Artificial Intelligence Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 49 134
Rank change year-on-year +40 +85 -9
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 3,694 2,331 836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.75% 4.22% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.40% 5.37% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 717 898 528
10th Percentile £25,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence 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 29,785 43,415 32,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.72% 78.53% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 16,122 23,546 23,598
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Artificial Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence
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 Artificial Intelligence within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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 +58 1,041 £60,000 - 427
South East +20 986 £52,500 -19.23% 1,058
Midlands +97 751 £60,000 -4.00% 212
North West +35 501 £60,000 +4.35% 264
Yorkshire +79 438 £75,000 +7.14% 132
Scotland +7 414 £67,500 +3.85% 145
West Midlands +114 405 £59,764 -4.38% 122
East Midlands +70 341 £65,000 +17.65% 80
South West +49 261 £60,000 -4.00% 171
East of England +70 209 £59,250 -30.29% 185
North East +62 101 £34,168 -40.38% 39
Wales +28 59 £55,000 -20.00% 24
Northern Ireland -18 7 £85,000 - 32
Channel Islands +5 3 £80,000 +31.15%
Artificial Intelligence
UK

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 54 (1.46%) Apache Spark
2 25 (0.68%) CMS
2 25 (0.68%) Confluence
3 24 (0.65%) SharePoint
4 21 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (0.51%) Apache
6 12 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.27%) WordPress
8 9 (0.24%) Apache Solr
9 8 (0.22%) Camunda
9 8 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.081%) Kentico
12 3 (0.081%) Kinematics
12 3 (0.081%) SAS
12 3 (0.081%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.054%) Skype for Business
14 1 (0.027%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.027%) IIS
Applications
1 1,171 (31.70%) Chatbot
2 53 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
4 10 (0.27%) Photoshop
5 9 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.19%) Simulink
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.081%) InDesign
8 3 (0.081%) Notion
8 3 (0.081%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.054%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
2 7 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.11%) Shopify
4 2 (0.054%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.054%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.027%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.027%) Magento
5 1 (0.027%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.027%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.027%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 385 (10.42%) Azure
2 311 (8.42%) AWS
3 175 (4.74%) Power Platform
4 125 (3.38%) GCP
5 108 (2.92%) SaaS
6 101 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
8 47 (1.27%) Entra ID
9 46 (1.25%) Snowflake
10 45 (1.22%) Azure AI
11 44 (1.19%) GitHub
12 39 (1.06%) Vertex AI
13 38 (1.03%) Amazon S3
13 38 (1.03%) Serverless
14 37 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
15 32 (0.87%) Power Automate
16 29 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
17 26 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (0.60%) ChatGPT
18 22 (0.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (0.89%) Firewall
2 23 (0.62%) DNS
3 19 (0.51%) SD-WAN
3 19 (0.51%) WAN
4 17 (0.46%) VPN
5 15 (0.41%) Unified Communications
6 13 (0.35%) Network Security
6 13 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 12 (0.32%) Internet
8 10 (0.27%) SAN
9 8 (0.22%) DHCP
9 8 (0.22%) VoIP
10 4 (0.11%) Bluetooth
10 4 (0.11%) HTTP
10 4 (0.11%) Modbus
10 4 (0.11%) Wireless
11 3 (0.081%) Broadband
11 3 (0.081%) Intranet
11 3 (0.081%) MQTT
11 3 (0.081%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (3.65%) Power BI
2 74 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 71 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 65 (1.76%) MySQL
6 61 (1.65%) Tableau
7 53 (1.43%) MongoDB
8 47 (1.27%) Metadata
9 44 (1.19%) Big Data
10 41 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
11 38 (1.03%) Data Lake
12 29 (0.79%) Data Mining
12 29 (0.79%) DynamoDB
13 24 (0.65%) Hadoop
14 22 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (0.60%) Spark SQL
15 20 (0.54%) Delta Lake
16 18 (0.49%) Relational Database
17 15 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 77 (2.08%) Git
2 67 (1.81%) JIRA
3 26 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.57%) MLflow
5 16 (0.43%) JUnit
6 12 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.30%) TeamCity
8 10 (0.27%) Selenium
9 9 (0.24%) Maven
10 7 (0.19%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.16%) GitLab
11 6 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.14%) Gradle
13 4 (0.11%) Locust
14 3 (0.081%) Burp Suite
14 3 (0.081%) Metasploit
14 3 (0.081%) Subversion
15 2 (0.054%) JMeter
15 2 (0.054%) Robot Framework
15 2 (0.054%) SoapUI
General
1 926 (25.07%) Analytical Skills
2 838 (22.69%) Retail
3 765 (20.71%) Manufacturing
4 637 (17.24%) Social Skills
5 509 (13.78%) Finance
6 408 (11.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 336 (9.10%) Law
8 328 (8.88%) Marketing
9 192 (5.20%) Dutch Language
9 192 (5.20%) Finnish Language
9 192 (5.20%) Norwegian Language
10 140 (3.79%) Public Sector
11 109 (2.95%) Legal
12 99 (2.68%) Banking
13 62 (1.68%) Aviation
14 48 (1.30%) Catalan Language
15 40 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
16 36 (0.97%) Aerospace
17 32 (0.87%) Electronics
18 31 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,844 (49.92%) Trainer
2 271 (7.34%) Senior
3 197 (5.33%) Lead
4 196 (5.31%) Developer
5 193 (5.22%) Software Engineer
6 115 (3.11%) Java Engineer
7 100 (2.71%) Architect
8 91 (2.46%) Sales Executive
9 85 (2.30%) Analyst
10 81 (2.19%) Content Editor
11 80 (2.17%) Innovation Manager
12 75 (2.03%) Java Software Engineer
13 56 (1.52%) Corporate Sales Executive
14 51 (1.38%) DevOps Engineer
15 47 (1.27%) Microsoft Specialist
16 43 (1.16%) Data Engineer
16 43 (1.16%) Python Engineer
16 43 (1.16%) Software Developer
17 42 (1.14%) Biostatistician
18 40 (1.08%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (2.87%) React
2 94 (2.54%) Spring
3 80 (2.17%) HTML
4 67 (1.81%) .NET
5 61 (1.65%) Kafka
6 52 (1.41%) PyTorch
6 52 (1.41%) REST
7 51 (1.38%) TensorFlow
8 49 (1.33%) RESTful
9 46 (1.25%) Spring Boot
10 43 (1.16%) Node.js
11 37 (1.00%) scikit-learn
12 36 (0.97%) PySpark
13 35 (0.95%) AngularJS
13 35 (0.95%) Pandas
14 33 (0.89%) CSS
15 32 (0.87%) NumPy
16 24 (0.65%) Hugging Face
17 21 (0.57%) Keras
17 21 (0.57%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 810 (21.93%) Robotics
2 125 (3.38%) Algorithms
3 118 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 101 (2.73%) Cloud Native
5 73 (1.98%) Data Centre
6 72 (1.95%) e-Learning
7 65 (1.76%) Product Ownership
8 61 (1.65%) Management Information System
9 53 (1.43%) Onboarding
10 48 (1.30%) AI Agents
11 46 (1.25%) Molecular Biology
12 44 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
13 41 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
14 37 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
15 35 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
16 34 (0.92%) Social Media
17 30 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
18 28 (0.76%) FMCG
18 28 (0.76%) Virtual Team
19 24 (0.65%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 59 (1.60%) Windows
2 48 (1.30%) Linux
3 38 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 29 (0.79%) Unix
5 24 (0.65%) Android
6 21 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.30%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.081%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.081%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.027%) Debian
12 1 (0.027%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.027%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.027%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,321 (35.76%) Machine Learning
2 1,172 (31.73%) Conversational UI
3 1,004 (27.18%) Problem-Solving
4 906 (24.53%) Generative AI
5 854 (23.12%) LLM
6 720 (19.49%) Red Team
7 634 (17.16%) Data Privacy
8 573 (15.51%) Chemistry
9 559 (15.13%) Agile
10 488 (13.21%) Analytics
11 368 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 345 (9.34%) Software Engineering
13 337 (9.12%) Computer Science
14 321 (8.69%) Decision-Making
15 303 (8.20%) Roadmaps
16 300 (8.12%) Mathematics
17 290 (7.85%) CI/CD
18 241 (6.52%) DevOps
19 225 (6.09%) Customer Experience
20 217 (5.87%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 354 (9.58%) Python
2 335 (9.07%) SQL
3 274 (7.42%) Java
4 162 (4.39%) JavaScript
5 124 (3.36%) TypeScript
6 101 (2.73%) C#
7 80 (2.17%) C++
8 70 (1.89%) PowerShell
9 69 (1.87%) R
10 64 (1.73%) C
11 62 (1.68%) MATLAB
12 57 (1.54%) PHP
13 56 (1.52%) Rust
14 48 (1.30%) Dart
14 48 (1.30%) Ruby
15 33 (0.89%) Bash
16 28 (0.76%) Bicep
17 24 (0.65%) T-SQL
18 16 (0.43%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,219 (60.07%) Degree
2 897 (24.28%) Master's Degree
3 846 (22.90%) PhD
4 130 (3.52%) Security Cleared
5 120 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 101 (2.73%) SC Cleared
7 42 (1.14%) DBS Check
8 34 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 19 (0.51%) DV Cleared
11 18 (0.49%) AWS Certification
12 16 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.35%) HNC
14 12 (0.32%) HND
15 9 (0.24%) MBA
16 8 (0.22%) ACCA
17 7 (0.19%) CISA
17 7 (0.19%) ISACA
17 7 (0.19%) Six Sigma Green Belt
18 6 (0.16%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (1.73%) Data Quality
2 34 (0.92%) Accessibility
3 33 (0.89%) QA
4 31 (0.84%) GDPR
5 23 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (0.49%) GxP
6 18 (0.49%) ITGC
7 12 (0.32%) SLA
8 11 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.22%) NIST
12 6 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.14%) CDISC
13 5 (0.14%) HL7
13 5 (0.14%) ISO 13485
13 5 (0.14%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.14%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.11%) NCSC
15 3 (0.081%) GRC
System Software
1 99 (2.68%) Docker
2 23 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 18 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.24%) HDFS
8 6 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.11%) Firmware
9 4 (0.11%) vSphere
10 3 (0.081%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.027%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 95 (2.57%) Terraform
2 90 (2.44%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (0.70%) Grafana
5 20 (0.54%) Kubeflow
5 20 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.41%) Ansible
8 8 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.19%) SCCM
10 6 (0.16%) ArcSight ESM
10 6 (0.16%) QRadar
11 4 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (0.11%) Netcool
11 4 (0.11%) Netcool/OMNIbus
11 4 (0.11%) SCOM
11 4 (0.11%) Tivoli
12 3 (0.081%) Nessus
12 3 (0.081%) Nmap
12 3 (0.081%) Oozie
Vendors
1 1,127 (30.51%) PayPal
2 835 (22.60%) Google
3 793 (21.47%) Databricks
4 765 (20.71%) Adobe
5 383 (10.37%) Microsoft
6 116 (3.14%) Cisco
7 95 (2.57%) Oracle
8 84 (2.27%) IBM
9 81 (2.19%) Red Hat
10 80 (2.17%) Dell
11 56 (1.52%) OpenAI
12 37 (1.00%) Splunk
13 34 (0.92%) Apple
14 30 (0.81%) Salesforce
14 30 (0.81%) ServiceNow
15 29 (0.79%) Palo Alto
16 27 (0.73%) VMware
17 25 (0.68%) SAP
18 20 (0.54%) Blue Prism
18 20 (0.54%) Dynatrace