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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 51
Rank change year-on-year -3 +38 +126
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,508 3,163 3,280
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.59% 10.38% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.40% 11.45% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,246 774 1,328
10th Percentile £34,750 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,500 £35,188 £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 £73,971 £81,250
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 47,964 27,634 62,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.12% 90.71% 80.10%
Number of salaries quoted 33,682 14,144 43,500
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,679 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,000 £77,750
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 25 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 25 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 +13 1,409 £67,500 +26.42% 389
South East -1 1,021 £60,000 +21.83% 625
Midlands -8 729 £55,000 -7.76% 189
North West +32 694 £70,000 +7.69% 238
Yorkshire -3 523 £65,000 +153.66% 106
South West 0 493 £62,500 +4.17% 183
East of England +19 491 £60,000 -9.39% 132
West Midlands -5 457 £55,000 -5.78% 110
East Midlands -14 271 £52,500 -12.50% 79
Scotland 0 213 £70,000 +38.76% 67
North East -1 192 £65,000 +106.35% 49
Wales +23 130 £55,000 -19.12% 43
Northern Ireland +7 52 £72,500 - 9
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 69 (1.53%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.13%) Jupyter
3 42 (0.93%) CMS
4 32 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (0.71%) Confluence
5 29 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 29 (0.64%) WordPress
6 24 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 23 (0.51%) Apache
8 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.089%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.067%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.067%) SAS
11 2 (0.044%) Apache Qpid
11 2 (0.044%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.044%) IIS
11 2 (0.044%) nginx
11 2 (0.044%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.022%) Moodle
12 1 (0.022%) Umbraco
Applications
1 930 (20.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (1.75%) Chatbot
3 45 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.33%) UserZoom
6 14 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
6 14 (0.31%) Photoshop
7 12 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 10 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
8 10 (0.22%) InDesign
8 10 (0.22%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.20%) Simulink
10 3 (0.067%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.067%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.044%) Trello
12 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.022%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.022%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (0.53%) Cloudability
2 13 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.18%) Sage 50
5 7 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.089%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.067%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.067%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.067%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.044%) Q-Pulse
8 2 (0.044%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.044%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.022%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.022%) Infor SunSystems
9 1 (0.022%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.022%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.022%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.022%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.022%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,952 (43.30%) Azure
2 1,371 (30.41%) Azure AI
3 1,106 (24.53%) Power Platform
4 578 (12.82%) AWS
5 255 (5.66%) SaaS
6 195 (4.33%) GCP
7 178 (3.95%) GitHub
8 175 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
9 168 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
10 125 (2.77%) Microsoft Copilot
11 120 (2.66%) Serverless
12 105 (2.33%) Adobe Analytics
13 75 (1.66%) GitHub Copilot
14 72 (1.60%) Figma
14 72 (1.60%) Snowflake
15 67 (1.49%) Anthropic Claude
16 64 (1.42%) Power Automate
17 60 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
18 58 (1.29%) Entra ID
19 57 (1.26%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 186 (4.13%) Broadband
2 53 (1.18%) Firewall
3 37 (0.82%) VPN
4 34 (0.75%) DNS
5 26 (0.58%) Internet
6 25 (0.55%) Network Security
7 20 (0.44%) Unified Communications
8 17 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.38%) VLAN
9 16 (0.35%) MQTT
10 15 (0.33%) DHCP
11 8 (0.18%) VoIP
11 8 (0.18%) Wireless
12 7 (0.16%) Intranet
13 6 (0.13%) HTTP
14 5 (0.11%) BGP
14 5 (0.11%) DMZ
14 5 (0.11%) OSPF
14 5 (0.11%) SNMP
14 5 (0.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,017 (22.56%) Power BI
2 923 (20.47%) Tableau
3 157 (3.48%) MongoDB
4 142 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 127 (2.82%) SQL Server
6 68 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
7 63 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (1.13%) Data Lake
9 47 (1.04%) Metadata
10 41 (0.91%) NoSQL
11 35 (0.78%) Relational Database
12 32 (0.71%) Redis
13 30 (0.67%) Big Data
14 29 (0.64%) MySQL
15 26 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
15 26 (0.58%) Looker
16 25 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
17 23 (0.51%) BigQuery
18 17 (0.38%) DynamoDB
18 17 (0.38%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 113 (2.51%) Git
2 54 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
3 43 (0.95%) JIRA
4 38 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 37 (0.82%) GitLab
6 33 (0.73%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.49%) Snyk
8 19 (0.42%) Postman
8 19 (0.42%) Selenium
9 17 (0.38%) MLflow
10 14 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.31%) JUnit
11 10 (0.22%) Maven
12 9 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
13 8 (0.18%) JMeter
13 8 (0.18%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.13%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.13%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.13%) SpecFlow
14 6 (0.13%) Spock
General
1 1,859 (41.24%) Social Skills
2 579 (12.84%) Finance
3 331 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
4 300 (6.65%) Marketing
5 286 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 210 (4.66%) Games
7 182 (4.04%) Retail
8 154 (3.42%) Public Sector
9 137 (3.04%) Manufacturing
10 128 (2.84%) Legal
11 108 (2.40%) Law
12 88 (1.95%) Banking
13 87 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
14 72 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
15 50 (1.11%) Automotive
16 47 (1.04%) Advertising
17 41 (0.91%) Electronics
18 29 (0.64%) Aerospace
18 29 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
19 26 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,037 (23.00%) Analyst
2 886 (19.65%) Data Analyst
3 880 (19.52%) Junior
4 866 (19.21%) Junior Analyst
5 865 (19.19%) Junior Data Analyst
6 514 (11.40%) Senior
7 474 (10.51%) Developer
8 433 (9.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 416 (9.23%) Lead
10 257 (5.70%) Architect
11 237 (5.26%) Software Engineer
12 159 (3.53%) Data Engineer
13 146 (3.24%) .NET Developer
14 100 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
15 83 (1.84%) Senior Developer
16 82 (1.82%) Software Developer
17 81 (1.80%) Consultant
18 76 (1.69%) Data Scientist
19 75 (1.66%) Full-Stack Developer
20 72 (1.60%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (6.34%) .NET
2 207 (4.59%) React
3 150 (3.33%) CSS
4 147 (3.26%) HTML
5 137 (3.04%) ASP.NET
6 134 (2.97%) .NET Core
7 132 (2.93%) ASP.NET Core
8 115 (2.55%) ML.NET
9 102 (2.26%) RESTful
10 99 (2.20%) Node.js
11 91 (2.02%) REST
12 89 (1.97%) Blazor
13 66 (1.46%) scikit-learn
14 64 (1.42%) Vue
15 57 (1.26%) NumPy
15 57 (1.26%) Pandas
16 55 (1.22%) AngularJS
17 54 (1.20%) Hugging Face
18 52 (1.15%) Matplotlib
19 51 (1.13%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 190 (4.21%) Cloud Native
2 179 (3.97%) Social Media
3 120 (2.66%) Product Ownership
4 110 (2.44%) AI Agents
5 109 (2.42%) Algorithms
6 102 (2.26%) Robotics
7 92 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 91 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
9 81 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
10 70 (1.55%) Mobile App
11 62 (1.38%) Management Information System
12 57 (1.26%) Low-Code
13 52 (1.15%) Data Centre
14 43 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
15 42 (0.93%) Virtual Team
16 41 (0.91%) Life Science
17 40 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
18 37 (0.82%) Driving Licence
19 35 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
20 34 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.48%) Windows
2 91 (2.02%) Linux
3 61 (1.35%) Android
4 43 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 42 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.49%) VMS
7 8 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.044%) Debian
10 2 (0.044%) Gentoo
10 2 (0.044%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.044%) Unix
10 2 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.022%) AIX
11 1 (0.022%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.022%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,072 (23.78%) Business Intelligence
2 758 (16.81%) Machine Learning
3 711 (15.77%) Agile
4 675 (14.97%) Analytics
5 543 (12.05%) CI/CD
6 499 (11.07%) Roadmaps
7 489 (10.85%) Software Engineering
8 473 (10.49%) Problem-Solving
9 430 (9.54%) DevOps
10 405 (8.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 384 (8.52%) Decision-Making
12 381 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 334 (7.41%) Mentoring
14 332 (7.36%) LLM
15 312 (6.92%) Full-Stack Development
16 281 (6.23%) Customer Experience
17 242 (5.37%) Cybersecurity
18 237 (5.26%) Generative AI
19 231 (5.12%) Data Science
20 217 (4.81%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1,908 (42.32%) Python
2 1,333 (29.57%) SQL
3 323 (7.17%) C#
4 272 (6.03%) JavaScript
5 152 (3.37%) Java
5 152 (3.37%) TypeScript
6 105 (2.33%) C++
7 73 (1.62%) PowerShell
8 60 (1.33%) Bash
9 38 (0.84%) Go
10 36 (0.80%) C
11 33 (0.73%) Bicep
12 28 (0.62%) Rust
13 26 (0.58%) R
14 24 (0.53%) PHP
15 20 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
16 19 (0.42%) Kotlin
17 16 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 16 (0.35%) Ruby
18 12 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,220 (27.06%) Azure Certification
2 337 (7.48%) Degree
3 200 (4.44%) Security Cleared
4 126 (2.80%) SC Cleared
5 98 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 87 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 70 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 66 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.18%) ACCA
9 53 (1.18%) CIMA
10 49 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 43 (0.95%) DBS Check
12 39 (0.87%) PhD
13 33 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 23 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.35%) CISSP
16 12 (0.27%) HNC
17 11 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
18 10 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (4.75%) Accessibility
2 168 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 114 (2.53%) GDPR
4 108 (2.40%) QA
5 62 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.06%) WCAG
7 42 (0.93%) GRC
8 41 (0.91%) SLA
9 39 (0.87%) NIST
10 26 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 22 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 21 (0.47%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 14 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 14 (0.31%) NCSC
15 11 (0.24%) PMO
16 10 (0.22%) SOC 2
17 9 (0.20%) GxP
17 9 (0.20%) IFRS
17 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 196 (4.35%) Docker
2 60 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.44%) Firmware
6 17 (0.38%) vSphere
7 15 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.20%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.067%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 200 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 152 (3.37%) Terraform
3 38 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (0.67%) Grafana
5 29 (0.64%) Ansible
6 23 (0.51%) 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 (0.089%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.089%) SolarWinds Orion
11 4 (0.089%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.067%) Argo
12 3 (0.067%) cPanel
12 3 (0.067%) Plesk
13 2 (0.044%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,547 (34.32%) Microsoft
2 158 (3.50%) Adobe
3 131 (2.91%) Google
4 105 (2.33%) Databricks
5 76 (1.69%) OpenAI
6 74 (1.64%) Cisco
6 74 (1.64%) Dell
7 51 (1.13%) Salesforce
7 51 (1.13%) ServiceNow
8 47 (1.04%) Oracle
9 43 (0.95%) Apple
10 32 (0.71%) VMware
11 31 (0.69%) SAP
12 29 (0.64%) HubSpot
13 26 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
13 26 (0.58%) Facebook
14 25 (0.55%) Sage
14 25 (0.55%) Tenable
15 22 (0.49%) Palo Alto
16 18 (0.40%) Foundry