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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 50
Rank change year-on-year -1 +36 +116
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,328 3,065 3,376
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.48% 10.34% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.30% 11.33% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,076 759 1,338
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £36,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -13.32%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,500 £80,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,250 £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 46,534 27,049 62,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.62% 91.22% 80.16%
Number of salaries quoted 32,483 13,690 43,706
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,984 £32,876 £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% -9.69%

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 14 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 14 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 +12 1,337 £67,500 +22.73% 501
South East +2 1,001 £60,000 +20.00% 628
Midlands -7 712 £55,000 -4.35% 199
North West +29 656 £72,500 +11.54% 302
Yorkshire -6 502 £65,000 +153.66% 150
East of England +24 470 £59,450 -10.22% 154
South West 0 465 £60,000 - 227
West Midlands -5 449 £55,000 -4.35% 128
East Midlands -13 262 £52,500 -8.82% 69
Scotland +2 206 £70,000 +38.76% 66
North East +2 179 £65,000 +52.94% 51
Wales +20 115 £53,585 -22.34% 36
Northern Ireland +10 52 £72,500 - 40
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 66 (1.52%) 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 (0.49%) Apache
9 16 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.14%) IIS
10 6 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.092%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.069%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.046%) Apache Qpid
13 2 (0.046%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.046%) nginx
13 2 (0.046%) SAS
14 1 (0.023%) Moodle
14 1 (0.023%) Umbraco
Applications
1 935 (21.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (1.80%) Chatbot
3 49 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (0.76%) 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 1,879 (43.41%) Azure
2 1,331 (30.75%) Azure AI
3 1,087 (25.12%) Power Platform
4 555 (12.82%) AWS
5 238 (5.50%) SaaS
6 181 (4.18%) GCP
7 156 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
8 148 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
9 144 (3.33%) GitHub
10 114 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
11 106 (2.45%) Adobe Analytics
12 102 (2.36%) Serverless
13 74 (1.71%) Figma
14 73 (1.69%) Snowflake
15 64 (1.48%) GitHub Copilot
16 60 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
17 59 (1.36%) Anthropic Claude
18 57 (1.32%) Power Automate
19 54 (1.25%) Entra ID
20 50 (1.16%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 186 (4.30%) 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 18 (0.42%) 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%) Wireless
14 6 (0.14%) DMZ
14 6 (0.14%) HTTP
14 6 (0.14%) Intranet
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 (23.24%) Power BI
2 925 (21.37%) Tableau
3 130 (3.00%) MongoDB
4 121 (2.80%) SQL Server
5 105 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 61 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 60 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (1.13%) Data Lake
9 44 (1.02%) NoSQL
10 43 (0.99%) Metadata
11 33 (0.76%) Big Data
12 31 (0.72%) Relational Database
13 29 (0.67%) Redis
14 26 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
14 26 (0.60%) Looker
15 25 (0.58%) MySQL
16 23 (0.53%) BigQuery
17 22 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
18 15 (0.35%) DynamoDB
19 14 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 96 (2.22%) Git
2 53 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
3 40 (0.92%) JIRA
4 33 (0.76%) GitLab
5 31 (0.72%) Jenkins
6 29 (0.67%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.51%) Snyk
8 18 (0.42%) MLflow
9 17 (0.39%) Postman
10 16 (0.37%) Selenium
11 15 (0.35%) JUnit
12 13 (0.30%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.23%) Maven
14 9 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
15 8 (0.18%) Visual Studio
16 7 (0.16%) JMeter
17 6 (0.14%) Cucumber
17 6 (0.14%) REST Assured
17 6 (0.14%) SpecFlow
17 6 (0.14%) Spock
General
1 1,814 (41.91%) Social Skills
2 543 (12.55%) Finance
3 331 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
4 289 (6.68%) Marketing
5 285 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 209 (4.83%) Games
7 173 (4.00%) Retail
8 131 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 129 (2.98%) Legal
10 125 (2.89%) Manufacturing
11 99 (2.29%) Law
12 89 (2.06%) Banking
13 84 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
14 62 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
15 50 (1.16%) Automotive
16 39 (0.90%) Electronics
17 38 (0.88%) Advertising
18 29 (0.67%) Telecoms
19 26 (0.60%) Aerospace
19 26 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,027 (23.73%) Analyst
2 882 (20.38%) Data Analyst
3 880 (20.33%) Junior
4 866 (20.01%) Junior Analyst
5 865 (19.99%) Junior Data Analyst
6 475 (10.98%) Senior
7 426 (9.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 422 (9.75%) Developer
9 392 (9.06%) Lead
10 235 (5.43%) Architect
11 212 (4.90%) Software Engineer
12 147 (3.40%) Data Engineer
13 117 (2.70%) .NET Developer
14 90 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
15 77 (1.78%) Software Developer
16 74 (1.71%) Consultant
16 74 (1.71%) Senior Developer
17 72 (1.66%) Full-Stack Developer
18 70 (1.62%) Designer
19 69 (1.59%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (5.73%) .NET
2 192 (4.44%) React
3 128 (2.96%) CSS
4 125 (2.89%) HTML
5 107 (2.47%) ASP.NET
6 105 (2.43%) .NET Core
7 102 (2.36%) ASP.NET Core
8 93 (2.15%) Node.js
9 89 (2.06%) REST
10 88 (2.03%) RESTful
11 87 (2.01%) ML.NET
12 72 (1.66%) Blazor
13 66 (1.52%) scikit-learn
14 59 (1.36%) Vue
15 58 (1.34%) NumPy
15 58 (1.34%) Pandas
16 56 (1.29%) AngularJS
17 54 (1.25%) Hugging Face
18 52 (1.20%) Matplotlib
19 50 (1.16%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 177 (4.09%) Social Media
2 171 (3.95%) Cloud Native
3 116 (2.68%) Product Ownership
4 108 (2.50%) Algorithms
4 108 (2.50%) Robotics
5 98 (2.26%) AI Agents
5 98 (2.26%) Onboarding
6 93 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
7 73 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 67 (1.55%) Mobile App
9 64 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 60 (1.39%) Low-Code
11 50 (1.16%) Data Centre
12 49 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
13 45 (1.04%) Life Science
14 37 (0.85%) Virtual Team
15 35 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
16 34 (0.79%) Driving Licence
17 31 (0.72%) Public Cloud
18 28 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 92 (2.13%) Windows
2 86 (1.99%) 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 1,063 (24.56%) Business Intelligence
2 701 (16.20%) Machine Learning
3 668 (15.43%) Agile
4 640 (14.79%) Analytics
5 491 (11.34%) CI/CD
6 471 (10.88%) Roadmaps
7 456 (10.54%) Software Engineering
8 439 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
9 397 (9.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 390 (9.01%) DevOps
11 349 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 349 (8.06%) Decision-Making
12 322 (7.44%) LLM
13 293 (6.77%) Mentoring
14 281 (6.49%) Full-Stack Development
15 278 (6.42%) Customer Experience
16 230 (5.31%) Cybersecurity
16 230 (5.31%) Data Science
17 220 (5.08%) Generative AI
18 194 (4.48%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1,888 (43.62%) Python
2 1,270 (29.34%) SQL
3 279 (6.45%) C#
4 244 (5.64%) JavaScript
5 151 (3.49%) Java
6 135 (3.12%) TypeScript
7 90 (2.08%) C++
8 59 (1.36%) PowerShell
9 48 (1.11%) Bash
10 35 (0.81%) C
11 34 (0.79%) Go
12 31 (0.72%) R
13 24 (0.55%) Rust
14 22 (0.51%) Bicep
14 22 (0.51%) PHP
15 17 (0.39%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 15 (0.35%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.30%) Ruby
18 13 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,211 (27.98%) Azure Certification
2 324 (7.49%) Degree
3 183 (4.23%) Security Cleared
4 111 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 106 (2.45%) AWS Certification
6 78 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 69 (1.59%) DV Cleared
7 69 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 51 (1.18%) ACCA
8 51 (1.18%) CIMA
9 49 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 43 (0.99%) DBS Check
11 41 (0.95%) PhD
12 31 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (0.35%) CISSP
14 13 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.28%) HNC
16 11 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
17 10 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
18 8 (0.18%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (4.81%) Accessibility
2 155 (3.58%) Data Quality
3 107 (2.47%) GDPR
4 100 (2.31%) QA
5 57 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.09%) WCAG
7 41 (0.95%) GRC
8 39 (0.90%) NIST
9 34 (0.79%) 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%) GxP
16 11 (0.25%) PMO
17 10 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
17 10 (0.23%) SOC 2
18 9 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 166 (3.84%) 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
1 172 (3.97%) Kubernetes
2 131 (3.03%) Terraform
3 34 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (0.65%) Grafana
5 27 (0.62%) Ansible
6 21 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.18%) Podman
7 8 (0.18%) Proxmox
7 8 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.16%) Kubeflow
9 6 (0.14%) Puppet
10 5 (0.12%) Functional Safety
10 5 (0.12%) Nagios
11 4 (0.092%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.092%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.092%) SolarWinds Orion
11 4 (0.092%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.069%) Argo
13 2 (0.046%) cPanel
13 2 (0.046%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,497 (34.59%) Microsoft
2 169 (3.90%) Adobe
3 115 (2.66%) Google
4 104 (2.40%) Databricks
5 74 (1.71%) Dell
6 70 (1.62%) Cisco
7 69 (1.59%) OpenAI
8 53 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 51 (1.18%) Apple
10 49 (1.13%) ServiceNow
11 46 (1.06%) Oracle
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 14 (0.32%) Splunk