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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 50
Rank change year-on-year -4 +38 +117
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,772 3,272 3,196
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.76% 9.82% 4.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.57% 11.06% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,442 813 1,287
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,939 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,908 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £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 49,875 29,577 59,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.70% 88.77% 80.32%
Number of salaries quoted 35,066 15,786 41,368
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,959 £32,951 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,274 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 9 July 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in the UK excluding London

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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 9 July 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 +14 1,482 £67,500 +26.42% 596
South East -2 1,084 £60,000 +33.33% 777
Midlands -8 753 £55,000 -7.76% 272
North West +31 733 £70,000 +20.69% 372
Yorkshire 0 543 £65,000 +114.43% 150
South West +3 532 £62,500 +4.17% 719
East of England +18 499 £60,000 -9.38% 193
West Midlands -5 473 £57,500 - 178
East Midlands -17 279 £52,500 -14.29% 92
Scotland -2 224 £70,000 +7.69% 139
North East -2 206 £65,000 +106.35% 77
Wales +20 149 £60,000 -10.45% 48
Northern Ireland -3 79 £74,830 -14.48% 73
AI
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 80 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.07%) Jupyter
3 45 (0.94%) CMS
4 35 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (0.69%) Confluence
6 29 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 29 (0.61%) WordPress
7 27 (0.57%) Apache
7 27 (0.57%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.084%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.084%) SAS
10 3 (0.063%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.042%) Apache Qpid
11 2 (0.042%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.042%) IIS
11 2 (0.042%) nginx
11 2 (0.042%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.021%) Moodle
12 1 (0.021%) Umbraco
Applications
1 938 (19.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (1.89%) Chatbot
3 48 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
5 17 (0.36%) Photoshop
6 15 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.31%) UserZoom
7 13 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
7 13 (0.27%) InDesign
8 11 (0.23%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.19%) Simulink
10 3 (0.063%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.063%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.042%) Trello
12 1 (0.021%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.021%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (0.50%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.17%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.17%) Sage 50
5 7 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.084%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.084%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.063%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.063%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.063%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.042%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.042%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.021%) Infor SunSystems
9 1 (0.021%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.021%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.021%) Primavera
9 1 (0.021%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.021%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.021%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,067 (43.32%) Azure
2 1,416 (29.67%) Azure AI
3 1,135 (23.78%) Power Platform
4 615 (12.89%) AWS
5 266 (5.57%) SaaS
6 209 (4.38%) GitHub
7 208 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
8 205 (4.30%) GCP
9 182 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
10 138 (2.89%) Microsoft Copilot
11 128 (2.68%) Serverless
12 105 (2.20%) Adobe Analytics
13 95 (1.99%) GitHub Copilot
14 89 (1.87%) Entra ID
15 80 (1.68%) Snowflake
16 74 (1.55%) Anthropic Claude
17 73 (1.53%) Power Automate
18 69 (1.45%) Figma
19 64 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
20 60 (1.26%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 186 (3.90%) Broadband
2 56 (1.17%) Firewall
3 39 (0.82%) VPN
4 36 (0.75%) Internet
5 35 (0.73%) DNS
6 25 (0.52%) Network Security
7 18 (0.38%) VLAN
8 17 (0.36%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.36%) Unified Communications
9 16 (0.34%) DHCP
9 16 (0.34%) MQTT
10 15 (0.31%) VoIP
11 10 (0.21%) Wireless
12 8 (0.17%) CTI
13 7 (0.15%) BGP
13 7 (0.15%) DMZ
13 7 (0.15%) Intranet
13 7 (0.15%) WAN
14 6 (0.13%) HTTP
14 6 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,032 (21.63%) Power BI
2 925 (19.38%) Tableau
3 202 (4.23%) MongoDB
4 178 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 135 (2.83%) SQL Server
6 73 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
7 66 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
8 55 (1.15%) Data Lake
9 51 (1.07%) Metadata
10 49 (1.03%) NoSQL
11 39 (0.82%) Relational Database
12 34 (0.71%) Redis
13 31 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
13 31 (0.65%) Big Data
13 31 (0.65%) MySQL
14 26 (0.54%) Looker
15 23 (0.48%) BigQuery
15 23 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
16 19 (0.40%) DynamoDB
17 18 (0.38%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 124 (2.60%) Git
2 54 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
3 50 (1.05%) JIRA
4 44 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 40 (0.84%) GitLab
6 35 (0.73%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.46%) Snyk
8 19 (0.40%) Postman
8 19 (0.40%) Selenium
9 17 (0.36%) MLflow
10 16 (0.34%) JUnit
11 14 (0.29%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.23%) Maven
13 9 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
13 9 (0.19%) JMeter
14 8 (0.17%) Spock
15 7 (0.15%) Visual Studio
16 6 (0.13%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.13%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,942 (40.70%) Social Skills
2 614 (12.87%) Finance
3 351 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
4 315 (6.60%) Marketing
5 295 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 210 (4.40%) Games
7 192 (4.02%) Retail
8 174 (3.65%) Public Sector
9 159 (3.33%) Legal
10 148 (3.10%) Manufacturing
11 144 (3.02%) Law
12 92 (1.93%) Banking
13 91 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
14 80 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
15 58 (1.22%) Advertising
16 51 (1.07%) Automotive
17 40 (0.84%) Electronics
18 30 (0.63%) Aerospace
19 29 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
20 28 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,049 (21.98%) Analyst
2 891 (18.67%) Data Analyst
3 881 (18.46%) Junior
4 866 (18.15%) Junior Analyst
5 865 (18.13%) Junior Data Analyst
6 586 (12.28%) Senior
7 541 (11.34%) Developer
8 445 (9.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 433 (9.07%) Lead
10 302 (6.33%) Architect
11 258 (5.41%) Software Engineer
12 187 (3.92%) .NET Developer
13 173 (3.63%) Data Engineer
14 110 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
15 94 (1.97%) Senior Developer
16 90 (1.89%) Software Developer
17 83 (1.74%) Senior Manager
18 82 (1.72%) Consultant
19 81 (1.70%) Data Scientist
20 79 (1.66%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (6.83%) .NET
2 235 (4.92%) React
3 179 (3.75%) ASP.NET
4 178 (3.73%) CSS
5 174 (3.65%) HTML
6 173 (3.63%) ASP.NET Core
7 164 (3.44%) .NET Core
8 154 (3.23%) ML.NET
9 127 (2.66%) RESTful
10 114 (2.39%) Blazor
11 106 (2.22%) Node.js
12 98 (2.05%) REST
13 67 (1.40%) Vue
14 65 (1.36%) scikit-learn
15 58 (1.22%) AngularJS
16 56 (1.17%) NumPy
16 56 (1.17%) Pandas
17 54 (1.13%) Hugging Face
18 51 (1.07%) Kafka
18 51 (1.07%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 203 (4.25%) Cloud Native
2 184 (3.86%) Social Media
3 131 (2.75%) AI Agents
4 122 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 109 (2.28%) Algorithms
6 103 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
7 102 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 102 (2.14%) Robotics
8 88 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
9 74 (1.55%) Mobile App
10 71 (1.49%) Management Information System
11 57 (1.19%) Data Centre
12 56 (1.17%) Low-Code
13 50 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
14 46 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
15 42 (0.88%) Virtual Team
16 38 (0.80%) Driving Licence
17 36 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
17 36 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
18 35 (0.73%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 121 (2.54%) Windows
2 105 (2.20%) Linux
3 64 (1.34%) Android
4 45 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 42 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 23 (0.48%) VMS
7 8 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.10%) Debian
9 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.063%) Gentoo
10 3 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.042%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.042%) Unix
12 1 (0.021%) AIX
12 1 (0.021%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.021%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,091 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
2 819 (17.16%) Machine Learning
3 774 (16.22%) Agile
4 712 (14.92%) Analytics
5 591 (12.38%) CI/CD
6 531 (11.13%) Roadmaps
7 523 (10.96%) Software Engineering
8 519 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
9 483 (10.12%) DevOps
10 434 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 411 (8.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 404 (8.47%) Decision-Making
13 381 (7.98%) Mentoring
14 365 (7.65%) Full-Stack Development
15 359 (7.52%) LLM
16 292 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
17 291 (6.10%) Customer Experience
18 241 (5.05%) Generative AI
19 239 (5.01%) Data Science
20 235 (4.92%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1,951 (40.88%) Python
2 1,392 (29.17%) SQL
3 375 (7.86%) C#
4 319 (6.68%) JavaScript
5 170 (3.56%) TypeScript
6 165 (3.46%) Java
7 117 (2.45%) C++
8 77 (1.61%) PowerShell
9 61 (1.28%) Bash
10 41 (0.86%) C
10 41 (0.86%) Go
11 35 (0.73%) Bicep
12 33 (0.69%) Rust
13 26 (0.54%) PHP
14 22 (0.46%) R
15 20 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
16 19 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 18 (0.38%) Ruby
18 17 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 12 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,220 (25.57%) Azure Certification
2 357 (7.48%) Degree
3 225 (4.72%) Security Cleared
4 141 (2.95%) SC Cleared
5 102 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 101 (2.12%) AWS Certification
7 77 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 68 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 55 (1.15%) ACCA
9 55 (1.15%) CIMA
10 49 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 44 (0.92%) CISSP
12 43 (0.90%) DBS Check
13 36 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 36 (0.75%) PhD
14 35 (0.73%) CISM
15 31 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
16 28 (0.59%) A+ Certification
17 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (0.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (4.61%) Accessibility
2 178 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 118 (2.47%) GDPR
4 110 (2.31%) QA
5 64 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (0.96%) WCAG
7 43 (0.90%) GRC
8 41 (0.86%) SLA
9 38 (0.80%) NIST
10 26 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 24 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 24 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 15 (0.31%) NCSC
13 14 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 11 (0.23%) PMO
15 10 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.19%) IFRS
16 9 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 228 (4.78%) Docker
2 90 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.44%) Firmware
6 17 (0.36%) vSphere
7 16 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.19%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.063%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 228 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 166 (3.48%) Terraform
3 67 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (0.73%) Ansible
5 32 (0.67%) Grafana
6 24 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.21%) Podman
8 9 (0.19%) Puppet
9 8 (0.17%) Kubeflow
9 8 (0.17%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
11 5 (0.10%) Functional Safety
11 5 (0.10%) Nagios
11 5 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.084%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.084%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.063%) Argo
13 3 (0.063%) cPanel
13 3 (0.063%) Plesk
14 2 (0.042%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,656 (34.70%) Microsoft
2 162 (3.39%) Adobe
3 147 (3.08%) Google
4 108 (2.26%) Databricks
5 85 (1.78%) Cisco
6 84 (1.76%) OpenAI
7 74 (1.55%) Dell
8 55 (1.15%) Salesforce
9 53 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 51 (1.07%) Oracle
11 49 (1.03%) Apple
12 37 (0.78%) Facebook
13 35 (0.73%) VMware
14 34 (0.71%) SAP
15 28 (0.59%) HubSpot
15 28 (0.59%) Sage
16 27 (0.57%) CyberArk
17 26 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
18 25 (0.52%) Tenable
19 22 (0.46%) Palo Alto