Artificial Intelligence Engineering Jobs

AI Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Artificial Intelligence Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 653 889 974
Rank change year-on-year +236 +85 +194
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering 39 7 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.007% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.080% 0.008% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 20 7 11
10th Percentile - £56,558 £82,500
25th Percentile £88,750 £57,597 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £62,783 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +71.23% -37.22% +19.40%
75th Percentile £115,000 £90,000 £105,625
90th Percentile £117,500 £108,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £101,250 £62,783 £40,000
% change year-on-year +61.27% +56.96% -49.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Artificial Intelligence Engineering 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 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineering in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering.

Salary trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineering in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineering in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +206 37 £103,750 +65.25% 49
Work from Home +220 31 £110,000 +75.21% 31
UK excluding London +231 28 £101,250 +61.27% 19
South East - 18 £120,000 - 11
London +118 9 £107,500 +26.47% 42
North of England +89 7 £92,500 +47.33% 3
Yorkshire - 6 £92,500 -
Midlands +82 1 £110,000 +29.41%
North West +32 1 £110,000 +75.21% 3
South West - 1 £110,000 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £110,000 -
Scotland - 1 £110,000 - 3

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (15.38%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (7.69%) Azure AI
3 3 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (5.13%) AWS
5 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.56%) Pinecone
2 1 (2.56%) Text Mining
2 1 (2.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Cypress.io
1 5 (12.82%) Git
1 5 (12.82%) Vite
1 5 (12.82%) webpack
2 1 (2.56%) MLflow
General
1 19 (48.72%) Law
2 12 (30.77%) Games
2 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (17.95%) Marketing
5 4 (10.26%) Banking
6 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Retail
7 1 (2.56%) Finance
7 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.56%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Gen AI Engineer
2 10 (25.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 9 (23.08%) Architect
3 9 (23.08%) Senior
3 9 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (20.51%) Lead
5 5 (12.82%) Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 5 (12.82%) UI Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) UX Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Gen AI Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Gen AI Software Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Software Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Head of AI
7 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) React
2 5 (12.82%) Enzyme
2 5 (12.82%) Jest
2 5 (12.82%) Next.js
2 5 (12.82%) Node.js
2 5 (12.82%) OpenAPI
2 5 (12.82%) Parceljs
2 5 (12.82%) Svelte
2 5 (12.82%) Vue
2 5 (12.82%) WebAssembly
3 2 (5.13%) PyTorch
3 2 (5.13%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.56%) .NET
4 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.56%) Django
4 1 (2.56%) Flask
4 1 (2.56%) Hugging Face
4 1 (2.56%) Keras
4 1 (2.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 15 (38.46%) Algorithms
2 7 (17.95%) Product Ownership
3 6 (15.38%) Robotics
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
4 4 (10.26%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 26 (66.67%) Generative AI
3 20 (51.28%) LLM
4 19 (48.72%) Machine Learning
5 16 (41.03%) Software Engineering
5 16 (41.03%) User Experience
6 13 (33.33%) Cloud Security
6 13 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
7 12 (30.77%) Analytics
7 12 (30.77%) CI/CD
7 12 (30.77%) Coaching
7 12 (30.77%) MLOps
7 12 (30.77%) Open Source
7 12 (30.77%) Pair Programming
8 10 (25.64%) Data Engineering
9 9 (23.08%) Agile
9 9 (23.08%) DataOps
9 9 (23.08%) Mentoring
9 9 (23.08%) Migration
9 9 (23.08%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (69.23%) Python
2 16 (41.03%) Go
3 11 (28.21%) JavaScript
4 9 (23.08%) TypeScript
5 5 (12.82%) Java
6 4 (10.26%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.56%) C#
7 1 (2.56%) C++
7 1 (2.56%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (30.77%) Degree
2 9 (23.08%) SC Cleared
2 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (41.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (43.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Databricks
1 3 (7.69%) Foundry
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) Google