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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 51
Rank change year-on-year -3 +38 +128
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,513 3,173 3,257
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.60% 10.38% 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.40% 11.45% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,251 780 1,318
10th Percentile £34,750 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,500 £36,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,954 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +6.59% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,914 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,274 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.62% -5.32% -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 47,994 27,715 61,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.17% 90.69% 80.08%
Number of salaries quoted 33,712 14,205 43,019
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,999 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,681 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,250 £78,500
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 26 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 26 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 1,406 £67,500 +26.42% 467
South East -2 1,026 £60,000 +33.33% 669
Midlands -8 730 £55,000 -7.76% 237
North West +31 690 £70,000 +7.69% 291
Yorkshire -3 524 £65,000 +153.66% 127
South West +1 496 £62,500 +4.17% 222
East of England +20 490 £60,000 -9.39% 166
West Midlands -5 457 £55,000 -4.35% 144
East Midlands -14 272 £52,500 -14.29% 93
Scotland -1 212 £70,000 +38.76% 93
North East -1 192 £65,000 +106.35% 53
Wales +19 131 £55,000 -19.12% 50
Northern Ireland +6 52 £72,500 +20.83% 23
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 (1.53%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.13%) Jupyter
3 43 (0.95%) CMS
4 32 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (0.71%) Confluence
5 29 (0.64%) WordPress
6 28 (0.62%) Apache Spark
7 25 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 23 (0.51%) Apache
9 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.089%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.066%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.066%) SAS
12 2 (0.044%) Apache Qpid
12 2 (0.044%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.044%) IIS
12 2 (0.044%) nginx
12 2 (0.044%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.022%) Moodle
13 1 (0.022%) WildFly
Applications
1 931 (20.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (1.75%) Chatbot
3 45 (1.00%) 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
8 10 (0.22%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.20%) Simulink
10 3 (0.066%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.066%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.044%) Trello
12 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.022%) Notion
12 1 (0.022%) Revit
12 1 (0.022%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (0.53%) Cloudability
2 14 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.24%) 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 (0.066%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.066%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.066%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.044%) Q-Pulse
8 2 (0.044%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.044%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.022%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.022%) Infor SunSystems
9 1 (0.022%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.022%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.022%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.022%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.022%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,953 (43.27%) Azure
2 1,371 (30.38%) Azure AI
3 1,108 (24.55%) Power Platform
4 580 (12.85%) AWS
5 255 (5.65%) SaaS
6 194 (4.30%) GCP
7 179 (3.97%) GitHub
8 176 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
9 168 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
10 127 (2.81%) Microsoft Copilot
11 121 (2.68%) Serverless
12 105 (2.33%) Adobe Analytics
13 74 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
14 73 (1.62%) Snowflake
15 71 (1.57%) Figma
16 67 (1.48%) Anthropic Claude
17 66 (1.46%) Power Automate
18 60 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
19 57 (1.26%) Amazon S3
19 57 (1.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 186 (4.12%) Broadband
2 54 (1.20%) Firewall
3 37 (0.82%) VPN
4 34 (0.75%) DNS
5 26 (0.58%) Internet
6 25 (0.55%) Network Security
7 20 (0.44%) Unified Communications
8 17 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.38%) VLAN
9 16 (0.35%) MQTT
10 15 (0.33%) DHCP
11 8 (0.18%) VoIP
11 8 (0.18%) Wireless
12 7 (0.16%) Intranet
13 6 (0.13%) HTTP
14 5 (0.11%) BGP
14 5 (0.11%) DMZ
14 5 (0.11%) OSPF
14 5 (0.11%) SNMP
14 5 (0.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,018 (22.56%) Power BI
2 923 (20.45%) Tableau
3 157 (3.48%) MongoDB
4 143 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 129 (2.86%) SQL Server
6 69 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
7 63 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (1.13%) Data Lake
9 48 (1.06%) Metadata
10 41 (0.91%) NoSQL
11 35 (0.78%) Relational Database
12 33 (0.73%) Redis
13 30 (0.66%) MySQL
14 29 (0.64%) Big Data
15 27 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
16 26 (0.58%) Looker
17 25 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
18 23 (0.51%) BigQuery
19 17 (0.38%) DynamoDB
19 17 (0.38%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 113 (2.50%) Git
2 54 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
3 43 (0.95%) JIRA
4 38 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 37 (0.82%) GitLab
6 33 (0.73%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.49%) Snyk
8 19 (0.42%) Postman
8 19 (0.42%) Selenium
9 17 (0.38%) MLflow
10 14 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.31%) JUnit
11 10 (0.22%) Maven
12 9 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
13 8 (0.18%) JMeter
14 7 (0.16%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.13%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.13%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.13%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.13%) Spock
General
1 1,862 (41.26%) Social Skills
2 579 (12.83%) Finance
3 330 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
4 300 (6.65%) Marketing
5 285 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 210 (4.65%) Games
7 182 (4.03%) Retail
8 153 (3.39%) Public Sector
9 138 (3.06%) Manufacturing
10 128 (2.84%) Legal
11 109 (2.42%) Law
12 88 (1.95%) Banking
12 88 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
13 72 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
14 50 (1.11%) Automotive
15 47 (1.04%) Advertising
16 41 (0.91%) Electronics
17 29 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
18 28 (0.62%) Aerospace
19 26 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,037 (22.98%) Analyst
2 886 (19.63%) Data Analyst
3 880 (19.50%) Junior
4 866 (19.19%) Junior Analyst
5 865 (19.17%) Junior Data Analyst
6 518 (11.48%) Senior
7 477 (10.57%) Developer
8 433 (9.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 417 (9.24%) Lead
10 258 (5.72%) Architect
11 239 (5.30%) Software Engineer
12 158 (3.50%) Data Engineer
13 146 (3.24%) .NET Developer
14 100 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
15 84 (1.86%) Senior Developer
16 83 (1.84%) Software Developer
17 81 (1.79%) Consultant
18 76 (1.68%) Data Scientist
19 75 (1.66%) Full-Stack Developer
20 71 (1.57%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 284 (6.29%) .NET
2 208 (4.61%) React
3 152 (3.37%) CSS
4 149 (3.30%) HTML
5 137 (3.04%) ASP.NET
6 133 (2.95%) .NET Core
7 132 (2.92%) ASP.NET Core
8 115 (2.55%) ML.NET
9 102 (2.26%) RESTful
10 101 (2.24%) Node.js
11 91 (2.02%) REST
12 88 (1.95%) Blazor
13 66 (1.46%) scikit-learn
14 65 (1.44%) Vue
15 57 (1.26%) NumPy
15 57 (1.26%) Pandas
16 55 (1.22%) AngularJS
17 54 (1.20%) Hugging Face
18 52 (1.15%) Matplotlib
19 51 (1.13%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 189 (4.19%) Cloud Native
2 179 (3.97%) Social Media
3 118 (2.61%) Product Ownership
4 109 (2.42%) AI Agents
4 109 (2.42%) Algorithms
5 102 (2.26%) Robotics
6 94 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 91 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
8 81 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 70 (1.55%) Mobile App
10 64 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 58 (1.29%) Low-Code
12 52 (1.15%) Data Centre
13 42 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
13 42 (0.93%) Virtual Team
14 40 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
14 40 (0.89%) Life Science
15 37 (0.82%) Driving Licence
16 35 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
17 34 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.48%) Windows
2 93 (2.06%) Linux
3 61 (1.35%) Android
4 43 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 42 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.49%) VMS
7 8 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.066%) Debian
10 3 (0.066%) Gentoo
11 2 (0.044%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.044%) Unix
11 2 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.022%) AIX
12 1 (0.022%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,073 (23.78%) Business Intelligence
2 759 (16.82%) Machine Learning
3 711 (15.75%) Agile
4 677 (15.00%) Analytics
5 545 (12.08%) CI/CD
6 502 (11.12%) Roadmaps
7 491 (10.88%) Software Engineering
8 475 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
9 430 (9.53%) DevOps
10 405 (8.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 387 (8.58%) Decision-Making
12 384 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 336 (7.45%) Mentoring
14 331 (7.33%) LLM
15 313 (6.94%) Full-Stack Development
16 282 (6.25%) Customer Experience
17 242 (5.36%) Cybersecurity
18 234 (5.19%) Generative AI
19 231 (5.12%) Data Science
20 218 (4.83%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1,908 (42.28%) Python
2 1,332 (29.51%) SQL
3 323 (7.16%) C#
4 276 (6.12%) JavaScript
5 153 (3.39%) TypeScript
6 151 (3.35%) Java
7 106 (2.35%) C++
8 74 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 61 (1.35%) Bash
10 38 (0.84%) Go
11 36 (0.80%) C
12 34 (0.75%) Bicep
13 29 (0.64%) Rust
14 26 (0.58%) R
15 24 (0.53%) PHP
16 20 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
17 19 (0.42%) Kotlin
18 17 (0.38%) Ruby
19 15 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 12 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,220 (27.03%) Azure Certification
2 340 (7.53%) Degree
3 201 (4.45%) Security Cleared
4 126 (2.79%) SC Cleared
5 98 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 90 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 70 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 66 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.17%) ACCA
9 53 (1.17%) CIMA
10 49 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 43 (0.95%) DBS Check
12 39 (0.86%) PhD
13 33 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 23 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.35%) CISSP
16 12 (0.27%) HNC
17 11 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
18 10 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (4.74%) Accessibility
2 169 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 115 (2.55%) GDPR
4 107 (2.37%) QA
5 61 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.04%) WCAG
7 42 (0.93%) GRC
8 41 (0.91%) SLA
9 38 (0.84%) NIST
10 26 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 22 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 21 (0.47%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 14 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 14 (0.31%) NCSC
14 11 (0.24%) PMO
15 10 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.20%) GxP
16 9 (0.20%) IFRS
16 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 197 (4.37%) Docker
2 59 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.44%) Firmware
6 17 (0.38%) vSphere
7 15 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.20%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.066%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 200 (4.43%) Kubernetes
2 152 (3.37%) Terraform
3 37 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (0.66%) Ansible
4 30 (0.66%) Grafana
5 23 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.22%) Podman
7 8 (0.18%) Kubeflow
7 8 (0.18%) Proxmox
8 7 (0.16%) Puppet
9 5 (0.11%) Functional Safety
9 5 (0.11%) Nagios
10 4 (0.089%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.089%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.089%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.089%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.066%) Argo
11 3 (0.066%) cPanel
11 3 (0.066%) Plesk
12 2 (0.044%) Istio
Vendors
1 1,549 (34.32%) Microsoft
2 158 (3.50%) Adobe
3 131 (2.90%) Google
4 105 (2.33%) Databricks
5 76 (1.68%) OpenAI
6 74 (1.64%) Cisco
6 74 (1.64%) Dell
7 51 (1.13%) Salesforce
7 51 (1.13%) ServiceNow
8 47 (1.04%) Oracle
9 43 (0.95%) Apple
10 33 (0.73%) VMware
11 31 (0.69%) SAP
12 29 (0.64%) HubSpot
13 26 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
13 26 (0.58%) Facebook
14 25 (0.55%) Sage
14 25 (0.55%) Tenable
15 22 (0.49%) Palo Alto
16 17 (0.38%) Foundry