Artificial Intelligence Developer Job Trends

AI Developer
UK

The median AI Developer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 699 635 711
Rank change year-on-year -64 +76 +29
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Developer 106 32 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.065% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.072% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 68 28 37
10th Percentile £58,875 £51,750 -
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,563 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £96,250 - £75,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £86,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 109,405 44,412 69,302
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 89.84% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 74,287 25,750 39,695
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.77% -2.39% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Artificial Intelligence Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Artificial Intelligence Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Developer job vacancies in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Developer over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Developer in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 October 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
England -54 98 £75,000 -6.25% 64
UK excluding London -79 66 £75,000 +15.38% 27
London -19 40 £125,000 +56.25% 35
South East -36 29 £80,000 - 9
Work from Home -37 28 £125,000 +92.31% 27
North of England -43 16 £72,500 +31.82% 8
North West -10 13 £72,500 +31.82% 5
East of England -27 10 £60,000 - 5
Scotland - 7 - - 1
North East - 3 £75,000 -
South West - 3 £50,750 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 October 2026, Artificial Intelligence Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Artificial Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 106 (100.00%) AI
2 40 (37.74%) Azure
3 37 (34.91%) Python
4 34 (32.08%) Software Engineering
5 32 (30.19%) Microsoft
6 29 (27.36%) LLM
7 25 (23.58%) AWS
8 20 (18.87%) GCP
8 20 (18.87%) LangChain
9 18 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (16.04%) C#
11 16 (15.09%) Investment Management
12 15 (14.15%) Amazon Bedrock
12 15 (14.15%) CrewAI
12 15 (14.15%) Google
12 15 (14.15%) LangGraph
12 15 (14.15%) Machine Learning
12 15 (14.15%) Microsoft Copilot
12 15 (14.15%) Pair Programming
12 15 (14.15%) pydantic
12 15 (14.15%) R
13 13 (12.26%) Power Platform
14 12 (11.32%) TypeScript
15 11 (10.38%) .NET
15 11 (10.38%) Azure AI
15 11 (10.38%) CI/CD
15 11 (10.38%) Full-Stack Development
16 10 (9.43%) FastAPI
16 10 (9.43%) Middleware
16 10 (9.43%) Platform Engineering

Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
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 2 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.94%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 40 (37.74%) Azure
2 25 (23.58%) AWS
3 20 (18.87%) GCP
4 15 (14.15%) Amazon Bedrock
4 15 (14.15%) Microsoft Copilot
5 13 (12.26%) Power Platform
6 11 (10.38%) Azure AI
7 9 (8.49%) GitHub
8 8 (7.55%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 6 (5.66%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (4.72%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (4.72%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.77%) Power Automate
12 3 (2.83%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.83%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (2.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.83%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) Broadband
2 1 (0.94%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.83%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.89%) Power BI
4 1 (0.94%) Pinecone
4 1 (0.94%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Git
2 1 (0.94%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.94%) NUnit
General
1 27 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 23 (21.70%) Finance
3 20 (18.87%) Marketing
4 19 (17.92%) Banking
5 16 (15.09%) Front Office
6 10 (9.43%) Games
7 4 (3.77%) Retail
8 1 (0.94%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Automotive
8 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.94%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.87%) LangChain
2 15 (14.15%) CrewAI
2 15 (14.15%) LangGraph
2 15 (14.15%) pydantic
3 11 (10.38%) .NET
4 10 (9.43%) FastAPI
4 10 (9.43%) Middleware
5 9 (8.49%) React
6 8 (7.55%) Model Context Protocol
7 7 (6.60%) Node.js
8 5 (4.72%) REST
9 3 (2.83%) Electron
9 3 (2.83%) Flask
9 3 (2.83%) RESTful
10 2 (1.89%) .NET Core
10 2 (1.89%) CSS
10 2 (1.89%) HTML
10 2 (1.89%) HTML5 Canvas
10 2 (1.89%) JSON
10 2 (1.89%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.64%) AI Agents
2 16 (15.09%) Hedge funds
3 5 (4.72%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.77%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.83%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.83%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.83%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.89%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.94%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.94%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.94%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (100.00%) AI
2 34 (32.08%) Software Engineering
3 29 (27.36%) LLM
4 18 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (15.09%) Investment Management
6 15 (14.15%) Machine Learning
6 15 (14.15%) Pair Programming
7 11 (10.38%) CI/CD
7 11 (10.38%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (8.49%) Data Management
9 9 (8.49%) Generative AI
9 9 (8.49%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 7 (6.60%) Conversational UI
10 7 (6.60%) Customer Experience
10 7 (6.60%) Fintech
10 7 (6.60%) Prompt Engineering
10 7 (6.60%) User Experience
11 6 (5.66%) Cybersecurity
12 5 (4.72%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 37 (34.91%) Python
2 17 (16.04%) C#
3 15 (14.15%) R
4 12 (11.32%) TypeScript
5 8 (7.55%) SQL
6 4 (3.77%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.83%) Go
8 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.94%) C++
9 1 (0.94%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (3.77%) Azure Certification
1 4 (3.77%) Degree
2 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (0.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (30.19%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.15%) Google
3 7 (6.60%) Foundry
3 7 (6.60%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.89%) Adobe
5 1 (0.94%) Mistral