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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 13 51
Rank change year-on-year -2 +38 +124
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,426 3,102 3,354
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.53% 10.31% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.36% 11.33% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,172 765 1,343
10th Percentile £33,775 £24,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £35,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,886 £80,625
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 47,304 27,370 63,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.82% 91.01% 79.70%
Number of salaries quoted 33,151 13,928 44,255
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 20 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 20 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 1,387 £67,500 +26.42% 514
South East -1 1,010 £60,000 +20.00% 693
Midlands -8 721 £55,000 -7.17% 247
North West +29 677 £72,500 +11.54% 337
Yorkshire -3 520 £65,000 +153.66% 132
South West -1 481 £62,500 +4.17% 205
East of England +21 480 £60,000 -9.39% 179
West Midlands -5 455 £55,000 -4.35% 158
East Midlands -13 265 £52,500 -12.50% 89
Scotland 0 208 £70,000 +38.76% 113
North East 0 190 £65,000 +106.35% 47
Wales +17 117 £54,000 -21.74% 55
Northern Ireland +13 52 £72,500 - 53
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 68 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.15%) Jupyter
3 42 (0.95%) CMS
4 32 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (0.70%) Confluence
6 30 (0.68%) Apache Spark
7 28 (0.63%) WordPress
8 23 (0.52%) Apache
9 20 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.090%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.068%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.068%) IIS
12 3 (0.068%) SAS
13 2 (0.045%) Apache Qpid
13 2 (0.045%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.045%) nginx
13 2 (0.045%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.023%) Moodle
14 1 (0.023%) Umbraco
Applications
1 935 (21.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (1.78%) Chatbot
3 46 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 28 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.34%) UserZoom
6 14 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
6 14 (0.32%) Photoshop
7 12 (0.27%) 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 (0.090%) 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%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.045%) Q-Pulse
8 2 (0.045%) 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%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.023%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.023%) Shopify
9 1 (0.023%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,920 (43.38%) Azure
2 1,356 (30.64%) Azure AI
3 1,098 (24.81%) Power Platform
4 568 (12.83%) AWS
5 248 (5.60%) SaaS
6 188 (4.25%) GCP
7 164 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
8 162 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
9 161 (3.64%) GitHub
10 121 (2.73%) Microsoft Copilot
11 109 (2.46%) Serverless
12 105 (2.37%) Adobe Analytics
13 73 (1.65%) Figma
14 70 (1.58%) Snowflake
15 69 (1.56%) GitHub Copilot
16 64 (1.45%) Anthropic Claude
17 62 (1.40%) Power Automate
18 60 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
19 56 (1.27%) Entra ID
20 51 (1.15%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 186 (4.20%) Broadband
2 51 (1.15%) Firewall
3 31 (0.70%) DNS
3 31 (0.70%) VPN
4 26 (0.59%) Network Security
5 24 (0.54%) Internet
6 22 (0.50%) Unified Communications
7 17 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.36%) MQTT
8 16 (0.36%) VLAN
9 14 (0.32%) DHCP
10 9 (0.20%) VoIP
11 7 (0.16%) Intranet
11 7 (0.16%) Wireless
12 6 (0.14%) DMZ
12 6 (0.14%) HTTP
13 5 (0.11%) BGP
13 5 (0.11%) OSPF
14 4 (0.090%) RTP
14 4 (0.090%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,013 (22.89%) Power BI
2 924 (20.88%) Tableau
3 149 (3.37%) MongoDB
4 128 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 124 (2.80%) SQL Server
6 67 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
7 61 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (1.11%) Data Lake
9 45 (1.02%) Metadata
10 43 (0.97%) NoSQL
11 32 (0.72%) Relational Database
12 31 (0.70%) Big Data
13 30 (0.68%) Redis
14 27 (0.61%) MySQL
15 26 (0.59%) Looker
16 25 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
17 24 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
18 23 (0.52%) BigQuery
19 15 (0.34%) DynamoDB
19 15 (0.34%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 105 (2.37%) Git
2 53 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
3 43 (0.97%) JIRA
4 36 (0.81%) GitLab
5 33 (0.75%) Jenkins
6 31 (0.70%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.50%) Snyk
8 18 (0.41%) Postman
8 18 (0.41%) Selenium
9 17 (0.38%) 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 1,837 (41.50%) Social Skills
2 561 (12.68%) Finance
3 331 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
4 298 (6.73%) Marketing
5 288 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 210 (4.74%) Games
7 179 (4.04%) Retail
8 142 (3.21%) Public Sector
9 129 (2.91%) Manufacturing
10 128 (2.89%) Legal
11 101 (2.28%) Law
12 90 (2.03%) Banking
13 88 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
14 70 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
15 50 (1.13%) Automotive
16 43 (0.97%) Advertising
17 40 (0.90%) Electronics
18 29 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
19 28 (0.63%) Aerospace
20 26 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,036 (23.41%) Analyst
2 886 (20.02%) Data Analyst
3 880 (19.88%) Junior
4 866 (19.57%) Junior Analyst
5 865 (19.54%) Junior Data Analyst
6 489 (11.05%) Senior
7 453 (10.23%) Developer
8 430 (9.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 402 (9.08%) Lead
10 244 (5.51%) Architect
11 225 (5.08%) Software Engineer
12 154 (3.48%) Data Engineer
13 135 (3.05%) .NET Developer
14 92 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
15 81 (1.83%) Consultant
15 81 (1.83%) Software Developer
16 78 (1.76%) Senior Developer
17 73 (1.65%) Full-Stack Developer
18 72 (1.63%) Data Scientist
19 71 (1.60%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (6.19%) .NET
2 200 (4.52%) React
3 142 (3.21%) CSS
4 139 (3.14%) HTML
5 126 (2.85%) ASP.NET
6 124 (2.80%) .NET Core
7 121 (2.73%) ASP.NET Core
8 105 (2.37%) ML.NET
9 98 (2.21%) RESTful
10 95 (2.15%) Node.js
11 87 (1.97%) REST
12 85 (1.92%) Blazor
13 67 (1.51%) scikit-learn
14 60 (1.36%) Vue
15 58 (1.31%) NumPy
15 58 (1.31%) Pandas
16 55 (1.24%) AngularJS
17 54 (1.22%) Hugging Face
18 53 (1.20%) Matplotlib
19 50 (1.13%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 184 (4.16%) Cloud Native
2 178 (4.02%) Social Media
3 120 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 109 (2.46%) Algorithms
5 105 (2.37%) Robotics
6 104 (2.35%) AI Agents
7 97 (2.19%) Onboarding
8 93 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
9 79 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 69 (1.56%) Mobile App
11 63 (1.42%) Management Information System
12 57 (1.29%) Low-Code
13 51 (1.15%) Data Centre
14 43 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
15 41 (0.93%) Life Science
16 40 (0.90%) Virtual Team
17 39 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
18 35 (0.79%) Driving Licence
19 33 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
20 31 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 103 (2.33%) Windows
2 91 (2.06%) Linux
3 58 (1.31%) Android
4 41 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 39 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.41%) 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 1,067 (24.11%) Business Intelligence
2 730 (16.49%) Machine Learning
3 682 (15.41%) Agile
4 656 (14.82%) Analytics
5 515 (11.64%) CI/CD
6 481 (10.87%) Roadmaps
7 472 (10.66%) Software Engineering
8 453 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
9 409 (9.24%) DevOps
10 400 (9.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 364 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 363 (8.20%) Decision-Making
13 326 (7.37%) LLM
14 314 (7.09%) Mentoring
15 298 (6.73%) Full-Stack Development
16 281 (6.35%) Customer Experience
17 238 (5.38%) Cybersecurity
18 230 (5.20%) Data Science
19 225 (5.08%) Generative AI
20 207 (4.68%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1,898 (42.88%) Python
2 1,308 (29.55%) SQL
3 307 (6.94%) C#
4 262 (5.92%) JavaScript
5 148 (3.34%) Java
6 143 (3.23%) TypeScript
7 98 (2.21%) C++
8 67 (1.51%) PowerShell
9 55 (1.24%) Bash
10 37 (0.84%) Go
11 36 (0.81%) C
12 28 (0.63%) Bicep
12 28 (0.63%) R
13 26 (0.59%) Rust
14 22 (0.50%) PHP
15 18 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 16 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.32%) Ruby
19 13 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,216 (27.47%) Azure Certification
2 329 (7.43%) Degree
3 194 (4.38%) Security Cleared
4 120 (2.71%) SC Cleared
5 102 (2.30%) AWS Certification
6 84 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 69 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 66 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.17%) ACCA
9 52 (1.17%) 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 19 (0.43%) 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 (4.77%) Accessibility
2 163 (3.68%) Data Quality
3 114 (2.58%) GDPR
4 102 (2.30%) QA
5 62 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (1.11%) WCAG
7 41 (0.93%) GRC
8 40 (0.90%) NIST
8 40 (0.90%) SLA
9 26 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 21 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 13 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 13 (0.29%) NCSC
13 10 (0.23%) PMO
13 10 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 9 (0.20%) GxP
14 9 (0.20%) IFRS
14 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 186 (4.20%) Docker
2 53 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 53 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (0.43%) Firmware
3 19 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.27%) vSphere
5 11 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.068%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 190 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 141 (3.19%) 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 5 (0.11%) Functional Safety
10 5 (0.11%) Nagios
10 5 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.090%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.090%) SolarWinds Orion
11 4 (0.090%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.068%) Argo
12 3 (0.068%) cPanel
12 3 (0.068%) Plesk
13 2 (0.045%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,528 (34.52%) Microsoft
2 164 (3.71%) Adobe
3 124 (2.80%) Google
4 102 (2.30%) Databricks
5 76 (1.72%) Dell
6 75 (1.69%) OpenAI
7 74 (1.67%) Cisco
8 50 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 50 (1.13%) ServiceNow
9 47 (1.06%) Apple
10 45 (1.02%) Oracle
11 29 (0.66%) HubSpot
11 29 (0.66%) SAP
12 27 (0.61%) VMware
13 26 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
14 25 (0.56%) Tenable
15 24 (0.54%) Facebook
15 24 (0.54%) Sage
16 22 (0.50%) Palo Alto
17 15 (0.34%) Foundry