Cognitive Science Jobs

Cognitive Science
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Cognitive Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cognitive Science over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 717 781 -
Rank change year-on-year +64 - -
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Cognitive Science 1 41 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.047% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.002% 0.058% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £27,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £27,500 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cognitive Science 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54,557 70,933 68,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.91% 81.54% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 28,773 42,836 46,192
10th Percentile £26,929 £31,250 £33,740
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Cognitive Science
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cognitive Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cognitive Science in the UK

Cognitive Science
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cognitive Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cognitive Science

Cognitive Science
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cognitive Science within the UK over the 6 months to 22 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +86 1 - - 1
London - 1 - - 1

Cognitive Science
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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) ChatGPT
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Multimedia
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Content Curation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Instructional Design
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI