AI Transformation Job Trends

AI Transformation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring AI Transformation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 621 756 747
Rank change year-on-year +135 -9 -
Permanent jobs citing AI Transformation 56 10 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.013% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.016% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 34 9 4
10th Percentile £50,450 £67,500 £71,625
25th Percentile £65,813 £72,500 £89,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £100,000 £108,750
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -8.05% -
75th Percentile £107,813 £103,750 £123,438
90th Percentile £130,500 £150,000 £134,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £112,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year -28.89% +28.57% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

AI Transformation 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44,239 60,788 54,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.09% 81.92% 94.18%
Number of salaries quoted 24,477 32,914 41,910
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £99,013
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

AI Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI Transformation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AI Transformation job vacancy trend in the UK

AI Transformation
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AI Transformation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AI Transformation

AI Transformation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI Transformation over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Salary histogram for AI Transformation in the UK

AI Transformation
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI Transformation within the UK over the 6 months to 5 October 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
England +125 46 £78,750 -21.25% 5
London +110 35 £76,875 -23.13% 5
Work from Home +92 22 £90,000 +12.50% 4
UK excluding London +98 18 £80,000 -28.89% 2
Midlands +53 6 £120,000 -4.00%
Scotland - 4 £67,500 -
South East - 3 £112,500 -
West Midlands - 3 £80,000 -
Channel Islands - 3 £80,000 -
North of England - 2 £62,500 -
East Midlands +31 1 - -
North East - 1 £55,000 -
North West - 1 £70,000 -

AI Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (8.93%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Chatbot
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (5.36%) Shopify
2 2 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.14%) Azure
2 9 (16.07%) AWS
3 7 (12.50%) Azure AI
4 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (8.93%) GCP
5 5 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (8.93%) Power Platform
6 4 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.14%) Copilot Studio
6 4 (7.14%) OneDrive
7 3 (5.36%) OCI
7 3 (5.36%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.57%) Miro
8 2 (3.57%) SaaS
8 2 (3.57%) Serverless
8 2 (3.57%) Slack
9 1 (1.79%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.79%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 26 (46.43%) Finance
1 26 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 16 (28.57%) Law
2 16 (28.57%) Marketing
3 14 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (23.21%) Legal
5 10 (17.86%) Retail
6 4 (7.14%) Back Office
6 4 (7.14%) Banking
7 3 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.79%) Automotive
8 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.79%) Games
8 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) Senior
2 9 (16.07%) Senior Manager
3 7 (12.50%) Consultant
4 6 (10.71%) Architect
5 5 (8.93%) Senior Transformation Manager
5 5 (8.93%) Transformation Manager
6 4 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 3 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Head of AI
7 3 (5.36%) Head of Digital
7 3 (5.36%) IT Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Lead
7 3 (5.36%) Lead Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Lead Enterprise Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Managing Consultant
7 3 (5.36%) Sales Director
7 3 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Strategy Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (5.36%) LangChain
3 1 (1.79%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (1.79%) JSON
3 1 (1.79%) Next.js
3 1 (1.79%) PySpark
3 1 (1.79%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.79%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.71%) Algorithms
2 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.93%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.36%) Digital Signage
4 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.36%) EPoS
5 2 (3.57%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.57%) Social Media
6 1 (1.79%) Blog
6 1 (1.79%) Life Science
6 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Windows
1 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (91.07%) Artificial Intelligence
2 19 (33.93%) Generative AI
3 18 (32.14%) Machine Learning
4 16 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (26.79%) Roadmaps
5 15 (26.79%) Use Case
6 12 (21.43%) Analytics
6 12 (21.43%) Project Management
7 11 (19.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (17.86%) Agile
8 10 (17.86%) Decision-Making
9 9 (16.07%) CRM
9 9 (16.07%) ERP
10 8 (14.29%) Business Strategy
10 8 (14.29%) Product Management
10 8 (14.29%) Service Delivery
11 7 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 7 (12.50%) DevOps
11 7 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
11 7 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.07%) Python
2 4 (7.14%) SQL
3 2 (3.57%) Bicep
3 2 (3.57%) C
3 2 (3.57%) C++
3 2 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) Degree
2 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.57%) MBA
4 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.79%) CIPD
5 1 (1.79%) MCSE
5 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) GDPR
2 3 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.36%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (3.57%) SLA
4 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (26.79%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) OpenAI
2 6 (10.71%) ServiceNow
3 4 (7.14%) Oracle
4 3 (5.36%) Adobe
4 3 (5.36%) Google
4 3 (5.36%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.36%) SAP
5 2 (3.57%) Remedy
5 2 (3.57%) Workday
6 1 (1.79%) Databricks
6 1 (1.79%) Foundry
6 1 (1.79%) VMware