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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 50
Rank change year-on-year +1 +35 +124
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,318 2,967 3,398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.50% 10.08% 4.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.34% 11.04% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,024 760 1,335
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £36,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -12.82%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £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 46,239 26,873 62,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.65% 91.25% 80.42%
Number of salaries quoted 32,138 13,591 43,459
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,250 £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% -9.54%

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 11 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 11 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 +11 1,325 £67,500 +22.73% 556
South East +3 998 £60,000 +20.00% 662
Midlands -9 715 £55,000 -4.35% 239
North West +31 646 £72,500 +11.54% 356
Yorkshire -2 505 £65,000 +153.66% 141
South West +2 469 £60,000 - 241
East of England +25 467 £60,000 -9.39% 163
West Midlands -5 450 £55,000 -4.35% 171
East Midlands -14 264 £52,500 -8.70% 66
Scotland -1 205 £70,000 +38.76% 91
North East +5 174 £65,000 +64.56% 61
Wales +23 117 £54,000 -21.74% 41
Northern Ireland +11 53 £72,500 - 31
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 65 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.18%) Jupyter
3 39 (0.90%) CMS
4 31 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.65%) Confluence
6 26 (0.60%) WordPress
7 21 (0.49%) Apache
8 16 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.14%) IIS
9 6 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.069%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.046%) Apache Qpid
12 2 (0.046%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.046%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.046%) nginx
12 2 (0.046%) SAS
13 1 (0.023%) Camunda
13 1 (0.023%) WildFly
Applications
1 983 (22.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (1.81%) Chatbot
3 47 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.35%) UserZoom
6 13 (0.30%) Photoshop
7 12 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
7 12 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 9 (0.21%) Simulink
10 8 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
10 8 (0.19%) InDesign
11 7 (0.16%) MS Visio
12 3 (0.069%) Camtasia
12 3 (0.069%) Stateflow
13 2 (0.046%) 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 (0.069%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.069%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.069%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.046%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.046%) 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 1,914 (44.33%) Azure
2 1,370 (31.73%) Azure AI
3 1,140 (26.40%) Power Platform
4 543 (12.58%) AWS
5 236 (5.47%) SaaS
6 177 (4.10%) GCP
7 153 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
8 142 (3.29%) GitHub
9 141 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
10 108 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
11 106 (2.45%) Adobe Analytics
12 100 (2.32%) Serverless
13 75 (1.74%) Figma
14 74 (1.71%) Snowflake
15 64 (1.48%) GitHub Copilot
16 60 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
17 56 (1.30%) Anthropic Claude
17 56 (1.30%) Power Automate
18 54 (1.25%) Entra ID
19 49 (1.13%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 186 (4.31%) Broadband
2 46 (1.07%) Firewall
3 27 (0.63%) DNS
4 25 (0.58%) Network Security
5 24 (0.56%) Unified Communications
5 24 (0.56%) VPN
6 17 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 16 (0.37%) MQTT
8 15 (0.35%) Internet
9 14 (0.32%) VLAN
10 13 (0.30%) DHCP
11 10 (0.23%) VoIP
12 7 (0.16%) Wireless
13 6 (0.14%) DMZ
13 6 (0.14%) HTTP
14 5 (0.12%) BGP
14 5 (0.12%) Intranet
14 5 (0.12%) OSPF
15 4 (0.093%) RTP
15 4 (0.093%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,059 (24.53%) Power BI
2 980 (22.70%) Tableau
3 123 (2.85%) SQL Server
4 119 (2.76%) MongoDB
5 93 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 61 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 60 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (1.13%) Data Lake
9 44 (1.02%) Metadata
10 41 (0.95%) NoSQL
11 33 (0.76%) Big Data
12 29 (0.67%) Redis
12 29 (0.67%) Relational Database
13 26 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (0.60%) Looker
14 25 (0.58%) MySQL
15 23 (0.53%) BigQuery
16 21 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.35%) DynamoDB
18 14 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 95 (2.20%) Git
2 53 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
3 38 (0.88%) JIRA
4 31 (0.72%) GitLab
4 31 (0.72%) Jenkins
5 26 (0.60%) Claude Code
6 22 (0.51%) Snyk
7 18 (0.42%) MLflow
8 16 (0.37%) Postman
8 16 (0.37%) Selenium
9 13 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 13 (0.30%) JUnit
10 10 (0.23%) Maven
11 9 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
11 9 (0.21%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.16%) JMeter
13 6 (0.14%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.14%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.14%) SpecFlow
14 5 (0.12%) Vite
General
1 1,853 (42.91%) Social Skills
2 535 (12.39%) Finance
3 325 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 286 (6.62%) Marketing
5 282 (6.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 207 (4.79%) Games
7 169 (3.91%) Retail
8 129 (2.99%) Legal
9 128 (2.96%) Public Sector
10 121 (2.80%) Manufacturing
11 98 (2.27%) Law
12 89 (2.06%) Banking
13 82 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
14 59 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
15 50 (1.16%) Automotive
16 39 (0.90%) Electronics
17 37 (0.86%) Advertising
18 29 (0.67%) Telecoms
19 26 (0.60%) Aerospace
20 25 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,078 (24.97%) Analyst
2 935 (21.65%) Data Analyst
3 934 (21.63%) Junior
4 920 (21.31%) Junior Analyst
5 919 (21.28%) Junior Data Analyst
6 462 (10.70%) Senior
7 423 (9.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 399 (9.24%) Developer
9 384 (8.89%) Lead
10 227 (5.26%) Architect
11 205 (4.75%) Software Engineer
12 145 (3.36%) Data Engineer
13 105 (2.43%) .NET Developer
14 87 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
15 75 (1.74%) Software Developer
16 73 (1.69%) Consultant
17 70 (1.62%) Designer
17 70 (1.62%) Senior Developer
18 69 (1.60%) Data Scientist
18 69 (1.60%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (5.37%) .NET
2 179 (4.15%) React
3 124 (2.87%) CSS
4 121 (2.80%) HTML
5 95 (2.20%) ASP.NET
6 93 (2.15%) .NET Core
7 92 (2.13%) Node.js
8 90 (2.08%) ASP.NET Core
9 89 (2.06%) REST
10 81 (1.88%) RESTful
11 75 (1.74%) ML.NET
12 66 (1.53%) scikit-learn
13 64 (1.48%) Blazor
14 58 (1.34%) NumPy
14 58 (1.34%) Pandas
15 56 (1.30%) Vue
16 54 (1.25%) AngularJS
16 54 (1.25%) Hugging Face
17 52 (1.20%) Matplotlib
18 50 (1.16%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 173 (4.01%) Social Media
2 167 (3.87%) Cloud Native
3 117 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 109 (2.52%) Robotics
5 107 (2.48%) Algorithms
6 95 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 93 (2.15%) AI Agents
8 89 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
9 71 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 66 (1.53%) Mobile App
11 62 (1.44%) Management Information System
12 59 (1.37%) Low-Code
13 50 (1.16%) Data Centre
13 50 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
14 44 (1.02%) Life Science
15 37 (0.86%) Virtual Team
16 35 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
17 33 (0.76%) Driving Licence
18 31 (0.72%) Public Cloud
19 26 (0.60%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.06%) Windows
2 82 (1.90%) Linux
3 53 (1.23%) Android
4 38 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 33 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.32%) VMS
7 6 (0.14%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.069%) Unix
10 2 (0.046%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.046%) 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 1,115 (25.82%) Business Intelligence
2 686 (15.89%) Machine Learning
3 656 (15.19%) Agile
4 634 (14.68%) Analytics
5 481 (11.14%) CI/CD
6 464 (10.75%) Roadmaps
7 441 (10.21%) Software Engineering
8 431 (9.98%) Problem-Solving
9 396 (9.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 381 (8.82%) DevOps
11 345 (7.99%) Decision-Making
12 343 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 319 (7.39%) LLM
14 288 (6.67%) Mentoring
15 277 (6.42%) Customer Experience
16 262 (6.07%) Full-Stack Development
17 230 (5.33%) Data Science
18 227 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
19 217 (5.03%) Generative AI
20 189 (4.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1,936 (44.84%) Python
2 1,309 (30.31%) SQL
3 261 (6.04%) C#
4 231 (5.35%) JavaScript
5 150 (3.47%) Java
6 126 (2.92%) TypeScript
7 85 (1.97%) C++
8 57 (1.32%) PowerShell
9 46 (1.07%) Bash
10 34 (0.79%) C
10 34 (0.79%) Go
11 33 (0.76%) R
12 22 (0.51%) PHP
13 21 (0.49%) Rust
14 20 (0.46%) Bicep
15 17 (0.39%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.37%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.30%) Ruby
17 13 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,265 (29.30%) Azure Certification
2 314 (7.27%) Degree
3 177 (4.10%) Security Cleared
4 108 (2.50%) SC Cleared
5 106 (2.45%) AWS Certification
6 71 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 67 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 67 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 51 (1.18%) ACCA
8 51 (1.18%) CIMA
9 49 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 43 (1.00%) DBS Check
11 41 (0.95%) PhD
12 31 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (0.37%) CISSP
14 13 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.28%) HNC
16 11 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
17 10 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
18 8 (0.19%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (4.75%) Accessibility
2 156 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 104 (2.41%) GDPR
4 94 (2.18%) QA
5 57 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.11%) WCAG
7 40 (0.93%) GRC
7 40 (0.93%) NIST
8 33 (0.76%) SLA
9 26 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 19 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 19 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 13 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 12 (0.28%) NCSC
14 11 (0.25%) GxP
15 10 (0.23%) PMO
15 10 (0.23%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 158 (3.66%) Docker
2 52 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 48 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.44%) Firmware
5 14 (0.32%) 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 (0.069%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 164 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 129 (2.99%) Terraform
3 34 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (0.65%) Grafana
5 26 (0.60%) Ansible
6 21 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.23%) 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 (0.069%) Argo
14 2 (0.046%) cPanel
14 2 (0.046%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,530 (35.43%) Microsoft
2 169 (3.91%) Adobe
3 108 (2.50%) Google
4 105 (2.43%) Databricks
5 75 (1.74%) Dell
6 71 (1.64%) Cisco
7 69 (1.60%) OpenAI
8 55 (1.27%) Salesforce
9 47 (1.09%) Apple
9 47 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 45 (1.04%) Oracle
11 29 (0.67%) HubSpot
12 27 (0.63%) SAP
13 26 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
14 25 (0.58%) Tenable
15 22 (0.51%) Palo Alto
15 22 (0.51%) VMware
16 21 (0.49%) Sage
17 16 (0.37%) Facebook
18 13 (0.30%) Splunk