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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 120 79
Rank change year-on-year +75 -41 +35
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 4,957 3,025 6,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.03% 2.92% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.86% 3.06% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,097 1,298 2,240
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,407 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,573 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +7.52% +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,375
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 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +128 3,567 £60,000 -11.11% 640
England +53 3,229 £70,000 -3.45% 1,325
Scotland +101 1,502 £65,000 - 40
Work from Home +26 1,462 £62,500 -11.35% 678
London +57 1,218 £85,000 +6.25% 685
South East +98 773 £67,500 -15.63% 215
North of England +57 474 £53,264 -16.81% 120
Midlands +133 335 £55,000 -15.38% 60
North West +71 319 £47,500 -20.83% 82
South West +31 259 £58,700 -9.69% 95
West Midlands +77 172 £60,000 -9.43% 42
East Midlands +97 166 £47,500 -5.00% 18
Yorkshire +32 135 £61,250 -6.27% 31
East of England +45 121 £65,000 - 103
Wales +65 69 £66,633 +56.78% 10
Northern Ireland +53 36 £130,000 +73.33% 12
North East +13 20 £51,250 -6.82% 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
1 332 (6.70%) Apache Spark
2 118 (2.38%) Apache
3 117 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
4 100 (2.02%) FileNet
5 78 (1.57%) SharePoint
6 55 (1.11%) nginx
7 52 (1.05%) Confluence
8 45 (0.91%) Oracle Service Bus
8 45 (0.91%) WebLogic
9 37 (0.75%) SAS
10 36 (0.73%) Camunda
11 18 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
12 14 (0.28%) IIS
13 12 (0.24%) WordPress
14 11 (0.22%) CICS
14 11 (0.22%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.14%) CMS
15 7 (0.14%) OpenStack
16 6 (0.12%) Drupal
17 5 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 90 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (1.33%) Chatbot
4 56 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 55 (1.11%) Simulink
6 23 (0.46%) 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 (0.081%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.020%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
11 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 45 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 44 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.28%) 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 (0.081%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.081%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.061%) Shopify
10 2 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.040%) SAP EWM
10 2 (0.040%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.040%) SAP GRC
10 2 (0.040%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.040%) SAP SD
11 1 (0.020%) Primavera
11 1 (0.020%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,458 (29.41%) AWS
2 1,382 (27.88%) Azure
3 408 (8.23%) IBM Cloud
4 389 (7.85%) Power Platform
5 341 (6.88%) GCP
6 259 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
7 234 (4.72%) Entra ID
8 208 (4.20%) Serverless
9 186 (3.75%) SaaS
10 174 (3.51%) Amazon S3
11 145 (2.93%) Azure Functions
12 137 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
13 133 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
14 131 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
15 130 (2.62%) Azure API Management
16 123 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
17 102 (2.06%) PowerApps
18 97 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
18 97 (1.96%) GitHub
19 95 (1.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.48%) 5G
2 216 (4.36%) Broadband
3 38 (0.77%) TCP/IP
4 37 (0.75%) DNS
5 31 (0.63%) Firewall
6 30 (0.61%) HTTP
7 19 (0.38%) Network Security
7 19 (0.38%) Unified Communications
7 19 (0.38%) WAN
8 18 (0.36%) DSL
8 18 (0.36%) VPN
9 17 (0.34%) Internet
9 17 (0.34%) LAN
10 14 (0.28%) MQTT
11 11 (0.22%) Intranet
11 11 (0.22%) Wireless
12 9 (0.18%) SAN
12 9 (0.18%) WLAN
13 8 (0.16%) SSL
14 7 (0.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 801 (16.16%) NoSQL
2 508 (10.25%) PostgreSQL
3 399 (8.05%) MongoDB
4 313 (6.31%) SQL Server
5 310 (6.25%) Big Data
6 305 (6.15%) Power BI
7 283 (5.71%) DB2
8 260 (5.25%) Relational Database
9 220 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
10 210 (4.24%) Data Lake
11 191 (3.85%) Oracle Database
12 163 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
13 150 (3.03%) Oracle Database 11g
14 134 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
14 134 (2.70%) Hadoop
15 119 (2.40%) Tableau
16 117 (2.36%) Apache Hive
17 102 (2.06%) HBase
18 101 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 95 (1.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 369 (7.44%) Git
2 202 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 201 (4.05%) JUnit
4 181 (3.65%) Cypress.io
5 126 (2.54%) Selenium
6 105 (2.12%) Jasmine
7 98 (1.98%) JIRA
8 86 (1.73%) Bitbucket Server
9 63 (1.27%) WebDriver
10 61 (1.23%) GitLab
11 60 (1.21%) Karma Test Runner
11 60 (1.21%) Protractor
12 45 (0.91%) Mockito
13 25 (0.50%) Android Studio
14 21 (0.42%) JMeter
15 20 (0.40%) SoapUI
16 15 (0.30%) LabVIEW
16 15 (0.30%) Maven
17 12 (0.24%) Vagrant
17 12 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,073 (41.82%) Finance
2 1,994 (40.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,530 (30.87%) Law
4 924 (18.64%) Social Skills
5 871 (17.57%) Marketing
6 599 (12.08%) Public Sector
7 593 (11.96%) Legal
8 589 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
9 522 (10.53%) Banking
10 287 (5.79%) Investment Banking
11 225 (4.54%) Retail
12 177 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
13 130 (2.62%) Front Office
14 118 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
15 90 (1.82%) Manufacturing
16 88 (1.78%) Financial Institution
17 70 (1.41%) Games
18 60 (1.21%) Telecoms
19 52 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
20 39 (0.79%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,576 (31.79%) Software Engineer
2 935 (18.86%) Senior
3 897 (18.10%) Developer
4 702 (14.16%) Lead
5 602 (12.14%) Java Engineer
6 583 (11.76%) Java Software Engineer
7 454 (9.16%) Full Stack Engineer
8 410 (8.27%) Lead Software Engineer
9 339 (6.84%) Python Engineer
10 314 (6.33%) Architect
11 292 (5.89%) Python Software Engineer
12 284 (5.73%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 251 (5.06%) Data Engineer
14 246 (4.96%) Senior Developer
15 231 (4.66%) Full Stack Developer
16 219 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
17 211 (4.26%) Linux Specialist
17 211 (4.26%) Technical Specialist
18 205 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
19 200 (4.03%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 969 (19.55%) React
2 638 (12.87%) AngularJS
3 566 (11.42%) HTML
4 541 (10.91%) .NET
5 530 (10.69%) CSS
6 426 (8.59%) Node.js
7 419 (8.45%) Spring
8 409 (8.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 371 (7.48%) jQuery
10 326 (6.58%) Kafka
11 324 (6.54%) REST
12 304 (6.13%) Web Services
13 281 (5.67%) ASP.NET
14 279 (5.63%) Vue
15 249 (5.02%) ASP.NET Core
16 241 (4.86%) Ember.js
17 238 (4.80%) Backbone.js
18 226 (4.56%) J2EE
19 180 (3.63%) Hibernate
20 171 (3.45%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 1,118 (22.55%) Algorithms
2 501 (10.11%) Cloud Native
3 471 (9.50%) Blockchain
4 427 (8.61%) Data Structures
5 423 (8.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 229 (4.62%) Social Media
7 215 (4.34%) e-Learning
8 194 (3.91%) Public Cloud
9 180 (3.63%) Onboarding
10 152 (3.07%) Product Ownership
11 133 (2.68%) Hedge funds
12 131 (2.64%) Management Information System
13 130 (2.62%) Fixed Income
14 112 (2.26%) IoT
15 86 (1.73%) Equities
16 82 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
17 74 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
18 71 (1.43%) Robotics
19 62 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 51 (1.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 762 (15.37%) Linux
2 372 (7.50%) Windows
3 292 (5.89%) Android
4 263 (5.31%) Apple iOS
5 226 (4.56%) Ubuntu
6 224 (4.52%) Unix
7 59 (1.19%) CentOS
8 45 (0.91%) Solaris
9 42 (0.85%) Debian
10 40 (0.81%) Alpine Linux
11 32 (0.65%) Windows Server
12 23 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
13 15 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 10 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 9 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
16 7 (0.14%) VMS
16 7 (0.14%) Windows 10
17 6 (0.12%) AIX
17 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
18 3 (0.061%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,750 (55.48%) Machine Learning
2 2,346 (47.33%) Agile
3 1,947 (39.28%) Software Engineering
4 1,502 (30.30%) CI/CD
5 1,360 (27.44%) SDLC
6 1,256 (25.34%) Operational Stability
7 939 (18.94%) Community of Practice
8 898 (18.12%) Visualisation
9 804 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 780 (15.74%) Full Stack Development
11 690 (13.92%) Computer Science
12 689 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
13 665 (13.42%) Data Science
14 646 (13.03%) Analytics
15 642 (12.95%) DevOps
16 597 (12.04%) Decision-Making
17 543 (10.95%) Risk Management
18 457 (9.22%) Microservices
19 456 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
20 430 (8.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,692 (34.13%) Python
2 1,671 (33.71%) SQL
3 1,448 (29.21%) Java
4 863 (17.41%) JavaScript
5 604 (12.18%) C#
6 510 (10.29%) TypeScript
7 271 (5.47%) Bash
8 257 (5.18%) PL/SQL
9 136 (2.74%) C++
10 127 (2.56%) Scala
11 104 (2.10%) C
12 100 (2.02%) R
13 72 (1.45%) Go
14 62 (1.25%) PHP
15 54 (1.09%) Kotlin
15 54 (1.09%) T-SQL
16 47 (0.95%) MATLAB
17 36 (0.73%) Lua
18 35 (0.71%) PowerShell
18 35 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,047 (21.12%) Degree
2 305 (6.15%) Security Cleared
3 294 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 237 (4.78%) Master's Degree
5 213 (4.30%) SC Cleared
6 131 (2.64%) PhD
7 106 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 92 (1.86%) Azure Certification
9 53 (1.07%) PMI Certification
10 50 (1.01%) DBS Check
11 48 (0.97%) AWS Certification
11 48 (0.97%) DV Cleared
12 47 (0.95%) MCSA
13 46 (0.93%) MCSE
14 33 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
15 26 (0.52%) PMP
16 25 (0.50%) CISSP
17 24 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
18 17 (0.34%) CISM
19 14 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (2.06%) Data Quality
2 76 (1.53%) QA
2 76 (1.53%) SLA
3 49 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 35 (0.71%) WCAG
5 26 (0.52%) GDPR
6 23 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (0.44%) NIST
8 19 (0.38%) PMO
9 13 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.14%) IEC 61508
10 7 (0.14%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.12%) COBIT
11 6 (0.12%) Def Stans
11 6 (0.12%) GRC
11 6 (0.12%) NCSC
12 5 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.10%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.10%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.10%) TickIT
System Software
1 387 (7.81%) Docker
2 247 (4.98%) Active Directory
3 103 (2.08%) HDFS
4 45 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
5 41 (0.83%) Firmware
6 34 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
8 11 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
9 6 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.081%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.061%) NFS
11 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.061%) vSphere
12 2 (0.040%) IAG
13 1 (0.020%) KVM
13 1 (0.020%) Lustre
13 1 (0.020%) QEMU
13 1 (0.020%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 587 (11.84%) Kubernetes
2 424 (8.55%) Terraform
3 230 (4.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 211 (4.26%) Jamf Pro
5 139 (2.80%) Grafana
6 106 (2.14%) Prometheus
7 45 (0.91%) Data Guard
7 45 (0.91%) Oracle RMAN
8 39 (0.79%) Ansible
9 10 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.14%) Graphite
11 5 (0.10%) SELinux
12 4 (0.081%) Argo
12 4 (0.081%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.081%) Nagios
12 4 (0.081%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.061%) Backup Exec
13 3 (0.061%) SCCM
14 2 (0.040%) EMC NetWorker
14 2 (0.040%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 741 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 535 (10.79%) Oracle
3 418 (8.43%) IBM
4 401 (8.09%) Red Hat
5 327 (6.60%) Databricks
6 229 (4.62%) Google
7 218 (4.40%) CyberArk
8 210 (4.24%) Tanium
9 167 (3.37%) Dynatrace
10 120 (2.42%) Splunk
11 92 (1.86%) Informatica
12 80 (1.61%) Alteryx
13 75 (1.51%) Cloudera
14 64 (1.29%) OpenAI
15 52 (1.05%) Salesforce
16 47 (0.95%) SAP
16 47 (0.95%) Sun
17 46 (0.93%) Remedy
18 42 (0.85%) VMware
19 38 (0.77%) ServiceNow