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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 50
Rank change year-on-year -1 +36 +124
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,335 3,069 3,374
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.47% 10.33% 4.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.29% 11.33% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,089 760 1,335
10th Percentile £33,950 £24,975 £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% -13.04%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,250 £80,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,125 £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 46,645 27,091 62,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.61% 91.21% 80.08%
Number of salaries quoted 32,592 13,719 43,802
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,968 £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 15 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 15 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 1,344 £67,500 +22.73% 631
South East +2 999 £60,000 +20.00% 736
Midlands -8 711 £55,000 -4.35% 282
North West +30 661 £72,500 +11.54% 399
Yorkshire -5 504 £65,000 +153.66% 170
East of England +23 470 £59,725 -9.80% 218
South West +1 468 £60,000 - 298
West Midlands -5 448 £55,000 -4.35% 178
East Midlands -12 262 £52,500 -8.82% 102
Scotland +1 206 £70,000 +38.76% 134
North East 0 179 £65,000 +52.94% 63
Wales +16 115 £53,585 -22.34% 54
Northern Ireland +10 52 £72,500 - 75
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 64 (1.48%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.18%) Jupyter
3 41 (0.95%) CMS
4 31 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 30 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.67%) Confluence
7 27 (0.62%) WordPress
8 21 (0.48%) Apache
9 16 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.12%) IIS
12 4 (0.092%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.069%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.046%) Apache Qpid
14 2 (0.046%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.046%) nginx
14 2 (0.046%) SAS
15 1 (0.023%) Moodle
15 1 (0.023%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 932 (21.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (1.80%) Chatbot
3 47 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
4 29 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.35%) UserZoom
6 13 (0.30%) Photoshop
7 12 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
8 11 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 9 (0.21%) Simulink
10 8 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
10 8 (0.18%) InDesign
10 8 (0.18%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.069%) Camtasia
11 3 (0.069%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.046%) 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 (0.55%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.18%) Sage 50
5 7 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.092%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.069%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.069%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.046%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.046%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.046%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.023%) Maximo
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle Assets
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
9 1 (0.023%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,881 (43.39%) Azure
2 1,334 (30.77%) Azure AI
3 1,087 (25.07%) Power Platform
4 554 (12.78%) AWS
5 239 (5.51%) SaaS
6 183 (4.22%) GCP
7 156 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
8 148 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
8 148 (3.41%) GitHub
9 114 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
10 106 (2.45%) Adobe Analytics
11 103 (2.38%) Serverless
12 74 (1.71%) Figma
13 72 (1.66%) Snowflake
14 68 (1.57%) GitHub Copilot
15 60 (1.38%) Anthropic Claude
15 60 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
16 57 (1.31%) Power Automate
17 54 (1.25%) Entra ID
18 50 (1.15%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 186 (4.29%) Broadband
2 48 (1.11%) Firewall
3 29 (0.67%) DNS
4 26 (0.60%) VPN
5 25 (0.58%) Network Security
6 24 (0.55%) Unified Communications
7 19 (0.44%) Internet
8 17 (0.39%) TCP/IP
9 16 (0.37%) MQTT
10 15 (0.35%) VLAN
11 14 (0.32%) DHCP
12 10 (0.23%) VoIP
13 7 (0.16%) Intranet
13 7 (0.16%) Wireless
14 6 (0.14%) DMZ
14 6 (0.14%) HTTP
15 5 (0.12%) BGP
15 5 (0.12%) OSPF
16 4 (0.092%) RTP
16 4 (0.092%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,006 (23.21%) Power BI
2 924 (21.31%) Tableau
3 132 (3.04%) MongoDB
4 122 (2.81%) SQL Server
5 108 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 61 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 60 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (1.13%) Data Lake
9 43 (0.99%) Metadata
9 43 (0.99%) NoSQL
10 32 (0.74%) Big Data
11 31 (0.72%) Relational Database
12 29 (0.67%) Redis
13 26 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (0.60%) Looker
14 25 (0.58%) MySQL
15 23 (0.53%) BigQuery
16 22 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.35%) DynamoDB
18 14 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 98 (2.26%) Git
2 53 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
3 40 (0.92%) JIRA
4 34 (0.78%) GitLab
5 33 (0.76%) Jenkins
6 29 (0.67%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.51%) Snyk
8 18 (0.42%) MLflow
8 18 (0.42%) Postman
9 17 (0.39%) Selenium
10 15 (0.35%) JUnit
11 13 (0.30%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.23%) Maven
13 9 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
14 8 (0.18%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.16%) JMeter
16 6 (0.14%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.14%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.14%) SpecFlow
16 6 (0.14%) Spock
General
1 1,811 (41.78%) Social Skills
2 545 (12.57%) Finance
3 332 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
4 288 (6.64%) Marketing
5 283 (6.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 209 (4.82%) Games
7 174 (4.01%) Retail
8 132 (3.04%) Public Sector
9 129 (2.98%) Legal
10 125 (2.88%) Manufacturing
11 99 (2.28%) Law
12 89 (2.05%) Banking
13 86 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
14 63 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
15 50 (1.15%) Automotive
16 40 (0.92%) Advertising
17 39 (0.90%) Electronics
18 29 (0.67%) Telecoms
19 27 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
20 26 (0.60%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,023 (23.60%) Analyst
2 882 (20.35%) Data Analyst
3 880 (20.30%) Junior
4 866 (19.98%) Junior Analyst
5 865 (19.95%) Junior Data Analyst
6 478 (11.03%) Senior
7 427 (9.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 427 (9.85%) Developer
8 390 (9.00%) Lead
9 235 (5.42%) Architect
10 214 (4.94%) Software Engineer
11 148 (3.41%) Data Engineer
12 120 (2.77%) .NET Developer
13 90 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
14 77 (1.78%) Software Developer
15 75 (1.73%) Senior Developer
16 74 (1.71%) Consultant
17 73 (1.68%) Full-Stack Developer
18 70 (1.61%) Designer
19 69 (1.59%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (5.84%) .NET
2 192 (4.43%) React
3 131 (3.02%) CSS
4 128 (2.95%) HTML
5 110 (2.54%) ASP.NET
6 108 (2.49%) .NET Core
7 105 (2.42%) ASP.NET Core
8 93 (2.15%) Node.js
9 90 (2.08%) ML.NET
10 89 (2.05%) REST
10 89 (2.05%) RESTful
11 72 (1.66%) Blazor
12 66 (1.52%) scikit-learn
13 59 (1.36%) Vue
14 58 (1.34%) NumPy
14 58 (1.34%) Pandas
15 56 (1.29%) AngularJS
16 54 (1.25%) Hugging Face
17 52 (1.20%) Matplotlib
18 50 (1.15%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 177 (4.08%) Social Media
2 173 (3.99%) Cloud Native
3 117 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 107 (2.47%) Algorithms
4 107 (2.47%) Robotics
5 98 (2.26%) AI Agents
6 92 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
7 91 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 75 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
9 67 (1.55%) Mobile App
10 63 (1.45%) Management Information System
11 60 (1.38%) Low-Code
12 50 (1.15%) Data Centre
13 48 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
14 42 (0.97%) Life Science
15 37 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
15 37 (0.85%) Virtual Team
16 34 (0.78%) Driving Licence
17 28 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
18 27 (0.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 92 (2.12%) Windows
2 86 (1.98%) Linux
3 54 (1.25%) Android
4 39 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 35 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.32%) VMS
7 6 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.14%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.069%) Unix
10 2 (0.046%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.046%) Windows Server 2019
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,062 (24.50%) Business Intelligence
2 702 (16.19%) Machine Learning
3 667 (15.39%) Agile
4 635 (14.65%) Analytics
5 496 (11.44%) CI/CD
6 469 (10.82%) Roadmaps
7 458 (10.57%) Software Engineering
8 437 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
9 397 (9.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 392 (9.04%) DevOps
11 350 (8.07%) Decision-Making
12 349 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 321 (7.40%) LLM
14 293 (6.76%) Mentoring
15 285 (6.57%) Full-Stack Development
16 280 (6.46%) Customer Experience
17 225 (5.19%) Data Science
18 224 (5.17%) Cybersecurity
19 218 (5.03%) Generative AI
20 195 (4.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1,889 (43.58%) Python
2 1,273 (29.37%) SQL
3 283 (6.53%) C#
4 244 (5.63%) JavaScript
5 151 (3.48%) Java
6 136 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 91 (2.10%) C++
8 59 (1.36%) PowerShell
9 49 (1.13%) Bash
10 35 (0.81%) C
10 35 (0.81%) Go
11 30 (0.69%) R
12 24 (0.55%) Rust
13 22 (0.51%) Bicep
13 22 (0.51%) PHP
14 18 (0.42%) Kotlin
15 16 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.35%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.30%) Ruby
17 13 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,211 (27.94%) Azure Certification
2 320 (7.38%) Degree
3 184 (4.24%) Security Cleared
4 112 (2.58%) SC Cleared
5 102 (2.35%) AWS Certification
6 78 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 69 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 67 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.18%) ACCA
9 51 (1.18%) CIMA
10 49 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 43 (0.99%) DBS Check
12 39 (0.90%) PhD
13 31 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (0.35%) CISSP
15 13 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.28%) HNC
17 11 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
18 10 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
19 8 (0.18%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (4.78%) Accessibility
2 155 (3.58%) Data Quality
3 107 (2.47%) GDPR
4 101 (2.33%) QA
5 57 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.08%) WCAG
7 41 (0.95%) GRC
8 39 (0.90%) NIST
9 36 (0.83%) SLA
10 26 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 19 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 13 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 12 (0.28%) NCSC
16 11 (0.25%) PMO
17 10 (0.23%) SOC 2
18 9 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
18 9 (0.21%) GxP
18 9 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 171 (3.94%) Docker
2 52 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 48 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.44%) Firmware
5 14 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
7 8 (0.18%) vSphere
8 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.069%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 177 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 132 (3.04%) Terraform
3 34 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (0.67%) Grafana
5 27 (0.62%) Ansible
6 22 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.18%) Podman
7 8 (0.18%) Proxmox
7 8 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.16%) Kubeflow
8 7 (0.16%) Puppet
9 5 (0.12%) Functional Safety
9 5 (0.12%) Nagios
10 4 (0.092%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.092%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.092%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.092%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.069%) Argo
12 2 (0.046%) Istio
12 2 (0.046%) linkerd
Vendors
1 1,495 (34.49%) Microsoft
2 163 (3.76%) Adobe
3 116 (2.68%) Google
4 103 (2.38%) Databricks
5 74 (1.71%) Dell
6 72 (1.66%) Cisco
7 70 (1.61%) OpenAI
8 53 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 49 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 46 (1.06%) Oracle
11 45 (1.04%) Apple
12 29 (0.67%) HubSpot
13 28 (0.65%) SAP
14 26 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
15 25 (0.58%) Tenable
16 22 (0.51%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.51%) Sage
16 22 (0.51%) VMware
17 20 (0.46%) Facebook
18 15 (0.35%) Splunk