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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 13 44
Rank change year-on-year -2 +31 +110
Permanent jobs citing AI 5,124 3,366 2,809
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.96% 9.86% 4.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.87% 11.22% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,643 783 1,049
10th Percentile £35,000 £24,750 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% -7.69% -5.68%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,752 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.82% -3.57% -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 51,923 29,990 50,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.51% 87.88% 79.06%
Number of salaries quoted 36,516 16,273 33,193
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%

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 28 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 28 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 1,565 £66,000 +20.00% 555
South East -1 1,140 £60,500 +34.44% 717
Midlands -8 799 £57,000 -5.00% 258
North West +25 778 £70,000 +16.67% 336
South West +4 585 £62,500 +4.17% 245
Yorkshire +1 557 £65,000 +85.71% 149
East of England +26 517 £60,000 -9.37% 209
West Midlands -5 511 £60,000 - 166
East Midlands -15 287 £52,500 -16.00% 92
Scotland -2 249 £70,000 +7.69% 138
North East +1 230 £65,000 +106.35% 75
Wales +13 170 £65,000 +18.18% 58
Northern Ireland +7 128 £74,830 -14.48% 45
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
1 102 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 58 (1.13%) Jupyter
3 47 (0.92%) CMS
4 40 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 39 (0.76%) Confluence
6 36 (0.70%) Apache
7 35 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 34 (0.66%) Apache Spark
9 30 (0.59%) WordPress
10 7 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 5 (0.098%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.078%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.078%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.078%) IIS
13 4 (0.078%) nginx
13 4 (0.078%) SAS
14 2 (0.039%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.020%) Moodle
Applications
1 904 (17.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 95 (1.85%) Chatbot
3 50 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
5 17 (0.33%) Photoshop
6 15 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 14 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 14 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.27%) UserZoom
8 13 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
8 13 (0.25%) InDesign
9 9 (0.18%) Simulink
10 8 (0.16%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.059%) Camtasia
11 3 (0.059%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.039%) Microsoft Project
12 2 (0.039%) Trello
13 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 43 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.47%) Cloudability
4 12 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 8 (0.16%) Sage 50
7 4 (0.078%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.078%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.078%) Shopify
8 3 (0.059%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.059%) Q-Pulse
9 2 (0.039%) Magento
9 2 (0.039%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.039%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.020%) Infor SunSystems
10 1 (0.020%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.020%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.020%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,117 (41.32%) Azure
2 1,362 (26.58%) Azure AI
3 1,133 (22.11%) Power Platform
4 681 (13.29%) AWS
5 292 (5.70%) SaaS
6 238 (4.64%) GCP
7 222 (4.33%) GitHub
8 219 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
9 208 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
10 159 (3.10%) Microsoft Copilot
11 134 (2.62%) Serverless
12 117 (2.28%) Entra ID
13 101 (1.97%) GitHub Copilot
14 98 (1.91%) Adobe Analytics
15 94 (1.83%) Snowflake
16 89 (1.74%) Anthropic Claude
16 89 (1.74%) Power Automate
17 67 (1.31%) Figma
18 65 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
19 63 (1.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 178 (3.47%) Broadband
2 57 (1.11%) Firewall
3 43 (0.84%) Internet
4 39 (0.76%) VPN
5 37 (0.72%) DNS
6 23 (0.45%) Network Security
7 16 (0.31%) MQTT
7 16 (0.31%) TCP/IP
7 16 (0.31%) VLAN
8 14 (0.27%) DHCP
8 14 (0.27%) VoIP
9 10 (0.20%) Wireless
10 9 (0.18%) CTI
10 9 (0.18%) WAN
11 8 (0.16%) BGP
12 7 (0.14%) Intranet
12 7 (0.14%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.12%) DMZ
13 6 (0.12%) HTTP
13 6 (0.12%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,004 (19.59%) Power BI
2 874 (17.06%) Tableau
3 204 (3.98%) MongoDB
4 176 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 149 (2.91%) SQL Server
6 85 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
7 76 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
8 64 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 63 (1.23%) Metadata
10 55 (1.07%) NoSQL
11 46 (0.90%) Relational Database
12 37 (0.72%) Big Data
12 37 (0.72%) Redis
13 36 (0.70%) MySQL
14 34 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 30 (0.59%) BigQuery
16 26 (0.51%) Looker
17 25 (0.49%) DynamoDB
18 23 (0.45%) Pinecone
19 22 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 149 (2.91%) Git
2 63 (1.23%) JIRA
3 55 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
4 54 (1.05%) Jenkins
5 48 (0.94%) GitLab
6 36 (0.70%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.43%) Snyk
8 21 (0.41%) Selenium
9 20 (0.39%) JUnit
9 20 (0.39%) Postman
10 19 (0.37%) MLflow
11 17 (0.33%) Maven
12 12 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
14 9 (0.18%) JMeter
14 9 (0.18%) Spock
15 8 (0.16%) Mockito
16 6 (0.12%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.12%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 2,040 (39.81%) Social Skills
2 735 (14.34%) Finance
3 435 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
4 352 (6.87%) Marketing
5 346 (6.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 235 (4.59%) Legal
7 209 (4.08%) Games
7 209 (4.08%) Retail
8 201 (3.92%) Public Sector
9 162 (3.16%) Law
10 157 (3.06%) Manufacturing
11 102 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
12 100 (1.95%) Banking
13 99 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
14 61 (1.19%) Advertising
15 52 (1.01%) Automotive
16 40 (0.78%) Aerospace
16 40 (0.78%) Electronics
17 35 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
18 31 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,016 (19.83%) Analyst
2 842 (16.43%) Data Analyst
3 838 (16.35%) Junior
4 812 (15.85%) Junior Analyst
5 811 (15.83%) Junior Data Analyst
6 696 (13.58%) Senior
7 586 (11.44%) Developer
8 461 (9.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 449 (8.76%) Lead
10 351 (6.85%) Architect
11 299 (5.84%) Software Engineer
12 195 (3.81%) Data Engineer
13 189 (3.69%) .NET Developer
14 131 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
15 120 (2.34%) Senior Manager
16 114 (2.22%) Senior Developer
17 103 (2.01%) Consultant
18 98 (1.91%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
19 97 (1.89%) Software Developer
20 91 (1.78%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (6.46%) .NET
2 249 (4.86%) React
3 182 (3.55%) CSS
4 180 (3.51%) ASP.NET
4 180 (3.51%) HTML
5 174 (3.40%) ASP.NET Core
6 160 (3.12%) .NET Core
7 152 (2.97%) ML.NET
8 125 (2.44%) Node.js
8 125 (2.44%) RESTful
9 115 (2.24%) Blazor
10 108 (2.11%) REST
11 66 (1.29%) scikit-learn
11 66 (1.29%) Vue
12 58 (1.13%) Kafka
13 57 (1.11%) AngularJS
13 57 (1.11%) Hugging Face
14 56 (1.09%) Pandas
15 54 (1.05%) NumPy
16 53 (1.03%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 222 (4.33%) Cloud Native
2 181 (3.53%) Social Media
3 166 (3.24%) AI Agents
4 131 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 118 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 113 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 112 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
8 104 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
9 96 (1.87%) Robotics
10 85 (1.66%) Management Information System
11 72 (1.41%) Mobile App
12 61 (1.19%) Low-Code
13 58 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
14 57 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
15 56 (1.09%) Data Centre
15 56 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
16 53 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
17 50 (0.98%) Blog
18 43 (0.84%) Driving Licence
19 42 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 128 (2.50%) Windows
2 124 (2.42%) Linux
3 60 (1.17%) Android
4 46 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 39 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.41%) VMS
7 9 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.098%) Debian
10 4 (0.078%) Unix
11 3 (0.059%) Gentoo
11 3 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.039%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.039%) Solaris
13 1 (0.020%) AIX
13 1 (0.020%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.020%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,076 (21.00%) Business Intelligence
2 859 (16.76%) Machine Learning
3 857 (16.73%) Agile
4 793 (15.48%) Analytics
5 658 (12.84%) CI/CD
6 598 (11.67%) Software Engineering
7 571 (11.14%) Problem-Solving
8 563 (10.99%) Roadmaps
9 551 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 517 (10.09%) DevOps
11 484 (9.45%) Decision-Making
12 453 (8.84%) Mentoring
13 417 (8.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
14 406 (7.92%) LLM
15 376 (7.34%) Full-Stack Development
16 363 (7.08%) Cybersecurity
17 307 (5.99%) Customer Experience
18 271 (5.29%) Workflow
19 269 (5.25%) Data Science
20 265 (5.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,974 (38.52%) Python
2 1,388 (27.09%) SQL
3 401 (7.83%) C#
4 355 (6.93%) JavaScript
5 201 (3.92%) TypeScript
6 184 (3.59%) Java
7 133 (2.60%) C++
8 86 (1.68%) PowerShell
9 65 (1.27%) Bash
10 43 (0.84%) Go
11 42 (0.82%) C
12 38 (0.74%) Bicep
12 38 (0.74%) Rust
13 26 (0.51%) PHP
14 24 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 23 (0.45%) R
16 20 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
16 20 (0.39%) Ruby
17 19 (0.37%) Kotlin
18 18 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,170 (22.83%) Azure Certification
2 384 (7.49%) Degree
3 279 (5.44%) Security Cleared
4 182 (3.55%) SC Cleared
5 117 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 100 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 76 (1.48%) CISSP
9 72 (1.41%) Master's Degree
10 66 (1.29%) CISM
11 60 (1.17%) ACCA
11 60 (1.17%) CIMA
12 56 (1.09%) Network+ Certification
13 55 (1.07%) A+ Certification
14 48 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 46 (0.90%) PhD
16 40 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 35 (0.68%) DBS Check
18 28 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
19 22 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (4.53%) Accessibility
2 199 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 124 (2.42%) QA
4 121 (2.36%) GDPR
5 71 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 51 (1.00%) SLA
7 48 (0.94%) GRC
8 45 (0.88%) WCAG
9 42 (0.82%) NIST
10 28 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 21 (0.41%) PCI DSS
13 18 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (0.31%) NCSC
15 12 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 11 (0.21%) PMO
17 10 (0.20%) IFRS
17 10 (0.20%) SOC 2
18 9 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 8 (0.16%) GAAP
System Software
1 264 (5.15%) Docker
2 117 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 52 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (0.43%) Firmware
6 16 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.31%) vSphere
7 11 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
8 9 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 7 (0.14%) Ceph
10 1 (0.020%) Kamailio
10 1 (0.020%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 256 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 188 (3.67%) Terraform
3 97 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (0.82%) Ansible
5 36 (0.70%) Grafana
6 33 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.33%) Podman
8 12 (0.23%) Puppet
9 10 (0.20%) Istio
10 9 (0.18%) Argo
11 7 (0.14%) Check_MK
12 6 (0.12%) Kubeflow
13 5 (0.098%) Functional Safety
13 5 (0.098%) Nagios
13 5 (0.098%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.098%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.078%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.078%) SolarWinds Orion
15 3 (0.059%) cPanel
15 3 (0.059%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,698 (33.14%) Microsoft
2 164 (3.20%) Google
3 156 (3.04%) Adobe
4 124 (2.42%) Databricks
5 92 (1.80%) OpenAI
6 87 (1.70%) Cisco
7 79 (1.54%) Dell
8 59 (1.15%) ServiceNow
9 58 (1.13%) Oracle
10 54 (1.05%) CyberArk
10 54 (1.05%) Salesforce
11 50 (0.98%) Apple
12 36 (0.70%) Facebook
13 35 (0.68%) VMware
14 34 (0.66%) SAP
15 29 (0.57%) Sage
16 27 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
16 27 (0.53%) HubSpot
17 26 (0.51%) Foundry
17 26 (0.51%) Tenable