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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 15 50
Rank change year-on-year 0 +35 +116
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,289 2,966 3,397
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.45% 10.05% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.26% 11.03% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,042 762 1,334
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -13.04%
75th Percentile £83,063 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,125 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,296 £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 46,318 26,901 62,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.63% 91.20% 80.29%
Number of salaries quoted 32,280 13,607 43,554
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,125 £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% -9.69%

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 12 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 12 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 +10 1,318 £67,500 +22.73% 459
South East +2 992 £60,000 +20.00% 620
Midlands -8 708 £55,000 -4.35% 191
North West +33 643 £72,500 +11.54% 280
Yorkshire -3 501 £65,000 +153.66% 132
East of England +24 466 £59,725 -9.80% 146
South West +4 462 £60,000 - 223
West Midlands -5 448 £55,000 -4.35% 122
East Midlands -16 259 £52,500 -8.70% 67
Scotland 0 207 £70,000 +38.76% 59
North East +5 174 £65,000 +64.56% 49
Wales +22 114 £54,000 -21.74% 36
Northern Ireland +10 52 £72,500 - 34
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 65 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.19%) Jupyter
3 40 (0.93%) CMS
4 31 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 30 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.68%) Confluence
7 27 (0.63%) WordPress
8 21 (0.49%) Apache
9 16 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.14%) IIS
10 6 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.070%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.070%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.047%) Apache Qpid
13 2 (0.047%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.047%) nginx
13 2 (0.047%) SAS
14 1 (0.023%) Moodle
14 1 (0.023%) Umbraco
Applications
1 933 (21.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (1.82%) Chatbot
3 49 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.35%) UserZoom
6 14 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.30%) Photoshop
8 12 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
9 11 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.21%) Simulink
11 8 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
11 8 (0.19%) InDesign
11 8 (0.19%) MS Visio
12 3 (0.070%) Camtasia
12 3 (0.070%) Stateflow
13 2 (0.047%) Trello
14 1 (0.023%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.023%) Microsoft Project
14 1 (0.023%) Notion
14 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (0.56%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.19%) Sage 50
5 7 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.093%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.070%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.047%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.023%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.023%) Maximo
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.023%) Primavera
9 1 (0.023%) Q-Pulse
9 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.023%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.023%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,866 (43.51%) Azure
2 1,322 (30.82%) Azure AI
3 1,084 (25.27%) Power Platform
4 549 (12.80%) AWS
5 237 (5.53%) SaaS
6 178 (4.15%) GCP
7 154 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
8 144 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
8 144 (3.36%) GitHub
9 110 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
10 106 (2.47%) Adobe Analytics
11 101 (2.35%) Serverless
12 75 (1.75%) Figma
13 74 (1.73%) Snowflake
14 64 (1.49%) GitHub Copilot
15 60 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
16 56 (1.31%) Anthropic Claude
16 56 (1.31%) Power Automate
17 53 (1.24%) Entra ID
18 49 (1.14%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 186 (4.34%) Broadband
2 47 (1.10%) Firewall
3 28 (0.65%) DNS
4 25 (0.58%) Network Security
4 25 (0.58%) VPN
5 24 (0.56%) Unified Communications
6 17 (0.40%) Internet
6 17 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 16 (0.37%) MQTT
8 14 (0.33%) VLAN
9 13 (0.30%) DHCP
10 10 (0.23%) VoIP
11 7 (0.16%) Wireless
12 6 (0.14%) DMZ
12 6 (0.14%) HTTP
12 6 (0.14%) Intranet
13 5 (0.12%) BGP
13 5 (0.12%) OSPF
14 4 (0.093%) RTP
14 4 (0.093%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,004 (23.41%) Power BI
2 926 (21.59%) Tableau
3 122 (2.84%) MongoDB
4 121 (2.82%) SQL Server
5 97 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 61 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
7 60 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
8 50 (1.17%) Data Lake
9 44 (1.03%) Metadata
10 42 (0.98%) NoSQL
11 33 (0.77%) Big Data
12 29 (0.68%) Redis
12 29 (0.68%) Relational Database
13 26 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (0.61%) Looker
14 25 (0.58%) MySQL
15 23 (0.54%) BigQuery
16 22 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.35%) DynamoDB
18 14 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 96 (2.24%) Git
2 53 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
3 40 (0.93%) JIRA
4 32 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.72%) GitLab
6 27 (0.63%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.51%) Snyk
8 18 (0.42%) MLflow
9 16 (0.37%) Postman
9 16 (0.37%) Selenium
10 13 (0.30%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.30%) JUnit
11 10 (0.23%) Maven
12 9 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
12 9 (0.21%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.16%) JMeter
14 6 (0.14%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.14%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.14%) SpecFlow
15 5 (0.12%) Vite
General
1 1,806 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 541 (12.61%) Finance
3 328 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
4 288 (6.71%) Marketing
5 283 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 209 (4.87%) Games
7 170 (3.96%) Retail
8 129 (3.01%) Legal
8 129 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 122 (2.84%) Manufacturing
10 98 (2.28%) Law
11 89 (2.08%) Banking
12 84 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
13 60 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
14 50 (1.17%) Automotive
15 39 (0.91%) Electronics
16 37 (0.86%) Advertising
17 29 (0.68%) Telecoms
18 26 (0.61%) Aerospace
19 25 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,025 (23.90%) Analyst
2 881 (20.54%) Data Analyst
3 880 (20.52%) Junior
4 866 (20.19%) Junior Analyst
5 865 (20.17%) Junior Data Analyst
6 465 (10.84%) Senior
7 424 (9.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 407 (9.49%) Developer
9 388 (9.05%) Lead
10 230 (5.36%) Architect
11 207 (4.83%) Software Engineer
12 147 (3.43%) Data Engineer
13 109 (2.54%) .NET Developer
14 88 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
15 75 (1.75%) Software Developer
16 73 (1.70%) Consultant
17 72 (1.68%) Senior Developer
18 70 (1.63%) Designer
18 70 (1.63%) Full-Stack Developer
19 68 (1.59%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (5.55%) .NET
2 185 (4.31%) React
3 124 (2.89%) CSS
4 121 (2.82%) HTML
5 99 (2.31%) ASP.NET
6 97 (2.26%) .NET Core
7 94 (2.19%) ASP.NET Core
8 93 (2.17%) Node.js
9 89 (2.08%) REST
10 85 (1.98%) RESTful
11 79 (1.84%) ML.NET
12 68 (1.59%) Blazor
13 66 (1.54%) scikit-learn
14 58 (1.35%) NumPy
14 58 (1.35%) Pandas
15 56 (1.31%) Vue
16 54 (1.26%) AngularJS
16 54 (1.26%) Hugging Face
17 52 (1.21%) Matplotlib
18 50 (1.17%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 176 (4.10%) Social Media
2 168 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 118 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 109 (2.54%) Robotics
5 108 (2.52%) Algorithms
6 97 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 94 (2.19%) AI Agents
8 90 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
9 72 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
10 66 (1.54%) Mobile App
11 63 (1.47%) Management Information System
12 59 (1.38%) Low-Code
13 50 (1.17%) Data Centre
13 50 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 45 (1.05%) Life Science
15 37 (0.86%) Virtual Team
16 35 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
17 33 (0.77%) Driving Licence
18 31 (0.72%) Public Cloud
19 28 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 91 (2.12%) Windows
2 83 (1.94%) Linux
3 53 (1.24%) Android
4 39 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 34 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.33%) VMS
7 6 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.14%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.070%) Unix
10 2 (0.047%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.047%) 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 1,061 (24.74%) Business Intelligence
2 691 (16.11%) Machine Learning
3 661 (15.41%) Agile
4 638 (14.88%) Analytics
5 483 (11.26%) CI/CD
6 466 (10.87%) Roadmaps
7 445 (10.38%) Software Engineering
8 434 (10.12%) Problem-Solving
9 397 (9.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 382 (8.91%) DevOps
11 348 (8.11%) Decision-Making
12 345 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 320 (7.46%) LLM
14 291 (6.78%) Mentoring
15 277 (6.46%) Customer Experience
16 267 (6.23%) Full-Stack Development
17 228 (5.32%) Data Science
18 227 (5.29%) Cybersecurity
19 218 (5.08%) Generative AI
20 190 (4.43%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1,881 (43.86%) Python
2 1,260 (29.38%) SQL
3 268 (6.25%) C#
4 235 (5.48%) JavaScript
5 150 (3.50%) Java
6 129 (3.01%) TypeScript
7 86 (2.01%) C++
8 57 (1.33%) PowerShell
9 46 (1.07%) Bash
10 35 (0.82%) C
11 34 (0.79%) Go
12 31 (0.72%) R
13 22 (0.51%) PHP
14 21 (0.49%) Rust
15 20 (0.47%) Bicep
16 17 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 16 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 16 (0.37%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.30%) Ruby
18 13 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,211 (28.24%) Azure Certification
2 317 (7.39%) Degree
3 180 (4.20%) Security Cleared
4 109 (2.54%) SC Cleared
5 106 (2.47%) AWS Certification
6 72 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 68 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 67 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.19%) ACCA
9 51 (1.19%) CIMA
10 49 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 43 (1.00%) DBS Check
12 41 (0.96%) PhD
13 31 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (0.35%) CISSP
15 13 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.28%) HNC
17 11 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
18 10 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
19 8 (0.19%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (4.83%) Accessibility
2 156 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 106 (2.47%) GDPR
4 97 (2.26%) QA
5 57 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.12%) WCAG
7 41 (0.96%) GRC
8 39 (0.91%) NIST
9 34 (0.79%) SLA
10 26 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.47%) 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 (0.26%) GxP
17 10 (0.23%) PMO
17 10 (0.23%) SOC 2
18 9 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
18 9 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 158 (3.68%) Docker
2 52 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
3 47 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.44%) Firmware
5 14 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
7 8 (0.19%) vSphere
8 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.070%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 164 (3.82%) Kubernetes
2 129 (3.01%) Terraform
3 33 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (0.65%) Grafana
5 27 (0.63%) Ansible
6 21 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.19%) Podman
8 8 (0.19%) Proxmox
9 7 (0.16%) Kubeflow
10 6 (0.14%) Puppet
11 5 (0.12%) Functional Safety
11 5 (0.12%) Nagios
12 4 (0.093%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.093%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.093%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.093%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.070%) Argo
14 2 (0.047%) cPanel
14 2 (0.047%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,485 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 169 (3.94%) Adobe
3 113 (2.63%) Google
4 105 (2.45%) Databricks
5 75 (1.75%) Dell
6 71 (1.66%) Cisco
7 69 (1.61%) OpenAI
8 55 (1.28%) Salesforce
9 50 (1.17%) Apple
10 47 (1.10%) ServiceNow
11 46 (1.07%) Oracle
12 29 (0.68%) HubSpot
13 27 (0.63%) SAP
14 26 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
15 25 (0.58%) Tenable
16 22 (0.51%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.51%) VMware
17 21 (0.49%) Sage
18 18 (0.42%) Facebook
19 12 (0.28%) Splunk