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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 11 45
Rank change year-on-year -5 +34 +114
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,990 3,392 2,916
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.86% 10.01% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.74% 11.37% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,575 815 1,102
10th Percentile £35,000 £24,750 £38,775
25th Percentile £47,500 £34,875 £48,955
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £62,500 £64,550
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -3.18% -1.22%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,236 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,075 £66,296 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.70% -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 51,233 29,845 53,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.48% 88.11% 79.53%
Number of salaries quoted 36,051 16,147 35,683
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,733 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,245 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%

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 23 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 23 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 +13 1,530 £67,249 +22.27% 547
South East -2 1,113 £60,000 +33.33% 697
Midlands -8 781 £57,000 -5.00% 247
North West +26 759 £70,000 +16.67% 348
South West +4 557 £62,500 +4.17% 267
Yorkshire +1 551 £65,000 +114.43% 148
East of England +22 509 £60,000 -9.37% 190
West Midlands -5 497 £60,000 - 164
East Midlands -18 283 £52,500 -16.00% 83
Scotland -5 237 £70,000 +7.69% 153
North East -1 220 £65,000 +106.35% 57
Wales +19 166 £65,000 +18.18% 56
Northern Ireland +7 126 £74,830 -14.48% 60
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 91 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 59 (1.18%) Jupyter
3 47 (0.94%) CMS
4 37 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (0.74%) Confluence
5 32 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 32 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 31 (0.62%) Apache
7 30 (0.60%) WordPress
8 6 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.080%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.080%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.080%) SAS
10 3 (0.060%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.060%) IIS
10 3 (0.060%) nginx
10 3 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.040%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.020%) Moodle
12 1 (0.020%) WebSphere
Applications
1 892 (17.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 95 (1.90%) Chatbot
3 45 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.50%) 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
9 11 (0.22%) MS Visio
10 9 (0.18%) Simulink
11 8 (0.16%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.060%) Camtasia
12 3 (0.060%) Stateflow
13 2 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
13 2 (0.040%) Trello
14 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.020%) Revit
Business Applications
1 41 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.48%) Cloudability
4 11 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.16%) Sage 50
6 4 (0.080%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.080%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.060%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.060%) Shopify
8 2 (0.040%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.040%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.020%) Infor SunSystems
9 1 (0.020%) Maximo
9 1 (0.020%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.020%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.020%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.020%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,077 (41.62%) Azure
2 1,363 (27.31%) Azure AI
3 1,111 (22.26%) Power Platform
4 654 (13.11%) AWS
5 284 (5.69%) SaaS
6 224 (4.49%) GCP
7 215 (4.31%) GitHub
8 212 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
9 189 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
10 152 (3.05%) Microsoft Copilot
11 131 (2.63%) Serverless
12 114 (2.28%) Entra ID
13 102 (2.04%) Adobe Analytics
14 98 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
15 90 (1.80%) Snowflake
16 83 (1.66%) Anthropic Claude
17 80 (1.60%) Power Automate
18 68 (1.36%) Figma
19 66 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
20 61 (1.22%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 182 (3.65%) Broadband
2 54 (1.08%) Firewall
3 42 (0.84%) Internet
4 39 (0.78%) VPN
5 34 (0.68%) DNS
6 23 (0.46%) Network Security
7 16 (0.32%) MQTT
7 16 (0.32%) VLAN
8 15 (0.30%) TCP/IP
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 7 (0.14%) BGP
12 7 (0.14%) Intranet
12 7 (0.14%) WAN
13 6 (0.12%) DMZ
14 5 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.10%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 994 (19.92%) Power BI
2 873 (17.49%) Tableau
3 204 (4.09%) MongoDB
4 176 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 143 (2.87%) SQL Server
6 79 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
7 73 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
8 61 (1.22%) Data Lake
9 60 (1.20%) Metadata
10 52 (1.04%) NoSQL
11 42 (0.84%) Relational Database
12 37 (0.74%) Big Data
12 37 (0.74%) MySQL
13 36 (0.72%) Redis
14 33 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 27 (0.54%) BigQuery
16 26 (0.52%) Looker
17 23 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
18 22 (0.44%) Pinecone
19 21 (0.42%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 135 (2.71%) Git
2 56 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
3 55 (1.10%) JIRA
4 53 (1.06%) Jenkins
5 48 (0.96%) GitLab
6 36 (0.72%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.44%) Snyk
8 21 (0.42%) Selenium
9 20 (0.40%) Postman
10 18 (0.36%) JUnit
10 18 (0.36%) MLflow
11 14 (0.28%) Maven
12 13 (0.26%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
14 9 (0.18%) JMeter
14 9 (0.18%) Spock
15 6 (0.12%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.12%) Mockito
15 6 (0.12%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,996 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 685 (13.73%) Finance
3 412 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 348 (6.97%) Marketing
5 321 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 222 (4.45%) Legal
7 214 (4.29%) Games
8 205 (4.11%) Retail
9 189 (3.79%) Public Sector
10 153 (3.07%) Law
11 152 (3.05%) Manufacturing
12 98 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
13 95 (1.90%) Banking
13 95 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
14 59 (1.18%) Advertising
15 52 (1.04%) Automotive
16 39 (0.78%) Electronics
17 34 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (0.66%) Aerospace
19 29 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,005 (20.14%) Analyst
2 841 (16.85%) Data Analyst
3 834 (16.71%) Junior
4 812 (16.27%) Junior Analyst
5 811 (16.25%) Junior Data Analyst
6 671 (13.45%) Senior
7 571 (11.44%) Developer
8 456 (9.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 446 (8.94%) Lead
10 329 (6.59%) Architect
11 288 (5.77%) Software Engineer
12 187 (3.75%) .NET Developer
13 184 (3.69%) Data Engineer
14 119 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
15 117 (2.34%) Senior Manager
16 106 (2.12%) Senior Developer
17 96 (1.92%) Software Developer
18 95 (1.90%) Consultant
19 93 (1.86%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
20 87 (1.74%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (6.55%) .NET
2 239 (4.79%) React
3 182 (3.65%) CSS
4 179 (3.59%) HTML
5 178 (3.57%) ASP.NET
6 173 (3.47%) ASP.NET Core
7 161 (3.23%) .NET Core
8 152 (3.05%) ML.NET
9 124 (2.48%) RESTful
10 122 (2.44%) Node.js
11 114 (2.28%) Blazor
12 101 (2.02%) REST
13 67 (1.34%) scikit-learn
14 65 (1.30%) Vue
15 57 (1.14%) Hugging Face
15 57 (1.14%) Pandas
16 56 (1.12%) Kafka
17 55 (1.10%) AngularJS
17 55 (1.10%) NumPy
18 53 (1.06%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 213 (4.27%) Cloud Native
2 184 (3.69%) Social Media
3 156 (3.13%) AI Agents
4 128 (2.57%) Product Ownership
5 117 (2.34%) Algorithms
6 111 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
7 107 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 99 (1.98%) Robotics
9 98 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 80 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 73 (1.46%) Mobile App
12 57 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
12 57 (1.14%) Low-Code
13 54 (1.08%) Data Centre
14 53 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
14 53 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
15 51 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
16 49 (0.98%) Blog
17 43 (0.86%) Virtual Team
18 41 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 122 (2.44%) Windows
2 113 (2.26%) Linux
3 62 (1.24%) Android
4 43 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 40 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.42%) VMS
7 8 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.10%) Debian
10 3 (0.060%) Gentoo
10 3 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.060%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.040%) Unix
12 1 (0.020%) AIX
12 1 (0.020%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.020%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.020%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.020%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,064 (21.32%) Business Intelligence
2 834 (16.71%) Machine Learning
3 818 (16.39%) Agile
4 783 (15.69%) Analytics
5 632 (12.67%) CI/CD
6 577 (11.56%) Software Engineering
7 556 (11.14%) Roadmaps
8 550 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
9 529 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 499 (10.00%) DevOps
11 471 (9.44%) Decision-Making
12 431 (8.64%) Mentoring
13 414 (8.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
14 384 (7.70%) LLM
15 370 (7.41%) Full-Stack Development
16 349 (6.99%) Cybersecurity
17 296 (5.93%) Customer Experience
18 259 (5.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 259 (5.19%) Workflow
19 258 (5.17%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,946 (39.00%) Python
2 1,360 (27.25%) SQL
3 385 (7.72%) C#
4 338 (6.77%) JavaScript
5 192 (3.85%) TypeScript
6 177 (3.55%) Java
7 132 (2.65%) C++
8 83 (1.66%) PowerShell
9 64 (1.28%) Bash
10 43 (0.86%) Go
11 41 (0.82%) C
12 38 (0.76%) Bicep
13 37 (0.74%) Rust
14 26 (0.52%) PHP
15 23 (0.46%) R
16 20 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 20 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
17 19 (0.38%) Kotlin
17 19 (0.38%) Ruby
18 16 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,166 (23.37%) Azure Certification
2 377 (7.56%) Degree
3 252 (5.05%) Security Cleared
4 162 (3.25%) SC Cleared
5 113 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 101 (2.02%) AWS Certification
7 89 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 76 (1.52%) CISSP
9 70 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 66 (1.32%) CISM
11 58 (1.16%) ACCA
11 58 (1.16%) CIMA
12 56 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
13 55 (1.10%) A+ Certification
14 49 (0.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 46 (0.92%) PhD
16 39 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 38 (0.76%) DBS Check
18 25 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
19 14 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (4.61%) Accessibility
2 190 (3.81%) Data Quality
3 122 (2.44%) GDPR
4 118 (2.36%) QA
5 70 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (0.94%) GRC
6 47 (0.94%) SLA
7 46 (0.92%) WCAG
8 41 (0.82%) NIST
9 26 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 26 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 17 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 15 (0.30%) NCSC
13 12 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 11 (0.22%) PMO
15 10 (0.20%) IFRS
15 10 (0.20%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.16%) GAAP
System Software
1 249 (4.99%) Docker
2 115 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 52 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.42%) 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 2 (0.040%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.020%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 242 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 185 (3.71%) Terraform
3 96 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (0.74%) Ansible
5 36 (0.72%) Grafana
6 27 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.24%) Puppet
8 11 (0.22%) Podman
9 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
10 6 (0.12%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.10%) Functional Safety
11 5 (0.10%) Nagios
11 5 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.080%) Argo
12 4 (0.080%) Istio
12 4 (0.080%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.080%) SolarWinds Orion
13 3 (0.060%) cPanel
13 3 (0.060%) linkerd
13 3 (0.060%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,662 (33.31%) Microsoft
2 163 (3.27%) Adobe
3 157 (3.15%) Google
4 117 (2.34%) Databricks
5 91 (1.82%) OpenAI
6 84 (1.68%) Cisco
7 71 (1.42%) Dell
8 56 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 55 (1.10%) Salesforce
10 54 (1.08%) CyberArk
10 54 (1.08%) Oracle
11 49 (0.98%) Apple
12 36 (0.72%) Facebook
13 33 (0.66%) SAP
13 33 (0.66%) VMware
14 28 (0.56%) HubSpot
14 28 (0.56%) Sage
15 27 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
16 26 (0.52%) Tenable
17 25 (0.50%) Foundry