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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 11 45
Rank change year-on-year -4 +34 +108
Permanent jobs citing AI 5,057 3,405 2,855
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.93% 10.03% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.82% 11.40% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,604 825 1,068
10th Percentile £35,000 £24,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £35,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £62,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -1.57% -5.93%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,394 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,150 £66,295 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.81% -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 51,477 29,874 51,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.56% 88.02% 79.34%
Number of salaries quoted 36,161 16,209 34,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,215 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 25 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 25 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 +12 1,551 £66,250 +20.45% 591
South East -1 1,128 £60,000 +33.33% 695
Midlands -8 790 £56,000 -6.67% 243
North West +25 767 £70,000 +16.67% 371
South West +3 567 £62,500 +4.17% 249
Yorkshire +1 557 £65,000 +85.71% 155
East of England +22 510 £60,000 -9.37% 199
West Midlands -5 504 £60,000 - 158
East Midlands -17 285 £52,500 -16.00% 85
Scotland -2 246 £70,000 +7.69% 140
North East +1 227 £65,000 +106.35% 72
Wales +15 167 £65,000 +18.18% 58
Northern Ireland +5 127 £74,830 -14.48% 52
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 97 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 59 (1.17%) Jupyter
3 47 (0.93%) CMS
4 39 (0.77%) Confluence
5 37 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 34 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 33 (0.65%) Apache
7 33 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 30 (0.59%) WordPress
9 6 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.079%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.079%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.079%) IIS
10 4 (0.079%) nginx
10 4 (0.079%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.079%) SAS
11 2 (0.040%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.020%) Moodle
Applications
1 898 (17.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (1.90%) Chatbot
3 46 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
5 17 (0.34%) Photoshop
6 15 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.28%) UserZoom
8 13 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
8 13 (0.26%) InDesign
8 13 (0.26%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.18%) Simulink
10 8 (0.16%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.059%) Camtasia
11 3 (0.059%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
12 2 (0.040%) Trello
13 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 41 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.47%) Cloudability
4 12 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 8 (0.16%) Sage 50
7 4 (0.079%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.079%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.059%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.059%) Shopify
9 2 (0.040%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.040%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.040%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.020%) Magento
10 1 (0.020%) Maximo
10 1 (0.020%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.020%) Primavera
10 1 (0.020%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 2,092 (41.37%) Azure
2 1,363 (26.95%) Azure AI
3 1,119 (22.13%) Power Platform
4 667 (13.19%) AWS
5 285 (5.64%) SaaS
6 232 (4.59%) GCP
7 215 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
7 215 (4.25%) GitHub
8 195 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
9 156 (3.08%) Microsoft Copilot
10 131 (2.59%) Serverless
11 116 (2.29%) Entra ID
12 102 (2.02%) Adobe Analytics
13 98 (1.94%) GitHub Copilot
14 91 (1.80%) Snowflake
15 86 (1.70%) Power Automate
16 84 (1.66%) Anthropic Claude
17 67 (1.32%) Figma
18 65 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
19 61 (1.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 184 (3.64%) Broadband
2 55 (1.09%) Firewall
3 42 (0.83%) Internet
4 38 (0.75%) VPN
5 36 (0.71%) DNS
6 23 (0.45%) Network Security
7 16 (0.32%) MQTT
7 16 (0.32%) TCP/IP
7 16 (0.32%) VLAN
8 15 (0.30%) VoIP
9 14 (0.28%) DHCP
10 10 (0.20%) Unified Communications
10 10 (0.20%) Wireless
11 9 (0.18%) CTI
12 8 (0.16%) BGP
12 8 (0.16%) WAN
13 7 (0.14%) Intranet
14 6 (0.12%) DMZ
14 6 (0.12%) HTTP
14 6 (0.12%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,000 (19.77%) Power BI
2 873 (17.26%) Tableau
3 204 (4.03%) MongoDB
4 176 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 146 (2.89%) SQL Server
6 80 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
7 74 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
8 62 (1.23%) Data Lake
8 62 (1.23%) Metadata
9 52 (1.03%) NoSQL
10 44 (0.87%) Relational Database
11 38 (0.75%) Big Data
12 36 (0.71%) MySQL
12 36 (0.71%) Redis
13 33 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
14 30 (0.59%) BigQuery
15 26 (0.51%) Looker
16 22 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
16 22 (0.44%) Pinecone
17 21 (0.42%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 140 (2.77%) Git
2 60 (1.19%) JIRA
3 56 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
4 54 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 48 (0.95%) GitLab
6 36 (0.71%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.44%) Snyk
8 20 (0.40%) Postman
8 20 (0.40%) Selenium
9 19 (0.38%) JUnit
10 18 (0.36%) MLflow
11 16 (0.32%) Maven
12 12 (0.24%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
14 9 (0.18%) JMeter
14 9 (0.18%) Spock
15 7 (0.14%) Mockito
16 6 (0.12%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.12%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 2,021 (39.96%) Social Skills
2 709 (14.02%) Finance
3 423 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
4 355 (7.02%) Marketing
5 338 (6.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 229 (4.53%) Legal
7 213 (4.21%) Games
8 207 (4.09%) Retail
9 200 (3.95%) Public Sector
10 159 (3.14%) Law
11 156 (3.08%) Manufacturing
12 101 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
13 100 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
14 97 (1.92%) Banking
15 59 (1.17%) Advertising
16 52 (1.03%) Automotive
17 41 (0.81%) Electronics
18 36 (0.71%) Aerospace
19 35 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
20 31 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,012 (20.01%) Analyst
2 842 (16.65%) Data Analyst
3 835 (16.51%) Junior
4 812 (16.06%) Junior Analyst
5 811 (16.04%) Junior Data Analyst
6 684 (13.53%) Senior
7 576 (11.39%) Developer
8 459 (9.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 451 (8.92%) Lead
10 338 (6.68%) Architect
11 291 (5.75%) Software Engineer
12 190 (3.76%) Data Engineer
13 188 (3.72%) .NET Developer
14 123 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
15 119 (2.35%) Senior Manager
16 111 (2.19%) Senior Developer
17 100 (1.98%) Consultant
18 96 (1.90%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
18 96 (1.90%) Software Developer
19 89 (1.76%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (6.49%) .NET
2 242 (4.79%) React
3 182 (3.60%) CSS
4 180 (3.56%) HTML
5 178 (3.52%) ASP.NET
6 173 (3.42%) ASP.NET Core
7 161 (3.18%) .NET Core
8 152 (3.01%) ML.NET
9 124 (2.45%) Node.js
9 124 (2.45%) RESTful
10 113 (2.23%) Blazor
11 106 (2.10%) REST
12 67 (1.32%) scikit-learn
13 65 (1.29%) Vue
14 58 (1.15%) Hugging Face
15 57 (1.13%) Kafka
15 57 (1.13%) Pandas
16 56 (1.11%) AngularJS
17 55 (1.09%) NumPy
17 55 (1.09%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 217 (4.29%) Cloud Native
2 185 (3.66%) Social Media
3 162 (3.20%) AI Agents
4 128 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 118 (2.33%) Algorithms
6 112 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
6 112 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 102 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
8 97 (1.92%) Robotics
9 82 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 73 (1.44%) Mobile App
11 59 (1.17%) Low-Code
12 56 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 56 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 55 (1.09%) Data Centre
14 53 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
15 51 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
16 49 (0.97%) Blog
17 43 (0.85%) Virtual Team
18 42 (0.83%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 125 (2.47%) Windows
2 119 (2.35%) Linux
3 61 (1.21%) Android
4 44 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 39 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.42%) VMS
7 8 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.099%) Debian
9 3 (0.059%) Gentoo
9 3 (0.059%) Unix
9 3 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.020%) AIX
11 1 (0.020%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.020%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.020%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.020%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,070 (21.16%) Business Intelligence
2 845 (16.71%) Machine Learning
3 844 (16.69%) Agile
4 792 (15.66%) Analytics
5 647 (12.79%) CI/CD
6 587 (11.61%) Software Engineering
7 562 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 558 (11.03%) Problem-Solving
9 546 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 508 (10.05%) DevOps
11 484 (9.57%) Decision-Making
12 442 (8.74%) Mentoring
13 416 (8.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
14 395 (7.81%) LLM
15 371 (7.34%) Full-Stack Development
16 357 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
17 305 (6.03%) Customer Experience
18 265 (5.24%) Data Science
19 264 (5.22%) Workflow
20 262 (5.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,954 (38.64%) Python
2 1,368 (27.05%) SQL
3 387 (7.65%) C#
4 341 (6.74%) JavaScript
5 194 (3.84%) TypeScript
6 182 (3.60%) Java
7 134 (2.65%) C++
8 84 (1.66%) PowerShell
9 64 (1.27%) Bash
10 42 (0.83%) C
10 42 (0.83%) Go
11 38 (0.75%) Bicep
12 37 (0.73%) Rust
13 25 (0.49%) PHP
14 23 (0.45%) R
15 22 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 20 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
17 19 (0.38%) Kotlin
17 19 (0.38%) Ruby
18 18 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,170 (23.14%) Azure Certification
2 379 (7.49%) Degree
3 269 (5.32%) Security Cleared
4 174 (3.44%) SC Cleared
5 114 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 94 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 76 (1.50%) CISSP
9 71 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 66 (1.31%) CISM
11 60 (1.19%) ACCA
11 60 (1.19%) CIMA
12 56 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
13 55 (1.09%) A+ Certification
14 49 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 47 (0.93%) PhD
16 39 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 36 (0.71%) DBS Check
18 26 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
19 21 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 193 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 122 (2.41%) QA
4 121 (2.39%) GDPR
5 70 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (0.97%) SLA
7 48 (0.95%) GRC
8 46 (0.91%) WCAG
9 42 (0.83%) NIST
10 27 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 22 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 17 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (0.32%) NCSC
15 12 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 11 (0.22%) PMO
17 10 (0.20%) IFRS
17 10 (0.20%) SOC 2
18 9 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 8 (0.16%) GAAP
System Software
1 256 (5.06%) Docker
2 115 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 52 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (0.44%) Firmware
6 16 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.30%) vSphere
8 11 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.18%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.079%) Ceph
11 2 (0.040%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.020%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 248 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 186 (3.68%) Terraform
3 95 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (0.77%) Ansible
5 36 (0.71%) Grafana
6 30 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.28%) Podman
8 12 (0.24%) Puppet
9 7 (0.14%) Argo
9 7 (0.14%) Istio
9 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
10 5 (0.099%) Functional Safety
10 5 (0.099%) Nagios
10 5 (0.099%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.099%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.079%) Check_MK
11 4 (0.079%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.079%) SolarWinds Orion
12 3 (0.059%) cPanel
12 3 (0.059%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,676 (33.14%) Microsoft
2 162 (3.20%) Adobe
3 158 (3.12%) Google
4 119 (2.35%) Databricks
5 91 (1.80%) OpenAI
6 87 (1.72%) Cisco
7 76 (1.50%) Dell
8 58 (1.15%) Oracle
9 57 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 55 (1.09%) Salesforce
11 54 (1.07%) CyberArk
12 49 (0.97%) Apple
13 36 (0.71%) Facebook
14 34 (0.67%) SAP
14 34 (0.67%) VMware
15 28 (0.55%) HubSpot
15 28 (0.55%) Sage
16 27 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
17 26 (0.51%) Tenable
18 25 (0.49%) Foundry