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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 49
Rank change year-on-year -1 +35 +122
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,342 3,082 3,375
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.47% 10.35% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.29% 11.35% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,102 762 1,335
10th Percentile £34,000 £24,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £35,000 £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 £73,971 £80,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,295 £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 46,733 27,143 63,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.63% 91.16% 79.93%
Number of salaries quoted 32,679 13,759 43,887
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £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 16 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 16 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 1,344 £67,500 +22.73% 1,265
South East -1 994 £60,000 +20.00% 1,403
Midlands -7 715 £55,000 -4.35% 698
North West +31 662 £72,500 +11.54% 651
Yorkshire -5 503 £65,000 +153.66% 410
East of England +22 473 £59,450 -10.22% 753
South West +1 472 £60,750 +1.25% 535
West Midlands -5 450 £55,000 -4.35% 351
East Midlands -14 264 £52,500 -8.82% 345
Scotland 0 207 £70,000 +38.76% 569
North East 0 179 £65,000 +75.68% 206
Wales +16 115 £53,585 -22.34% 298
Northern Ireland +11 52 £72,500 - 365
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 (1.47%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.17%) Jupyter
3 41 (0.94%) CMS
4 31 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 29 (0.67%) Confluence
6 27 (0.62%) WordPress
7 22 (0.51%) Apache
8 18 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.092%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.092%) IIS
11 3 (0.069%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.046%) Apache Qpid
12 2 (0.046%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.046%) nginx
12 2 (0.046%) SAS
13 1 (0.023%) Moodle
13 1 (0.023%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 931 (21.44%) 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%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.023%) Primavera
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 1,889 (43.51%) Azure
2 1,335 (30.75%) Azure AI
3 1,088 (25.06%) Power Platform
4 555 (12.78%) AWS
5 239 (5.50%) SaaS
6 184 (4.24%) GCP
7 157 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
8 150 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 150 (3.45%) GitHub
9 113 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
10 106 (2.44%) Adobe Analytics
11 105 (2.42%) Serverless
12 74 (1.70%) Figma
13 71 (1.64%) Snowflake
14 68 (1.57%) GitHub Copilot
15 61 (1.40%) Anthropic Claude
16 60 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
17 56 (1.29%) Power Automate
18 55 (1.27%) Entra ID
19 50 (1.15%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 187 (4.31%) Broadband
2 48 (1.11%) Firewall
3 29 (0.67%) DNS
4 28 (0.64%) 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 1,007 (23.19%) Power BI
2 925 (21.30%) Tableau
3 133 (3.06%) MongoDB
4 121 (2.79%) SQL Server
5 111 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 62 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
7 60 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (1.13%) Data Lake
9 43 (0.99%) Metadata
10 42 (0.97%) NoSQL
11 32 (0.74%) Relational Database
12 31 (0.71%) Big Data
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
1 101 (2.33%) Git
2 53 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
3 40 (0.92%) JIRA
4 35 (0.81%) GitLab
5 33 (0.76%) Jenkins
6 30 (0.69%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.51%) Snyk
8 18 (0.41%) MLflow
8 18 (0.41%) 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 1,821 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 546 (12.57%) Finance
3 328 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 289 (6.66%) Marketing
5 279 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 209 (4.81%) Games
7 174 (4.01%) Retail
8 132 (3.04%) Public Sector
9 127 (2.92%) Legal
10 125 (2.88%) Manufacturing
11 100 (2.30%) 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 28 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
20 25 (0.58%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,026 (23.63%) Analyst
2 882 (20.31%) Data Analyst
3 880 (20.27%) Junior
4 866 (19.94%) Junior Analyst
5 865 (19.92%) Junior Data Analyst
6 479 (11.03%) Senior
7 429 (9.88%) Developer
8 427 (9.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 393 (9.05%) Lead
10 236 (5.44%) Architect
11 213 (4.91%) Software Engineer
12 150 (3.45%) Data Engineer
13 120 (2.76%) .NET Developer
14 90 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
15 77 (1.77%) Software Developer
16 75 (1.73%) Consultant
16 75 (1.73%) Senior Developer
17 73 (1.68%) Full-Stack Developer
18 70 (1.61%) Designer
19 69 (1.59%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (5.83%) .NET
2 192 (4.42%) React
3 131 (3.02%) CSS
4 128 (2.95%) HTML
5 110 (2.53%) ASP.NET
6 108 (2.49%) .NET Core
7 105 (2.42%) ASP.NET Core
8 93 (2.14%) Node.js
9 90 (2.07%) ML.NET
10 89 (2.05%) RESTful
11 88 (2.03%) REST
12 72 (1.66%) Blazor
13 68 (1.57%) scikit-learn
14 59 (1.36%) Vue
15 58 (1.34%) NumPy
15 58 (1.34%) Pandas
16 56 (1.29%) AngularJS
17 54 (1.24%) Hugging Face
18 53 (1.22%) Matplotlib
19 50 (1.15%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 177 (4.08%) Social Media
2 176 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 117 (2.69%) Product Ownership
4 107 (2.46%) Algorithms
5 106 (2.44%) Robotics
6 99 (2.28%) AI Agents
7 91 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
7 91 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 76 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 67 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 63 (1.45%) Management Information System
11 59 (1.36%) Low-Code
12 50 (1.15%) Data Centre
13 47 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
14 41 (0.94%) Life Science
15 39 (0.90%) Virtual Team
16 37 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
17 34 (0.78%) Driving Licence
18 29 (0.67%) Public Cloud
19 28 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 96 (2.21%) Windows
2 86 (1.98%) Linux
3 55 (1.27%) Android
4 39 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 36 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.37%) 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 (24.46%) Business Intelligence
2 706 (16.26%) Machine Learning
3 669 (15.41%) Agile
4 637 (14.67%) Analytics
5 500 (11.52%) CI/CD
6 469 (10.80%) Roadmaps
7 460 (10.59%) Software Engineering
8 441 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
9 398 (9.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 395 (9.10%) DevOps
11 353 (8.13%) Decision-Making
12 352 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 323 (7.44%) LLM
14 300 (6.91%) Mentoring
15 285 (6.56%) Full-Stack Development
16 280 (6.45%) Customer Experience
17 227 (5.23%) Data Science
18 225 (5.18%) Cybersecurity
19 222 (5.11%) Generative AI
20 199 (4.58%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1,893 (43.60%) Python
2 1,277 (29.41%) SQL
3 284 (6.54%) C#
4 245 (5.64%) JavaScript
5 150 (3.45%) Java
6 136 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 91 (2.10%) C++
8 61 (1.40%) PowerShell
9 51 (1.17%) Bash
10 36 (0.83%) Go
11 35 (0.81%) C
12 29 (0.67%) R
13 24 (0.55%) Bicep
13 24 (0.55%) Rust
14 22 (0.51%) PHP
15 18 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 15 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 14 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
17 14 (0.32%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,213 (27.94%) Azure Certification
2 318 (7.32%) Degree
3 185 (4.26%) 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 66 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.20%) ACCA
9 52 (1.20%) CIMA
10 49 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 43 (0.99%) DBS Check
12 39 (0.90%) PhD
13 31 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (0.35%) CISSP
14 15 (0.35%) 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
1 207 (4.77%) Accessibility
2 155 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 107 (2.46%) GDPR
4 101 (2.33%) QA
5 57 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.08%) WCAG
7 41 (0.94%) GRC
8 39 (0.90%) NIST
9 37 (0.85%) 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%) GxP
18 9 (0.21%) IFRS
18 9 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 173 (3.98%) Docker
2 53 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 52 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.44%) Firmware
5 16 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.23%) vSphere
7 9 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
7 9 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.069%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 177 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 136 (3.13%) Terraform
3 36 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (0.69%) Grafana
5 27 (0.62%) Ansible
6 23 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.18%) Kubeflow
7 8 (0.18%) Podman
7 8 (0.18%) Proxmox
7 8 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
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 1,501 (34.57%) Microsoft
2 163 (3.75%) Adobe
3 116 (2.67%) Google
4 104 (2.40%) Databricks
5 75 (1.73%) Dell
6 74 (1.70%) Cisco
7 70 (1.61%) OpenAI
8 52 (1.20%) Salesforce
9 49 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 48 (1.11%) Oracle
11 45 (1.04%) Apple
12 29 (0.67%) HubSpot
12 29 (0.67%) SAP
13 26 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
14 25 (0.58%) Tenable
15 24 (0.55%) VMware
16 23 (0.53%) Sage
17 22 (0.51%) Palo Alto
18 20 (0.46%) Facebook
19 15 (0.35%) Splunk