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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 45 124
Rank change year-on-year +26 +79 -48
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 4,509 5,000 2,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.22% 4.87% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.77% 5.78% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,342 2,149 1,202
10th Percentile £25,313 £40,000 £45,100
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £56,407
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,350 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £97,434 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -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 51,417 86,448 93,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.74% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,323 60,550 54,986
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -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 29 May 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 29 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 +42 4,133 £70,000 - 4,685
UK excluding London +20 2,928 £65,000 +8.33% 2,049
Work from Home +51 2,694 £66,206 +5.45% 3,357
London +23 1,212 £91,000 +4.00% 2,916
South East +26 783 £60,000 -11.11% 440
North of England +51 738 £55,000 +8.91% 579
Midlands +72 632 £57,500 +4.55% 279
North West -8 349 £65,000 +36.84% 381
West Midlands +83 334 £57,500 -4.17% 176
Yorkshire +86 331 £35,000 -41.67% 133
East of England +80 304 £66,215 +1.87% 243
East Midlands +48 295 £57,500 +21.05% 99
South West +73 242 £57,443 -2.14% 216
Scotland -27 205 £45,000 -30.77% 201
North East +71 57 £47,500 - 67
Wales -7 18 £69,000 +4.92% 46
Northern Ireland +3 3 - - 42
Channel Islands +1 3 £80,000 - 38
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 69 (1.53%) Apache Spark
2 34 (0.75%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.69%) CMS
4 26 (0.58%) Apache
5 23 (0.51%) Jupyter
6 18 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (0.40%) Confluence
7 11 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.22%) WordPress
9 7 (0.16%) SAS
10 6 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.11%) Kinematics
11 5 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.067%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.067%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.067%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.067%) Kentico
12 3 (0.067%) Skype for Business
12 3 (0.067%) Tomcat
Applications
1 781 (17.32%) Chatbot
2 33 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.35%) Maya
5 12 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.27%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 7 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
7 7 (0.16%) Blender
8 6 (0.13%) SPSS
9 5 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
10 3 (0.067%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.067%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.067%) Simulink
10 3 (0.067%) Sketch
10 3 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.044%) Autodesk Inventor
11 2 (0.044%) CATIA
11 2 (0.044%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
2 11 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.20%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.089%) Relativity
5 4 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.067%) Sprinklr
7 2 (0.044%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.044%) SAP LE
8 1 (0.022%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.022%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.022%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.022%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.022%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.022%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.022%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 543 (12.04%) Azure
2 505 (11.20%) AWS
3 264 (5.85%) Power Platform
4 183 (4.06%) GCP
5 143 (3.17%) Serverless
6 131 (2.91%) SaaS
7 111 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
8 102 (2.26%) Amazon S3
9 78 (1.73%) AWS Step Functions
9 78 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
10 65 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
11 62 (1.38%) Power Automate
12 52 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
13 51 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 46 (1.02%) Snowflake
15 44 (0.98%) Azure AI
15 44 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
15 44 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
16 41 (0.91%) GitHub
17 39 (0.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 503 (11.16%) Broadband
2 57 (1.26%) Firewall
3 50 (1.11%) VPN
4 49 (1.09%) DNS
5 43 (0.95%) WAN
6 38 (0.84%) TCP/IP
7 29 (0.64%) DHCP
8 26 (0.58%) SD-WAN
9 21 (0.47%) LAN
9 21 (0.47%) Network Security
10 18 (0.40%) Internet
11 12 (0.27%) BGP
12 11 (0.24%) MPLS
12 11 (0.24%) OSPF
13 9 (0.20%) SAN
14 7 (0.16%) Unified Communications
15 6 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
16 5 (0.11%) VLAN
16 5 (0.11%) VoIP
17 4 (0.089%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (5.30%) Power BI
2 154 (3.42%) Big Data
3 92 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
4 84 (1.86%) NoSQL
5 82 (1.82%) DynamoDB
6 79 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
7 72 (1.60%) SQL Server
8 68 (1.51%) Tableau
9 67 (1.49%) Data Lake
10 63 (1.40%) MySQL
11 58 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
12 52 (1.15%) MongoDB
13 42 (0.93%) Metadata
14 34 (0.75%) Hadoop
14 34 (0.75%) Relational Database
15 29 (0.64%) Data Mining
16 22 (0.49%) BigQuery
17 18 (0.40%) Power Query
18 17 (0.38%) Apache Hive
19 16 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 274 (6.08%) JIRA
2 125 (2.77%) Git
3 19 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.40%) Selenium
5 16 (0.35%) Cypress.io
6 13 (0.29%) GitLab
7 11 (0.24%) MLflow
8 9 (0.20%) Vite
9 8 (0.18%) Postman
10 7 (0.16%) JUnit
11 6 (0.13%) JMeter
11 6 (0.13%) Locust
11 6 (0.13%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.13%) SoapUI
12 4 (0.089%) Subversion
12 4 (0.089%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.089%) webpack
13 3 (0.067%) Maven
14 2 (0.044%) Axure RP
14 2 (0.044%) Cucumber
General
1 897 (19.89%) Retail
2 840 (18.63%) Manufacturing
3 794 (17.61%) Social Skills
4 731 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
5 714 (15.83%) Finance
6 420 (9.31%) Law
7 405 (8.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 332 (7.36%) Marketing
9 304 (6.74%) Games
10 277 (6.14%) Banking
11 207 (4.59%) Dutch Language
12 196 (4.35%) Finnish Language
12 196 (4.35%) Norwegian Language
13 194 (4.30%) Public Sector
14 147 (3.26%) Legal
15 100 (2.22%) Telecoms
16 98 (2.17%) Advertising
17 95 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
18 49 (1.09%) Catalan Language
19 42 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,430 (31.71%) Trainer
2 820 (18.19%) Senior
3 323 (7.16%) Lead
4 303 (6.72%) Developer
5 220 (4.88%) Embedded Engineer
6 215 (4.77%) Release Engineer
7 201 (4.46%) Software Engineer
8 193 (4.28%) Architect
9 156 (3.46%) Analyst
10 124 (2.75%) Data Scientist
11 112 (2.48%) Senior Manager
12 110 (2.44%) Senior Developer
13 94 (2.08%) Data Engineer
14 91 (2.02%) Graduate
15 87 (1.93%) Solutions Architect
16 80 (1.77%) Consultant
17 76 (1.69%) Sales Executive
18 73 (1.62%) AWS Developer
19 68 (1.51%) DevOps Engineer
19 68 (1.51%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (6.68%) GraphQL
2 259 (5.74%) React
3 229 (5.08%) Middleware
4 216 (4.79%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 215 (4.77%) WebGL
6 200 (4.44%) HTML
7 79 (1.75%) PyTorch
8 78 (1.73%) Node.js
9 72 (1.60%) Serverless Framework
10 71 (1.57%) TensorFlow
11 60 (1.33%) .NET
11 60 (1.33%) Software Packaging
12 59 (1.31%) Spring
13 53 (1.18%) Kafka
14 51 (1.13%) REST
14 51 (1.13%) scikit-learn
15 49 (1.09%) CSS
16 47 (1.04%) Next.js
17 45 (1.00%) NumPy
17 45 (1.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 897 (19.89%) Robotics
2 258 (5.72%) Algorithms
3 222 (4.92%) Animation
3 222 (4.92%) Embedded Systems
4 144 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 126 (2.79%) Management Information System
6 111 (2.46%) Cloud Native
7 100 (2.22%) e-Learning
8 76 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 69 (1.53%) Blockchain
10 57 (1.26%) Digital Media
11 51 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
11 51 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
12 50 (1.11%) Product Ownership
13 49 (1.09%) Cyberattack
14 48 (1.06%) Onboarding
15 43 (0.95%) Data Structures
16 38 (0.84%) Social Media
17 37 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
18 33 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 107 (2.37%) Windows
2 66 (1.46%) Linux
3 46 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 31 (0.69%) Android
5 29 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (0.22%) Unix
11 7 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
12 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.067%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.044%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.044%) Windows Vista
15 1 (0.022%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.022%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,590 (35.26%) Machine Learning
2 1,531 (33.95%) Problem-Solving
3 1,013 (22.47%) Agile
4 994 (22.04%) Generative AI
5 950 (21.07%) LLM
6 831 (18.43%) Analytics
7 802 (17.79%) Conversational UI
8 735 (16.30%) Red Team
9 643 (14.26%) Data Privacy
10 583 (12.93%) Roadmaps
11 530 (11.75%) CI/CD
12 479 (10.62%) Computer Science
13 469 (10.40%) Software Engineering
14 446 (9.89%) Mathematics
15 445 (9.87%) Mentoring
16 438 (9.71%) Strategic Thinking
17 413 (9.16%) Data Science
18 385 (8.54%) Decision-Making
19 325 (7.21%) DevOps
20 311 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 888 (19.69%) Python
2 524 (11.62%) SQL
3 429 (9.51%) JavaScript
4 284 (6.30%) Java
5 258 (5.72%) TypeScript
6 249 (5.52%) C#
7 217 (4.81%) C++
8 215 (4.77%) HLSL
9 108 (2.40%) R
10 73 (1.62%) MATLAB
11 70 (1.55%) C
12 64 (1.42%) PHP
13 61 (1.35%) PowerShell
13 61 (1.35%) Rust
14 53 (1.18%) Ruby
15 49 (1.09%) Dart
16 43 (0.95%) Bash
17 37 (0.82%) Scala
18 32 (0.71%) Go
19 30 (0.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2,142 (47.50%) Degree
2 642 (14.24%) Master's Degree
3 586 (13.00%) PhD
4 212 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 151 (3.35%) Security Cleared
6 104 (2.31%) AWS Certification
7 96 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 83 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 65 (1.44%) SC Cleared
10 56 (1.24%) DBS Check
11 40 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 34 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
13 25 (0.55%) CISA
14 23 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
14 23 (0.51%) ISACA
15 22 (0.49%) CCNA
16 16 (0.35%) MBA
17 12 (0.27%) CCNP
18 11 (0.24%) CISSP
19 10 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (1.89%) Data Quality
2 82 (1.82%) GDPR
3 70 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 67 (1.49%) QA
5 50 (1.11%) ITGC
6 42 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 28 (0.62%) SLA
9 19 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 19 (0.42%) NIST
10 11 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 11 (0.24%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.20%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.18%) NCSC
14 5 (0.11%) GMP
14 5 (0.11%) GRC
14 5 (0.11%) WCAG
15 4 (0.089%) COBIT
15 4 (0.089%) P3O
System Software
1 153 (3.39%) Docker
2 50 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 25 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 18 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.18%) HDFS
6 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.067%) Firmware
8 2 (0.044%) Xen
9 1 (0.022%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 174 (3.86%) Kubernetes
2 87 (1.93%) Terraform
3 39 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (0.64%) Grafana
5 22 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.44%) Ansible
7 18 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.33%) SCOM
9 14 (0.31%) SCCM
10 11 (0.24%) Nagios
10 11 (0.24%) NetBackup
11 6 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.13%) ArcSight ESM
11 6 (0.13%) QRadar
12 5 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.067%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.067%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.067%) Puppet
14 2 (0.044%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.044%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 889 (19.72%) Google
2 878 (19.47%) Databricks
3 775 (17.19%) Adobe
4 701 (15.55%) PayPal
5 326 (7.23%) Microsoft
6 123 (2.73%) IBM
7 102 (2.26%) Red Hat
8 80 (1.77%) Oracle
9 75 (1.66%) OpenAI
9 75 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 61 (1.35%) SAP
11 60 (1.33%) Cisco
12 44 (0.98%) Alteryx
13 40 (0.89%) Dell
14 30 (0.67%) VMware
15 29 (0.64%) Splunk
16 25 (0.55%) Salesforce
17 22 (0.49%) SolarWinds
18 19 (0.42%) Apple
18 19 (0.42%) Informatica