Live Intelligence
UK AI Job Market Overview
Real-time aggregate view of the UK AI/ML hiring landscape. Data refreshed twice weekly from Adzuna, Reed, and specialist boards.
Total AI Jobs
71
Median Salary
£70k
50th percentile
Sponsorship Rate
0%
of AI roles
Salary Range
£55k – £85k
P25 – P75
01 · The Pipeline
How many people are actually entering this market
30,300
Computing-subject qualifiers, England, academic year 202324
32 in every 100 of all UK graduates are NOT in high-skilled employment 15 months on
employment_rate/unemployment_rate/inactivity_rate are the unweighted average of the Male and Female breakdown rows — the source dataset publishes no unsegmented 'all graduates' row. England only, not UK-wide. qualifiers_count is the number of Computing-subject HE qualifiers (all levels combined) for that academic year.
02 · Entry-Level Reality
What actually gets you hired at entry level
overall_rank is a skill's position by posting frequency across all roles in the last 90 days; junior_rank is its position among experience_level='junior' postings only. Positive rank_delta means the skill matters more at entry level than the overall market ranking suggests.
03 · The Skill Floor
The handful of skills nobody escapes
Darker = appears more often for that role category.
Top skills ranked by how many distinct role categories they appear in (last 90 days, roles with >=5 postings mentioning the skill), not just raw frequency — these are the skills that show up regardless of specialisation, the closest thing to a market-wide floor.
04 · Who Opens The Door
Who's actually doing the entry-level hiring
95% Scale-up (50–500)
Source: MarketForge scraped postings, experience_level=junior (n=20).
05 · The Pay Reality
What it actually pays versus what's expected
Sources: MarketForge sample (experience_level=junior), ONS ASHE, Prospects/ISE graduate salary surveys (hand-cited, not live-fetched).
30,300
Computing-subject qualifiers, England, academic year 202324
32 in every 100 of all UK graduates are NOT in high-skilled employment 15 months on
employment_rate/unemployment_rate/inactivity_rate are the unweighted average of the Male and Female breakdown rows — the source dataset publishes no unsegmented 'all graduates' row. England only, not UK-wide. qualifiers_count is the number of Computing-subject HE qualifiers (all levels combined) for that academic year.
Market Over Time
Weekly posting volume & median salary — last 23 weeks
Top Skills This Week
Full skills breakdown01
Python
15 postings
02
SQL
10 postings
03
AWS
3 postings
04
GCP
2 postings
05
RAG
2 postings
Top UK Hiring Cities
Live data this weekLondon dominates UK AI hiring. Strong hubs in Cambridge (biotech AI), Edinburgh (NLP/fintech), Bristol (robotics).
Hiring Velocity by Role
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Ai Product Manager
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ML Engineer
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Data Engineer
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Data Scientist
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Computer Vision Engineer
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AI / LLM Engineer
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Salary at a Glance
All UK AI/ML roles · Gross annual · GBP
£55k
Lower quartile
25th percentile
£70k
Median
50th percentile
£85k
Upper quartile
75th percentile