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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 124 78
Rank change year-on-year +81 -46 +32
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 4,990 2,898 7,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.99% 2.91% 4.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.86% 3.05% 4.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,128 1,232 2,248
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,438 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,125 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% +8.49%

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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
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% +10.53%

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 20 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 20 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 +132 3,583 £60,000 -11.11% 803
England +55 3,254 £70,000 -6.67% 1,552
Scotland +107 1,499 £65,000 - 30
Work from Home +30 1,467 £62,500 -10.71% 754
London +53 1,238 £87,500 +9.38% 916
South East +110 792 £67,500 -15.63% 361
North of England +62 471 £51,264 -20.54% 134
Midlands +110 330 £57,311 -6.81% 66
North West +57 319 £47,500 -26.92% 86
South West +29 256 £58,700 -9.69% 90
West Midlands +77 169 £60,000 -7.69% 53
East Midlands +86 161 £47,500 -2.56% 13
Yorkshire +42 134 £62,500 -4.36% 37
East of England +44 123 £65,000 - 101
Wales +65 71 £66,633 +47.26% 16
Northern Ireland +63 40 £100,000 +33.33% 14
North East +14 18 £47,500 -13.64% 11
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 (6.59%) Apache Spark
2 135 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
3 133 (2.67%) Apache
4 99 (1.98%) FileNet
5 73 (1.46%) SharePoint
6 55 (1.10%) nginx
7 50 (1.00%) 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 (1.78%) 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%) Remedy ITSM
2 43 (0.86%) 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%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.10%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.060%) 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 1,482 (29.70%) AWS
2 1,430 (28.66%) Azure
3 408 (8.18%) IBM Cloud
4 382 (7.66%) Power Platform
5 348 (6.97%) GCP
6 252 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
7 233 (4.67%) Entra ID
8 202 (4.05%) Serverless
9 180 (3.61%) SaaS
10 173 (3.47%) Amazon S3
11 145 (2.91%) Azure Functions
12 136 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
13 130 (2.61%) Azure Logic Apps
14 129 (2.59%) Azure API Management
14 129 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
15 124 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
16 105 (2.10%) PowerApps
17 96 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
18 95 (1.90%) Datadog
19 93 (1.86%) 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%) Internet
8 18 (0.36%) VPN
8 18 (0.36%) WAN
9 16 (0.32%) LAN
10 15 (0.30%) 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%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 798 (15.99%) NoSQL
2 502 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
3 397 (7.96%) MongoDB
4 314 (6.29%) SQL Server
5 310 (6.21%) Big Data
6 299 (5.99%) Power BI
7 283 (5.67%) DB2
8 260 (5.21%) Relational Database
9 239 (4.79%) 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
16 116 (2.32%) Apache Hive
17 102 (2.04%) HBase
18 101 (2.02%) Apache Ignite
18 101 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 378 (7.58%) Git
2 201 (4.03%) JUnit
3 197 (3.95%) Cypress.io
4 192 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 127 (2.55%) Selenium
6 105 (2.10%) Jasmine
7 93 (1.86%) JIRA
8 86 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
9 63 (1.26%) WebDriver
10 60 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (1.20%) Protractor
11 58 (1.16%) GitLab
12 45 (0.90%) Mockito
13 25 (0.50%) Android Studio
14 23 (0.46%) JMeter
15 21 (0.42%) SoapUI
16 16 (0.32%) Vagrant
17 15 (0.30%) LabVIEW
17 15 (0.30%) Maven
18 12 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,101 (42.10%) Finance
2 1,993 (39.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,534 (30.74%) Law
4 942 (18.88%) Social Skills
5 868 (17.39%) Marketing
6 601 (12.04%) Legal
7 596 (11.94%) Public Sector
8 585 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
9 529 (10.60%) Banking
10 287 (5.75%) Investment Banking
11 218 (4.37%) Retail
12 199 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
13 151 (3.03%) Front Office
14 112 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
15 90 (1.80%) Manufacturing
16 88 (1.76%) Financial Institution
17 83 (1.66%) Games
18 56 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
18 56 (1.12%) Telecoms
19 39 (0.78%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,616 (32.38%) Software Engineer
2 945 (18.94%) Senior
3 928 (18.60%) Developer
4 710 (14.23%) Lead
5 603 (12.08%) Java Engineer
6 583 (11.68%) Java Software Engineer
7 462 (9.26%) Full Stack Engineer
8 413 (8.28%) Lead Software Engineer
9 357 (7.15%) Python Engineer
10 312 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
11 306 (6.13%) Architect
12 293 (5.87%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 246 (4.93%) Data Engineer
14 241 (4.83%) Full Stack Developer
15 229 (4.59%) Senior Developer
16 218 (4.37%) AWS Engineer
17 216 (4.33%) Senior Software Engineer
18 211 (4.23%) Consultant
18 211 (4.23%) Linux Specialist
18 211 (4.23%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 979 (19.62%) React
2 641 (12.85%) AngularJS
3 565 (11.32%) HTML
4 540 (10.82%) .NET
5 528 (10.58%) CSS
6 427 (8.56%) Node.js
7 419 (8.40%) Spring
8 409 (8.20%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 371 (7.43%) jQuery
10 324 (6.49%) REST
11 319 (6.39%) Kafka
12 307 (6.15%) Web Services
13 281 (5.63%) Vue
14 279 (5.59%) ASP.NET
15 249 (4.99%) ASP.NET Core
16 241 (4.83%) Ember.js
17 238 (4.77%) Backbone.js
18 226 (4.53%) J2EE
19 180 (3.61%) Hibernate
20 171 (3.43%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 1,128 (22.61%) Algorithms
2 506 (10.14%) Cloud Native
3 481 (9.64%) Blockchain
4 426 (8.54%) Data Structures
5 422 (8.46%) 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
10 154 (3.09%) Hedge funds
11 153 (3.07%) Product Ownership
12 151 (3.03%) Fixed Income
13 136 (2.73%) Management Information System
14 124 (2.48%) IoT
15 104 (2.08%) Equities
16 83 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
17 74 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
18 65 (1.30%) Robotics
19 64 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 54 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 774 (15.51%) Linux
2 373 (7.47%) Windows
3 293 (5.87%) Android
4 260 (5.21%) 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%) Windows Server 2016
17 4 (0.080%) VMS
18 3 (0.060%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,791 (55.93%) Machine Learning
2 2,358 (47.25%) Agile
3 1,985 (39.78%) Software Engineering
4 1,501 (30.08%) CI/CD
5 1,360 (27.25%) SDLC
6 1,258 (25.21%) Operational Stability
7 941 (18.86%) Community of Practice
8 900 (18.04%) Visualisation
9 807 (16.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 802 (16.07%) Full Stack Development
11 701 (14.05%) Computer Science
12 697 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
13 658 (13.19%) DevOps
14 656 (13.15%) Data Science
15 623 (12.48%) Analytics
16 607 (12.16%) Decision-Making
17 543 (10.88%) Risk Management
18 456 (9.14%) Microservices
19 452 (9.06%) Cybersecurity
20 441 (8.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,741 (34.89%) Python
2 1,668 (33.43%) SQL
3 1,473 (29.52%) Java
4 877 (17.58%) JavaScript
5 607 (12.16%) C#
6 532 (10.66%) TypeScript
7 274 (5.49%) Bash
8 241 (4.83%) PL/SQL
9 152 (3.05%) C++
10 124 (2.48%) Scala
11 114 (2.28%) C
12 98 (1.96%) R
13 72 (1.44%) Go
14 60 (1.20%) PHP
15 59 (1.18%) Kotlin
16 53 (1.06%) T-SQL
17 52 (1.04%) MATLAB
18 36 (0.72%) Lua
19 32 (0.64%) PowerShell
19 32 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,029 (20.62%) Degree
2 317 (6.35%) Security Cleared
3 307 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 251 (5.03%) Master's Degree
5 224 (4.49%) SC Cleared
6 134 (2.69%) PhD
7 116 (2.32%) Azure Certification
8 107 (2.14%) 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 31 (0.62%) 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
1 104 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 82 (1.64%) QA
3 75 (1.50%) SLA
4 50 (1.00%) Accessibility
5 33 (0.66%) 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
1 378 (7.58%) Docker
2 246 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 103 (2.06%) HDFS
4 44 (0.88%) Firmware
4 44 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
5 32 (0.64%) 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
1 600 (12.02%) Kubernetes
2 426 (8.54%) Terraform
3 229 (4.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 211 (4.23%) Jamf Pro
5 137 (2.75%) Grafana
6 105 (2.10%) Prometheus
7 56 (1.12%) 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%) SCCM
Vendors
1 738 (14.79%) Microsoft
2 519 (10.40%) Oracle
3 416 (8.34%) IBM
4 401 (8.04%) Red Hat
5 329 (6.59%) Databricks
6 237 (4.75%) Google
7 218 (4.37%) CyberArk
8 210 (4.21%) Tanium
9 167 (3.35%) Dynatrace
10 119 (2.38%) Splunk
11 91 (1.82%) Informatica
12 78 (1.56%) Alteryx
13 76 (1.52%) Cloudera
14 70 (1.40%) 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