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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 66 110
Rank change year-on-year +60 +44 +31
Permanent jobs citing AI 5,280 1,566 847
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 14.35% 3.27% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.08% 4.07% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 862 764 579
10th Percentile £24,570 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,764 £67,500 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +3.74% +8.44%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £103,750 £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 30,909 38,490 28,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 80.38% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 18,272 18,731 21,153
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £54,793 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.68% - -

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 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 14 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 +69 1,824 £57,500 - 549
South East +26 1,346 £52,500 -25.00% 865
North West +64 1,172 £57,500 +1.75% 342
Midlands +145 744 £62,500 -3.85% 304
Yorkshire +68 521 £72,500 +7.41% 168
Scotland +76 503 £70,000 +14.29% 127
East of England +97 479 £47,500 -44.12% 239
West Midlands +117 415 £65,000 - 217
East Midlands +119 327 £60,000 -29.41% 85
South West +39 327 £60,000 -7.69% 185
North East +62 131 £47,500 +18.75% 41
Wales +42 102 £55,000 -4.35% 52
Northern Ireland -16 24 £80,000 -8.57% 35
Channel Islands +9 6 - -
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 48 (0.91%) Apache Spark
2 39 (0.74%) SharePoint
3 28 (0.53%) CMS
4 26 (0.49%) Confluence
5 21 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.30%) Apache
7 14 (0.27%) WordPress
8 13 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
9 10 (0.19%) Apache Solr
9 10 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.15%) Camunda
10 8 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.11%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.076%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.057%) Drupal
13 3 (0.057%) Joomla!
13 3 (0.057%) Kentico
13 3 (0.057%) Kinematics
13 3 (0.057%) SAS
14 2 (0.038%) CICS
Applications
1 1,508 (28.56%) Chatbot
2 84 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.19%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
7 6 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.095%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.095%) Simulink
9 4 (0.076%) InDesign
10 3 (0.057%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.057%) Notion
10 3 (0.057%) S-PLUS
11 2 (0.038%) Weka
12 1 (0.019%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.019%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.019%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 28 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.27%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (0.15%) Shopify
5 3 (0.057%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.038%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.038%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.038%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.038%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.019%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.019%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.019%) Magento
7 1 (0.019%) Maximo
7 1 (0.019%) Odoo
7 1 (0.019%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.019%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.019%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,338 (25.34%) Cloud Computing
2 459 (8.69%) Azure
3 328 (6.21%) AWS
4 196 (3.71%) Power Platform
5 147 (2.78%) SaaS
6 134 (2.54%) GCP
7 113 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
8 105 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
9 68 (1.29%) GitHub
10 55 (1.04%) Snowflake
11 46 (0.87%) GitHub Copilot
12 43 (0.81%) Entra ID
13 42 (0.80%) Azure AI
13 42 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
14 41 (0.78%) Amazon S3
15 40 (0.76%) Power Automate
16 39 (0.74%) Serverless
17 34 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
18 31 (0.59%) Vertex AI
19 30 (0.57%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,343 (25.44%) Internet
2 22 (0.42%) Unified Communications
3 15 (0.28%) VoIP
4 14 (0.27%) Firewall
5 9 (0.17%) Network Security
6 8 (0.15%) Telepresence
6 8 (0.15%) VPN
6 8 (0.15%) WebEx
7 6 (0.11%) Broadband
7 6 (0.11%) DNS
7 6 (0.11%) SAN
8 5 (0.095%) Bluetooth
8 5 (0.095%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.095%) WAN
9 4 (0.076%) Intranet
9 4 (0.076%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.076%) Modbus
9 4 (0.076%) VLAN
9 4 (0.076%) Wireless
9 4 (0.076%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (2.50%) Power BI
2 84 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
3 70 (1.33%) SQL Server
4 62 (1.17%) NoSQL
4 62 (1.17%) Tableau
5 49 (0.93%) Metadata
6 45 (0.85%) MongoDB
7 44 (0.83%) MySQL
8 40 (0.76%) Big Data
9 38 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
10 37 (0.70%) Data Lake
11 29 (0.55%) DynamoDB
12 24 (0.45%) Data Mining
13 22 (0.42%) Hadoop
13 22 (0.42%) Spark SQL
14 21 (0.40%) Delta Lake
15 20 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
16 18 (0.34%) Relational Database
17 15 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
17 15 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (1.33%) JIRA
2 58 (1.10%) Git
3 29 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 19 (0.36%) MLflow
5 14 (0.27%) JUnit
6 13 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.23%) Selenium
7 12 (0.23%) TeamCity
8 10 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
9 9 (0.17%) Maven
10 7 (0.13%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.11%) GitLab
12 5 (0.095%) Burp Suite
12 5 (0.095%) Gradle
13 4 (0.076%) GitBook
13 4 (0.076%) Locust
13 4 (0.076%) Metasploit
14 3 (0.057%) Visual Website Optimizer
15 2 (0.038%) Jasmine
15 2 (0.038%) Vite
General
1 2,060 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 1,728 (32.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,433 (27.14%) Banking
4 1,042 (19.73%) Analytical Skills
5 608 (11.52%) Finance
6 554 (10.49%) Retail
7 478 (9.05%) Manufacturing
8 323 (6.12%) Marketing
9 302 (5.72%) Law
10 148 (2.80%) Public Sector
11 128 (2.42%) Legal
12 96 (1.82%) Dutch Language
12 96 (1.82%) Finnish Language
12 96 (1.82%) Norwegian Language
13 53 (1.00%) Aviation
14 48 (0.91%) Catalan Language
15 46 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
16 39 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
17 38 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
18 36 (0.68%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,900 (35.98%) Trainer
2 1,099 (20.81%) Lecturer
3 228 (4.32%) Senior
4 200 (3.79%) Software Engineer
5 190 (3.60%) Developer
6 185 (3.50%) Lead
7 175 (3.31%) Content Editor
8 129 (2.44%) Architect
9 99 (1.88%) Customer Support Specialist
9 99 (1.88%) Support Specialist
10 97 (1.84%) Innovation Manager
11 95 (1.80%) Research Scientist
12 91 (1.72%) Analyst
13 83 (1.57%) Java Engineer
14 71 (1.34%) Java Software Engineer
15 67 (1.27%) Business Manager
16 64 (1.21%) Sales Executive
17 63 (1.19%) Microsoft Specialist
18 56 (1.06%) Systems Manager
19 54 (1.02%) Business Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (2.03%) React
2 94 (1.78%) HTML
3 83 (1.57%) .NET
4 81 (1.53%) Spring
5 65 (1.23%) Kafka
6 62 (1.17%) REST
7 59 (1.12%) PyTorch
8 58 (1.10%) RESTful
8 58 (1.10%) TensorFlow
9 47 (0.89%) Spring Boot
10 42 (0.80%) PySpark
11 40 (0.76%) AngularJS
12 39 (0.74%) scikit-learn
13 38 (0.72%) Node.js
14 35 (0.66%) Pandas
15 33 (0.63%) NumPy
16 32 (0.61%) CSS
17 27 (0.51%) Hugging Face
18 22 (0.42%) Blazor
18 22 (0.42%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 1,356 (25.68%) IoT
2 531 (10.06%) Robotics
3 135 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 118 (2.23%) Algorithms
5 116 (2.20%) Molecular Biology
6 91 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 76 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 68 (1.29%) AI Agents
9 56 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 50 (0.95%) Virtual Team
11 49 (0.93%) Blog
11 49 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
12 44 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
13 42 (0.80%) Life Science
14 41 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
14 41 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
15 38 (0.72%) Data Centre
15 38 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
16 33 (0.63%) Social Media
17 32 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 50 (0.95%) Windows
2 43 (0.81%) Linux
3 38 (0.72%) Unix
4 25 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.44%) Android
6 20 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.076%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.038%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.038%) zOS
11 1 (0.019%) Debian
11 1 (0.019%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.019%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.019%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.019%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,414 (45.72%) Machine Learning
2 1,512 (28.64%) Conversational UI
3 1,462 (27.69%) Cybersecurity
4 1,450 (27.46%) User Experience
5 1,343 (25.44%) Web Development
6 736 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
7 630 (11.93%) Generative AI
8 611 (11.57%) Chemistry
9 600 (11.36%) LLM
10 564 (10.68%) Agile
11 505 (9.56%) Analytics
12 443 (8.39%) Data Privacy
13 432 (8.18%) Red Team
14 417 (7.90%) Continuous Improvement
15 386 (7.31%) Decision-Making
16 374 (7.08%) Software Engineering
17 327 (6.19%) CI/CD
18 318 (6.02%) Roadmaps
19 297 (5.63%) Computer Science
20 267 (5.06%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 445 (8.43%) Python
2 352 (6.67%) SQL
3 229 (4.34%) Java
4 154 (2.92%) JavaScript
5 127 (2.41%) TypeScript
6 108 (2.05%) C#
7 83 (1.57%) C++
8 73 (1.38%) R
9 66 (1.25%) C
10 64 (1.21%) PowerShell
11 60 (1.14%) MATLAB
11 60 (1.14%) PHP
12 55 (1.04%) Rust
13 51 (0.97%) Ruby
14 48 (0.91%) Dart
15 37 (0.70%) Bash
16 20 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 20 (0.38%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.36%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3,667 (69.45%) Degree
2 2,284 (43.26%) Master's Degree
3 2,247 (42.56%) PhD
4 1,337 (25.32%) Postgraduate
5 160 (3.03%) Security Cleared
6 141 (2.67%) SC Cleared
7 115 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (0.51%) AWS Certification
10 20 (0.38%) Azure Certification
11 18 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (0.32%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 16 (0.30%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.30%) PMP
14 13 (0.25%) HNC
15 12 (0.23%) ACCA
15 12 (0.23%) DV Cleared
15 12 (0.23%) HND
16 9 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
17 8 (0.15%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (1.14%) Data Quality
2 40 (0.76%) Accessibility
3 36 (0.68%) QA
4 34 (0.64%) GDPR
5 30 (0.57%) GxP
6 22 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.27%) PMO
8 13 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (0.23%) SLA
10 11 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.21%) NIST
11 10 (0.19%) CDISC
11 10 (0.19%) HL7
12 9 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.13%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.095%) ISO 13485
15 4 (0.076%) GRC
15 4 (0.076%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 4 (0.076%) NCSC
15 4 (0.076%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 101 (1.91%) Docker
2 22 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
3 18 (0.34%) Active Directory
4 17 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.15%) HDFS
6 8 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.11%) vSphere
8 4 (0.076%) Firmware
9 3 (0.057%) Apache Flume
9 3 (0.057%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.038%) Ceph
10 2 (0.038%) Lustre
10 2 (0.038%) RACF
11 1 (0.019%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 117 (2.22%) Terraform
2 104 (1.97%) Kubernetes
3 39 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (0.45%) Grafana
5 19 (0.36%) Kubeflow
6 18 (0.34%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.23%) Ansible
7 12 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (0.15%) SCCM
9 4 (0.076%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.076%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.076%) Nessus
9 4 (0.076%) Netcool
9 4 (0.076%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 4 (0.076%) Nmap
9 4 (0.076%) Tivoli
10 3 (0.057%) Functional Safety
10 3 (0.057%) Kibana
10 3 (0.057%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,469 (27.82%) PayPal
2 530 (10.04%) Google
3 511 (9.68%) Databricks
4 478 (9.05%) Adobe
5 468 (8.86%) Microsoft
6 108 (2.05%) Cisco
7 89 (1.69%) Oracle
8 71 (1.34%) Dell
9 50 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 37 (0.70%) IBM
10 37 (0.70%) Salesforce
11 33 (0.63%) Red Hat
12 32 (0.61%) Apple
12 32 (0.61%) Blue Prism
13 27 (0.51%) Palo Alto
14 25 (0.47%) Splunk
15 23 (0.44%) SAP
15 23 (0.44%) ServiceNow
16 22 (0.42%) HubSpot
16 22 (0.42%) VMware