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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 64 113
Rank change year-on-year +57 +49 +23
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,031 1,563 852
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 11.46% 3.25% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.58% 4.08% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 820 766 579
10th Percentile £25,203 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £106,375 £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 29,690 38,340 28,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.41% 79.81% 93.93%
Number of salaries quoted 17,742 18,846 21,374
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,625 £54,383 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% +3.59% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 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 +68 1,227 £57,500 -11.54% 768
South East +24 993 £53,750 -23.21% 3,343
Midlands +137 740 £65,000 -7.14% 291
North West +60 604 £57,500 +0.87% 528
Scotland +72 497 £69,248 +8.62% 187
Yorkshire +66 495 £75,000 +7.14% 182
West Midlands +120 437 £65,000 - 167
South West +40 303 £60,000 -7.69% 268
East Midlands +117 301 £62,500 -26.47% 112
East of England +80 239 £47,500 -44.12% 306
North East +63 128 £31,500 -21.25% 60
Wales +39 80 £55,000 -18.98% 68
Northern Ireland -20 19 £70,000 -18.84% 41
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 49 (1.22%) Apache Spark
2 36 (0.89%) SharePoint
3 27 (0.67%) CMS
4 25 (0.62%) Confluence
5 21 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.40%) Apache
7 14 (0.35%) WordPress
8 11 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 10 (0.25%) Apache Solr
10 9 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.20%) Camunda
11 8 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.15%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.099%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.074%) Drupal
14 3 (0.074%) Joomla!
14 3 (0.074%) Kentico
14 3 (0.074%) Kinematics
14 3 (0.074%) SAS
15 2 (0.050%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1,506 (37.36%) Chatbot
2 82 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.25%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
7 6 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.12%) Simulink
9 4 (0.099%) InDesign
10 3 (0.074%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.074%) Notion
10 3 (0.074%) S-PLUS
11 2 (0.050%) Weka
12 1 (0.025%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.025%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 27 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (0.20%) Shopify
5 3 (0.074%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.050%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.050%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.050%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.050%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.025%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.025%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.025%) Magento
7 1 (0.025%) Maximo
7 1 (0.025%) Odoo
7 1 (0.025%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.025%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 464 (11.51%) Azure
2 338 (8.39%) AWS
3 205 (5.09%) Power Platform
4 153 (3.80%) SaaS
5 131 (3.25%) GCP
6 117 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
7 112 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
8 60 (1.49%) GitHub
9 56 (1.39%) Azure AI
9 56 (1.39%) Entra ID
10 53 (1.31%) Power Automate
11 50 (1.24%) Snowflake
12 43 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
13 41 (1.02%) Amazon S3
14 40 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
15 39 (0.97%) GitHub Copilot
16 37 (0.92%) Serverless
17 32 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
18 31 (0.77%) Vertex AI
19 27 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (0.69%) Firewall
2 22 (0.55%) VPN
3 20 (0.50%) DNS
3 20 (0.50%) Unified Communications
4 19 (0.47%) WAN
5 16 (0.40%) SD-WAN
6 14 (0.35%) VoIP
7 11 (0.27%) Internet
8 9 (0.22%) Network Security
9 7 (0.17%) SAN
9 7 (0.17%) Telepresence
9 7 (0.17%) WebEx
10 5 (0.12%) Bluetooth
10 5 (0.12%) Broadband
10 5 (0.12%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.099%) Intranet
11 4 (0.099%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.099%) VLAN
11 4 (0.099%) Wireless
11 4 (0.099%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (3.55%) Power BI
2 80 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (1.76%) SQL Server
4 63 (1.56%) NoSQL
5 60 (1.49%) MySQL
5 60 (1.49%) Tableau
6 49 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 46 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 45 (1.12%) Metadata
9 39 (0.97%) Big Data
9 39 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
10 29 (0.72%) DynamoDB
11 24 (0.60%) Data Mining
12 22 (0.55%) Delta Lake
12 22 (0.55%) Hadoop
12 22 (0.55%) Spark SQL
13 20 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (0.45%) Relational Database
15 15 (0.37%) Looker
16 14 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (1.76%) Git
2 67 (1.66%) JIRA
3 28 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 20 (0.50%) MLflow
5 14 (0.35%) JUnit
6 13 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.30%) Selenium
7 12 (0.30%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.22%) Maven
8 9 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.17%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.15%) GitLab
11 5 (0.12%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.12%) Gradle
12 4 (0.099%) Locust
12 4 (0.099%) Metasploit
13 3 (0.074%) GitBook
13 3 (0.074%) Visual Website Optimizer
14 2 (0.050%) Jasmine
14 2 (0.050%) Vite
General
1 1,015 (25.18%) Analytical Skills
2 707 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 695 (17.24%) Retail
4 621 (15.41%) Manufacturing
5 584 (14.49%) Finance
6 395 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 319 (7.91%) Marketing
8 302 (7.49%) Law
9 144 (3.57%) Dutch Language
9 144 (3.57%) Finnish Language
9 144 (3.57%) Norwegian Language
10 135 (3.35%) Public Sector
11 131 (3.25%) Legal
12 102 (2.53%) Banking
13 53 (1.31%) Aviation
14 48 (1.19%) Catalan Language
15 40 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 39 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
17 36 (0.89%) Aerospace
18 35 (0.87%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,044 (50.71%) Trainer
2 223 (5.53%) Senior
3 199 (4.94%) Software Engineer
4 189 (4.69%) Developer
5 179 (4.44%) Lead
6 175 (4.34%) Content Editor
7 129 (3.20%) Architect
8 99 (2.46%) Customer Support Specialist
8 99 (2.46%) Support Specialist
9 97 (2.41%) Innovation Manager
10 94 (2.33%) Research Scientist
11 92 (2.28%) Analyst
12 84 (2.08%) Java Engineer
13 71 (1.76%) Java Software Engineer
14 68 (1.69%) Sales Executive
15 63 (1.56%) Microsoft Specialist
16 58 (1.44%) Business Manager
17 56 (1.39%) Corporate Sales Executive
18 51 (1.27%) Software Developer
19 48 (1.19%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (2.65%) React
2 91 (2.26%) HTML
3 83 (2.06%) .NET
4 80 (1.98%) Spring
5 65 (1.61%) Kafka
6 60 (1.49%) REST
7 57 (1.41%) PyTorch
7 57 (1.41%) RESTful
7 57 (1.41%) TensorFlow
8 46 (1.14%) Spring Boot
9 41 (1.02%) PySpark
10 39 (0.97%) AngularJS
10 39 (0.97%) scikit-learn
11 37 (0.92%) Node.js
12 35 (0.87%) Pandas
13 34 (0.84%) CSS
14 33 (0.82%) NumPy
15 25 (0.62%) Hugging Face
16 22 (0.55%) Blazor
16 22 (0.55%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 666 (16.52%) Robotics
2 126 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 119 (2.95%) Algorithms
4 116 (2.88%) Molecular Biology
5 87 (2.16%) Product Ownership
6 72 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 68 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 56 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
9 51 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 50 (1.24%) Data Centre
11 44 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
12 39 (0.97%) Virtual Team
13 38 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
13 38 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
14 37 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
15 36 (0.89%) Life Science
16 34 (0.84%) Blog
17 33 (0.82%) e-Learning
18 32 (0.79%) Management Information System
18 32 (0.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 49 (1.22%) Windows
2 41 (1.02%) Linux
3 35 (0.87%) Unix
4 24 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.57%) Android
6 20 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.099%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.050%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.025%) Debian
12 1 (0.025%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.025%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.025%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.025%) VMS
12 1 (0.025%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,509 (37.43%) Conversational UI
2 1,211 (30.04%) Machine Learning
3 857 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
4 765 (18.98%) Generative AI
5 732 (18.16%) LLM
6 612 (15.18%) Chemistry
7 576 (14.29%) Red Team
8 561 (13.92%) Agile
9 539 (13.37%) Data Privacy
10 494 (12.26%) Analytics
11 398 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 365 (9.05%) Software Engineering
13 363 (9.01%) Decision-Making
14 330 (8.19%) CI/CD
15 321 (7.96%) Roadmaps
16 293 (7.27%) Computer Science
17 276 (6.85%) DevOps
18 254 (6.30%) Mathematics
19 251 (6.23%) Customer Experience
20 238 (5.90%) Content Writing
Programming Languages
1 425 (10.54%) Python
2 364 (9.03%) SQL
3 229 (5.68%) Java
4 153 (3.80%) JavaScript
5 127 (3.15%) TypeScript
6 110 (2.73%) C#
7 83 (2.06%) C++
8 79 (1.96%) PowerShell
9 74 (1.84%) R
10 66 (1.64%) C
11 60 (1.49%) MATLAB
11 60 (1.49%) PHP
12 54 (1.34%) Rust
13 50 (1.24%) Ruby
14 48 (1.19%) Dart
15 37 (0.92%) Bash
16 28 (0.69%) Bicep
17 20 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 19 (0.47%) PL/SQL
19 18 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,459 (61.00%) Degree
2 950 (23.57%) Master's Degree
3 913 (22.65%) PhD
4 149 (3.70%) Security Cleared
5 130 (3.23%) SC Cleared
6 116 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 28 (0.69%) DBS Check
10 27 (0.67%) AWS Certification
11 18 (0.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 17 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.32%) HNC
14 12 (0.30%) DV Cleared
14 12 (0.30%) HND
15 11 (0.27%) ACCA
16 10 (0.25%) PMP
17 9 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
18 8 (0.20%) CIMA
19 6 (0.15%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (1.39%) Data Quality
2 40 (0.99%) Accessibility
3 36 (0.89%) QA
4 32 (0.79%) GDPR
5 27 (0.67%) GxP
6 22 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.35%) PMO
8 13 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.27%) NIST
9 11 (0.27%) SLA
10 10 (0.25%) CDISC
10 10 (0.25%) HL7
11 9 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.17%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.12%) ISO 13485
14 4 (0.099%) GRC
14 4 (0.099%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.099%) NCSC
14 4 (0.099%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 101 (2.51%) Docker
2 29 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (0.42%) Active Directory
5 14 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.20%) HDFS
6 8 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.099%) Firmware
7 4 (0.099%) vSphere
8 3 (0.074%) Apache Flume
8 3 (0.074%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.050%) Ceph
9 2 (0.050%) Lustre
10 1 (0.025%) RACF
10 1 (0.025%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.025%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 114 (2.83%) Terraform
2 102 (2.53%) Kubernetes
3 39 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (0.60%) Grafana
4 24 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (0.47%) Kubeflow
6 18 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.30%) Ansible
8 8 (0.20%) SCCM
9 7 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.099%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.099%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.099%) Nessus
10 4 (0.099%) Netcool
10 4 (0.099%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 4 (0.099%) Nmap
10 4 (0.099%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.074%) Functional Safety
11 3 (0.074%) Kibana
11 3 (0.074%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,468 (36.42%) PayPal
2 675 (16.75%) Google
3 666 (16.52%) Databricks
4 621 (15.41%) Adobe
5 462 (11.46%) Microsoft
6 114 (2.83%) Cisco
7 86 (2.13%) Oracle
8 76 (1.89%) Dell
9 50 (1.24%) OpenAI
10 44 (1.09%) IBM
11 38 (0.94%) Red Hat
12 33 (0.82%) Salesforce
13 32 (0.79%) Apple
13 32 (0.79%) Blue Prism
14 28 (0.69%) Palo Alto
15 24 (0.60%) Splunk
16 23 (0.57%) SAP
16 23 (0.57%) ServiceNow
17 22 (0.55%) VMware
18 21 (0.52%) HubSpot