Artificial Intelligence Jobs

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 45 120
Rank change year-on-year +5 +75 -43
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 2,969 4,906 3,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.69% 4.99% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.10% 5.80% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,503 2,070 1,318
10th Percentile £26,900 £40,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,250
Median % change year-on-year - -0.36% +4.07%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,200 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.33% -11.11% +17.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Artificial Intelligence 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 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £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 £76,250 £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
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +22 2,639 £72,500 +3.57% 4,599
UK excluding London -1 1,839 £66,200 +10.33% 2,310
Work from Home +48 1,348 £66,206 +5.93% 2,864
London +15 981 £92,500 +8.82% 2,430
North of England +23 457 £65,000 +27.45% 658
South East +7 451 £70,000 +3.70% 613
Midlands +30 280 £57,660 +4.84% 539
North West -22 263 £73,750 +55.26% 358
East of England +88 244 £66,225 +1.88% 185
South West +66 207 £57,471 -2.09% 176
West Midlands +41 189 £57,500 -2.04% 264
Yorkshire +65 163 £45,000 -25.00% 239
Scotland -33 159 £45,000 -30.77% 130
East Midlands -2 88 £62,500 +31.58% 274
North East +59 30 £57,500 +12.20% 64
Wales +2 24 £64,250 -3.58% 22
Northern Ireland +16 15 £100,000 -23.08% 21
Channel Islands +2 3 £80,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 - -

Artificial Intelligence
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 52 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 30 (1.01%) Jupyter
3 29 (0.98%) SharePoint
4 28 (0.94%) CMS
5 23 (0.77%) Apache
6 20 (0.67%) Confluence
7 16 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.34%) WordPress
9 9 (0.30%) nginx
10 8 (0.27%) Camunda
11 7 (0.24%) SAS
12 6 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 6 (0.20%) Kinematics
12 6 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.10%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.10%) EPiServer
14 3 (0.10%) Kentico
Applications
1 527 (17.75%) Chatbot
2 38 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.54%) Maya
4 14 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.30%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 7 (0.24%) Blender
8 6 (0.20%) SPSS
9 5 (0.17%) CINEMA 4D
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.13%) Simulink
11 3 (0.10%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.10%) Trello
12 2 (0.067%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Inventor
12 2 (0.067%) CATIA
12 2 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.034%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 22 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
2 12 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 12 (0.40%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 9 (0.30%) Elite 3E
4 8 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.17%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Relativity
8 4 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.10%) Sprinklr
10 2 (0.067%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.067%) SAP LE
10 2 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
11 1 (0.034%) Finacle
11 1 (0.034%) GoldMine
11 1 (0.034%) Sage 200
11 1 (0.034%) SAP Business One
11 1 (0.034%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 484 (16.30%) Azure
2 467 (15.73%) AWS
3 251 (8.45%) Power Platform
4 185 (6.23%) GCP
5 135 (4.55%) SaaS
6 70 (2.36%) Serverless
7 62 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 59 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
9 56 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
10 55 (1.85%) IBM Cloud
11 52 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
12 47 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
13 46 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
13 46 (1.55%) Snowflake
14 44 (1.48%) Power Automate
15 41 (1.38%) GitHub
16 39 (1.31%) Azure Machine Learning
17 37 (1.25%) PaaS
18 35 (1.18%) Amazon SageMaker
18 35 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.48%) Firewall
2 38 (1.28%) DNS
3 33 (1.11%) TCP/IP
4 31 (1.04%) VPN
5 27 (0.91%) DHCP
6 23 (0.77%) WAN
7 20 (0.67%) Network Security
8 18 (0.61%) Internet
9 17 (0.57%) LAN
10 10 (0.34%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.30%) BGP
12 8 (0.27%) MPLS
12 8 (0.27%) OSPF
13 7 (0.24%) SAN
13 7 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.20%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.20%) VoIP
15 5 (0.17%) VLAN
16 4 (0.13%) IPv6
16 4 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (7.68%) Power BI
2 146 (4.92%) Big Data
3 74 (2.49%) NoSQL
4 72 (2.43%) SQL Server
5 66 (2.22%) Tableau
6 50 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (1.38%) Relational Database
9 40 (1.35%) MongoDB
10 38 (1.28%) MySQL
11 35 (1.18%) Data Lake
12 34 (1.15%) Metadata
13 29 (0.98%) Data Mining
14 25 (0.84%) BigQuery
14 25 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (0.77%) Hadoop
16 14 (0.47%) Neo4j
17 13 (0.44%) Apache Hive
18 12 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
19 11 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 147 (4.95%) Git
2 65 (2.19%) JIRA
3 24 (0.81%) Cypress.io
4 23 (0.77%) Selenium
5 20 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 19 (0.64%) GitLab
7 16 (0.54%) MLflow
8 15 (0.51%) Maven
9 10 (0.34%) SoapUI
10 8 (0.27%) Postman
10 8 (0.27%) webpack
11 7 (0.24%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.24%) Vite
12 6 (0.20%) JDeveloper
12 6 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
12 6 (0.20%) Robot Framework
13 5 (0.17%) JUnit
13 5 (0.17%) Subversion
14 4 (0.13%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.13%) JMeter
General
1 759 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 650 (21.89%) Finance
3 557 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
4 304 (10.24%) Law
5 268 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 262 (8.82%) Marketing
7 253 (8.52%) Banking
8 174 (5.86%) Public Sector
9 155 (5.22%) Retail
10 140 (4.72%) Legal
11 117 (3.94%) Manufacturing
12 108 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
13 93 (3.13%) Telecoms
14 92 (3.10%) Advertising
15 87 (2.93%) Games
16 42 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
17 39 (1.31%) Publishing
18 38 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
19 34 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
20 30 (1.01%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 495 (16.67%) Senior
2 454 (15.29%) Trainer
3 316 (10.64%) Lead
4 231 (7.78%) Developer
5 198 (6.67%) Architect
6 179 (6.03%) Analyst
7 147 (4.95%) Software Engineer
8 134 (4.51%) Data Scientist
9 127 (4.28%) Graduate
10 109 (3.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 95 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
12 92 (3.10%) Senior Manager
13 86 (2.90%) Data Engineer
14 73 (2.46%) Consultant
15 72 (2.43%) Product Manager
16 65 (2.19%) Digital Analyst
17 62 (2.09%) Senior Data Scientist
18 60 (2.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 59 (1.99%) Sales Executive
20 51 (1.72%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (6.33%) React
2 156 (5.25%) HTML
3 91 (3.07%) PyTorch
4 86 (2.90%) TensorFlow
5 82 (2.76%) Node.js
6 72 (2.43%) .NET
7 63 (2.12%) scikit-learn
8 60 (2.02%) Software Packaging
9 50 (1.68%) Pandas
10 48 (1.62%) NumPy
10 48 (1.62%) REST
11 47 (1.58%) Next.js
12 46 (1.55%) CSS
13 37 (1.25%) Kafka
14 36 (1.21%) Spring
15 33 (1.11%) RESTful
16 31 (1.04%) Django
17 27 (0.91%) Vue
18 26 (0.88%) HTML5
19 25 (0.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 255 (8.59%) Algorithms
2 173 (5.83%) Robotics
3 126 (4.24%) Blockchain
4 115 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 97 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 75 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 68 (2.29%) Cloud Native
8 63 (2.12%) Data Centre
9 56 (1.89%) Onboarding
10 55 (1.85%) e-Learning
11 53 (1.79%) Digital Media
12 50 (1.68%) Cyberattack
12 50 (1.68%) Marketing Technology
13 49 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
14 35 (1.18%) IoT
14 35 (1.18%) Learning Management System
15 34 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
15 34 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
15 34 (1.15%) Hedge funds
16 32 (1.08%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 81 (2.73%) Windows
2 61 (2.05%) Linux
3 43 (1.45%) Apple iOS
4 40 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.61%) Android
6 13 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (0.37%) Robot Operating System
9 9 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.20%) Unix
11 5 (0.17%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.10%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.067%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.067%) Rocky
13 2 (0.067%) VMS
13 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.067%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (30.68%) Machine Learning
2 833 (28.06%) Analytics
3 685 (23.07%) Agile
4 546 (18.39%) Conversational UI
5 536 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
6 442 (14.89%) Software Engineering
7 441 (14.85%) Decision-Making
8 430 (14.48%) Data Science
9 390 (13.14%) Mathematics
10 386 (13.00%) Computer Science
11 357 (12.02%) Generative AI
12 349 (11.75%) Roadmaps
13 337 (11.35%) Mentoring
14 311 (10.47%) DevOps
15 307 (10.34%) LLM
16 306 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
17 274 (9.23%) Data Analytics
18 264 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
19 250 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
20 212 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 902 (30.38%) Python
2 437 (14.72%) SQL
3 353 (11.89%) JavaScript
4 236 (7.95%) C#
5 224 (7.54%) Java
6 178 (6.00%) C++
7 142 (4.78%) TypeScript
8 63 (2.12%) R
9 42 (1.41%) Bash
10 40 (1.35%) PowerShell
11 36 (1.21%) Scala
12 35 (1.18%) Go
13 29 (0.98%) C
14 26 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.74%) MATLAB
15 22 (0.74%) PHP
16 21 (0.71%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.51%) Rust
18 13 (0.44%) Bicep
19 12 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,200 (40.42%) Degree
2 493 (16.60%) Master's Degree
3 437 (14.72%) PhD
4 206 (6.94%) Security Cleared
5 158 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 98 (3.30%) DV Cleared
7 80 (2.69%) SC Cleared
8 59 (1.99%) Azure Certification
9 43 (1.45%) DBS Check
10 36 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
11 30 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (0.81%) CISA
13 23 (0.77%) ISACA
14 22 (0.74%) AWS Certification
15 17 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
16 16 (0.54%) CCNA
17 14 (0.47%) MBA
18 12 (0.40%) CISSP
19 9 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
19 9 (0.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 77 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 68 (2.29%) GDPR
4 61 (2.05%) QA
5 50 (1.68%) ITGC
6 37 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (0.81%) SLA
8 20 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 17 (0.57%) NIST
10 16 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.27%) NCSC
14 7 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.24%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.24%) WCAG
15 5 (0.17%) GMP
16 4 (0.13%) COBIT
16 4 (0.13%) GRC
17 3 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 191 (6.43%) Docker
2 44 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.17%) Firmware
7 5 (0.17%) HDFS
8 1 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 201 (6.77%) Kubernetes
2 84 (2.83%) Terraform
3 28 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (0.71%) Ansible
4 21 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.64%) Grafana
6 13 (0.44%) SCOM
7 12 (0.40%) SCCM
8 9 (0.30%) NetBackup
9 8 (0.27%) Nagios
10 7 (0.24%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.17%) ArcSight ESM
12 5 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.17%) QRadar
13 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.13%) Puppet
14 3 (0.10%) Argo
15 2 (0.067%) Istio
15 2 (0.067%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 454 (15.29%) PayPal
2 307 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 160 (5.39%) Google
4 124 (4.18%) Databricks
5 109 (3.67%) IBM
6 83 (2.80%) Oracle
7 77 (2.59%) Red Hat
8 64 (2.16%) OpenAI
9 60 (2.02%) Alteryx
10 57 (1.92%) SAP
11 56 (1.89%) ServiceNow
12 31 (1.04%) Salesforce
13 30 (1.01%) Adobe
14 24 (0.81%) Cisco
15 22 (0.74%) Dell
16 21 (0.71%) VMware
17 18 (0.61%) Informatica
18 17 (0.57%) SolarWinds
18 17 (0.57%) Splunk
19 13 (0.44%) Apple