AI Job Trends in West London

AI
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West London requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 37 36
Rank change year-on-year +32 -1 +45
Permanent jobs citing AI 135 20 6
As % of all permanent jobs in West London 24.91% 5.13% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.87% 5.26% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £65,500 £82,400 £36,000
25th Percentile £71,875 £90,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £100,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +81.82% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £101,250 -
90th Percentile £106,500 £103,500 -
London median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West London

AI 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 in West London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 380 301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 83.39% 97.44% 88.27%
Number of salaries quoted 231 126 240
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,375 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,813 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £82,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West London.

AI job vacancy trend in West London

AI
Salary Trend in West London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing AI

AI
Salary Histogram in West London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in West London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in West London

AI
Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the West London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Hillingdon +7 39 £95,000 - 6
Hounslow +13 31 £80,000 - 2
Ealing +2 20 - -
Richmond upon Thames +9 13 - - 1
Harrow +6 12 - -
Wembley +8 9 - - 2
Hammersmith +5 7 - - 2
AI
London

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.48%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.48%) SAP ERP
1 2 (1.48%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.48%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 118 (87.41%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (4.44%) SaaS
3 3 (2.22%) Azure
4 2 (1.48%) AWS
4 2 (1.48%) Google Analytics
5 1 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.74%) H2O.ai
5 1 (0.74%) Matillion
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.74%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.74%) Pulumi
5 1 (0.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 118 (87.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.74%) Big Data
1 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.74%) DTS
1 1 (0.74%) Metadata
1 1 (0.74%) Qlik Sense
General
1 122 (90.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 121 (89.63%) Social Skills
3 120 (88.89%) Banking
4 4 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.96%) Marketing
5 3 (2.22%) Finance
6 2 (1.48%) Brand Awareness
6 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.48%) Retail
7 1 (0.74%) Aviation
7 1 (0.74%) Games
7 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.74%) Legal
7 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 101 (74.81%) Lecturer
2 8 (5.93%) Lead
3 4 (2.96%) Developer
3 4 (2.96%) Lead Developer
3 4 (2.96%) SaaS Developer
4 3 (2.22%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (2.22%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (1.48%) Campaign Manager
5 2 (1.48%) Campaign Marketing Manager
5 2 (1.48%) Marketing Manager
6 1 (0.74%) Architect
6 1 (0.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.74%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (0.74%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.74%) Senior
6 1 (0.74%) Senior Manager
6 1 (0.74%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.96%) Alpine.js
1 4 (2.96%) Hugging Face
1 4 (2.96%) Laravel
1 4 (2.96%) Tailwind CSS
1 4 (2.96%) Vue
2 1 (0.74%) Keras
2 1 (0.74%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 119 (88.15%) IoT
2 2 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (1.48%) Augmented Reality
2 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (1.48%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.74%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.74%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.74%) FMCG
3 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.74%) Low-Code
3 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (91.85%) Machine Learning
2 118 (87.41%) Cybersecurity
2 118 (87.41%) User Experience
2 118 (87.41%) Web Development
3 7 (5.19%) Agile
3 7 (5.19%) Analytics
4 6 (4.44%) Roadmaps
5 5 (3.70%) Product Roadmap
6 4 (2.96%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (2.96%) LLM
6 4 (2.96%) Project Management
6 4 (2.96%) Prompt Engineering
6 4 (2.96%) TDD
7 3 (2.22%) Customer Experience
7 3 (2.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (2.22%) Translating Business Requirements
8 2 (1.48%) Budget Management
8 2 (1.48%) CI/CD
8 2 (1.48%) Journey Map
8 2 (1.48%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.96%) PHP
2 2 (1.48%) Python
3 1 (0.74%) C#
3 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 120 (88.89%) Degree
2 119 (88.15%) Master's Degree
3 118 (87.41%) PhD
3 118 (87.41%) Postgraduate
4 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.48%) GAAP
1 2 (1.48%) IFRS
2 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (0.74%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (2.96%) OpenAI
2 2 (1.48%) Dell
2 2 (1.48%) Google
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.48%) Pardot
2 2 (1.48%) Salesforce
2 2 (1.48%) SAP
3 1 (0.74%) Databricks
3 1 (0.74%) NVIDIA