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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 62 106
Rank change year-on-year +56 +44 +52
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,718 1,682 875
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 12.62% 3.58% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.34% 4.33% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 903 863 589
10th Percentile £24,570 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,625 £51,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,308
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,000 £76,383
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.81% +9.12%

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 30,751 38,829 27,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.23% 82.70% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 18,778 18,883 20,474
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,714 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +4.22% -0.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 27 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 27 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 +64 1,634 £57,500 -14.81% 364
South East +26 1,187 £50,000 -31.03% 944
North West +59 1,095 £57,500 -11.54% 200
Midlands +119 544 £62,500 -13.79% 253
East of England +84 497 £47,500 -44.12% 119
Scotland +71 474 £69,624 +11.40% 91
Yorkshire +50 422 £71,250 +1.79% 133
West Midlands +114 335 £65,000 - 170
South West +35 315 £60,000 -7.69% 146
East Midlands +95 207 £60,000 -29.41% 82
North East +64 117 £53,750 -29.28% 32
Wales +39 106 £55,000 -4.35% 31
Northern Ireland -3 34 £90,000 +2.86% 20
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 43 (0.91%) SharePoint
2 36 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 30 (0.64%) CMS
4 26 (0.55%) Confluence
5 21 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.30%) WordPress
7 13 (0.28%) Apache
8 12 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 11 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
10 10 (0.21%) Apache Solr
11 8 (0.17%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.13%) Camunda
12 6 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.064%) Drupal
13 3 (0.064%) Joomla!
13 3 (0.064%) Kentico
13 3 (0.064%) Kinematics
13 3 (0.064%) SAS
13 3 (0.064%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.042%) CICS
Applications
1 1,323 (28.04%) Chatbot
2 193 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 67 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.17%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
7 5 (0.11%) Simulink
7 5 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.085%) InDesign
9 3 (0.064%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.064%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.064%) Notion
9 3 (0.064%) S-PLUS
9 3 (0.064%) Weka
10 1 (0.021%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.021%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 28 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.17%) Shopify
6 3 (0.064%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.042%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.042%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.021%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.021%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.021%) Magento
8 1 (0.021%) Maximo
8 1 (0.021%) Odoo
8 1 (0.021%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,339 (28.38%) Cloud Computing
2 566 (12.00%) Azure
3 311 (6.59%) Power Platform
4 298 (6.32%) AWS
5 153 (3.24%) SaaS
6 152 (3.22%) Azure AI
7 121 (2.56%) GCP
8 118 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 116 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
10 80 (1.70%) GitHub
11 59 (1.25%) Snowflake
12 57 (1.21%) GitHub Copilot
13 46 (0.97%) Entra ID
14 43 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
15 42 (0.89%) Power Automate
16 39 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
17 37 (0.78%) Amazon S3
18 36 (0.76%) Serverless
19 32 (0.68%) dbt
20 31 (0.66%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1,342 (28.44%) Internet
2 21 (0.45%) Unified Communications
3 16 (0.34%) Firewall
4 15 (0.32%) VoIP
5 11 (0.23%) Network Security
6 8 (0.17%) Telepresence
6 8 (0.17%) VPN
6 8 (0.17%) WebEx
7 7 (0.15%) DNS
8 6 (0.13%) Intranet
8 6 (0.13%) SAN
9 5 (0.11%) Bluetooth
9 5 (0.11%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.085%) Broadband
10 4 (0.085%) DMZ
10 4 (0.085%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.085%) Modbus
10 4 (0.085%) VLAN
10 4 (0.085%) WAN
10 4 (0.085%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (5.19%) Power BI
2 172 (3.65%) Tableau
3 80 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (1.53%) SQL Server
5 51 (1.08%) Metadata
6 48 (1.02%) NoSQL
7 42 (0.89%) MongoDB
8 37 (0.78%) MySQL
9 35 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
10 30 (0.64%) Big Data
10 30 (0.64%) Data Lake
11 24 (0.51%) Data Mining
11 24 (0.51%) DynamoDB
12 23 (0.49%) Delta Lake
13 21 (0.45%) Spark SQL
14 18 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
15 17 (0.36%) Relational Database
16 16 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (0.34%) Looker
Development Applications
1 74 (1.57%) JIRA
2 64 (1.36%) Git
3 30 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 19 (0.40%) MLflow
5 13 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 12 (0.25%) JUnit
6 12 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
6 12 (0.25%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.23%) Selenium
8 7 (0.15%) Maven
9 6 (0.13%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.11%) Burp Suite
10 5 (0.11%) GitBook
10 5 (0.11%) GitLab
11 4 (0.085%) Gradle
11 4 (0.085%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.064%) Locust
12 3 (0.064%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 2 (0.042%) Vite
13 2 (0.042%) WebDriver
General
1 2,149 (45.55%) Social Skills
2 1,683 (35.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,409 (29.86%) Banking
4 937 (19.86%) Analytical Skills
5 579 (12.27%) Finance
6 312 (6.61%) Marketing
7 246 (5.21%) Law
8 136 (2.88%) Public Sector
9 120 (2.54%) Retail
10 115 (2.44%) Legal
11 53 (1.12%) Aviation
12 48 (1.02%) Manufacturing
13 45 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 37 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
15 36 (0.76%) Electronics
15 36 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
16 32 (0.68%) Aeronautics
17 31 (0.66%) Aerospace
18 29 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
19 24 (0.51%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,290 (27.34%) Trainer
2 1,095 (23.21%) Lecturer
3 220 (4.66%) Senior
4 196 (4.15%) Analyst
5 192 (4.07%) Developer
6 181 (3.84%) Lead
7 167 (3.54%) Software Engineer
8 154 (3.26%) Content Editor
9 132 (2.80%) Data Analyst
10 129 (2.73%) Architect
11 120 (2.54%) Junior
12 109 (2.31%) Junior Analyst
13 108 (2.29%) Junior Data Analyst
14 97 (2.06%) Innovation Manager
15 96 (2.03%) Customer Support Specialist
15 96 (2.03%) Support Specialist
16 94 (1.99%) Research Scientist
17 66 (1.40%) Business Manager
18 63 (1.34%) Microsoft Specialist
19 62 (1.31%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (2.01%) React
2 92 (1.95%) .NET
3 68 (1.44%) Spring
4 63 (1.34%) REST
5 59 (1.25%) HTML
5 59 (1.25%) RESTful
6 52 (1.10%) PyTorch
6 52 (1.10%) TensorFlow
7 47 (1.00%) Kafka
8 42 (0.89%) Node.js
9 41 (0.87%) PySpark
10 40 (0.85%) Spring Boot
11 38 (0.81%) AngularJS
12 37 (0.78%) scikit-learn
13 34 (0.72%) CSS
14 33 (0.70%) Pandas
15 31 (0.66%) NumPy
16 28 (0.59%) JSON
17 27 (0.57%) XML
18 26 (0.55%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 1,355 (28.72%) IoT
2 129 (2.73%) Cloud Native
3 110 (2.33%) Molecular Biology
4 106 (2.25%) Robotics
5 104 (2.20%) Algorithms
6 94 (1.99%) Onboarding
6 94 (1.99%) Product Ownership
7 77 (1.63%) Blog
8 67 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 55 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
10 50 (1.06%) Virtual Team
11 49 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
12 48 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
13 43 (0.91%) Life Science
14 41 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
15 38 (0.81%) Data Centre
16 36 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
17 35 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
18 28 (0.59%) Social Media
19 25 (0.53%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 53 (1.12%) Windows
2 47 (1.00%) Unix
3 40 (0.85%) Linux
4 25 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.49%) Android
6 19 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.085%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.042%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.042%) VMS
10 2 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.042%) zOS
11 1 (0.021%) Debian
11 1 (0.021%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.021%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.021%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,896 (40.19%) Machine Learning
2 1,470 (31.16%) Cybersecurity
3 1,452 (30.78%) User Experience
4 1,346 (28.53%) Web Development
5 1,327 (28.13%) Conversational UI
6 509 (10.79%) Agile
7 500 (10.60%) Chemistry
8 495 (10.49%) Analytics
9 408 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 357 (7.57%) Decision-Making
11 354 (7.50%) Software Engineering
12 308 (6.53%) Roadmaps
13 306 (6.49%) CI/CD
14 305 (6.46%) Problem-Solving
15 270 (5.72%) Business Intelligence
16 267 (5.66%) Customer Experience
17 260 (5.51%) DevOps
18 229 (4.85%) Data Science
19 213 (4.51%) Content Writing
20 206 (4.37%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 521 (11.04%) Python
2 402 (8.52%) SQL
3 147 (3.12%) Java
4 114 (2.42%) JavaScript
5 77 (1.63%) TypeScript
6 63 (1.34%) PowerShell
7 60 (1.27%) C#
8 35 (0.74%) C++
9 32 (0.68%) Bash
10 26 (0.55%) R
11 20 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 19 (0.40%) PL/SQL
13 17 (0.36%) C
13 17 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.30%) Bicep
14 14 (0.30%) T-SQL
15 12 (0.25%) Apex Code
15 12 (0.25%) MATLAB
15 12 (0.25%) PHP
16 11 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3,043 (64.50%) Degree
2 2,152 (45.61%) Master's Degree
3 2,127 (45.08%) PhD
4 1,335 (28.30%) Postgraduate
5 166 (3.52%) Security Cleared
6 146 (3.09%) SC Cleared
7 121 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 56 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (0.47%) PMP
11 17 (0.36%) DBS Check
11 17 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (0.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 16 (0.34%) AWS Certification
13 15 (0.32%) DV Cleared
14 13 (0.28%) ACCA
14 13 (0.28%) HNC
15 12 (0.25%) HND
16 8 (0.17%) CIMA
16 8 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (1.42%) Data Quality
2 43 (0.91%) Accessibility
3 35 (0.74%) QA
4 31 (0.66%) GxP
5 29 (0.61%) GDPR
6 24 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.30%) PMO
8 13 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 13 (0.28%) NIST
9 12 (0.25%) SLA
10 11 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.21%) CDISC
11 10 (0.21%) HL7
12 7 (0.15%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.13%) GRC
13 6 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 6 (0.13%) NCSC
13 6 (0.13%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.11%) ISO 13485
15 4 (0.085%) IFRS
System Software
1 101 (2.14%) Docker
2 22 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 21 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 17 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.17%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.15%) vSphere
8 6 (0.13%) HDFS
9 4 (0.085%) Firmware
10 3 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.042%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.042%) Ceph
11 2 (0.042%) Lustre
11 2 (0.042%) RACF
12 1 (0.021%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 119 (2.52%) Terraform
2 98 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 37 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.40%) Kubeflow
5 16 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.32%) Grafana
7 12 (0.25%) Ansible
7 12 (0.25%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (0.17%) SCCM
9 4 (0.085%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.085%) Nessus
9 4 (0.085%) Nmap
10 3 (0.064%) Functional Safety
10 3 (0.064%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.064%) Netcool
10 3 (0.064%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 3 (0.064%) Tivoli
11 2 (0.042%) Kibana
11 2 (0.042%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,290 (27.34%) PayPal
2 588 (12.46%) Microsoft
3 91 (1.93%) Cisco
4 86 (1.82%) Google
5 83 (1.76%) Oracle
6 72 (1.53%) Databricks
7 69 (1.46%) Dell
8 43 (0.91%) Adobe
9 42 (0.89%) OpenAI
10 40 (0.85%) Salesforce
11 32 (0.68%) Blue Prism
12 28 (0.59%) Apple
13 27 (0.57%) Palo Alto
14 22 (0.47%) Foundry
14 22 (0.47%) HubSpot
14 22 (0.47%) SAP
14 22 (0.47%) Splunk
15 21 (0.45%) ServiceNow
15 21 (0.45%) VMware
16 13 (0.28%) IBM