EU AI Act Job Trends

European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring EU AI Act skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 675 776 -
Rank change year-on-year +101 - -
Permanent jobs citing EU AI Act 8 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.006% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.10% 0.048% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £140,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £160,000 - -
75th Percentile £180,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

EU AI Act falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,706 10,493 8,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.63% 13.47% 14.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4,243 5,356 6,706
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,317 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -5.00% +8.96%
75th Percentile £75,375 £77,500 £77,250
90th Percentile £93,500 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

EU AI Act
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing EU AI Act as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for EU AI Act in the UK

EU AI Act
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing EU AI Act within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 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 +111 8 £160,000 - 38
London +87 7 £160,000 - 27
Work from Home +83 3 - - 19
UK excluding London +132 1 - - 27
North of England - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

EU AI Act
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MLflow
General
1 8 (100.00%) Legal
2 4 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (50.00%) Law
2 4 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Games
4 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Hugging Face
1 1 (12.50%) LangChain
1 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (50.00%) Software Licensing
2 3 (37.50%) Data Science
2 3 (37.50%) Generative AI
3 2 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) LLM
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Six Sigma
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Use Case
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
1 4 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) OpenAI