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

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 44 120
Rank change year-on-year +8 +76 -41
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 3,280 4,955 2,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.07% 5.01% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.48% 5.85% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,512 2,104 1,281
10th Percentile £26,750 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £56,407
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,200 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.33% -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 50,654 84,747 98,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.80% 85.73% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,617 59,812 57,648
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 8 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 8 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 +27 2,948 £72,500 +3.57% 6,457
UK excluding London +3 2,125 £66,200 +10.33% 3,732
Work from Home +45 1,573 £66,206 +5.93% 4,278
London +15 997 £92,500 +7.25% 3,678
South East +16 554 £70,000 +3.70% 1,493
North of England +33 520 £63,876 +16.14% 878
Midlands +45 409 £60,250 +9.55% 648
North West -22 265 £72,500 +52.63% 473
East of England +75 246 £66,225 +1.88% 290
West Midlands +61 239 £57,500 -4.17% 328
Yorkshire +68 217 £45,000 -28.00% 316
South West +60 201 £57,471 -2.09% 244
East Midlands +22 167 £62,500 +31.58% 309
Scotland -33 159 £45,000 -30.77% 175
North East +62 37 £57,500 +12.20% 93
Wales 0 24 £64,250 -4.81% 42
Northern Ireland +8 9 £100,000 - 31
Channel Islands +2 3 £80,000 -
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 53 (1.62%) Apache Spark
2 30 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 29 (0.88%) CMS
3 29 (0.88%) Jupyter
4 22 (0.67%) Apache
5 18 (0.55%) Confluence
6 16 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.30%) WordPress
8 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.21%) SAS
10 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.18%) Kinematics
11 5 (0.15%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.091%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.091%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.091%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.091%) Kentico
12 3 (0.091%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.030%) nginx
13 1 (0.030%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 549 (16.74%) Chatbot
2 36 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.49%) Maya
4 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.27%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 7 (0.21%) Blender
8 6 (0.18%) SPSS
9 5 (0.15%) CINEMA 4D
10 4 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.091%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.091%) Simulink
12 2 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.061%) Autodesk Inventor
12 2 (0.061%) CATIA
12 2 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.061%) Trello
13 1 (0.030%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 22 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
2 12 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.27%) Elite 3E
5 5 (0.15%) Shopify
6 4 (0.12%) Relativity
6 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.091%) Sprinklr
8 2 (0.061%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.061%) SAP LE
8 2 (0.061%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.030%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.030%) GoldMine
9 1 (0.030%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.030%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.030%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.030%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.030%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.030%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 493 (15.03%) Azure
2 455 (13.87%) AWS
3 258 (7.87%) Power Platform
4 182 (5.55%) GCP
5 125 (3.81%) SaaS
6 69 (2.10%) Serverless
7 64 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
9 59 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 53 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
11 46 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
11 46 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
11 46 (1.40%) Snowflake
12 45 (1.37%) Power Automate
13 41 (1.25%) GitHub
14 36 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
14 36 (1.10%) Azure Machine Learning
15 35 (1.07%) Amazon SageMaker
16 29 (0.88%) Azure AI
16 29 (0.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.31%) Firewall
2 36 (1.10%) DNS
3 34 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 31 (0.95%) VPN
5 27 (0.82%) DHCP
6 23 (0.70%) WAN
7 21 (0.64%) Network Security
8 17 (0.52%) Internet
8 17 (0.52%) LAN
9 10 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.27%) BGP
11 8 (0.24%) MPLS
11 8 (0.24%) OSPF
11 8 (0.24%) SAN
12 7 (0.21%) Unified Communications
12 7 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.18%) VoIP
14 5 (0.15%) VLAN
15 3 (0.091%) IP Telephony
15 3 (0.091%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (7.13%) Power BI
2 145 (4.42%) Big Data
3 78 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 75 (2.29%) SQL Server
5 67 (2.04%) Tableau
6 55 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
8 43 (1.31%) Metadata
9 40 (1.22%) MySQL
10 38 (1.16%) Data Lake
10 38 (1.16%) MongoDB
10 38 (1.16%) Relational Database
11 29 (0.88%) Data Mining
12 25 (0.76%) BigQuery
13 24 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (0.73%) Hadoop
14 15 (0.46%) Neo4j
15 14 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (0.40%) Apache Hive
17 11 (0.34%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 129 (3.93%) Git
2 65 (1.98%) JIRA
3 25 (0.76%) Cypress.io
4 23 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 23 (0.70%) Selenium
5 18 (0.55%) GitLab
6 15 (0.46%) MLflow
7 10 (0.30%) SoapUI
8 8 (0.24%) Postman
8 8 (0.24%) Robot Framework
8 8 (0.24%) webpack
9 7 (0.21%) Vite
10 6 (0.18%) JMeter
10 6 (0.18%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.15%) JUnit
12 4 (0.12%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.12%) Locust
12 4 (0.12%) Subversion
12 4 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.091%) Storybook
General
1 775 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 660 (20.12%) Finance
3 592 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
4 457 (13.93%) Retail
5 412 (12.56%) Manufacturing
6 317 (9.66%) Law
7 280 (8.54%) Marketing
8 272 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 257 (7.84%) Banking
10 154 (4.70%) Legal
11 146 (4.45%) Public Sector
12 109 (3.32%) Dutch Language
12 109 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
13 98 (2.99%) Finnish Language
13 98 (2.99%) Norwegian Language
14 95 (2.90%) Telecoms
15 92 (2.80%) Advertising
16 85 (2.59%) Games
17 45 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
18 40 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 767 (23.38%) Trainer
2 493 (15.03%) Senior
3 310 (9.45%) Lead
4 237 (7.23%) Developer
5 187 (5.70%) Architect
6 175 (5.34%) Analyst
7 146 (4.45%) Software Engineer
8 132 (4.02%) Data Scientist
9 127 (3.87%) Graduate
10 106 (3.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 102 (3.11%) Senior Manager
12 97 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
13 86 (2.62%) Data Engineer
14 78 (2.38%) Consultant
15 66 (2.01%) Product Manager
16 65 (1.98%) Digital Analyst
17 64 (1.95%) Sales Executive
18 62 (1.89%) Senior Data Scientist
19 59 (1.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 51 (1.55%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (5.79%) React
2 155 (4.73%) HTML
3 87 (2.65%) PyTorch
4 81 (2.47%) TensorFlow
5 76 (2.32%) Node.js
6 71 (2.16%) .NET
7 62 (1.89%) scikit-learn
8 60 (1.83%) Software Packaging
9 50 (1.52%) Pandas
10 48 (1.46%) Next.js
10 48 (1.46%) NumPy
11 46 (1.40%) CSS
12 43 (1.31%) REST
13 36 (1.10%) Kafka
13 36 (1.10%) Spring
14 34 (1.04%) RESTful
15 32 (0.98%) Django
16 26 (0.79%) HTML5
16 26 (0.79%) Vue
17 25 (0.76%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 466 (14.21%) Robotics
2 259 (7.90%) Algorithms
3 110 (3.35%) Management Information System
4 91 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 73 (2.23%) Cloud Native
6 71 (2.16%) Blockchain
7 68 (2.07%) Product Ownership
8 63 (1.92%) Data Centre
9 56 (1.71%) e-Learning
10 54 (1.65%) Onboarding
11 53 (1.62%) Digital Media
12 50 (1.52%) Cyberattack
12 50 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
13 48 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
14 38 (1.16%) Data Structures
15 36 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
15 36 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
16 35 (1.07%) Learning Management System
17 34 (1.04%) IoT
18 31 (0.95%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.71%) Windows
2 63 (1.92%) Linux
3 42 (1.28%) Apple iOS
4 41 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.70%) Android
6 14 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (0.34%) Robot Operating System
9 9 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.18%) Unix
11 5 (0.15%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.091%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.061%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.061%) Rocky
13 2 (0.061%) VMS
13 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.061%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,200 (36.59%) Machine Learning
2 848 (25.85%) Analytics
3 840 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
4 684 (20.85%) Agile
5 658 (20.06%) Generative AI
6 603 (18.38%) LLM
7 569 (17.35%) Conversational UI
8 450 (13.72%) Decision-Making
9 432 (13.17%) Data Science
10 427 (13.02%) Software Engineering
11 393 (11.98%) Mathematics
12 384 (11.71%) Computer Science
13 364 (11.10%) Roadmaps
14 335 (10.21%) Mentoring
15 310 (9.45%) Business Intelligence
16 295 (8.99%) DevOps
17 294 (8.96%) Red Team
18 278 (8.48%) Data Analytics
19 275 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
20 267 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 891 (27.16%) Python
2 444 (13.54%) SQL
3 343 (10.46%) JavaScript
4 232 (7.07%) C#
5 200 (6.10%) Java
6 178 (5.43%) C++
7 142 (4.33%) TypeScript
8 63 (1.92%) R
9 42 (1.28%) PowerShell
10 40 (1.22%) Bash
11 36 (1.10%) Scala
12 35 (1.07%) Go
13 26 (0.79%) C
13 26 (0.79%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.67%) MATLAB
14 22 (0.67%) PHP
14 22 (0.67%) T-SQL
15 15 (0.46%) Rust
16 13 (0.40%) Bicep
17 12 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,508 (45.98%) Degree
2 510 (15.55%) Master's Degree
3 455 (13.87%) PhD
4 170 (5.18%) Security Cleared
5 157 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 98 (2.99%) DV Cleared
7 79 (2.41%) SC Cleared
8 59 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 44 (1.34%) DBS Check
10 36 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
11 33 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (0.73%) CISA
13 23 (0.70%) AWS Certification
13 23 (0.70%) ISACA
14 17 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (0.49%) CCNA
16 14 (0.43%) MBA
17 12 (0.37%) CISSP
18 9 (0.27%) MCSE
18 9 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (2.84%) Data Quality
2 78 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 69 (2.10%) GDPR
4 62 (1.89%) QA
5 50 (1.52%) ITGC
6 38 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (0.73%) SLA
8 20 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 18 (0.55%) NIST
10 17 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.24%) NCSC
14 7 (0.21%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.21%) WCAG
15 5 (0.15%) GMP
16 4 (0.12%) COBIT
16 4 (0.12%) GRC
17 3 (0.091%) GxP
System Software
1 177 (5.40%) Docker
2 44 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.49%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.15%) HDFS
6 5 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.12%) Firmware
8 1 (0.030%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.030%) Xen
Systems Management
1 191 (5.82%) Kubernetes
2 78 (2.38%) Terraform
3 29 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (0.64%) Ansible
5 18 (0.55%) Grafana
6 16 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.40%) SCOM
8 12 (0.37%) SCCM
9 9 (0.27%) NetBackup
10 8 (0.24%) Nagios
11 6 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.18%) ArcSight ESM
11 6 (0.18%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.18%) QRadar
12 5 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.12%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.12%) Puppet
14 2 (0.061%) Hadoop YARN
14 2 (0.061%) SCOrch
14 2 (0.061%) SCSM
Vendors
1 473 (14.42%) PayPal
2 455 (13.87%) Google
3 416 (12.68%) Databricks
4 324 (9.88%) Adobe
5 318 (9.70%) Microsoft
6 85 (2.59%) IBM
7 66 (2.01%) OpenAI
7 66 (2.01%) Oracle
8 61 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 60 (1.83%) Alteryx
10 58 (1.77%) Red Hat
10 58 (1.77%) SAP
11 31 (0.95%) Cisco
12 28 (0.85%) Salesforce
13 27 (0.82%) Dell
14 24 (0.73%) VMware
15 18 (0.55%) Splunk
16 17 (0.52%) Informatica
16 17 (0.52%) SolarWinds
17 13 (0.40%) Apple