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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 122 79
Rank change year-on-year +77 -43 +31
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 4,984 2,892 7,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.99% 2.92% 4.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.85% 3.05% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,119 1,228 2,225
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,664 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 18 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 18 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 +135 3,581 £60,000 -11.11% 769
England +54 3,247 £70,000 -6.67% 1,453
Scotland +111 1,500 £65,000 - 29
Work from Home +27 1,472 £62,500 -10.71% 704
London +53 1,232 £87,500 +9.38% 851
South East +106 788 £67,500 -15.63% 350
North of England +64 472 £51,528 -19.52% 119
Midlands +118 330 £57,311 -6.81% 61
North West +60 320 £47,500 -24.00% 77
South West +25 256 £58,700 -9.69% 91
West Midlands +75 169 £60,000 -7.69% 50
East Midlands +91 161 £47,500 -2.56% 11
Yorkshire +42 134 £62,500 -4.36% 34
East of England +39 123 £65,000 - 99
Wales +62 71 £66,633 +47.26% 18
Northern Ireland +51 40 £100,000 +33.33% 12
North East +9 18 £47,500 -13.64% 9
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
1 329 (6.60%) Apache Spark
2 132 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
3 129 (2.59%) Apache
4 99 (1.99%) FileNet
5 75 (1.50%) SharePoint
6 55 (1.10%) nginx
7 51 (1.02%) Confluence
8 44 (0.88%) Oracle Service Bus
8 44 (0.88%) WebLogic
9 39 (0.78%) SAS
10 36 (0.72%) Camunda
11 19 (0.38%) 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 89 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (1.30%) Simulink
4 55 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 37 (0.74%) Chatbot
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 (0.080%) 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 44 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 44 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.16%) Siebel CRM
5 7 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.10%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.060%) Shopify
9 2 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.040%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.040%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.040%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.040%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.040%) SAP SD
10 1 (0.020%) Primavera
10 1 (0.020%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,480 (29.70%) AWS
2 1,428 (28.65%) Azure
3 408 (8.19%) IBM Cloud
4 384 (7.70%) Power Platform
5 345 (6.92%) GCP
6 253 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 233 (4.67%) Entra ID
8 204 (4.09%) Serverless
9 180 (3.61%) SaaS
10 173 (3.47%) Amazon S3
11 145 (2.91%) Azure Functions
12 137 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
13 131 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
14 130 (2.61%) Azure API Management
15 129 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
16 124 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
17 105 (2.11%) PowerApps
18 98 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
19 95 (1.91%) Datadog
20 93 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.45%) 5G
2 216 (4.33%) Broadband
3 40 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 36 (0.72%) DNS
5 31 (0.62%) HTTP
6 30 (0.60%) Firewall
7 19 (0.38%) Network Security
7 19 (0.38%) Unified Communications
8 18 (0.36%) DSL
8 18 (0.36%) VPN
8 18 (0.36%) WAN
9 17 (0.34%) Internet
10 16 (0.32%) LAN
11 15 (0.30%) MQTT
12 11 (0.22%) Intranet
12 11 (0.22%) Wireless
13 9 (0.18%) SAN
13 9 (0.18%) WLAN
14 8 (0.16%) SSL
15 7 (0.14%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 796 (15.97%) NoSQL
2 499 (10.01%) PostgreSQL
3 397 (7.97%) MongoDB
4 312 (6.26%) SQL Server
5 309 (6.20%) Big Data
6 299 (6.00%) Power BI
7 283 (5.68%) DB2
8 260 (5.22%) Relational Database
9 238 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
10 232 (4.65%) Data Lake
11 178 (3.57%) Oracle Database
12 160 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
13 135 (2.71%) Oracle Database 11g
14 134 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
14 134 (2.69%) Hadoop
15 125 (2.51%) Tableau
16 117 (2.35%) Apache Hive
17 102 (2.05%) HBase
18 101 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 97 (1.95%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 375 (7.52%) Git
2 201 (4.03%) JUnit
3 193 (3.87%) Jenkins
4 190 (3.81%) Cypress.io
5 124 (2.49%) Selenium
6 105 (2.11%) Jasmine
7 94 (1.89%) JIRA
8 86 (1.73%) Bitbucket Server
9 63 (1.26%) WebDriver
10 60 (1.20%) GitLab
10 60 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (1.20%) Protractor
11 45 (0.90%) Mockito
12 25 (0.50%) Android Studio
13 23 (0.46%) JMeter
14 20 (0.40%) SoapUI
15 16 (0.32%) Vagrant
16 15 (0.30%) LabVIEW
16 15 (0.30%) Maven
17 12 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,099 (42.11%) Finance
2 1,996 (40.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,534 (30.78%) Law
4 942 (18.90%) Social Skills
5 869 (17.44%) Marketing
6 599 (12.02%) Legal
7 598 (12.00%) Public Sector
8 586 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
9 525 (10.53%) Banking
10 287 (5.76%) Investment Banking
11 219 (4.39%) Retail
12 199 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
13 147 (2.95%) Front Office
14 113 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
15 91 (1.83%) Manufacturing
16 88 (1.77%) Financial Institution
17 82 (1.65%) Games
18 56 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
18 56 (1.12%) Telecoms
19 39 (0.78%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,612 (32.34%) Software Engineer
2 943 (18.92%) Senior
3 920 (18.46%) Developer
4 708 (14.21%) Lead
5 603 (12.10%) Java Engineer
6 583 (11.70%) Java Software Engineer
7 459 (9.21%) Full Stack Engineer
8 413 (8.29%) Lead Software Engineer
9 353 (7.08%) Python Engineer
10 308 (6.18%) Python Software Engineer
11 305 (6.12%) Architect
12 291 (5.84%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 247 (4.96%) Data Engineer
14 238 (4.78%) Full Stack Developer
15 228 (4.57%) Senior Developer
16 218 (4.37%) AWS Engineer
17 216 (4.33%) Senior Software Engineer
18 212 (4.25%) Consultant
19 211 (4.23%) Linux Specialist
19 211 (4.23%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 972 (19.50%) React
2 641 (12.86%) AngularJS
3 561 (11.26%) HTML
4 538 (10.79%) .NET
5 524 (10.51%) CSS
6 427 (8.57%) Node.js
7 419 (8.41%) Spring
8 409 (8.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 371 (7.44%) jQuery
10 324 (6.50%) REST
11 319 (6.40%) Kafka
12 307 (6.16%) Web Services
13 282 (5.66%) Vue
14 279 (5.60%) ASP.NET
15 249 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
16 241 (4.84%) Ember.js
17 238 (4.78%) Backbone.js
18 226 (4.53%) J2EE
19 180 (3.61%) Hibernate
20 171 (3.43%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 1,129 (22.65%) Algorithms
2 505 (10.13%) Cloud Native
3 480 (9.63%) Blockchain
4 426 (8.55%) Data Structures
5 423 (8.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 228 (4.57%) Social Media
7 215 (4.31%) e-Learning
8 194 (3.89%) Public Cloud
9 185 (3.71%) Onboarding
10 153 (3.07%) Product Ownership
11 150 (3.01%) Hedge funds
12 147 (2.95%) Fixed Income
13 136 (2.73%) Management Information System
14 123 (2.47%) IoT
15 100 (2.01%) Equities
16 82 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
17 74 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
18 66 (1.32%) Robotics
19 64 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 54 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 774 (15.53%) Linux
2 375 (7.52%) Windows
3 293 (5.88%) Android
4 260 (5.22%) Apple iOS
5 231 (4.63%) Ubuntu
6 221 (4.43%) Unix
7 63 (1.26%) CentOS
8 44 (0.88%) Solaris
9 42 (0.84%) Debian
10 40 (0.80%) Alpine Linux
11 32 (0.64%) Windows Server
12 27 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
13 19 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 9 (0.18%) Mac OS
14 9 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
15 7 (0.14%) Windows 10
16 6 (0.12%) AIX
16 6 (0.12%) VMS
16 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
17 3 (0.060%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,785 (55.88%) Machine Learning
2 2,353 (47.21%) Agile
3 1,983 (39.79%) Software Engineering
4 1,500 (30.10%) CI/CD
5 1,360 (27.29%) SDLC
6 1,258 (25.24%) Operational Stability
7 941 (18.88%) Community of Practice
8 899 (18.04%) Visualisation
9 807 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 796 (15.97%) Full Stack Development
11 699 (14.02%) Computer Science
12 698 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
13 659 (13.22%) Data Science
13 659 (13.22%) DevOps
14 624 (12.52%) Analytics
15 606 (12.16%) Decision-Making
16 543 (10.89%) Risk Management
17 457 (9.17%) Microservices
18 452 (9.07%) Cybersecurity
19 444 (8.91%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,737 (34.85%) Python
2 1,669 (33.49%) SQL
3 1,474 (29.57%) Java
4 872 (17.50%) JavaScript
5 603 (12.10%) C#
6 522 (10.47%) TypeScript
7 276 (5.54%) Bash
8 241 (4.84%) PL/SQL
9 152 (3.05%) C++
10 124 (2.49%) Scala
11 114 (2.29%) C
12 98 (1.97%) R
13 73 (1.46%) Go
14 59 (1.18%) Kotlin
15 58 (1.16%) PHP
16 53 (1.06%) T-SQL
17 52 (1.04%) MATLAB
18 36 (0.72%) Lua
19 34 (0.68%) PowerShell
19 34 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,028 (20.63%) Degree
2 320 (6.42%) Security Cleared
3 306 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 252 (5.06%) Master's Degree
5 226 (4.53%) SC Cleared
6 134 (2.69%) PhD
7 116 (2.33%) Azure Certification
8 108 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 74 (1.48%) AWS Certification
10 62 (1.24%) DV Cleared
11 60 (1.20%) DBS Check
12 53 (1.06%) PMI Certification
13 47 (0.94%) MCSA
14 46 (0.92%) MCSE
15 32 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
16 26 (0.52%) PMP
17 25 (0.50%) CISSP
18 22 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
19 17 (0.34%) CISM
20 14 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (2.07%) Data Quality
2 83 (1.67%) QA
3 75 (1.50%) SLA
4 50 (1.00%) Accessibility
5 31 (0.62%) WCAG
6 27 (0.54%) GDPR
7 24 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (0.44%) NIST
9 18 (0.36%) PMO
10 13 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
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%) COBIT
13 5 (0.10%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.10%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.10%) TickIT
System Software
1 374 (7.50%) Docker
2 246 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 103 (2.07%) HDFS
4 44 (0.88%) Firmware
4 44 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
5 34 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
8 6 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.080%) NFS
10 4 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.060%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.060%) vSphere
12 2 (0.040%) IAG
13 1 (0.020%) KVM
13 1 (0.020%) Lustre
13 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 598 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 428 (8.59%) Terraform
3 229 (4.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 211 (4.23%) Jamf Pro
5 137 (2.75%) Grafana
6 105 (2.11%) Prometheus
7 55 (1.10%) Ansible
8 44 (0.88%) Data Guard
8 44 (0.88%) Oracle RMAN
9 10 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.14%) Graphite
11 5 (0.10%) Nagios
11 5 (0.10%) SELinux
12 4 (0.080%) Argo
12 4 (0.080%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.080%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.060%) Backup Exec
14 2 (0.040%) EMC NetWorker
14 2 (0.040%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.040%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 740 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 520 (10.43%) Oracle
3 417 (8.37%) IBM
4 401 (8.05%) Red Hat
5 331 (6.64%) Databricks
6 234 (4.70%) Google
7 218 (4.37%) CyberArk
8 210 (4.21%) Tanium
9 167 (3.35%) Dynatrace
10 119 (2.39%) Splunk
11 91 (1.83%) Informatica
12 78 (1.57%) Alteryx
13 75 (1.50%) Cloudera
14 68 (1.36%) OpenAI
15 52 (1.04%) Salesforce
16 46 (0.92%) Sun
17 45 (0.90%) Remedy
18 44 (0.88%) SAP
19 42 (0.84%) ServiceNow
19 42 (0.84%) VMware