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 16 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
16 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 633 792
Rank change year-on-year -10 +159 +221
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Developer 46 18 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.042% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.046% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 28 12 42
10th Percentile £45,125 £46,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £52,500 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,254 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% -13.11% +69.44%
75th Percentile £105,625 - £85,000
90th Percentile £135,250 £74,125 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £66,254 £77,500
% change year-on-year -33.97% -14.51% +55.00%

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 68,588 39,043 80,162
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 90.54% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 43,675 23,259 61,462
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -5.65%

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 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Developer in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Top 13 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 16 March 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 -5 39 £80,000 +20.75% 43
Work from Home +27 20 £80,000 +20.75% 9
London +20 19 £80,000 +68.42% 16
UK excluding London -32 19 £43,750 -33.97% 47
Midlands - 9 £37,500 - 7
West Midlands - 8 £37,500 - 3
East of England -9 3 - - 2
South East -10 3 £43,750 -37.50% 9
South West -34 2 - - 3
North of England - 2 £81,250 - 14
Yorkshire - 1 £97,500 - 5
East Midlands - 1 £37,500 - 4
North West - 1 £65,000 - 7

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

For the 6 months to 16 March 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 46 (100.00%) AI
2 28 (60.87%) Python
3 20 (43.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (32.61%) Software Engineering
5 14 (30.43%) LLM
5 14 (30.43%) SaaS
5 14 (30.43%) SDLC
6 13 (28.26%) Product Vision
6 13 (28.26%) Resource Allocation
7 12 (26.09%) Azure
7 12 (26.09%) Machine Learning
8 9 (19.57%) AWS
9 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
9 8 (17.39%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 7 (15.22%) Front End Development
10 7 (15.22%) Generative AI
10 7 (15.22%) NumPy
10 7 (15.22%) Pandas
11 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
11 6 (13.04%) Data Science
11 6 (13.04%) Matplotlib
11 6 (13.04%) REST
11 6 (13.04%) scikit-learn
11 6 (13.04%) Visualisation
12 5 (10.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 5 (10.87%) Chatbot
12 5 (10.87%) ChatGPT
12 5 (10.87%) Code Quality
12 5 (10.87%) Conversational UI
12 5 (10.87%) Decision-Making

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 4 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.52%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.17%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) SaaS
2 12 (26.09%) Azure
3 9 (19.57%) AWS
4 5 (10.87%) ChatGPT
4 5 (10.87%) GCP
4 5 (10.87%) GitHub
4 5 (10.87%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (6.52%) Azure AI
5 3 (6.52%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Big Data
1 3 (6.52%) Hadoop
1 3 (6.52%) Tableau
2 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.17%) Neo4j
2 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.52%) Retail
6 2 (4.35%) Games
7 1 (2.17%) Electronics
7 1 (2.17%) Marketing
7 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) NumPy
1 7 (15.22%) Pandas
2 6 (13.04%) Matplotlib
2 6 (13.04%) REST
2 6 (13.04%) scikit-learn
3 4 (8.70%) PyTorch
3 4 (8.70%) React
3 4 (8.70%) TensorFlow
4 3 (6.52%) .NET
4 3 (6.52%) Hugging Face
4 3 (6.52%) JSON
4 3 (6.52%) Seaborn
4 3 (6.52%) Streamlit
5 1 (2.17%) Keras
5 1 (2.17%) LangChain
5 1 (2.17%) LangGraph
5 1 (2.17%) Node.js
5 1 (2.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) PropTech
2 8 (17.39%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.35%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.17%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) AI
2 20 (43.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (32.61%) Software Engineering
4 14 (30.43%) LLM
4 14 (30.43%) SDLC
5 13 (28.26%) Product Vision
5 13 (28.26%) Resource Allocation
6 12 (26.09%) Machine Learning
7 8 (17.39%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 7 (15.22%) Front End Development
8 7 (15.22%) Generative AI
9 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
9 6 (13.04%) Data Science
9 6 (13.04%) Visualisation
10 5 (10.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 5 (10.87%) Code Quality
10 5 (10.87%) Conversational UI
10 5 (10.87%) Decision-Making
10 5 (10.87%) E-Commerce
11 4 (8.70%) Predictive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 28 (60.87%) Python
2 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.52%) C#
3 3 (6.52%) R
3 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (2.17%) C++
5 1 (2.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
1 3 (6.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
1 4 (8.70%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) Foundry
3 2 (4.35%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.17%) Google
4 1 (2.17%) SAP
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