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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 16 49
Rank change year-on-year +7 +33 +121
Permanent jobs citing AI 5,116 2,893 3,431
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 7.68% 9.74% 4.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.97% 10.65% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,952 750 1,325
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £35,875 £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 £83,750 £74,750 £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 46,638 27,157 61,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.04% 91.43% 80.65%
Number of salaries quoted 31,682 13,616 43,170
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,890 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +1.78% -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 8 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 8 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 +18 1,577 £67,500 +22.73% 569
South East +5 1,159 £62,500 +19.05% 627
Midlands -4 996 £55,000 -4.35% 233
North West +36 888 £72,500 +11.54% 350
West Midlands -1 708 £55,000 -4.35% 144
East of England +29 582 £60,000 -9.39% 175
Yorkshire -1 522 £65,000 +114.43% 164
South West +3 462 £60,000 - 237
East Midlands -13 291 £52,500 -8.70% 87
Scotland +1 197 £70,000 +39.38% 102
North East +7 167 £65,000 +64.56% 58
Wales +33 123 £53,171 -22.94% 41
Northern Ireland +10 53 £72,500 - 42
Channel Islands +1 2 - -
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 60 (1.17%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.00%) Jupyter
3 38 (0.74%) CMS
4 31 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.55%) Confluence
6 25 (0.49%) WordPress
7 20 (0.39%) Apache
8 14 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.14%) IIS
10 5 (0.098%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.059%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.039%) Apache Qpid
13 2 (0.039%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.020%) Camunda
14 1 (0.020%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.020%) Moodle
14 1 (0.020%) nginx
14 1 (0.020%) WildFly
Applications
1 982 (19.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (1.49%) Chatbot
3 51 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 32 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.31%) UserZoom
6 12 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 11 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 10 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 9 (0.18%) Simulink
10 7 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
10 7 (0.14%) InDesign
11 6 (0.12%) MS Visio
12 3 (0.059%) Camtasia
12 3 (0.059%) Stateflow
13 2 (0.039%) Trello
14 1 (0.020%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.020%) Revit
14 1 (0.020%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.47%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.16%) Sage 50
5 7 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.078%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.059%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.059%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.059%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.039%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.020%) Maximo
9 1 (0.020%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.020%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.020%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.020%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.020%) Primavera
9 1 (0.020%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.020%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.020%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 1,870 (36.55%) Azure
2 1,353 (26.45%) Azure AI
3 1,134 (22.17%) Power Platform
4 939 (18.35%) Cloud Computing
5 522 (10.20%) AWS
6 225 (4.40%) SaaS
7 168 (3.28%) GCP
8 148 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
9 127 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
10 125 (2.44%) GitHub
11 109 (2.13%) Adobe Analytics
12 103 (2.01%) Microsoft Copilot
13 93 (1.82%) Serverless
14 75 (1.47%) Figma
15 72 (1.41%) Snowflake
16 57 (1.11%) GitHub Copilot
17 54 (1.06%) Anthropic Claude
18 53 (1.04%) Entra ID
18 53 (1.04%) Power Automate
19 47 (0.92%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 890 (17.40%) Internet
2 179 (3.50%) Broadband
3 45 (0.88%) Firewall
4 27 (0.53%) DNS
5 25 (0.49%) Network Security
5 25 (0.49%) Unified Communications
6 22 (0.43%) VPN
7 17 (0.33%) TCP/IP
8 15 (0.29%) MQTT
9 14 (0.27%) VLAN
10 13 (0.25%) DHCP
11 11 (0.22%) VoIP
12 7 (0.14%) Wireless
13 6 (0.12%) DMZ
13 6 (0.12%) HTTP
14 5 (0.098%) BGP
14 5 (0.098%) Intranet
14 5 (0.098%) OSPF
14 5 (0.098%) Telepresence
14 5 (0.098%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,053 (20.58%) Power BI
2 978 (19.12%) Tableau
3 112 (2.19%) SQL Server
4 97 (1.90%) MongoDB
5 76 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 58 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (0.96%) Data Lake
9 42 (0.82%) Metadata
10 36 (0.70%) NoSQL
11 33 (0.65%) Big Data
12 27 (0.53%) Relational Database
13 26 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (0.51%) Looker
14 23 (0.45%) Redis
15 21 (0.41%) BigQuery
16 20 (0.39%) MySQL
17 18 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
18 14 (0.27%) DynamoDB
18 14 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 89 (1.74%) Git
2 53 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
3 37 (0.72%) JIRA
4 29 (0.57%) GitLab
5 27 (0.53%) Claude Code
6 26 (0.51%) Jenkins
7 22 (0.43%) Snyk
8 19 (0.37%) MLflow
9 16 (0.31%) Postman
9 16 (0.31%) Selenium
10 13 (0.25%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.25%) JUnit
11 10 (0.20%) Maven
11 10 (0.20%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
13 6 (0.12%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.12%) JMeter
13 6 (0.12%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.12%) SpecFlow
14 5 (0.098%) Mockito
General
1 2,708 (52.93%) Social Skills
2 1,159 (22.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 968 (18.92%) Banking
4 533 (10.42%) Finance
5 322 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
6 278 (5.43%) Marketing
7 202 (3.95%) Games
8 169 (3.30%) Retail
9 134 (2.62%) Legal
10 125 (2.44%) Public Sector
11 114 (2.23%) Manufacturing
12 97 (1.90%) Law
13 78 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
14 58 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
15 48 (0.94%) Automotive
16 39 (0.76%) Electronics
17 32 (0.63%) Advertising
18 29 (0.57%) Telecoms
19 25 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
19 25 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,065 (20.82%) Analyst
2 935 (18.28%) Data Analyst
3 934 (18.26%) Junior
4 920 (17.98%) Junior Analyst
5 919 (17.96%) Junior Data Analyst
6 746 (14.58%) Lecturer
7 458 (8.95%) Senior
8 419 (8.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 373 (7.29%) Lead
10 365 (7.13%) Developer
11 221 (4.32%) Architect
12 190 (3.71%) Software Engineer
13 141 (2.76%) Data Engineer
14 86 (1.68%) .NET Developer
15 85 (1.66%) Solutions Architect
16 75 (1.47%) Consultant
17 70 (1.37%) Designer
17 70 (1.37%) Software Developer
18 69 (1.35%) Data Scientist
19 68 (1.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (4.09%) .NET
2 162 (3.17%) React
3 111 (2.17%) CSS
4 109 (2.13%) HTML
5 83 (1.62%) REST
6 82 (1.60%) Node.js
7 78 (1.52%) ASP.NET
8 74 (1.45%) .NET Core
9 73 (1.43%) ASP.NET Core
10 69 (1.35%) RESTful
11 66 (1.29%) scikit-learn
12 59 (1.15%) ML.NET
13 58 (1.13%) NumPy
13 58 (1.13%) Pandas
14 54 (1.06%) Hugging Face
15 53 (1.04%) AngularJS
16 52 (1.02%) Matplotlib
17 51 (1.00%) Blazor
18 50 (0.98%) Streamlit
18 50 (0.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 904 (17.67%) IoT
2 168 (3.28%) Social Media
3 151 (2.95%) Cloud Native
4 116 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 109 (2.13%) Robotics
6 107 (2.09%) Algorithms
7 95 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 80 (1.56%) AI Agents
8 80 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
9 70 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 62 (1.21%) Mobile App
11 59 (1.15%) Management Information System
12 57 (1.11%) Low-Code
13 51 (1.00%) Data Centre
13 51 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
14 47 (0.92%) Life Science
15 36 (0.70%) Virtual Team
16 33 (0.65%) Driving Licence
17 31 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
18 29 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (1.68%) Windows
2 76 (1.49%) Linux
3 51 (1.00%) Android
4 38 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 33 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.23%) VMS
7 6 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.098%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.078%) Unix
10 2 (0.039%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.020%) AIX
11 1 (0.020%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,544 (30.18%) Machine Learning
2 1,109 (21.68%) Business Intelligence
3 1,093 (21.36%) Cybersecurity
4 1,048 (20.48%) User Experience
5 911 (17.81%) Web Development
6 635 (12.41%) Agile
7 618 (12.08%) Analytics
8 458 (8.95%) Roadmaps
9 449 (8.78%) CI/CD
10 421 (8.23%) Software Engineering
11 419 (8.19%) Problem-Solving
12 395 (7.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 360 (7.04%) DevOps
14 334 (6.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 327 (6.39%) Decision-Making
16 304 (5.94%) LLM
17 278 (5.43%) Customer Experience
18 276 (5.39%) Mentoring
19 232 (4.53%) Data Science
20 230 (4.50%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,920 (37.53%) Python
2 1,279 (25.00%) SQL
3 231 (4.52%) C#
4 209 (4.09%) JavaScript
5 144 (2.81%) Java
6 111 (2.17%) TypeScript
7 80 (1.56%) C++
8 55 (1.08%) PowerShell
9 43 (0.84%) Bash
10 34 (0.66%) C
10 34 (0.66%) R
11 28 (0.55%) Go
12 20 (0.39%) PHP
12 20 (0.39%) Rust
13 17 (0.33%) Kotlin
14 16 (0.31%) Bicep
14 16 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 15 (0.29%) T-SQL
16 14 (0.27%) Scala
17 11 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,264 (24.71%) Azure Certification
2 1,192 (23.30%) Degree
3 949 (18.55%) Master's Degree
4 922 (18.02%) PhD
5 884 (17.28%) Postgraduate
6 173 (3.38%) Security Cleared
7 106 (2.07%) AWS Certification
8 103 (2.01%) SC Cleared
9 66 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (1.29%) DV Cleared
10 50 (0.98%) ACCA
10 50 (0.98%) CIMA
11 49 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 43 (0.84%) DBS Check
13 30 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (0.33%) CISSP
15 12 (0.23%) HNC
15 12 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
17 9 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (3.97%) Accessibility
2 150 (2.93%) Data Quality
3 94 (1.84%) QA
4 93 (1.82%) GDPR
5 55 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (0.94%) WCAG
7 40 (0.78%) GRC
7 40 (0.78%) NIST
8 29 (0.57%) SLA
9 26 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 18 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.33%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 14 (0.27%) GxP
14 12 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 10 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.20%) NCSC
15 10 (0.20%) PMO
15 10 (0.20%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 144 (2.81%) Docker
2 52 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
3 46 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.37%) Firmware
5 12 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.14%) vSphere
8 5 (0.098%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.059%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 150 (2.93%) Kubernetes
2 120 (2.35%) Terraform
3 33 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (0.53%) Grafana
5 25 (0.49%) Ansible
6 21 (0.41%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.16%) Proxmox
9 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
9 7 (0.14%) Podman
10 6 (0.12%) Puppet
11 5 (0.098%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.098%) Functional Safety
11 5 (0.098%) Nagios
12 4 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.078%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (0.078%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.059%) Argo
14 2 (0.039%) cPanel
14 2 (0.039%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,501 (29.34%) Microsoft
2 170 (3.32%) Adobe
3 105 (2.05%) Databricks
4 100 (1.95%) Google
5 74 (1.45%) Dell
6 70 (1.37%) Cisco
7 62 (1.21%) OpenAI
8 54 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 48 (0.94%) ServiceNow
10 46 (0.90%) Apple
11 45 (0.88%) Oracle
12 28 (0.55%) HubSpot
13 26 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
13 26 (0.51%) SAP
14 25 (0.49%) Tenable
15 22 (0.43%) Palo Alto
16 20 (0.39%) VMware
17 18 (0.35%) Sage
18 13 (0.25%) Splunk
19 12 (0.23%) Facebook