Artificial Intelligence Jobs

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Artificial Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 121 79
Rank change year-on-year +76 -42 +36
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 4,872 3,047 6,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.97% 2.91% 4.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.78% 3.04% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,051 1,333 2,206
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £49,963
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Artificial Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Top 18 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 27 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +123 3,519 £60,000 -11.11% 653
England +53 3,161 £70,000 - 1,291
Scotland +105 1,486 £65,000 -6.40% 45
Work from Home +27 1,452 £62,500 -10.71% 660
London +57 1,183 £85,000 +6.25% 660
South East +103 763 £67,500 -12.90% 211
North of England +69 474 £51,000 -15.00% 136
Midlands +113 323 £55,000 -9.47% 66
North West +83 322 £47,500 -20.83% 88
South West +33 252 £58,700 -6.08% 89
West Midlands +75 168 £58,700 -9.69% 46
East Midlands +86 158 £47,500 -5.00% 20
Yorkshire +29 133 £60,000 -8.19% 40
East of England +35 118 £65,000 - 99
Wales +61 69 £66,633 +48.07% 11
Northern Ireland +57 36 £130,000 +100.00% 12
North East +13 19 £47,500 -13.64% 8
Channel Islands - 2 - -

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
1 335 (6.88%) Apache Spark
2 110 (2.26%) Apache
3 106 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
4 99 (2.03%) FileNet
5 79 (1.62%) SharePoint
6 55 (1.13%) nginx
7 50 (1.03%) Confluence
8 45 (0.92%) Oracle Service Bus
8 45 (0.92%) WebLogic
9 37 (0.76%) SAS
10 36 (0.74%) Camunda
11 16 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.29%) IIS
13 12 (0.25%) WordPress
14 11 (0.23%) CICS
15 10 (0.21%) Jupyter
16 7 (0.14%) CMS
16 7 (0.14%) OpenStack
17 6 (0.12%) Drupal
18 5 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 90 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (1.31%) Chatbot
4 56 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 51 (1.05%) Simulink
6 23 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.14%) Trello
9 6 (0.12%) EViews
9 6 (0.12%) Stateflow
10 4 (0.082%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.021%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.021%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) Mathematica
11 1 (0.021%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 45 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 44 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.16%) Siebel CRM
6 7 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.10%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.082%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.082%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.062%) Shopify
10 2 (0.041%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.041%) SAP EWM
10 2 (0.041%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.041%) SAP GRC
10 2 (0.041%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.041%) SAP SD
11 1 (0.021%) Distributed Ledger
11 1 (0.021%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,426 (29.27%) AWS
2 1,347 (27.65%) Azure
3 395 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 389 (7.98%) IBM Cloud
5 325 (6.67%) GCP
6 250 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
7 234 (4.80%) Entra ID
8 198 (4.06%) Serverless
9 184 (3.78%) SaaS
10 169 (3.47%) Amazon S3
11 136 (2.79%) Azure Functions
12 132 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
13 129 (2.65%) Azure Service Bus
14 123 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
15 122 (2.50%) Azure API Management
15 122 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
16 100 (2.05%) GitHub
16 100 (2.05%) PowerApps
17 95 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
18 93 (1.91%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.56%) 5G
2 216 (4.43%) Broadband
3 37 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 33 (0.68%) DNS
5 31 (0.64%) Firewall
6 30 (0.62%) HTTP
7 19 (0.39%) Unified Communications
7 19 (0.39%) VPN
7 19 (0.39%) WAN
8 18 (0.37%) DSL
8 18 (0.37%) Network Security
9 17 (0.35%) LAN
10 15 (0.31%) Internet
11 14 (0.29%) MQTT
12 11 (0.23%) Intranet
13 10 (0.21%) Wireless
14 9 (0.18%) WLAN
15 8 (0.16%) SSL
16 7 (0.14%) SAN
16 7 (0.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 785 (16.11%) NoSQL
2 485 (9.95%) PostgreSQL
3 381 (7.82%) MongoDB
4 311 (6.38%) Big Data
5 308 (6.32%) Power BI
6 305 (6.26%) SQL Server
7 264 (5.42%) DB2
8 253 (5.19%) Relational Database
9 222 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
10 212 (4.35%) Data Lake
11 191 (3.92%) Oracle Database
12 161 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
13 150 (3.08%) Oracle Database 11g
14 134 (2.75%) Hadoop
15 132 (2.71%) Apache Cassandra
16 117 (2.40%) Apache Hive
17 114 (2.34%) Tableau
18 102 (2.09%) HBase
19 101 (2.07%) MySQL
19 101 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 358 (7.35%) Git
2 202 (4.15%) Jenkins
3 199 (4.08%) JUnit
4 173 (3.55%) Cypress.io
5 126 (2.59%) Selenium
6 104 (2.13%) Jasmine
7 96 (1.97%) JIRA
8 86 (1.77%) Bitbucket Server
9 63 (1.29%) WebDriver
10 60 (1.23%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (1.23%) Protractor
11 58 (1.19%) GitLab
12 44 (0.90%) Mockito
13 24 (0.49%) Android Studio
14 20 (0.41%) JMeter
14 20 (0.41%) SoapUI
15 15 (0.31%) LabVIEW
15 15 (0.31%) Maven
16 12 (0.25%) CircleCI
16 12 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,049 (42.06%) Finance
2 1,955 (40.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,504 (30.87%) Law
4 920 (18.88%) Social Skills
5 860 (17.65%) Marketing
6 587 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
7 586 (12.03%) Legal
8 577 (11.84%) Public Sector
9 513 (10.53%) Banking
10 285 (5.85%) Investment Banking
11 231 (4.74%) Retail
12 175 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
13 120 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
14 116 (2.38%) Front Office
15 90 (1.85%) Manufacturing
16 87 (1.79%) Financial Institution
17 70 (1.44%) Games
18 59 (1.21%) Telecoms
19 51 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
20 39 (0.80%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,544 (31.69%) Software Engineer
2 925 (18.99%) Senior
3 868 (17.82%) Developer
4 686 (14.08%) Lead
5 597 (12.25%) Java Engineer
6 578 (11.86%) Java Software Engineer
7 436 (8.95%) Full Stack Engineer
8 403 (8.27%) Lead Software Engineer
9 323 (6.63%) Python Engineer
10 320 (6.57%) Architect
11 277 (5.69%) Python Software Engineer
12 275 (5.64%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 245 (5.03%) Data Engineer
14 244 (5.01%) Senior Developer
15 221 (4.54%) Full Stack Developer
16 216 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
17 211 (4.33%) Linux Specialist
17 211 (4.33%) Technical Specialist
18 201 (4.13%) Consultant
18 201 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 937 (19.23%) React
2 619 (12.71%) AngularJS
3 544 (11.17%) HTML
4 522 (10.71%) .NET
5 509 (10.45%) CSS
6 416 (8.54%) Node.js
7 415 (8.52%) Spring
8 391 (8.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 353 (7.25%) jQuery
10 329 (6.75%) Kafka
11 307 (6.30%) REST
12 287 (5.89%) Web Services
13 263 (5.40%) ASP.NET
14 261 (5.36%) Vue
15 231 (4.74%) ASP.NET Core
16 224 (4.60%) Ember.js
16 224 (4.60%) J2EE
17 221 (4.54%) Backbone.js
18 178 (3.65%) Hibernate
19 170 (3.49%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 1,085 (22.27%) Algorithms
2 488 (10.02%) Cloud Native
3 451 (9.26%) Blockchain
4 410 (8.42%) Data Structures
5 404 (8.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 229 (4.70%) Social Media
7 204 (4.19%) e-Learning
8 192 (3.94%) Public Cloud
9 178 (3.65%) Onboarding
10 149 (3.06%) Product Ownership
11 128 (2.63%) Management Information System
12 119 (2.44%) Hedge funds
13 116 (2.38%) Fixed Income
14 107 (2.20%) IoT
15 81 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
16 75 (1.54%) Equities
17 74 (1.52%) Robotics
18 72 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
19 59 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 52 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 739 (15.17%) Linux
2 351 (7.20%) Windows
3 272 (5.58%) Android
4 245 (5.03%) Apple iOS
5 225 (4.62%) Unix
6 223 (4.58%) Ubuntu
7 57 (1.17%) CentOS
8 45 (0.92%) Solaris
9 42 (0.86%) Debian
10 40 (0.82%) Alpine Linux
11 28 (0.57%) Windows Server
12 21 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
13 13 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 10 (0.21%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.14%) VMS
15 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 6 (0.12%) AIX
16 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
17 5 (0.10%) Windows 10
18 3 (0.062%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,693 (55.28%) Machine Learning
2 2,307 (47.35%) Agile
3 1,907 (39.14%) Software Engineering
4 1,480 (30.38%) CI/CD
5 1,345 (27.61%) SDLC
6 1,239 (25.43%) Operational Stability
7 928 (19.05%) Community of Practice
8 884 (18.14%) Visualisation
9 795 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 749 (15.37%) Full Stack Development
11 679 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
12 671 (13.77%) Computer Science
13 657 (13.49%) Data Science
14 642 (13.18%) Analytics
15 626 (12.85%) DevOps
16 583 (11.97%) Decision-Making
17 533 (10.94%) Risk Management
18 449 (9.22%) Microservices
19 444 (9.11%) Cybersecurity
20 429 (8.81%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,634 (33.54%) SQL
2 1,632 (33.50%) Python
3 1,418 (29.11%) Java
4 841 (17.26%) JavaScript
5 581 (11.93%) C#
6 496 (10.18%) TypeScript
7 270 (5.54%) Bash
8 256 (5.25%) PL/SQL
9 127 (2.61%) C++
10 124 (2.55%) Scala
11 97 (1.99%) R
12 95 (1.95%) C
13 69 (1.42%) Go
14 61 (1.25%) PHP
15 53 (1.09%) T-SQL
16 48 (0.99%) Kotlin
17 47 (0.96%) MATLAB
18 36 (0.74%) Lua
19 35 (0.72%) Ruby
20 32 (0.66%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1,039 (21.33%) Degree
2 291 (5.97%) Security Cleared
3 284 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 228 (4.68%) Master's Degree
5 209 (4.29%) SC Cleared
6 129 (2.65%) PhD
7 105 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 91 (1.87%) Azure Certification
9 52 (1.07%) PMI Certification
10 47 (0.96%) MCSA
11 46 (0.94%) MCSE
12 45 (0.92%) AWS Certification
13 43 (0.88%) DBS Check
14 39 (0.80%) DV Cleared
15 33 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
16 25 (0.51%) PMP
17 24 (0.49%) CISSP
17 24 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
18 16 (0.33%) CISM
19 14 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (2.11%) Data Quality
2 81 (1.66%) QA
3 74 (1.52%) SLA
4 48 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 34 (0.70%) WCAG
6 27 (0.55%) GDPR
7 23 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (0.41%) NIST
9 19 (0.39%) PMO
10 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.14%) COBIT
11 7 (0.14%) IEC 61508
11 7 (0.14%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.12%) Def Stans
12 6 (0.12%) GRC
12 6 (0.12%) NCSC
13 5 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.10%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.10%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.10%) TickIT
System Software
1 379 (7.78%) Docker
2 243 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 103 (2.11%) HDFS
4 45 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
5 39 (0.80%) Firmware
6 33 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
8 11 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
9 4 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.062%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.062%) vSphere
11 2 (0.041%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.041%) IAG
11 2 (0.041%) NFS
12 1 (0.021%) KVM
12 1 (0.021%) Lustre
12 1 (0.021%) QEMU
12 1 (0.021%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 575 (11.80%) Kubernetes
2 417 (8.56%) Terraform
3 230 (4.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 211 (4.33%) Jamf Pro
5 135 (2.77%) Grafana
6 102 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 45 (0.92%) Data Guard
7 45 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
8 33 (0.68%) Ansible
9 10 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.14%) Graphite
11 5 (0.10%) SELinux
12 4 (0.082%) Argo
12 4 (0.082%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.082%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.062%) Nagios
13 3 (0.062%) SCCM
14 2 (0.041%) EMC NetWorker
14 2 (0.041%) RSA Archer
15 1 (0.021%) vRealize
Vendors
1 738 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 532 (10.92%) Oracle
3 398 (8.17%) IBM
4 380 (7.80%) Red Hat
5 320 (6.57%) Databricks
6 219 (4.50%) Google
7 218 (4.47%) CyberArk
8 210 (4.31%) Tanium
9 164 (3.37%) Dynatrace
10 118 (2.42%) Splunk
11 92 (1.89%) Informatica
12 78 (1.60%) Alteryx
13 75 (1.54%) Cloudera
14 59 (1.21%) OpenAI
15 51 (1.05%) Salesforce
16 47 (0.96%) SAP
16 47 (0.96%) Sun
17 46 (0.94%) Remedy
18 37 (0.76%) ServiceNow
18 37 (0.76%) VMware