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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 13 51
Rank change year-on-year -1 +38 +126
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,448 3,110 3,356
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.55% 10.32% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.37% 11.35% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,188 768 1,348
10th Percentile £34,000 £24,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £35,563 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -11.97%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,914 £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 47,467 27,409 63,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.93% 90.91% 79.64%
Number of salaries quoted 33,286 13,983 44,276
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,984 £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 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 21 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 21 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 1,394 £67,500 +26.42% 454
South East 0 1,012 £60,000 +20.00% 647
Midlands -8 726 £55,000 -5.91% 207
North West +30 682 £72,500 +11.54% 291
Yorkshire -3 521 £65,000 +153.66% 123
South West 0 484 £62,500 +4.17% 188
East of England +20 482 £59,450 -10.22% 161
West Midlands -5 458 £55,000 -4.35% 122
East Midlands -13 267 £52,500 -12.50% 85
Scotland +1 210 £70,000 +38.76% 74
North East +1 191 £65,000 +106.35% 42
Wales +14 118 £54,000 -21.74% 50
Northern Ireland +12 52 £72,500 - 116
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 69 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.15%) Jupyter
3 42 (0.94%) CMS
4 32 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (0.70%) Confluence
6 30 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 28 (0.63%) WordPress
8 23 (0.52%) Apache
9 20 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.090%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.067%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.067%) IIS
12 3 (0.067%) SAS
13 2 (0.045%) Apache Qpid
13 2 (0.045%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.045%) nginx
13 2 (0.045%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.022%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.022%) WildFly
Applications
1 935 (21.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (1.78%) Chatbot
3 46 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 28 (0.63%) 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 1,930 (43.39%) Azure
2 1,362 (30.62%) Azure AI
3 1,100 (24.73%) Power Platform
4 570 (12.81%) AWS
5 250 (5.62%) SaaS
6 189 (4.25%) GCP
7 166 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
8 165 (3.71%) GitHub
9 164 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
10 123 (2.77%) Microsoft Copilot
11 109 (2.45%) Serverless
12 105 (2.36%) Adobe Analytics
13 73 (1.64%) Figma
14 72 (1.62%) GitHub Copilot
15 70 (1.57%) Snowflake
16 66 (1.48%) Anthropic Claude
17 63 (1.42%) Power Automate
18 60 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
19 56 (1.26%) Entra ID
20 51 (1.15%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 186 (4.18%) Broadband
2 51 (1.15%) Firewall
3 31 (0.70%) DNS
3 31 (0.70%) VPN
4 26 (0.58%) Network Security
5 25 (0.56%) Internet
6 22 (0.49%) Unified Communications
7 17 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.36%) MQTT
8 16 (0.36%) VLAN
9 14 (0.31%) DHCP
10 9 (0.20%) VoIP
11 7 (0.16%) Intranet
11 7 (0.16%) Wireless
12 6 (0.13%) DMZ
12 6 (0.13%) HTTP
13 5 (0.11%) BGP
13 5 (0.11%) OSPF
14 4 (0.090%) RTP
14 4 (0.090%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,014 (22.80%) Power BI
2 924 (20.77%) Tableau
3 152 (3.42%) MongoDB
4 133 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 125 (2.81%) SQL Server
6 67 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
7 62 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 45 (1.01%) Metadata
10 43 (0.97%) NoSQL
11 32 (0.72%) Relational Database
12 31 (0.70%) Big Data
12 31 (0.70%) Redis
13 27 (0.61%) MySQL
14 26 (0.58%) Looker
15 25 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
16 24 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
17 23 (0.52%) BigQuery
18 16 (0.36%) Pinecone
19 15 (0.34%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 106 (2.38%) Git
2 53 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
3 43 (0.97%) 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 15 (0.34%) JUnit
11 14 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.22%) Maven
13 9 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
14 8 (0.18%) JMeter
14 8 (0.18%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.13%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.13%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.13%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.13%) Spock
General
1 1,841 (41.39%) Social Skills
2 566 (12.72%) Finance
3 331 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
4 301 (6.77%) Marketing
5 288 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 210 (4.72%) Games
7 179 (4.02%) Retail
8 144 (3.24%) Public Sector
9 131 (2.95%) Manufacturing
10 128 (2.88%) Legal
11 101 (2.27%) Law
12 91 (2.05%) Banking
13 88 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
14 71 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
15 50 (1.12%) Automotive
16 44 (0.99%) Advertising
17 40 (0.90%) Electronics
18 29 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
19 28 (0.63%) Aerospace
20 27 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,037 (23.31%) Analyst
2 886 (19.92%) Data Analyst
3 880 (19.78%) Junior
4 866 (19.47%) Junior Analyst
5 865 (19.45%) Junior Data Analyst
6 493 (11.08%) Senior
7 461 (10.36%) Developer
8 431 (9.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 404 (9.08%) Lead
10 249 (5.60%) Architect
11 228 (5.13%) Software Engineer
12 154 (3.46%) Data Engineer
13 140 (3.15%) .NET Developer
14 95 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
15 83 (1.87%) Consultant
16 82 (1.84%) Software Developer
17 78 (1.75%) Senior Developer
18 73 (1.64%) Full-Stack Developer
19 72 (1.62%) Data Scientist
20 71 (1.60%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (6.29%) .NET
2 203 (4.56%) React
3 145 (3.26%) CSS
4 142 (3.19%) HTML
5 131 (2.95%) ASP.NET
6 129 (2.90%) .NET Core
7 126 (2.83%) ASP.NET Core
8 110 (2.47%) ML.NET
9 100 (2.25%) RESTful
10 96 (2.16%) Node.js
11 89 (2.00%) REST
12 88 (1.98%) Blazor
13 67 (1.51%) scikit-learn
14 61 (1.37%) Vue
15 58 (1.30%) NumPy
15 58 (1.30%) Pandas
16 55 (1.24%) AngularJS
17 54 (1.21%) Hugging Face
18 53 (1.19%) Matplotlib
19 50 (1.12%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 185 (4.16%) Cloud Native
2 179 (4.02%) Social Media
3 120 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 109 (2.45%) Algorithms
5 107 (2.41%) AI Agents
6 105 (2.36%) Robotics
7 97 (2.18%) Onboarding
8 93 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
9 79 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 69 (1.55%) Mobile App
11 63 (1.42%) Management Information System
12 57 (1.28%) Low-Code
13 51 (1.15%) Data Centre
14 43 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
15 41 (0.92%) Life Science
16 40 (0.90%) Virtual Team
17 39 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
18 35 (0.79%) Driving Licence
19 33 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
20 31 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 103 (2.32%) Windows
2 91 (2.05%) Linux
3 58 (1.30%) Android
4 41 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 39 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.40%) 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 1,069 (24.03%) Business Intelligence
2 737 (16.57%) Machine Learning
3 687 (15.45%) Agile
4 656 (14.75%) Analytics
5 521 (11.71%) CI/CD
6 484 (10.88%) Roadmaps
7 476 (10.70%) Software Engineering
8 456 (10.25%) Problem-Solving
9 414 (9.31%) DevOps
10 401 (9.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 369 (8.30%) Decision-Making
12 367 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 328 (7.37%) LLM
14 316 (7.10%) Mentoring
15 304 (6.83%) Full-Stack Development
16 280 (6.29%) Customer Experience
17 239 (5.37%) Cybersecurity
18 230 (5.17%) Data Science
19 225 (5.06%) Generative AI
20 211 (4.74%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1,901 (42.74%) Python
2 1,316 (29.59%) SQL
3 314 (7.06%) C#
4 265 (5.96%) JavaScript
5 148 (3.33%) Java
6 146 (3.28%) TypeScript
7 98 (2.20%) C++
8 68 (1.53%) PowerShell
9 56 (1.26%) Bash
10 37 (0.83%) Go
11 36 (0.81%) C
12 29 (0.65%) Bicep
13 28 (0.63%) R
14 26 (0.58%) Rust
15 22 (0.49%) PHP
16 18 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 16 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
19 14 (0.31%) Ruby
20 13 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,216 (27.34%) Azure Certification
2 331 (7.44%) Degree
3 195 (4.38%) Security Cleared
4 120 (2.70%) SC Cleared
5 102 (2.29%) AWS Certification
6 86 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 70 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 67 (1.51%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.17%) ACCA
9 52 (1.17%) CIMA
10 49 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 43 (0.97%) DBS Check
12 39 (0.88%) PhD
13 31 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 19 (0.43%) 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 8 (0.18%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (4.79%) Accessibility
2 163 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 114 (2.56%) GDPR
4 104 (2.34%) QA
5 62 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (1.10%) WCAG
7 41 (0.92%) GRC
8 40 (0.90%) NIST
8 40 (0.90%) SLA
9 26 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 21 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 13 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 13 (0.29%) NCSC
13 11 (0.25%) PMO
14 10 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 9 (0.20%) GxP
15 9 (0.20%) IFRS
15 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 189 (4.25%) Docker
2 53 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 53 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (0.43%) Firmware
3 19 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.27%) vSphere
5 11 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.067%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 194 (4.36%) Kubernetes
2 142 (3.19%) Terraform
3 34 (0.76%) 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%) Istio
Vendors
1 1,534 (34.49%) Microsoft
2 164 (3.69%) Adobe
3 125 (2.81%) Google
4 103 (2.32%) Databricks
5 75 (1.69%) Dell
5 75 (1.69%) OpenAI
6 73 (1.64%) Cisco
7 51 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 51 (1.15%) ServiceNow
8 48 (1.08%) Apple
9 46 (1.03%) Oracle
10 30 (0.67%) SAP
11 29 (0.65%) HubSpot
12 27 (0.61%) VMware
13 26 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
13 26 (0.58%) Facebook
14 25 (0.56%) Tenable
15 24 (0.54%) Sage
16 22 (0.49%) Palo Alto
17 17 (0.38%) Foundry