Artificial Intelligence Developer Job Trends

AI Developer
UK

The median AI Developer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 647 752 778
Rank change year-on-year +105 +26 +394
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Developer 27 39 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.050% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.052% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 24 36 2
10th Percentile £50,750 - £43,000
25th Percentile £58,438 £55,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +20.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £90,000 - £61,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 -
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,309 74,419 56,988
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.65% 95.24% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 26,050 44,613 44,179
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Developer 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 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Developer in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Top 10 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 19 September 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 +96 26 £80,000 +33.33% 12
UK excluding London +88 16 £65,000 +8.33% 7
London +77 10 £85,000 +21.00% 8
South East +21 9 £80,000 +33.33% 5
Work from Home +83 8 £63,750 -15.28% 6
West Midlands - 5 £50,000 -
Midlands - 5 £50,000 -
North West - 1 £55,000 -
East of England - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 £55,000 -

Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Artificial Intelligence Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Artificial Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 25 (92.59%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 11 (40.74%) Python
4 10 (37.04%) Clean Code
5 9 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 9 (33.33%) Azure
5 9 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (33.33%) GitHub
6 8 (29.63%) Software Architecture
6 8 (29.63%) REST
6 8 (29.63%) Migration
6 8 (29.63%) E-Commerce
6 8 (29.63%) Code Quality
6 8 (29.63%) ChatGPT
6 8 (29.63%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (29.63%) Task Automation
7 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
8 6 (22.22%) SQL
8 6 (22.22%) Machine Learning
9 5 (18.52%) R
9 5 (18.52%) React
9 5 (18.52%) Front End Development
9 5 (18.52%) Java
9 5 (18.52%) AI Agents
10 4 (14.81%) Generative AI
10 4 (14.81%) Azure AI
10 4 (14.81%) PyTorch
10 4 (14.81%) Data Science
10 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
10 4 (14.81%) JavaScript

Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
1 9 (33.33%) GitHub
1 9 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
2 8 (29.63%) ChatGPT
3 4 (14.81%) Azure AI
4 3 (11.11%) AWS
4 3 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
1 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) Big Data
3 2 (7.41%) Tableau
4 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) MLflow
2 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Games
2 1 (3.70%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) REST
2 5 (18.52%) React
3 4 (14.81%) PyTorch
3 4 (14.81%) TensorFlow
4 3 (11.11%) scikit-learn
5 1 (3.70%) .NET
5 1 (3.70%) CrewAI
5 1 (3.70%) Keras
5 1 (3.70%) LangChain
5 1 (3.70%) Matplotlib
5 1 (3.70%) NumPy
5 1 (3.70%) Pandas
5 1 (3.70%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (18.52%) AI Agents
3 3 (11.11%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (92.59%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (37.04%) Clean Code
3 9 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (29.63%) Code Quality
4 8 (29.63%) E-Commerce
4 8 (29.63%) Migration
4 8 (29.63%) Software Architecture
4 8 (29.63%) Task Automation
5 6 (22.22%) Machine Learning
6 5 (18.52%) Front End Development
7 4 (14.81%) Data Science
7 4 (14.81%) Generative AI
7 4 (14.81%) Natural Language Processing
8 3 (11.11%) Computer Vision
8 3 (11.11%) Feature Engineering
8 3 (11.11%) LLM
8 3 (11.11%) MLOps
8 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (7.41%) CI/CD
9 2 (7.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 6 (22.22%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) Java
3 5 (18.52%) R
4 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.41%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
1 3 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubeflow
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) UiPath
3 1 (3.70%) Foundry
3 1 (3.70%) Samsung