938 (43.41%) Azure
2 1,369 (30.67%) Azure AI
3 1,102 (24.69%) Power Platform
4 567 (12.70%) AWS
5 248 (5.56%) SaaS
6 191 (4.28%) GCP
7 172 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 171 (3.83%) GitHub
9 164 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
10 123 (2.76%) Microsoft Copilot
11 112 (2.51%) Serverless
12 105 (2.35%) Adobe Analytics
13 75 (1.68%) GitHub Copilot
14 73 (1.64%) Figma
15 69 (1.55%) Snowflake
16 67 (1.50%) Anthropic Claude
17 63 (1.41%) Power Automate
18 60 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
19 57 (1.28%) Entra ID
20 52 (1.16%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 186 (4.17%) Broadband
2 52 (1.16%) Firewall
3 34 (0.76%) VPN
4 33 (0.74%) DNS
5 25 (0.56%) Internet
5 25 (0.56%) Network Security
6 22 (0.49%) Unified Communications
7 17 (0.38%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.38%) VLAN
8 16 (0.36%) MQTT
9 15 (0.34%) DHCP
10 9 (0.20%) VoIP
11 8 (0.18%) Wireless
12 7 (0.16%) Intranet
13 5 (0.11%) BGP
13 5 (0.11%) DMZ
13 5 (0.11%) HTTP
13 5 (0.11%) OSPF
13 5 (0.11%) SNMP
13 5 (0.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,014 (22.72%) Power BI
2 924 (20.70%) Tableau
3 157 (3.52%) MongoDB
4 140 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 125 (2.80%) SQL Server
6 67 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
7 62 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 45 (1.01%) Metadata
10 41 (0.92%) NoSQL
11 33 (0.74%) Relational Database
12 31 (0.69%) Redis
13 30 (0.67%) Big Data
14 27 (0.60%) MySQL
15 26 (0.58%) Looker
16 25 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
17 24 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
18 23 (0.52%) BigQuery
19 17 (0.38%) Pinecone
20 16 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 107 (2.40%) Git
2 53 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
3 42 (0.94%) JIRA
4 36 (0.81%) GitLab
5 33 (0.74%) Jenkins
6 32 (0.72%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.49%) Snyk
8 18 (0.40%) Postman
8 18 (0.40%) Selenium
9 17 (0.38%) 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
13 8 (0.18%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.13%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.13%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.13%) SpecFlow
14 6 (0.13%) Spock
General
1 1,844 (41.31%) Social Skills
2 568 (12.72%) Finance
3 331 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 299 (6.70%) Marketing
5 290 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 210 (4.70%) Games
7 180 (4.03%) Retail
8 147 (3.29%) Public Sector
9 134 (3.00%) Manufacturing
10 126 (2.82%) Legal
11 104 (2.33%) Law
12 89 (1.99%) Banking
13 88 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
14 71 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
15 50 (1.12%) Automotive
16 45 (1.01%) Advertising
17 40 (0.90%) Electronics
18 29 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
19 28 (0.63%) Aerospace
20 27 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,036 (23.21%) Analyst
2 886 (19.85%) Data Analyst
3 880 (19.71%) Junior
4 866 (19.40%) Junior Analyst
5 865 (19.38%) Junior Data Analyst
6 497 (11.13%) Senior
7 471 (10.55%) Developer
8 432 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 407 (9.12%) Lead
10 250 (5.60%) Architect
11 232 (5.20%) Software Engineer
12 153 (3.43%) Data Engineer
13 145 (3.25%) .NET Developer
14 96 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
15 82 (1.84%) Software Developer
16 81 (1.81%) Consultant
17 80 (1.79%) Senior Developer
18 74 (1.66%) Full-Stack Developer
19 72 (1.61%) Data Scientist
20 71 (1.59%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (6.41%) .NET
2 206 (4.61%) React
3 148 (3.32%) CSS
4 145 (3.25%) HTML
5 136 (3.05%) ASP.NET
6 134 (3.00%) .NET Core
7 131 (2.93%) ASP.NET Core
8 115 (2.58%) ML.NET
9 101 (2.26%) RESTful
10 96 (2.15%) Node.js
11 90 (2.02%) Blazor
12 88 (1.97%) REST
13 67 (1.50%) scikit-learn
14 63 (1.41%) Vue
15 58 (1.30%) NumPy
15 58 (1.30%) Pandas
16 54 (1.21%) AngularJS
16 54 (1.21%) Hugging Face
17 53 (1.19%) Matplotlib
18 51 (1.14%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 185 (4.14%) Cloud Native
2 179 (4.01%) Social Media
3 120 (2.69%) Product Ownership
4 108 (2.42%) AI Agents
4 108 (2.42%) Algorithms
5 105 (2.35%) Robotics
6 93 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 91 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
8 80 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 70 (1.57%) Mobile App
10 62 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 56 (1.25%) Low-Code
12 51 (1.14%) Data Centre
13 42 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
13 42 (0.94%) Life Science
14 40 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
14 40 (0.90%) Virtual Team
15 36 (0.81%) Driving Licence
16 33 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
17 32 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 106 (2.37%) Windows
2 91 (2.04%) Linux
3 59 (1.32%) Android
4 41 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 40 (0.90%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.45%) VMS
7 7 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.045%) Debian
10 2 (0.045%) Gentoo
10 2 (0.045%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.045%) Unix
10 2 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.022%) AIX
11 1 (0.022%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,068 (23.92%) Business Intelligence
2 743 (16.64%) Machine Learning
3 697 (15.61%) Agile
4 659 (14.76%) Analytics
5 526 (11.78%) CI/CD
6 486 (10.89%) Roadmaps
7 481 (10.78%) Software Engineering
8 459 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
9 422 (9.45%) DevOps
10 403 (9.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 374 (8.38%) Decision-Making
12 368 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 328 (7.35%) LLM
14 321 (7.19%) Mentoring
15 311 (6.97%) Full-Stack Development
16 280 (6.27%) Customer Experience
17 237 (5.31%) Cybersecurity
18 231 (5.17%) Generative AI
19 228 (5.11%) Data Science
20 212 (4.75%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1,902 (42.61%) Python
2 1,321 (29.59%) SQL
3 321 (7.19%) C#
4 268 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 147 (3.29%) TypeScript
6 146 (3.27%) Java
7 100 (2.24%) C++
8 70 (1.57%) PowerShell
9 58 (1.30%) Bash
10 37 (0.83%) Go
11 36 (0.81%) C
12 31 (0.69%) Bicep
13 27 (0.60%) R
14 26 (0.58%) Rust
15 23 (0.52%) PHP
16 18 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
17 16 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.31%) Ruby
19 12 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,218 (27.28%) Azure Certification
2 331 (7.41%) Degree
3 196 (4.39%) Security Cleared
4 122 (2.73%) SC Cleared
5 98 (2.20%) AWS Certification
6 86 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 69 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 66 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.19%) ACCA
9 53 (1.19%) CIMA
10 49 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 43 (0.96%) DBS Check
12 39 (0.87%) PhD
13 31 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 21 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.36%) CISSP
16 12 (0.27%) HNC
17 11 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
18 9 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (4.82%) Accessibility
2 164 (3.67%) Data Quality
3 112 (2.51%) GDPR
4 104 (2.33%) QA
5 61 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (1.10%) WCAG
7 41 (0.92%) GRC
8 40 (0.90%) SLA
9 39 (0.87%) NIST
10 26 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 21 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 20 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 13 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 12 (0.27%) NCSC
16 11 (0.25%) PMO
17 10 (0.22%) SOC 2
18 9 (0.20%) GxP
18 9 (0.20%) IFRS
18 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 193 (4.32%) Docker
2 56 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (0.43%) Firmware
6 15 (0.34%) vSphere
7 13 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
9 7 (0.16%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.067%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 198 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 145 (3.25%) Terraform
3 35 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (0.67%) Grafana
5 29 (0.65%) Ansible
6 23 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.20%) Podman
8 8 (0.18%) Kubeflow
8 8 (0.18%) Proxmox
9 7 (0.16%) Puppet
10 5 (0.11%) Functional Safety
10 5 (0.11%) Nagios
10 5 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.090%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.090%) SolarWinds Orion
11 4 (0.090%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.067%) Argo
12 3 (0.067%) cPanel
12 3 (0.067%) Plesk
13 2 (0.045%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,539 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 160 (3.58%) Adobe
3 127 (2.84%) Google
4 102 (2.28%) Databricks
5 76 (1.70%) OpenAI
6 74 (1.66%) Dell
7 73 (1.64%) Cisco
8 51 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 51 (1.14%) ServiceNow
9 47 (1.05%) Oracle
10 44 (0.99%) Apple
11 31 (0.69%) SAP
12 30 (0.67%) VMware
13 29 (0.65%) HubSpot
14 26 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
14 26 (0.58%) Facebook
15 25 (0.56%) Sage
15 25 (0.56%) Tenable
16 22 (0.49%) Palo Alto
17 17 (0.38%) Foundry