Head of AI Jobs in the UK excluding London

Head of Artificial Intelligence
UK > UK excluding London

The median Head of Artificial Intelligence salary in the UK excluding London is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 640 - 831
Rank change year-on-year - - -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of AI 8 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.014% - 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% - 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £90,875 - -
25th Percentile £96,875 - £112,896
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 - £125,440
Median % change year-on-year - - +109.07%
75th Percentile £115,688 - £142,500
90th Percentile £128,925 - -
UK median annual salary £95,000 £142,500 £107,720
% change year-on-year -33.33% +32.29% +79.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 55,074 34,927 67,213
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 95.40% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 28,920 24,010 40,521
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,250 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Head of AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Head of AI in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Head of AI in the UK excluding London

Head of AI
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Head of AI in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Head of AI in the UK excluding London

Head of AI
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of AI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Head of AI in the UK excluding London

Head of AI
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Head of AI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 September 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
Midlands - 4 £105,000 -
East Midlands - 3 £105,000 -
South East - 2 £107,750 -
Wales - 1 £82,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £100,000 -
Scotland - 1 £110,000 -
Head of AI
UK

Head of AI Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 September 2024, Head of AI job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Head of AI in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning
3 4 (50.00%) Business Strategy
4 3 (37.50%) Data Management
4 3 (37.50%) OpenAI
4 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
4 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (37.50%) Data Strategy
5 2 (25.00%) Data Science
5 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (25.00%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Power BI
5 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Vision
5 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (25.00%) Storage Management
5 2 (25.00%) Data Collection
6 1 (12.50%) Culture Change
6 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 1 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (12.50%) OCI
6 1 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
6 1 (12.50%) Java
6 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 1 (12.50%) Technology Strategy

Head of AI Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) BrowserStack
3 1 (12.50%) OCI
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Appium
1 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 1 (12.50%) JMeter
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
1 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) Serenity BDD
1 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) OpenCV
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (12.50%) Playwright
1 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning
3 4 (50.00%) Business Strategy
4 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (37.50%) Data Management
4 3 (37.50%) Data Strategy
4 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (25.00%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Vision
5 2 (25.00%) Data Collection
5 2 (25.00%) Data Science
5 2 (25.00%) Storage Management
6 1 (12.50%) Business Case
6 1 (12.50%) Culture Change
6 1 (12.50%) Innovative Thinking
6 1 (12.50%) MLOps
6 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
6 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 1 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) OpenAI
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce