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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 63 104
Rank change year-on-year +57 +41 +48
Permanent jobs citing AI 4,713 1,681 879
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 12.76% 3.54% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.48% 4.32% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 887 871 589
10th Percentile £24,570 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,625 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.67% +7.14%

All Process and 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 30,455 38,940 28,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.48% 82.03% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 18,490 19,092 20,892
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,235 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% +3.30% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,829 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 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 +65 1,631 £57,500 -14.81% 240
South East +25 1,185 £50,000 -31.03% 691
North West +61 1,093 £57,500 -11.54% 144
Midlands +125 544 £65,000 -13.04% 170
East of England +88 498 £47,500 -44.12% 105
Scotland +71 475 £69,624 +11.40% 103
Yorkshire +55 420 £71,250 +1.79% 68
West Midlands +106 334 £65,000 - 128
South West +39 315 £60,000 -7.69% 127
East Midlands +99 208 £60,000 -29.41% 41
North East +62 118 £50,000 -34.21% 30
Wales +42 105 £55,000 +2.33% 35
Northern Ireland -5 33 £87,500 -1.41% 24
Channel Islands +9 6 - - 1
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 42 (0.89%) SharePoint
2 38 (0.81%) Apache Spark
3 30 (0.64%) CMS
4 26 (0.55%) Confluence
5 21 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.30%) WordPress
7 13 (0.28%) Apache
8 12 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 10 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 10 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 8 (0.17%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.13%) Camunda
11 6 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.064%) Drupal
12 3 (0.064%) Joomla!
12 3 (0.064%) Kentico
12 3 (0.064%) Kinematics
12 3 (0.064%) SAS
12 3 (0.064%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.042%) CICS
Applications
1 1,332 (28.26%) Chatbot
2 192 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 67 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.21%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
7 5 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
7 5 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.11%) Simulink
7 5 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.085%) InDesign
9 3 (0.064%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.064%) Notion
9 3 (0.064%) S-PLUS
10 2 (0.042%) Weka
11 1 (0.021%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.021%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 28 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.17%) Shopify
6 3 (0.064%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.042%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.042%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.021%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.021%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.021%) Magento
8 1 (0.021%) Maximo
8 1 (0.021%) Odoo
8 1 (0.021%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,338 (28.39%) Cloud Computing
2 564 (11.97%) Azure
3 308 (6.54%) Power Platform
4 301 (6.39%) AWS
5 150 (3.18%) Azure AI
5 150 (3.18%) SaaS
6 122 (2.59%) GCP
7 117 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 115 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
9 79 (1.68%) GitHub
10 58 (1.23%) Snowflake
11 57 (1.21%) GitHub Copilot
12 44 (0.93%) Entra ID
13 42 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
14 41 (0.87%) Power Automate
15 38 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
16 37 (0.79%) Amazon S3
17 35 (0.74%) Serverless
18 31 (0.66%) dbt
18 31 (0.66%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1,342 (28.47%) Internet
2 21 (0.45%) Unified Communications
3 16 (0.34%) Firewall
4 15 (0.32%) VoIP
5 11 (0.23%) Network Security
6 8 (0.17%) Telepresence
6 8 (0.17%) VPN
6 8 (0.17%) WebEx
7 6 (0.13%) DNS
7 6 (0.13%) Intranet
7 6 (0.13%) SAN
8 5 (0.11%) Bluetooth
8 5 (0.11%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.085%) Broadband
9 4 (0.085%) DMZ
9 4 (0.085%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.085%) Modbus
9 4 (0.085%) VLAN
9 4 (0.085%) WAN
9 4 (0.085%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (5.16%) Power BI
2 171 (3.63%) Tableau
3 84 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (1.46%) SQL Server
5 50 (1.06%) NoSQL
6 49 (1.04%) Metadata
7 41 (0.87%) MongoDB
8 37 (0.79%) MySQL
9 35 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
10 33 (0.70%) Data Lake
11 32 (0.68%) Big Data
12 24 (0.51%) Data Mining
12 24 (0.51%) DynamoDB
13 22 (0.47%) Delta Lake
14 21 (0.45%) Spark SQL
15 18 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
16 17 (0.36%) Relational Database
17 16 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (0.34%) Hadoop
18 15 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 73 (1.55%) JIRA
2 62 (1.32%) Git
3 30 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 19 (0.40%) MLflow
5 13 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 12 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
6 12 (0.25%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.23%) JUnit
8 10 (0.21%) Selenium
9 7 (0.15%) Maven
10 6 (0.13%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.11%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.11%) GitBook
11 5 (0.11%) GitLab
12 4 (0.085%) Gradle
12 4 (0.085%) Metasploit
13 3 (0.064%) Locust
13 3 (0.064%) Visual Website Optimizer
14 2 (0.042%) Jasmine
14 2 (0.042%) Vite
General
1 2,153 (45.68%) Social Skills
2 1,683 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,411 (29.94%) Banking
4 940 (19.94%) Analytical Skills
5 577 (12.24%) Finance
6 315 (6.68%) Marketing
7 250 (5.30%) Law
8 133 (2.82%) Public Sector
9 120 (2.55%) Retail
10 116 (2.46%) Legal
11 53 (1.12%) Aviation
12 47 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 45 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
15 36 (0.76%) Electronics
15 36 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
16 32 (0.68%) Aeronautics
17 31 (0.66%) Aerospace
18 29 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
19 24 (0.51%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,296 (27.50%) Trainer
2 1,096 (23.25%) Lecturer
3 219 (4.65%) Senior
4 196 (4.16%) Analyst
5 189 (4.01%) Developer
6 178 (3.78%) Lead
7 167 (3.54%) Software Engineer
8 154 (3.27%) Content Editor
9 132 (2.80%) Data Analyst
10 127 (2.69%) Architect
11 119 (2.52%) Junior
12 109 (2.31%) Junior Analyst
13 108 (2.29%) Junior Data Analyst
14 97 (2.06%) Innovation Manager
15 96 (2.04%) Customer Support Specialist
15 96 (2.04%) Support Specialist
16 94 (1.99%) Research Scientist
17 66 (1.40%) Business Manager
18 64 (1.36%) Sales Executive
19 63 (1.34%) Microsoft Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (1.99%) React
2 87 (1.85%) .NET
3 65 (1.38%) Spring
4 59 (1.25%) REST
5 58 (1.23%) HTML
5 58 (1.23%) RESTful
6 52 (1.10%) PyTorch
6 52 (1.10%) TensorFlow
7 49 (1.04%) Kafka
8 42 (0.89%) Node.js
9 40 (0.85%) PySpark
10 39 (0.83%) Spring Boot
11 37 (0.79%) scikit-learn
12 36 (0.76%) AngularJS
13 33 (0.70%) CSS
13 33 (0.70%) Pandas
14 31 (0.66%) NumPy
15 29 (0.62%) JSON
16 26 (0.55%) Regular Expression
16 26 (0.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1,354 (28.73%) IoT
2 131 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 110 (2.33%) Molecular Biology
4 104 (2.21%) Algorithms
4 104 (2.21%) Robotics
5 94 (1.99%) Onboarding
5 94 (1.99%) Product Ownership
6 70 (1.49%) Blog
7 65 (1.38%) AI Agents
8 55 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 50 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
9 50 (1.06%) Virtual Team
10 49 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
11 43 (0.91%) Life Science
12 41 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
13 38 (0.81%) Data Centre
14 35 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
14 35 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
15 30 (0.64%) Social Media
16 27 (0.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 51 (1.08%) Windows
2 47 (1.00%) Unix
3 41 (0.87%) Linux
4 25 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.49%) Android
6 19 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.085%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.042%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.042%) zOS
11 1 (0.021%) Debian
11 1 (0.021%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.021%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.021%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.021%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,893 (40.17%) Machine Learning
2 1,467 (31.13%) Cybersecurity
3 1,448 (30.72%) User Experience
4 1,345 (28.54%) Web Development
5 1,336 (28.35%) Conversational UI
6 510 (10.82%) Agile
7 506 (10.74%) Chemistry
8 497 (10.55%) Analytics
9 407 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 361 (7.66%) Decision-Making
11 348 (7.38%) Software Engineering
12 307 (6.51%) CI/CD
13 306 (6.49%) Roadmaps
14 302 (6.41%) Problem-Solving
15 270 (5.73%) Business Intelligence
16 267 (5.67%) Customer Experience
17 260 (5.52%) DevOps
18 231 (4.90%) Data Science
19 213 (4.52%) Content Writing
20 203 (4.31%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 516 (10.95%) Python
2 399 (8.47%) SQL
3 144 (3.06%) Java
4 112 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 74 (1.57%) TypeScript
6 63 (1.34%) PowerShell
7 57 (1.21%) C#
8 35 (0.74%) C++
9 34 (0.72%) Bash
10 26 (0.55%) R
11 20 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 20 (0.42%) PL/SQL
12 19 (0.40%) Shell Script
13 17 (0.36%) C
14 14 (0.30%) Bicep
15 13 (0.28%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.25%) Apex Code
16 12 (0.25%) MATLAB
16 12 (0.25%) PHP
17 11 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3,043 (64.57%) Degree
2 2,161 (45.85%) Master's Degree
3 2,133 (45.26%) PhD
4 1,335 (28.33%) Postgraduate
5 165 (3.50%) Security Cleared
6 145 (3.08%) SC Cleared
7 123 (2.61%) Azure Certification
8 58 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (0.40%) PMP
11 18 (0.38%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.36%) DBS Check
12 17 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (0.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 15 (0.32%) DV Cleared
14 13 (0.28%) HNC
15 12 (0.25%) ACCA
15 12 (0.25%) HND
16 8 (0.17%) CIMA
16 8 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (1.36%) Data Quality
2 43 (0.91%) Accessibility
3 35 (0.74%) QA
4 30 (0.64%) GDPR
4 30 (0.64%) GxP
5 24 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.30%) PMO
7 13 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
7 13 (0.28%) NIST
8 12 (0.25%) SLA
9 11 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.21%) CDISC
10 10 (0.21%) HL7
11 7 (0.15%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.13%) GRC
12 6 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 6 (0.13%) NCSC
12 6 (0.13%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.11%) ISO 13485
14 4 (0.085%) JSP 440
System Software
1 101 (2.14%) Docker
2 22 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 20 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 17 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.17%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.13%) HDFS
7 6 (0.13%) vSphere
8 4 (0.085%) Firmware
9 3 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.042%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.042%) Ceph
10 2 (0.042%) Lustre
10 2 (0.042%) RACF
11 1 (0.021%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 117 (2.48%) Terraform
2 98 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 38 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.40%) Kubeflow
5 15 (0.32%) Grafana
5 15 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.25%) Ansible
6 12 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
7 8 (0.17%) SCCM
8 4 (0.085%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.085%) Nessus
8 4 (0.085%) Nmap
9 3 (0.064%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.064%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.064%) Netcool
9 3 (0.064%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 3 (0.064%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.042%) logstash
10 2 (0.042%) Oozie
Vendors
1 1,296 (27.50%) PayPal
2 587 (12.45%) Microsoft
3 97 (2.06%) Cisco
4 89 (1.89%) Google
5 83 (1.76%) Oracle
6 71 (1.51%) Databricks
6 71 (1.51%) Dell
7 45 (0.95%) Adobe
8 42 (0.89%) OpenAI
9 40 (0.85%) Salesforce
10 32 (0.68%) Blue Prism
11 30 (0.64%) Apple
12 27 (0.57%) Palo Alto
13 22 (0.47%) HubSpot
13 22 (0.47%) SAP
14 21 (0.45%) Foundry
14 21 (0.45%) ServiceNow
14 21 (0.45%) Splunk
14 21 (0.45%) VMware
15 13 (0.28%) IBM