Artificial Intelligence Jobs

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 68 123
Rank change year-on-year +10 +55 -40
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 2,598 3,034 3,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.20% 3.96% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 4.47% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,353 1,667 1,536
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £110,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,254 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.01% - +9.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Artificial Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57,633 67,852 104,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.17% 88.65% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,379 50,583 64,159
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £40,000 £45,887
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% +9.12%

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 12 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Top 17 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 12 February 2025. 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
England +22 2,357 £75,000 +7.14% 3,322
UK excluding London +8 1,540 £66,254 +6.01% 1,912
London +16 965 £90,000 +5.88% 1,545
Work from Home +10 907 £66,296 +1.99% 3,000
South East +24 475 £76,000 +8.57% 343
North of England +18 345 £67,500 +41.93% 657
East of England +51 221 £66,230 +2.21% 165
North West -3 219 £68,250 +43.68% 345
Midlands +14 171 £65,000 +18.18% 371
South West +9 158 £63,750 +2.00% 247
West Midlands +8 127 £60,000 +4.35% 225
Yorkshire +36 110 £63,652 +3.92% 224
Scotland -78 104 £58,750 -16.07% 85
East Midlands -7 44 £65,000 +36.84% 146
Northern Ireland +41 37 £95,000 - 17
Wales +26 30 £50,000 +5.26% 50
North East +20 16 £74,750 +57.37% 89

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 38 (1.46%) Apache Spark
2 26 (1.00%) Confluence
3 24 (0.92%) Apache
4 23 (0.89%) SharePoint
5 20 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.46%) CMS
7 11 (0.42%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.35%) nginx
10 8 (0.31%) Camunda
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.19%) Kinematics
13 4 (0.15%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) WordPress
14 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.12%) Kentico
15 1 (0.038%) Cloud Foundry
15 1 (0.038%) Ethereum
15 1 (0.038%) OpenStack
15 1 (0.038%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 203 (7.81%) Chatbot
2 35 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.81%) Simulink
4 7 (0.27%) Maya
4 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.19%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.15%) Sketch
7 4 (0.15%) Trello
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.12%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.077%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.077%) Autodesk Inventor
9 2 (0.077%) Blender
9 2 (0.077%) CATIA
9 2 (0.077%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.077%) SOLIDWORKS
9 2 (0.077%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.46%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 10 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
2 10 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.35%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.23%) GoldMine
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.12%) Sprinklr
8 2 (0.077%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.077%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.077%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.038%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.038%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.038%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.038%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.038%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 603 (23.21%) AWS
2 482 (18.55%) Azure
3 257 (9.89%) Power Platform
4 196 (7.54%) GCP
5 142 (5.47%) SaaS
6 126 (4.85%) Serverless
7 78 (3.00%) ChatGPT
8 73 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
9 61 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
10 59 (2.27%) Anthropic Claude
11 58 (2.23%) Power Automate
12 55 (2.12%) IBM Cloud
13 53 (2.04%) GitHub
14 50 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 50 (1.92%) PowerApps
15 43 (1.66%) Azure Machine Learning
16 42 (1.62%) PaaS
17 40 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
18 37 (1.42%) Snowflake
19 32 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 112 (4.31%) Intrusion Detection
2 43 (1.66%) Firewall
3 34 (1.31%) DNS
4 31 (1.19%) Internet
5 24 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 21 (0.81%) Broadband
7 15 (0.58%) Network Security
8 13 (0.50%) DHCP
8 13 (0.50%) IPv6
8 13 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
9 8 (0.31%) HTTP
10 7 (0.27%) NAS
10 7 (0.27%) VPN
11 6 (0.23%) DAB
11 6 (0.23%) VoIP
12 5 (0.19%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.19%) SMTP
12 5 (0.19%) Wireless
13 4 (0.15%) LAN
13 4 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (9.28%) Power BI
2 119 (4.58%) NoSQL
3 93 (3.58%) SQL Server
4 75 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
5 74 (2.85%) Tableau
6 69 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
7 57 (2.19%) Big Data
8 45 (1.73%) Relational Database
9 42 (1.62%) Data Lake
10 37 (1.42%) MySQL
11 36 (1.39%) BigQuery
12 33 (1.27%) MongoDB
13 25 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
14 20 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
14 20 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (0.65%) Metadata
16 16 (0.62%) DynamoDB
16 16 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 15 (0.58%) Spotfire
18 14 (0.54%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 175 (6.74%) Git
2 65 (2.50%) JIRA
3 45 (1.73%) Cypress.io
4 39 (1.50%) Selenium
5 35 (1.35%) Jenkins
6 27 (1.04%) GitLab
7 18 (0.69%) SoapUI
7 18 (0.69%) Visual Studio
8 15 (0.58%) Maven
9 11 (0.42%) LabVIEW
9 11 (0.42%) MLflow
10 9 (0.35%) webpack
11 8 (0.31%) NetBeans
12 6 (0.23%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.23%) JDeveloper
12 6 (0.23%) JUnit
12 6 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
12 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.23%) Terragrunt
12 6 (0.23%) Vite
General
1 750 (28.87%) Social Skills
2 511 (19.67%) Finance
3 362 (13.93%) Analytical Skills
4 257 (9.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 178 (6.85%) Telecoms
6 158 (6.08%) Banking
7 154 (5.93%) Public Sector
8 150 (5.77%) Law
9 136 (5.23%) Games
10 127 (4.89%) Marketing
11 117 (4.50%) Legal
12 101 (3.89%) Manufacturing
13 99 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
14 77 (2.96%) Retail
15 58 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
16 49 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
17 42 (1.62%) Front Office
18 38 (1.46%) Tech for Good
19 36 (1.39%) Advertising
19 36 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 380 (14.63%) Senior
2 323 (12.43%) Architect
3 312 (12.01%) Developer
4 284 (10.93%) Software Engineer
5 223 (8.58%) Lead
6 178 (6.85%) Analyst
7 139 (5.35%) Trainer
8 114 (4.39%) Consultant
8 114 (4.39%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 108 (4.16%) Data Scientist
10 102 (3.93%) Security Architect
11 94 (3.62%) Graduate
11 94 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
12 93 (3.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 90 (3.46%) Senior Developer
14 77 (2.96%) Product Manager
15 76 (2.93%) Data Engineer
16 73 (2.81%) Junior
17 68 (2.62%) Team Leader
18 65 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (12.09%) React
2 310 (11.93%) HTML
3 145 (5.58%) .NET
4 103 (3.96%) AngularJS
5 102 (3.93%) CSS
6 86 (3.31%) PyTorch
7 78 (3.00%) Node.js
8 66 (2.54%) TensorFlow
9 65 (2.50%) React Native
10 56 (2.16%) REST
11 51 (1.96%) Pandas
12 46 (1.77%) Jest
13 44 (1.69%) NumPy
14 43 (1.66%) RESTful
15 41 (1.58%) scikit-learn
16 37 (1.42%) HTML5
17 36 (1.39%) Kafka
17 36 (1.39%) Middleware
18 33 (1.27%) Django
19 32 (1.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 221 (8.51%) Algorithms
2 175 (6.74%) Management Information System
3 126 (4.85%) Robotics
4 116 (4.46%) Blockchain
5 110 (4.23%) Cyberattack
6 103 (3.96%) Cloud Native
7 88 (3.39%) Product Ownership
8 66 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 57 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
10 55 (2.12%) Data Structures
11 51 (1.96%) Onboarding
12 50 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
13 49 (1.89%) IoT
14 43 (1.66%) Hedge funds
15 42 (1.62%) Derivative
15 42 (1.62%) Equities
15 42 (1.62%) Fixed Income
15 42 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 35 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
16 35 (1.35%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 124 (4.77%) Linux
2 45 (1.73%) Windows
3 42 (1.62%) Apple iOS
4 28 (1.08%) Unix
5 20 (0.77%) Android
6 15 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
7 10 (0.38%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.35%) Robot Operating System
9 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.31%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.23%) CentOS
12 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
13 3 (0.12%) Rocky
13 3 (0.12%) VxWorks
14 2 (0.077%) AIX
14 2 (0.077%) Solaris
14 2 (0.077%) SUSE
14 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,102 (42.42%) Machine Learning
2 730 (28.10%) Agile
3 543 (20.90%) Analytics
4 508 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
5 481 (18.51%) Software Engineering
6 399 (15.36%) Generative AI
7 393 (15.13%) Data Science
8 390 (15.01%) Decision-Making
9 372 (14.32%) Computer Science
10 345 (13.28%) Mentoring
11 309 (11.89%) LLM
12 296 (11.39%) DevOps
13 284 (10.93%) Roadmaps
14 275 (10.59%) Cybersecurity
15 265 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
16 225 (8.66%) Data Analytics
17 223 (8.58%) Mathematics
18 215 (8.28%) Conversational UI
19 213 (8.20%) CI/CD
20 188 (7.24%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 1,036 (39.88%) Python
2 508 (19.55%) SQL
3 435 (16.74%) JavaScript
4 359 (13.82%) C#
5 237 (9.12%) C++
6 230 (8.85%) Java
7 195 (7.51%) TypeScript
8 76 (2.93%) R
9 61 (2.35%) C
10 41 (1.58%) Go
11 39 (1.50%) PHP
12 38 (1.46%) Scala
13 36 (1.39%) Bash
14 34 (1.31%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.08%) PowerShell
15 28 (1.08%) Rust
16 24 (0.92%) Ruby
17 23 (0.89%) Fortran
17 23 (0.89%) MATLAB
18 14 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 854 (32.87%) Degree
2 421 (16.20%) Security Cleared
3 205 (7.89%) Master's Degree
4 161 (6.20%) SC Cleared
5 159 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 150 (5.77%) DV Cleared
7 148 (5.70%) PhD
8 31 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
9 24 (0.92%) AWS Certification
10 23 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (0.65%) Azure Certification
11 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (0.50%) MBA
13 12 (0.46%) DBS Check
14 11 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 11 (0.42%) CISA
14 11 (0.42%) HND
14 11 (0.42%) PMI Certification
15 10 (0.38%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (3.31%) Data Quality
2 79 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 70 (2.69%) QA
4 36 (1.39%) GDPR
5 26 (1.00%) ITGC
6 20 (0.77%) SLA
7 17 (0.65%) WCAG
8 14 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.31%) GRC
9 8 (0.31%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 8 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
10 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.27%) NCSC
11 6 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.23%) Def Stans
11 6 (0.23%) NIST
11 6 (0.23%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 5 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 229 (8.81%) Docker
2 28 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.46%) Firmware
4 11 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.12%) HDFS
8 2 (0.077%) NFS
9 1 (0.038%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.038%) Xen
9 1 (0.038%) XenApp
9 1 (0.038%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 249 (9.58%) Kubernetes
2 91 (3.50%) Terraform
3 26 (1.00%) Ansible
4 15 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.50%) Grafana
6 11 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.31%) SCCM
8 6 (0.23%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.19%) Argo
10 4 (0.15%) CASB
11 3 (0.12%) Puppet
12 2 (0.077%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.077%) DameWare
12 2 (0.077%) FTK
12 2 (0.077%) Hadoop YARN
12 2 (0.077%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.077%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.077%) QRadar
12 2 (0.077%) RSA Security Analytics
12 2 (0.077%) SCOM
Vendors
1 278 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 139 (5.35%) PayPal
3 114 (4.39%) Databricks
4 104 (4.00%) Google
5 89 (3.43%) IBM
6 62 (2.39%) Alteryx
7 61 (2.35%) Red Hat
8 60 (2.31%) OpenAI
9 58 (2.23%) TikTok
10 57 (2.19%) Oracle
11 52 (2.00%) SAP
12 41 (1.58%) Salesforce
13 29 (1.12%) ServiceNow
14 18 (0.69%) Xilinx
15 12 (0.46%) Adobe
15 12 (0.46%) PeopleSoft
16 11 (0.42%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.42%) VMware
17 9 (0.35%) BISAM
17 9 (0.35%) Informatica