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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 51
Rank change year-on-year -3 +38 +125
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,485 3,138 3,299
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.55% 10.32% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.35% 11.38% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,234 774 1,329
10th Percentile £34,750 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,500 £35,875 £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 £74,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,285 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.61% -5.31% -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 47,953 27,584 62,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.00% 90.75% 79.80%
Number of salaries quoted 33,671 14,103 43,662
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 24 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 24 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 1,403 £67,500 +26.42% 464
South East -2 1,017 £60,000 +21.83% 659
Midlands -8 727 £55,000 -5.91% 219
North West +31 689 £70,000 +7.69% 298
Yorkshire -3 523 £65,000 +153.66% 123
South West 0 491 £62,000 +3.33% 203
East of England +19 487 £60,000 -9.39% 166
West Midlands -5 456 £55,000 -4.35% 124
East Midlands -13 270 £52,500 -12.50% 95
Scotland -1 210 £70,000 +38.76% 91
North East +2 191 £65,000 +106.35% 47
Wales +17 128 £55,000 -20.29% 47
Northern Ireland +8 52 £72,500 - 56
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 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.14%) Jupyter
3 42 (0.94%) CMS
4 32 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (0.69%) Confluence
6 29 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 28 (0.62%) WordPress
8 24 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.51%) Apache
10 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.089%) 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%) Moodle
14 1 (0.022%) Umbraco
Applications
1 928 (20.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (1.76%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.33%) 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%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.022%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (0.54%) Cloudability
2 13 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.18%) Sage 50
5 7 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.089%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.067%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.067%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.067%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.022%) Oracle ERP
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 1,947 (43.41%) Azure
2 1,370 (30.55%) Azure AI
3 1,105 (24.64%) Power Platform
4 571 (12.73%) AWS
5 250 (5.57%) SaaS
6 194 (4.33%) GCP
7 176 (3.92%) GitHub
8 175 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
9 166 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
10 125 (2.79%) Microsoft Copilot
11 119 (2.65%) Serverless
12 105 (2.34%) Adobe Analytics
13 75 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
14 72 (1.61%) Figma
15 70 (1.56%) Snowflake
16 67 (1.49%) Anthropic Claude
17 64 (1.43%) Power Automate
18 60 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
19 58 (1.29%) Entra ID
20 55 (1.23%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 186 (4.15%) Broadband
2 52 (1.16%) Firewall
3 36 (0.80%) VPN
4 33 (0.74%) DNS
5 25 (0.56%) Internet
5 25 (0.56%) Network Security
6 21 (0.47%) Unified Communications
7 17 (0.38%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.38%) VLAN
8 16 (0.36%) MQTT
9 15 (0.33%) DHCP
10 8 (0.18%) VoIP
10 8 (0.18%) Wireless
11 7 (0.16%) Intranet
12 5 (0.11%) BGP
12 5 (0.11%) DMZ
12 5 (0.11%) HTTP
12 5 (0.11%) OSPF
12 5 (0.11%) SNMP
12 5 (0.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,016 (22.65%) Power BI
2 923 (20.58%) Tableau
3 157 (3.50%) MongoDB
4 142 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 125 (2.79%) SQL Server
6 68 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
7 62 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (1.14%) Data Lake
9 47 (1.05%) Metadata
10 41 (0.91%) NoSQL
11 33 (0.74%) Relational Database
12 31 (0.69%) Redis
13 29 (0.65%) Big Data
14 28 (0.62%) MySQL
15 26 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
15 26 (0.58%) Looker
16 25 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
17 23 (0.51%) BigQuery
18 17 (0.38%) Pinecone
19 16 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 111 (2.47%) Git
2 53 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
3 42 (0.94%) JIRA
4 36 (0.80%) GitLab
4 36 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 33 (0.74%) Claude Code
6 22 (0.49%) Snyk
7 19 (0.42%) Postman
7 19 (0.42%) Selenium
8 17 (0.38%) MLflow
9 14 (0.31%) Cypress.io
9 14 (0.31%) JUnit
10 10 (0.22%) Maven
11 9 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
12 8 (0.18%) JMeter
13 7 (0.16%) 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 1,854 (41.34%) Social Skills
2 571 (12.73%) Finance
3 329 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
4 301 (6.71%) Marketing
5 285 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 210 (4.68%) Games
7 182 (4.06%) Retail
8 152 (3.39%) Public Sector
9 137 (3.05%) Manufacturing
10 128 (2.85%) Legal
11 107 (2.39%) Law
12 89 (1.98%) Banking
13 87 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
14 71 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
15 50 (1.11%) Automotive
16 47 (1.05%) Advertising
17 41 (0.91%) Electronics
18 29 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
19 28 (0.62%) Aerospace
20 26 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,036 (23.10%) Analyst
2 886 (19.75%) Data Analyst
3 880 (19.62%) Junior
4 866 (19.31%) Junior Analyst
5 865 (19.29%) Junior Data Analyst
6 505 (11.26%) Senior
7 475 (10.59%) Developer
8 433 (9.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 410 (9.14%) Lead
10 254 (5.66%) Architect
11 233 (5.20%) Software Engineer
12 158 (3.52%) Data Engineer
13 145 (3.23%) .NET Developer
14 98 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
15 82 (1.83%) Senior Developer
15 82 (1.83%) Software Developer
16 81 (1.81%) Consultant
17 76 (1.69%) Data Scientist
18 75 (1.67%) Full-Stack Developer
19 71 (1.58%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (6.38%) .NET
2 206 (4.59%) React
3 149 (3.32%) CSS
4 146 (3.26%) HTML
5 136 (3.03%) ASP.NET
6 134 (2.99%) .NET Core
7 131 (2.92%) ASP.NET Core
8 115 (2.56%) ML.NET
9 102 (2.27%) RESTful
10 98 (2.19%) Node.js
11 90 (2.01%) REST
12 89 (1.98%) Blazor
13 66 (1.47%) scikit-learn
14 63 (1.40%) Vue
15 57 (1.27%) NumPy
15 57 (1.27%) Pandas
16 55 (1.23%) AngularJS
17 54 (1.20%) Hugging Face
18 52 (1.16%) Matplotlib
19 51 (1.14%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 187 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 179 (3.99%) Social Media
3 119 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 109 (2.43%) AI Agents
4 109 (2.43%) Algorithms
5 103 (2.30%) Robotics
6 91 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
6 91 (2.03%) Onboarding
7 81 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 70 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 62 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 57 (1.27%) Low-Code
11 51 (1.14%) Data Centre
12 42 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
13 41 (0.91%) Life Science
13 41 (0.91%) Virtual Team
14 40 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
15 37 (0.82%) Driving Licence
16 34 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
16 34 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.45%) Windows
2 91 (2.03%) Linux
3 60 (1.34%) Android
4 41 (0.91%) Apple iOS
4 41 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 22 (0.49%) VMS
6 7 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.045%) Debian
9 2 (0.045%) Gentoo
9 2 (0.045%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.045%) Unix
9 2 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.022%) AIX
10 1 (0.022%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,071 (23.88%) Business Intelligence
2 753 (16.79%) Machine Learning
3 708 (15.79%) Agile
4 669 (14.92%) Analytics
5 535 (11.93%) CI/CD
6 493 (10.99%) Roadmaps
7 484 (10.79%) Software Engineering
8 466 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
9 425 (9.48%) DevOps
10 403 (8.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 379 (8.45%) Decision-Making
12 376 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 330 (7.36%) LLM
14 329 (7.34%) Mentoring
15 311 (6.93%) Full-Stack Development
16 281 (6.27%) Customer Experience
17 239 (5.33%) Cybersecurity
18 234 (5.22%) Generative AI
19 232 (5.17%) Data Science
20 214 (4.77%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1,907 (42.52%) Python
2 1,331 (29.68%) SQL
3 324 (7.22%) C#
4 270 (6.02%) JavaScript
5 151 (3.37%) Java
6 148 (3.30%) TypeScript
7 102 (2.27%) C++
8 72 (1.61%) PowerShell
9 60 (1.34%) Bash
10 38 (0.85%) Go
11 36 (0.80%) C
12 33 (0.74%) Bicep
13 27 (0.60%) Rust
14 26 (0.58%) R
15 23 (0.51%) PHP
16 20 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
17 19 (0.42%) Kotlin
18 16 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 16 (0.36%) Ruby
19 12 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,220 (27.20%) Azure Certification
2 334 (7.45%) Degree
3 197 (4.39%) Security Cleared
4 123 (2.74%) SC Cleared
5 98 (2.19%) AWS Certification
6 86 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 69 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 66 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.18%) ACCA
9 53 (1.18%) CIMA
10 49 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 43 (0.96%) DBS Check
12 39 (0.87%) PhD
13 33 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 23 (0.51%) 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
1 214 (4.77%) Accessibility
2 167 (3.72%) Data Quality
3 114 (2.54%) GDPR
4 105 (2.34%) QA
5 62 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.07%) WCAG
7 41 (0.91%) GRC
8 40 (0.89%) SLA
9 39 (0.87%) NIST
10 26 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 22 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 21 (0.47%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 14 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 14 (0.31%) NCSC
15 11 (0.25%) PMO
16 10 (0.22%) SOC 2
17 9 (0.20%) GxP
17 9 (0.20%) IFRS
17 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 194 (4.33%) Docker
2 59 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.45%) Firmware
6 17 (0.38%) vSphere
7 15 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.18%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.067%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 199 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 150 (3.34%) Terraform
3 37 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (0.67%) Grafana
5 29 (0.65%) Ansible
6 23 (0.51%) 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 (0.089%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.089%) SolarWinds Orion
11 4 (0.089%) 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 1,544 (34.43%) Microsoft
2 158 (3.52%) Adobe
3 130 (2.90%) Google
4 104 (2.32%) Databricks
5 76 (1.69%) OpenAI
6 74 (1.65%) Dell
7 73 (1.63%) Cisco
8 51 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 51 (1.14%) ServiceNow
9 47 (1.05%) Oracle
10 42 (0.94%) Apple
11 32 (0.71%) VMware
12 31 (0.69%) SAP
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