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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 64 116
Rank change year-on-year +57 +52 +9
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,135 1,602 862
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 12.07% 3.28% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.95% 4.11% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 756 804 567
10th Percentile £28,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £50,090 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.74% +8.44%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

All Process and 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 29,638 38,938 30,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.54% 79.76% 94.16%
Number of salaries quoted 16,312 19,420 22,229
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £54,000 £53,118
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +1.66% +1.18%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,627
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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

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Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025. 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 +79 1,251 £57,500 -11.20% 656
South East +26 1,043 £55,000 -21.43% 2,137
Midlands +134 812 £65,000 -7.14% 267
North West +64 595 £60,000 +6.18% 407
Yorkshire +66 523 £72,500 +3.57% 192
Scotland +45 478 £68,374 +5.19% 153
West Midlands +117 458 £60,000 -11.11% 168
East Midlands +105 350 £65,000 -23.53% 97
South West +42 298 £60,000 -7.69% 226
East of England +61 230 £47,500 -44.12% 247
North East +64 133 £24,570 -67.24% 58
Wales +38 77 £55,000 -18.98% 62
Northern Ireland -14 13 £75,000 -11.76% 28
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 49 (1.19%) Apache Spark
2 36 (0.87%) SharePoint
3 26 (0.63%) CMS
3 26 (0.63%) Confluence
4 24 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.39%) Apache
6 12 (0.29%) WordPress
7 11 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.24%) Apache Solr
9 9 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.19%) Camunda
10 8 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.097%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.073%) Drupal
13 3 (0.073%) Joomla!
13 3 (0.073%) Kentico
13 3 (0.073%) Kinematics
13 3 (0.073%) SAS
14 2 (0.048%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1,579 (38.19%) Chatbot
2 68 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.24%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
7 5 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
7 5 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.12%) Simulink
7 5 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.097%) InDesign
9 3 (0.073%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.073%) Notion
9 3 (0.073%) S-PLUS
10 2 (0.048%) Weka
11 1 (0.024%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.19%) Shopify
5 7 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.073%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.048%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.024%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.024%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.024%) Magento
8 1 (0.024%) Maximo
8 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.024%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.024%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 443 (10.71%) Azure
2 330 (7.98%) AWS
3 195 (4.72%) Power Platform
4 135 (3.26%) SaaS
5 131 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 127 (3.07%) GCP
7 112 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
8 57 (1.38%) GitHub
9 55 (1.33%) Entra ID
10 51 (1.23%) Azure AI
11 47 (1.14%) Power Automate
11 47 (1.14%) Snowflake
12 42 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
13 41 (0.99%) Amazon S3
14 38 (0.92%) Serverless
15 34 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
16 33 (0.80%) GitHub Copilot
17 31 (0.75%) Vertex AI
18 27 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
19 26 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 30 (0.73%) Firewall
2 24 (0.58%) DNS
3 23 (0.56%) VPN
4 19 (0.46%) WAN
5 18 (0.44%) Unified Communications
6 16 (0.39%) SD-WAN
7 13 (0.31%) VoIP
8 10 (0.24%) Internet
8 10 (0.24%) SAN
9 9 (0.22%) Network Security
9 9 (0.22%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.12%) DHCP
11 4 (0.097%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.097%) Broadband
11 4 (0.097%) Intranet
11 4 (0.097%) Telepresence
11 4 (0.097%) WebEx
11 4 (0.097%) Wireless
12 3 (0.073%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.073%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (3.22%) Power BI
2 78 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
3 63 (1.52%) Tableau
4 61 (1.48%) MySQL
4 61 (1.48%) NoSQL
5 60 (1.45%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.28%) Metadata
7 44 (1.06%) Data Lake
7 44 (1.06%) MongoDB
8 39 (0.94%) Big Data
9 37 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
10 29 (0.70%) DynamoDB
11 23 (0.56%) Data Mining
12 22 (0.53%) Delta Lake
12 22 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (0.53%) Hadoop
12 22 (0.53%) Spark SQL
13 17 (0.41%) Relational Database
14 14 (0.34%) Looker
15 13 (0.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 72 (1.74%) JIRA
2 71 (1.72%) Git
3 30 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 20 (0.48%) MLflow
5 14 (0.34%) JUnit
6 13 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
6 13 (0.31%) Selenium
7 12 (0.29%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.22%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.22%) Maven
8 9 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.15%) GitLab
10 5 (0.12%) Gradle
11 4 (0.097%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.097%) JMeter
11 4 (0.097%) Locust
12 3 (0.073%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.073%) Postman
12 3 (0.073%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 2 (0.048%) Vite
General
1 1,028 (24.86%) Analytical Skills
2 842 (20.36%) Retail
3 760 (18.38%) Manufacturing
4 644 (15.57%) Social Skills
5 540 (13.06%) Finance
6 417 (10.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 322 (7.79%) Marketing
8 301 (7.28%) Law
9 192 (4.64%) Dutch Language
9 192 (4.64%) Finnish Language
9 192 (4.64%) Norwegian Language
10 132 (3.19%) Public Sector
11 124 (3.00%) Legal
12 100 (2.42%) Banking
13 54 (1.31%) Aviation
14 48 (1.16%) Catalan Language
15 39 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
16 35 (0.85%) Aerospace
17 33 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
18 32 (0.77%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,259 (54.63%) Trainer
2 226 (5.47%) Senior
3 195 (4.72%) Software Engineer
4 193 (4.67%) Developer
5 181 (4.38%) Lead
6 175 (4.23%) Content Editor
7 107 (2.59%) Architect
8 99 (2.39%) Customer Support Specialist
8 99 (2.39%) Support Specialist
9 96 (2.32%) Research Scientist
10 94 (2.27%) Analyst
11 85 (2.06%) Java Engineer
12 81 (1.96%) Innovation Manager
13 73 (1.77%) Sales Executive
14 72 (1.74%) Java Software Engineer
15 63 (1.52%) Microsoft Specialist
16 56 (1.35%) Corporate Sales Executive
17 55 (1.33%) DevOps Engineer
18 50 (1.21%) Software Developer
19 49 (1.19%) Biostatistician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (2.52%) React
2 83 (2.01%) HTML
3 80 (1.93%) Spring
4 78 (1.89%) .NET
5 65 (1.57%) Kafka
6 60 (1.45%) REST
7 54 (1.31%) PyTorch
7 54 (1.31%) RESTful
7 54 (1.31%) TensorFlow
8 45 (1.09%) Spring Boot
9 40 (0.97%) Node.js
10 39 (0.94%) PySpark
11 38 (0.92%) scikit-learn
12 36 (0.87%) AngularJS
13 34 (0.82%) Pandas
14 32 (0.77%) NumPy
15 31 (0.75%) CSS
16 25 (0.60%) Hugging Face
17 22 (0.53%) Keras
18 21 (0.51%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 784 (18.96%) Robotics
2 119 (2.88%) Algorithms
3 118 (2.85%) Molecular Biology
4 117 (2.83%) Cloud Native
5 96 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 81 (1.96%) Product Ownership
7 74 (1.79%) e-Learning
8 61 (1.48%) AI Agents
9 60 (1.45%) Onboarding
10 53 (1.28%) Data Centre
11 49 (1.19%) Management Information System
12 45 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
12 45 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
13 37 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
14 34 (0.82%) Life Science
15 32 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
15 32 (0.77%) Social Media
16 30 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
17 29 (0.70%) Virtual Team
18 26 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (1.33%) Windows
2 43 (1.04%) Linux
3 31 (0.75%) Windows Server
4 29 (0.70%) Unix
5 23 (0.56%) Android
6 21 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.073%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.048%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.048%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.024%) Debian
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.024%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,581 (38.23%) Conversational UI
2 1,339 (32.38%) Machine Learning
3 974 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
4 902 (21.81%) Generative AI
5 854 (20.65%) LLM
6 720 (17.41%) Red Team
7 679 (16.42%) Chemistry
8 639 (15.45%) Data Privacy
9 582 (14.07%) Agile
10 457 (11.05%) Analytics
11 388 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 332 (8.03%) Software Engineering
13 328 (7.93%) CI/CD
14 322 (7.79%) Roadmaps
15 316 (7.64%) Decision-Making
16 299 (7.23%) Computer Science
17 284 (6.87%) DevOps
18 267 (6.46%) Mathematics
19 237 (5.73%) Content Writing
20 233 (5.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 392 (9.48%) Python
2 342 (8.27%) SQL
3 233 (5.63%) Java
4 154 (3.72%) JavaScript
5 128 (3.10%) TypeScript
6 107 (2.59%) C#
7 81 (1.96%) C++
7 81 (1.96%) PowerShell
8 71 (1.72%) R
9 65 (1.57%) C
10 60 (1.45%) MATLAB
10 60 (1.45%) PHP
11 52 (1.26%) Rust
12 50 (1.21%) Ruby
13 48 (1.16%) Dart
14 38 (0.92%) Bash
15 28 (0.68%) Bicep
16 19 (0.46%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.44%) Shell Script
18 10 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,650 (64.09%) Degree
2 1,030 (24.91%) Master's Degree
3 993 (24.01%) PhD
4 124 (3.00%) Security Cleared
5 115 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 100 (2.42%) SC Cleared
7 34 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 29 (0.70%) DBS Check
10 26 (0.63%) AWS Certification
11 19 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (0.36%) DV Cleared
13 13 (0.31%) HNC
14 12 (0.29%) HND
15 10 (0.24%) ACCA
16 8 (0.19%) CIMA
16 8 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.17%) Six Sigma Green Belt
18 6 (0.15%) Six Sigma Black Belt
19 5 (0.12%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (1.50%) Data Quality
2 38 (0.92%) Accessibility
2 38 (0.92%) QA
3 33 (0.80%) GDPR
4 27 (0.65%) GxP
5 24 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.31%) PMO
6 13 (0.31%) SLA
7 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (0.24%) CDISC
8 10 (0.24%) HL7
8 10 (0.24%) NIST
9 9 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.17%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 4 (0.097%) GRC
12 4 (0.097%) NCSC
12 4 (0.097%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.073%) P3O
System Software
1 100 (2.42%) Docker
2 28 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.19%) HDFS
7 4 (0.097%) Firmware
7 4 (0.097%) vSphere
8 3 (0.073%) Apache Flume
8 3 (0.073%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.048%) Ceph
9 2 (0.048%) Lustre
10 1 (0.024%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.024%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 112 (2.71%) Terraform
2 98 (2.37%) Kubernetes
3 38 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (0.58%) Grafana
5 23 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.46%) Kubeflow
6 19 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.34%) Ansible
8 10 (0.24%) SCCM
9 4 (0.097%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.097%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.097%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.097%) Netcool
9 4 (0.097%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 4 (0.097%) SCOM
9 4 (0.097%) Tivoli
10 3 (0.073%) Functional Safety
10 3 (0.073%) Kibana
10 3 (0.073%) logstash
10 3 (0.073%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 1,539 (37.22%) PayPal
2 820 (19.83%) Google
3 801 (19.37%) Databricks
4 764 (18.48%) Adobe
5 444 (10.74%) Microsoft
6 114 (2.76%) Cisco
7 105 (2.54%) Oracle
8 87 (2.10%) IBM
9 81 (1.96%) Red Hat
10 76 (1.84%) Dell
11 48 (1.16%) OpenAI
12 33 (0.80%) Salesforce
13 32 (0.77%) Apple
14 31 (0.75%) Blue Prism
15 29 (0.70%) Palo Alto
16 28 (0.68%) ServiceNow
16 28 (0.68%) Splunk
17 25 (0.60%) VMware
18 20 (0.48%) Foundry
18 20 (0.48%) HubSpot