Artificial Intelligence Programmer Job Trends

AI Programmer
UK

The median AI Programmer salary in the UK is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 January 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 648 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Programmer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - -
75th Percentile £41,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 - -

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 57,321 48,360 64,846
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 92.27% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 35,616 24,820 50,671
10th Percentile £28,964 £33,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.37%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,600 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -4.76%

Artificial Intelligence Programmer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Artificial Intelligence Programmer job vacancy trend in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Programmer
Salary Trend

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Programmer
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Programmer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 January 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
Midlands - 1 £37,500 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £37,500 - 1
England - 1 £37,500 - 17
UK excluding London - 1 £37,500 - 20

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

For the 6 months to 28 January 2026, Artificial Intelligence Programmer 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 Programmer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Neural Network
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Streamlit
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow

Artificial Intelligence Programmer 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 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Neural Network
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft