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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 50
Rank change year-on-year +1 +35 +124
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,281 2,967 3,398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.49% 10.08% 4.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.33% 11.04% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,993 760 1,335
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £36,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -12.82%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,296 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.59% -5.29% -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 45,890 26,873 62,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.62% 91.25% 80.42%
Number of salaries quoted 31,846 13,591 43,459
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,250 £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 10 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 10 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 +11 1,316 £67,500 +22.73% 530
South East +3 985 £60,000 +20.00% 615
Midlands -9 708 £55,000 -4.35% 206
North West +31 641 £72,500 +11.54% 332
Yorkshire -2 502 £65,000 +153.66% 149
East of England +25 466 £60,000 -9.39% 160
South West +1 464 £60,000 - 199
West Midlands -5 445 £55,000 -4.35% 134
East Midlands -14 262 £52,500 -8.70% 70
Scotland -1 204 £70,000 +38.76% 82
North East +5 173 £65,000 +64.56% 51
Wales +24 116 £53,585 -22.34% 42
Northern Ireland +13 53 £72,500 - 39
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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 63 (1.47%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.19%) Jupyter
3 39 (0.91%) CMS
4 31 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.65%) Confluence
6 26 (0.61%) WordPress
7 21 (0.49%) Apache
8 16 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.14%) IIS
9 6 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.070%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.047%) Apache Qpid
12 2 (0.047%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.047%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.047%) nginx
12 2 (0.047%) SAS
13 1 (0.023%) Camunda
13 1 (0.023%) WildFly
Applications
1 982 (22.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (1.82%) Chatbot
3 47 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.35%) UserZoom
6 12 (0.28%) Photoshop
7 11 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 10 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
9 9 (0.21%) Simulink
10 7 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
10 7 (0.16%) InDesign
10 7 (0.16%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.070%) Camtasia
11 3 (0.070%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.047%) Trello
13 1 (0.023%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.023%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.023%) Notion
13 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (0.56%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.19%) Sage 50
5 7 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.093%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.070%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.047%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.023%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.023%) Maximo
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.023%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.023%) Primavera
9 1 (0.023%) Q-Pulse
9 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.023%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.023%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,900 (44.38%) Azure
2 1,367 (31.93%) Azure AI
3 1,135 (26.51%) Power Platform
4 532 (12.43%) AWS
5 232 (5.42%) SaaS
6 174 (4.06%) GCP
7 151 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
8 138 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
9 135 (3.15%) GitHub
10 106 (2.48%) Adobe Analytics
11 104 (2.43%) Microsoft Copilot
12 97 (2.27%) Serverless
13 75 (1.75%) Figma
14 72 (1.68%) Snowflake
15 62 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
16 60 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
17 55 (1.28%) Anthropic Claude
18 54 (1.26%) Power Automate
19 52 (1.21%) Entra ID
20 47 (1.10%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 185 (4.32%) Broadband
2 45 (1.05%) Firewall
3 27 (0.63%) DNS
4 25 (0.58%) Network Security
5 24 (0.56%) Unified Communications
5 24 (0.56%) VPN
6 17 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.35%) Internet
7 15 (0.35%) MQTT
8 14 (0.33%) VLAN
9 13 (0.30%) DHCP
10 10 (0.23%) VoIP
11 7 (0.16%) Wireless
12 6 (0.14%) DMZ
12 6 (0.14%) HTTP
13 5 (0.12%) BGP
13 5 (0.12%) Intranet
13 5 (0.12%) OSPF
14 4 (0.093%) RTP
14 4 (0.093%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,056 (24.67%) Power BI
2 979 (22.87%) Tableau
3 118 (2.76%) SQL Server
4 113 (2.64%) MongoDB
5 89 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 60 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
7 57 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (1.14%) Data Lake
9 44 (1.03%) Metadata
10 37 (0.86%) NoSQL
11 33 (0.77%) Big Data
12 29 (0.68%) Relational Database
13 26 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (0.61%) Looker
13 26 (0.61%) Redis
14 23 (0.54%) MySQL
15 22 (0.51%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
17 14 (0.33%) DynamoDB
17 14 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 92 (2.15%) Git
2 53 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
3 38 (0.89%) JIRA
4 29 (0.68%) GitLab
5 27 (0.63%) Jenkins
6 26 (0.61%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.51%) Snyk
8 18 (0.42%) MLflow
9 16 (0.37%) Postman
9 16 (0.37%) Selenium
10 13 (0.30%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.30%) JUnit
11 10 (0.23%) Maven
12 9 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
12 9 (0.21%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.16%) JMeter
14 6 (0.14%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.14%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.14%) SpecFlow
15 5 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 1,844 (43.07%) Social Skills
2 532 (12.43%) Finance
3 324 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
4 285 (6.66%) Marketing
5 280 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 207 (4.84%) Games
7 169 (3.95%) Retail
8 127 (2.97%) Legal
9 126 (2.94%) Public Sector
10 117 (2.73%) Manufacturing
11 97 (2.27%) Law
12 89 (2.08%) Banking
13 78 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
14 58 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
15 50 (1.17%) Automotive
16 39 (0.91%) Electronics
17 36 (0.84%) Advertising
18 28 (0.65%) Telecoms
19 26 (0.61%) Aerospace
20 25 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,075 (25.11%) Analyst
2 935 (21.84%) Data Analyst
3 934 (21.82%) Junior
4 920 (21.49%) Junior Analyst
5 919 (21.47%) Junior Data Analyst
6 458 (10.70%) Senior
7 421 (9.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 389 (9.09%) Developer
9 382 (8.92%) Lead
10 225 (5.26%) Architect
11 197 (4.60%) Software Engineer
12 143 (3.34%) Data Engineer
13 101 (2.36%) .NET Developer
14 86 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
15 73 (1.71%) Consultant
15 73 (1.71%) Software Developer
16 69 (1.61%) Data Scientist
16 69 (1.61%) Designer
16 69 (1.61%) Senior Developer
17 68 (1.59%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (5.30%) .NET
2 175 (4.09%) React
3 122 (2.85%) CSS
4 119 (2.78%) HTML
5 91 (2.13%) ASP.NET
6 88 (2.06%) .NET Core
7 87 (2.03%) Node.js
8 86 (2.01%) ASP.NET Core
8 86 (2.01%) REST
9 80 (1.87%) RESTful
10 72 (1.68%) ML.NET
11 65 (1.52%) scikit-learn
12 61 (1.42%) Blazor
13 58 (1.35%) NumPy
13 58 (1.35%) Pandas
14 54 (1.26%) AngularJS
14 54 (1.26%) Hugging Face
15 53 (1.24%) Vue
16 52 (1.21%) Matplotlib
17 50 (1.17%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 173 (4.04%) Social Media
2 161 (3.76%) Cloud Native
3 117 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 109 (2.55%) Robotics
5 106 (2.48%) Algorithms
6 94 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 89 (2.08%) AI Agents
8 86 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
9 70 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 65 (1.52%) Mobile App
11 61 (1.42%) Management Information System
12 59 (1.38%) Low-Code
13 50 (1.17%) Data Centre
13 50 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 44 (1.03%) Life Science
15 37 (0.86%) Virtual Team
16 35 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
17 33 (0.77%) Driving Licence
18 31 (0.72%) Public Cloud
19 25 (0.58%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 86 (2.01%) Windows
2 81 (1.89%) Linux
3 52 (1.21%) Android
4 38 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 33 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.33%) VMS
7 6 (0.14%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.070%) Unix
10 2 (0.047%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.023%) AIX
11 1 (0.023%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.023%) Debian
11 1 (0.023%) Gentoo
11 1 (0.023%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,111 (25.95%) Business Intelligence
2 680 (15.88%) Machine Learning
3 646 (15.09%) Agile
4 629 (14.69%) Analytics
5 469 (10.96%) CI/CD
6 462 (10.79%) Roadmaps
7 432 (10.09%) Software Engineering
8 426 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
9 396 (9.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 376 (8.78%) DevOps
11 340 (7.94%) Decision-Making
12 336 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 312 (7.29%) LLM
14 283 (6.61%) Mentoring
15 276 (6.45%) Customer Experience
16 252 (5.89%) Full-Stack Development
17 228 (5.33%) Data Science
18 222 (5.19%) Cybersecurity
19 214 (5.00%) Generative AI
20 186 (4.34%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1,927 (45.01%) Python
2 1,298 (30.32%) SQL
3 254 (5.93%) C#
4 224 (5.23%) JavaScript
5 146 (3.41%) Java
6 119 (2.78%) TypeScript
7 80 (1.87%) C++
8 57 (1.33%) PowerShell
9 46 (1.07%) Bash
10 34 (0.79%) C
11 33 (0.77%) Go
11 33 (0.77%) R
12 22 (0.51%) PHP
13 21 (0.49%) Rust
14 20 (0.47%) Bicep
15 17 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 15 (0.35%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.30%) Scala
19 12 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,265 (29.55%) Azure Certification
2 310 (7.24%) Degree
3 174 (4.06%) Security Cleared
4 105 (2.45%) AWS Certification
4 105 (2.45%) SC Cleared
5 69 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 67 (1.57%) DV Cleared
6 67 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 51 (1.19%) ACCA
7 51 (1.19%) CIMA
8 49 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 43 (1.00%) DBS Check
10 41 (0.96%) PhD
11 30 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (0.37%) CISSP
13 13 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.28%) HNC
15 11 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
17 8 (0.19%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (4.79%) Accessibility
2 154 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 102 (2.38%) GDPR
4 93 (2.17%) QA
5 56 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.12%) WCAG
7 40 (0.93%) GRC
7 40 (0.93%) NIST
8 33 (0.77%) SLA
9 26 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 19 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 12 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.26%) GxP
14 11 (0.26%) NCSC
15 10 (0.23%) PMO
15 10 (0.23%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 152 (3.55%) Docker
2 52 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
3 47 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.44%) Firmware
5 14 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
7 8 (0.19%) vSphere
8 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.070%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 158 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 125 (2.92%) Terraform
3 32 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (0.65%) Grafana
5 26 (0.61%) Ansible
6 21 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.19%) Podman
8 8 (0.19%) Proxmox
9 7 (0.16%) Kubeflow
10 6 (0.14%) Puppet
11 5 (0.12%) Functional Safety
11 5 (0.12%) Nagios
12 4 (0.093%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.093%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.093%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.093%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.070%) Argo
14 2 (0.047%) cPanel
14 2 (0.047%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,521 (35.53%) Microsoft
2 168 (3.92%) Adobe
3 106 (2.48%) Google
4 105 (2.45%) Databricks
5 75 (1.75%) Dell
6 70 (1.64%) Cisco
7 63 (1.47%) OpenAI
8 54 (1.26%) Salesforce
9 47 (1.10%) Apple
9 47 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 45 (1.05%) Oracle
11 29 (0.68%) HubSpot
12 27 (0.63%) SAP
13 26 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
14 25 (0.58%) Tenable
15 22 (0.51%) Palo Alto
15 22 (0.51%) VMware
16 21 (0.49%) Sage
17 15 (0.35%) Facebook
18 13 (0.30%) Splunk