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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 13 51
Rank change year-on-year -1 +38 +124
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,411 3,106 3,365
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.53% 10.34% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.36% 11.36% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,154 763 1,352
10th Percentile £33,750 £24,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £35,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,908 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +6.51% -12.82%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,886 £80,001
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,274 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.62% -5.32% -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 47,109 27,343 63,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.73% 91.03% 79.78%
Number of salaries quoted 32,980 13,881 44,192
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,984 £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 £81,000 £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 19 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 19 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 1,379 £67,500 +26.42% 464
South East +1 1,007 £60,000 +26.32% 653
Midlands -8 721 £55,000 -7.17% 206
North West +31 673 £72,500 +11.54% 294
Yorkshire -4 519 £65,000 +153.66% 128
South West 0 478 £62,000 +3.33% 187
East of England +22 476 £60,000 -9.39% 166
West Midlands -5 455 £55,000 -4.35% 119
East Midlands -12 265 £52,500 -12.50% 85
Scotland 0 211 £70,000 +38.76% 74
North East +2 187 £65,000 +106.35% 44
Wales +16 117 £54,000 -21.74% 50
Northern Ireland +10 52 £72,500 - 50
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 67 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.16%) Jupyter
3 41 (0.93%) CMS
4 32 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (0.70%) Confluence
6 30 (0.68%) Apache Spark
7 28 (0.63%) WordPress
8 23 (0.52%) Apache
9 19 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.091%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.068%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.068%) IIS
12 3 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.068%) SAS
13 2 (0.045%) Apache Qpid
13 2 (0.045%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.045%) nginx
14 1 (0.023%) Moodle
14 1 (0.023%) Umbraco
Applications
1 936 (21.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (1.79%) Chatbot
3 46 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 29 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.34%) Photoshop
5 15 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.34%) UserZoom
6 14 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 10 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
8 10 (0.23%) InDesign
9 9 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.20%) Simulink
10 3 (0.068%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.068%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.045%) Trello
12 1 (0.023%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.023%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.023%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (0.54%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.18%) Sage 50
5 7 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.091%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.068%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.068%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.045%) Q-Pulse
8 2 (0.045%) 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
Cloud Services
1 1,916 (43.44%) Azure
2 1,352 (30.65%) Azure AI
3 1,098 (24.89%) Power Platform
4 564 (12.79%) AWS
5 245 (5.55%) SaaS
6 184 (4.17%) GCP
7 163 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 162 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
9 161 (3.65%) GitHub
10 120 (2.72%) Microsoft Copilot
11 107 (2.43%) Serverless
12 105 (2.38%) Adobe Analytics
13 74 (1.68%) Figma
14 72 (1.63%) GitHub Copilot
15 71 (1.61%) Snowflake
16 61 (1.38%) Anthropic Claude
16 61 (1.38%) Power Automate
17 60 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
18 54 (1.22%) Entra ID
19 50 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 186 (4.22%) Broadband
2 51 (1.16%) Firewall
3 31 (0.70%) DNS
4 30 (0.68%) VPN
5 25 (0.57%) Network Security
6 23 (0.52%) Internet
7 22 (0.50%) Unified Communications
8 17 (0.39%) TCP/IP
9 16 (0.36%) MQTT
9 16 (0.36%) VLAN
10 14 (0.32%) DHCP
11 9 (0.20%) VoIP
12 7 (0.16%) Intranet
12 7 (0.16%) Wireless
13 6 (0.14%) DMZ
13 6 (0.14%) HTTP
14 5 (0.11%) BGP
14 5 (0.11%) OSPF
15 4 (0.091%) RTP
15 4 (0.091%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,014 (22.99%) Power BI
2 925 (20.97%) Tableau
3 145 (3.29%) MongoDB
4 125 (2.83%) SQL Server
5 124 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 66 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
7 60 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
8 50 (1.13%) Data Lake
9 46 (1.04%) Metadata
10 43 (0.97%) NoSQL
11 32 (0.73%) Relational Database
12 30 (0.68%) Big Data
12 30 (0.68%) Redis
13 26 (0.59%) Looker
13 26 (0.59%) MySQL
14 25 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
15 23 (0.52%) BigQuery
16 15 (0.34%) DynamoDB
17 14 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 103 (2.34%) Git
2 53 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
3 43 (0.97%) JIRA
4 36 (0.82%) GitLab
5 34 (0.77%) Jenkins
6 29 (0.66%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.50%) Snyk
8 18 (0.41%) Postman
8 18 (0.41%) Selenium
9 17 (0.39%) MLflow
10 15 (0.34%) JUnit
11 14 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.23%) Maven
13 9 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
14 8 (0.18%) JMeter
14 8 (0.18%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.14%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.14%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.14%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.14%) Spock
General
1 1,833 (41.56%) Social Skills
2 561 (12.72%) Finance
3 329 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
4 298 (6.76%) Marketing
5 290 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 208 (4.72%) Games
7 177 (4.01%) Retail
8 141 (3.20%) Public Sector
9 128 (2.90%) Manufacturing
10 127 (2.88%) Legal
11 101 (2.29%) Law
12 90 (2.04%) Banking
13 88 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
14 70 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
15 50 (1.13%) Automotive
16 43 (0.97%) Advertising
17 39 (0.88%) Electronics
18 29 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
19 27 (0.61%) Aerospace
19 27 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,034 (23.44%) Analyst
2 885 (20.06%) Data Analyst
3 880 (19.95%) Junior
4 866 (19.63%) Junior Analyst
5 865 (19.61%) Junior Data Analyst
6 487 (11.04%) Senior
7 447 (10.13%) Developer
8 428 (9.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 400 (9.07%) Lead
10 242 (5.49%) Architect
11 219 (4.96%) Software Engineer
12 153 (3.47%) Data Engineer
13 132 (2.99%) .NET Developer
14 91 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
15 81 (1.84%) Consultant
16 80 (1.81%) Software Developer
17 77 (1.75%) Senior Developer
18 73 (1.65%) Full-Stack Developer
19 72 (1.63%) Designer
20 70 (1.59%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (6.08%) .NET
2 197 (4.47%) React
3 141 (3.20%) CSS
4 138 (3.13%) HTML
5 122 (2.77%) ASP.NET
6 120 (2.72%) .NET Core
7 117 (2.65%) ASP.NET Core
8 102 (2.31%) ML.NET
9 96 (2.18%) RESTful
10 94 (2.13%) Node.js
11 88 (2.00%) REST
12 83 (1.88%) Blazor
13 67 (1.52%) scikit-learn
14 58 (1.31%) NumPy
14 58 (1.31%) Pandas
14 58 (1.31%) Vue
15 54 (1.22%) AngularJS
15 54 (1.22%) Hugging Face
16 53 (1.20%) Matplotlib
17 50 (1.13%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 185 (4.19%) Cloud Native
2 178 (4.04%) Social Media
3 122 (2.77%) Product Ownership
4 107 (2.43%) Algorithms
5 105 (2.38%) Robotics
6 102 (2.31%) AI Agents
7 96 (2.18%) Onboarding
8 91 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
9 78 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
10 69 (1.56%) Mobile App
11 63 (1.43%) Management Information System
12 58 (1.31%) Low-Code
13 51 (1.16%) Data Centre
14 44 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
15 40 (0.91%) Life Science
15 40 (0.91%) Virtual Team
16 39 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
17 34 (0.77%) Driving Licence
18 31 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
19 30 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 102 (2.31%) Windows
2 90 (2.04%) Linux
3 57 (1.29%) Android
4 40 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 39 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.39%) VMS
7 7 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.045%) Debian
10 2 (0.045%) Gentoo
10 2 (0.045%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.045%) Unix
10 2 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.023%) AIX
11 1 (0.023%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.023%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,068 (24.21%) Business Intelligence
2 722 (16.37%) Machine Learning
3 682 (15.46%) Agile
4 650 (14.74%) Analytics
5 516 (11.70%) CI/CD
6 482 (10.93%) Roadmaps
7 465 (10.54%) Software Engineering
8 447 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
9 407 (9.23%) DevOps
10 400 (9.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 367 (8.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 360 (8.16%) Decision-Making
13 324 (7.35%) LLM
14 309 (7.01%) Mentoring
15 296 (6.71%) Full-Stack Development
16 280 (6.35%) Customer Experience
17 236 (5.35%) Cybersecurity
18 228 (5.17%) Data Science
19 222 (5.03%) Generative AI
20 201 (4.56%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1,897 (43.01%) Python
2 1,302 (29.52%) SQL
3 302 (6.85%) C#
4 256 (5.80%) JavaScript
5 149 (3.38%) Java
6 141 (3.20%) TypeScript
7 95 (2.15%) C++
8 64 (1.45%) PowerShell
9 54 (1.22%) Bash
10 38 (0.86%) Go
11 35 (0.79%) C
12 28 (0.63%) R
13 27 (0.61%) Bicep
14 25 (0.57%) Rust
15 22 (0.50%) PHP
16 18 (0.41%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 15 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
19 14 (0.32%) Ruby
19 14 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,215 (27.54%) Azure Certification
2 322 (7.30%) Degree
3 190 (4.31%) Security Cleared
4 116 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 102 (2.31%) AWS Certification
6 81 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 69 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 65 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.18%) ACCA
9 52 (1.18%) CIMA
10 49 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 43 (0.97%) DBS Check
12 39 (0.88%) PhD
13 31 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.36%) CISSP
16 12 (0.27%) HNC
17 11 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
18 8 (0.18%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (4.78%) Accessibility
2 161 (3.65%) Data Quality
3 113 (2.56%) GDPR
4 101 (2.29%) QA
5 61 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (1.11%) WCAG
7 41 (0.93%) GRC
8 40 (0.91%) SLA
9 39 (0.88%) NIST
10 26 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 21 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 21 (0.48%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 13 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 13 (0.29%) NCSC
14 11 (0.25%) PMO
15 10 (0.23%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.20%) GxP
16 9 (0.20%) IFRS
16 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 184 (4.17%) Docker
2 53 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 51 (1.16%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.43%) Firmware
5 18 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.25%) vSphere
7 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
9 7 (0.16%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.068%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 188 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 140 (3.17%) Terraform
3 34 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (0.68%) Grafana
5 29 (0.66%) Ansible
6 23 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.20%) Podman
8 8 (0.18%) Kubeflow
8 8 (0.18%) Proxmox
9 7 (0.16%) Puppet
10 6 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.11%) Functional Safety
11 5 (0.11%) Nagios
12 4 (0.091%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.091%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.091%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.068%) Argo
13 3 (0.068%) cPanel
13 3 (0.068%) Plesk
14 2 (0.045%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,524 (34.55%) Microsoft
2 164 (3.72%) Adobe
3 122 (2.77%) Google
4 103 (2.34%) Databricks
5 76 (1.72%) Dell
6 74 (1.68%) Cisco
7 72 (1.63%) OpenAI
8 52 (1.18%) Salesforce
9 50 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 47 (1.07%) Apple
11 46 (1.04%) Oracle
12 29 (0.66%) HubSpot
12 29 (0.66%) SAP
13 26 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
13 26 (0.59%) VMware
14 25 (0.57%) Tenable
15 24 (0.54%) Facebook
15 24 (0.54%) Sage
16 22 (0.50%) Palo Alto
17 14 (0.32%) Foundry