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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 47 116
Rank change year-on-year +31 +69 -38
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 5,209 4,728 2,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.73% 4.44% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.61% 5.38% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,508 2,164 1,213
10th Percentile £25,313 £40,000 £45,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,295 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £114,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,908 £60,653 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.37% -10.14% +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 54,176 87,872 84,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 90.80% 82.53% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 28,154 60,487 53,372
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £74,258 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +45 4,645 £66,340 -5.23% 6,734
UK excluding London +30 3,381 £63,908 +5.37% 3,115
Work from Home +53 3,055 £66,200 +1.85% 3,375
London +25 1,396 £90,000 +4.35% 4,094
South East +22 861 £45,000 -30.77% 775
North of England +51 851 £52,500 -4.55% 878
Midlands +88 698 £59,625 +3.70% 349
Yorkshire +77 390 £25,625 -60.58% 228
North West +7 383 £58,500 +15.84% 586
West Midlands +103 364 £57,500 -4.17% 222
East of England +91 339 £66,215 -5.41% 452
East Midlands +64 331 £61,250 +28.95% 122
Scotland -10 315 £65,000 - 272
South West +61 279 £60,000 - 324
North East +86 77 £31,500 -33.68% 67
Wales -4 29 £67,750 +0.37% 78
Northern Ireland +9 7 £87,500 +2.94% 63
Channel Islands -2 3 £80,000 +31.15% 1
Isle of Man +14 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 95 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 47 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 43 (0.83%) CMS
4 32 (0.61%) Apache
5 27 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 24 (0.46%) Confluence
7 23 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 18 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 12 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 11 (0.21%) WordPress
11 8 (0.15%) Camunda
12 7 (0.13%) SAS
13 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.12%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.096%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.096%) Tomcat
15 4 (0.077%) Kentico
15 4 (0.077%) Kinematics
15 4 (0.077%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.058%) EPiServer
Applications
1 1,054 (20.23%) Chatbot
2 52 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
6 14 (0.27%) Photoshop
7 13 (0.25%) Maya
8 10 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 9 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
10 7 (0.13%) MS Visio
11 6 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.12%) Blender
11 6 (0.12%) Sketch
12 5 (0.096%) CINEMA 4D
12 5 (0.096%) SPSS
13 4 (0.077%) Simulink
13 4 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
14 2 (0.038%) Revit
14 2 (0.038%) S-PLUS
14 2 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
2 11 (0.21%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.13%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.13%) Shopify
5 6 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.096%) SAP SCM
7 4 (0.077%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.058%) Relativity
8 3 (0.058%) SAP LE
8 3 (0.058%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.038%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.038%) SAP SD
10 1 (0.019%) SAP APO
10 1 (0.019%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.019%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 661 (12.69%) AWS
2 641 (12.31%) Azure
3 229 (4.40%) Power Platform
4 216 (4.15%) GCP
5 162 (3.11%) SaaS
6 158 (3.03%) Serverless
7 135 (2.59%) Amazon S3
8 124 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
9 89 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
11 83 (1.59%) AWS Step Functions
12 63 (1.21%) GitHub
13 62 (1.19%) Azure AI
14 61 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
15 53 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
15 53 (1.02%) Power Automate
16 51 (0.98%) Snowflake
17 49 (0.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 48 (0.92%) Vertex AI
19 47 (0.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 503 (9.66%) Broadband
2 56 (1.08%) Firewall
3 49 (0.94%) VPN
4 48 (0.92%) DNS
5 46 (0.88%) WAN
6 38 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 27 (0.52%) DHCP
8 26 (0.50%) SD-WAN
9 23 (0.44%) LAN
10 22 (0.42%) Network Security
11 19 (0.36%) Internet
12 16 (0.31%) Unified Communications
13 14 (0.27%) BGP
14 13 (0.25%) MPLS
14 13 (0.25%) OSPF
15 8 (0.15%) SAN
16 7 (0.13%) VoIP
16 7 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
17 5 (0.096%) VLAN
18 3 (0.058%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (3.88%) Power BI
2 171 (3.28%) Big Data
3 109 (2.09%) DynamoDB
4 108 (2.07%) NoSQL
5 100 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
6 84 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
7 79 (1.52%) SQL Server
8 78 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
9 73 (1.40%) MySQL
10 67 (1.29%) Data Lake
10 67 (1.29%) Tableau
11 62 (1.19%) Metadata
11 62 (1.19%) MongoDB
12 42 (0.81%) Data Mining
13 39 (0.75%) Relational Database
14 37 (0.71%) Hadoop
15 27 (0.52%) Delta Lake
16 25 (0.48%) Spark SQL
17 22 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
17 22 (0.42%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 284 (5.45%) JIRA
2 130 (2.50%) Git
3 33 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 30 (0.58%) MLflow
5 21 (0.40%) Selenium
6 18 (0.35%) Vite
7 16 (0.31%) GitLab
8 15 (0.29%) JUnit
9 11 (0.21%) Locust
10 10 (0.19%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.17%) Maven
12 8 (0.15%) Postman
13 7 (0.13%) JMeter
13 7 (0.13%) Spinnaker
14 6 (0.12%) Robot Framework
15 5 (0.096%) Gradle
16 4 (0.077%) Octopus Deploy
16 4 (0.077%) SoapUI
16 4 (0.077%) Subversion
16 4 (0.077%) Visual Studio
General
1 972 (18.66%) Finance
2 946 (18.16%) Analytical Skills
3 926 (17.78%) Retail
3 926 (17.78%) Social Skills
4 836 (16.05%) Manufacturing
5 678 (13.02%) Law
6 592 (11.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 459 (8.81%) Marketing
8 373 (7.16%) Banking
9 305 (5.86%) Games
10 232 (4.45%) Public Sector
11 207 (3.97%) Dutch Language
12 197 (3.78%) Legal
13 196 (3.76%) Finnish Language
13 196 (3.76%) Norwegian Language
14 104 (2.00%) Advertising
15 91 (1.75%) Telecoms
16 62 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
17 51 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
18 49 (0.94%) Catalan Language
Job Titles
1 1,700 (32.64%) Trainer
2 914 (17.55%) Senior
3 440 (8.45%) Lead
4 358 (6.87%) Software Engineer
5 353 (6.78%) Developer
6 218 (4.19%) Embedded Engineer
7 215 (4.13%) Release Engineer
8 203 (3.90%) Architect
9 138 (2.65%) Analyst
10 137 (2.63%) Java Engineer
11 132 (2.53%) Senior Developer
12 121 (2.32%) Senior Manager
13 115 (2.21%) Data Scientist
14 101 (1.94%) Data Engineer
15 99 (1.90%) Lead Software Engineer
16 97 (1.86%) Solutions Architect
17 96 (1.84%) Java Software Engineer
18 94 (1.80%) Consultant
19 93 (1.79%) Sales Executive
20 85 (1.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (5.95%) GraphQL
2 307 (5.89%) React
3 228 (4.38%) Middleware
4 218 (4.19%) HTML
5 217 (4.17%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 215 (4.13%) WebGL
7 122 (2.34%) Spring
8 105 (2.02%) TensorFlow
9 98 (1.88%) PyTorch
10 84 (1.61%) Node.js
11 83 (1.59%) Kafka
12 78 (1.50%) REST
13 73 (1.40%) scikit-learn
14 72 (1.38%) Serverless Framework
15 68 (1.31%) .NET
16 60 (1.15%) Software Packaging
17 59 (1.13%) CSS
18 57 (1.09%) Spring Boot
19 54 (1.04%) AngularJS
20 53 (1.02%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 859 (16.49%) Robotics
2 312 (5.99%) Algorithms
3 224 (4.30%) Animation
4 223 (4.28%) Embedded Systems
5 190 (3.65%) Cloud Native
6 151 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 134 (2.57%) Management Information System
8 106 (2.03%) e-Learning
9 82 (1.57%) Data Centre
10 78 (1.50%) Onboarding
11 68 (1.31%) Product Ownership
12 65 (1.25%) Digital Media
13 56 (1.08%) Blockchain
13 56 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
14 55 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
15 50 (0.96%) Social Media
16 47 (0.90%) Cyberattack
17 45 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
18 44 (0.84%) Data Structures
19 43 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 125 (2.40%) Windows
2 67 (1.29%) Linux
3 59 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 43 (0.83%) Android
5 40 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 34 (0.65%) Unix
7 19 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.096%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.058%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.038%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.038%) VMS
12 2 (0.038%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.038%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,802 (34.59%) Machine Learning
2 1,653 (31.73%) Problem-Solving
3 1,140 (21.89%) Agile
4 1,078 (20.69%) Conversational UI
5 1,038 (19.93%) Generative AI
6 1,001 (19.22%) LLM
7 878 (16.86%) Analytics
8 735 (14.11%) Red Team
9 717 (13.76%) CI/CD
10 679 (13.04%) Roadmaps
11 665 (12.77%) Data Privacy
12 656 (12.59%) Software Engineering
13 552 (10.60%) Computer Science
14 533 (10.23%) Mathematics
15 475 (9.12%) Mentoring
16 469 (9.00%) Decision-Making
17 467 (8.97%) Data Science
18 455 (8.73%) Strategic Thinking
19 434 (8.33%) Chemistry
20 398 (7.64%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 988 (18.97%) Python
2 605 (11.61%) SQL
3 431 (8.27%) JavaScript
4 393 (7.54%) Java
5 282 (5.41%) TypeScript
6 260 (4.99%) C#
7 227 (4.36%) C++
8 215 (4.13%) HLSL
9 101 (1.94%) R
10 78 (1.50%) PowerShell
11 74 (1.42%) MATLAB
12 70 (1.34%) C
13 66 (1.27%) PHP
14 65 (1.25%) Rust
15 53 (1.02%) Ruby
16 52 (1.00%) Bash
17 49 (0.94%) Dart
18 44 (0.84%) Scala
19 40 (0.77%) Go
20 39 (0.75%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2,420 (46.46%) Degree
2 858 (16.47%) Master's Degree
3 788 (15.13%) PhD
4 233 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 162 (3.11%) Security Cleared
6 116 (2.23%) AWS Certification
7 97 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 86 (1.65%) Azure Certification
9 73 (1.40%) SC Cleared
10 60 (1.15%) DBS Check
11 51 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 32 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
13 26 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (0.46%) CCNA
15 22 (0.42%) CISA
16 20 (0.38%) ISACA
17 19 (0.36%) MBA
18 18 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 14 (0.27%) ACCA
19 14 (0.27%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (1.79%) GDPR
2 84 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 74 (1.42%) Accessibility
4 70 (1.34%) QA
5 47 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (0.81%) ITGC
7 27 (0.52%) SLA
8 25 (0.48%) NIST
9 24 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 24 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 11 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 11 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.19%) GRC
13 9 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.12%) NCSC
15 5 (0.096%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.096%) WCAG
16 4 (0.077%) COBIT
16 4 (0.077%) PMO
System Software
1 202 (3.88%) Docker
2 53 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 29 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 18 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.25%) HDFS
6 7 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.058%) Apache Flume
7 3 (0.058%) Firmware
8 2 (0.038%) Xen
9 1 (0.019%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 245 (4.70%) Kubernetes
2 156 (2.99%) Terraform
3 48 (0.92%) Grafana
4 44 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 29 (0.56%) Ansible
7 24 (0.46%) Kubeflow
8 21 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.31%) SCOM
10 15 (0.29%) SCCM
11 13 (0.25%) Nagios
12 12 (0.23%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.12%) ArcSight ESM
13 6 (0.12%) QRadar
14 5 (0.096%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.077%) ITRS Geneos
15 4 (0.077%) Kibana
15 4 (0.077%) logstash
15 4 (0.077%) Netcool
Vendors
1 969 (18.60%) PayPal
2 959 (18.41%) Google
3 906 (17.39%) Databricks
4 784 (15.05%) Adobe
5 426 (8.18%) Microsoft
6 126 (2.42%) IBM
7 110 (2.11%) Oracle
8 108 (2.07%) Red Hat
9 105 (2.02%) OpenAI
10 92 (1.77%) ServiceNow
11 86 (1.65%) Cisco
12 64 (1.23%) SAP
13 56 (1.08%) Dell
14 47 (0.90%) Splunk
15 41 (0.79%) Foundry
16 39 (0.75%) VMware
17 38 (0.73%) Salesforce
18 34 (0.65%) Apple
19 24 (0.46%) SolarWinds
20 23 (0.44%) Palantir