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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.

Live data
Week of 2026-07-13· 3 data sources · automated pipeline

Total AI Jobs

159

vs last week

Median Salary

£70k

50th percentile

Sponsorship Rate

1%

of AI roles

Salary Range

£43k – £93k

P25 – P75

Top In-Demand Skills

By job posting frequency this week

50 tracked

Rising Skills

Gaining week-over-week

01PyTorch
02REST API
03scikit-learn
04NumPy
05LangChain
06Matplotlib
07Pandas
08Azure

Cooling Skills

Losing momentum

01Airflow
02NLP
03dbt
04Apache Spark

Top UK Hiring Cities

Live data this week
SCOTLANDWALESENGLANDLondon4,820 rolesManchesterEdinburghCambridgeBristolOxfordLeedsBirminghamGlasgowCardiffLondon4,820 AI roles · Capital hubRegional hubs90 – 610 roles eachCity connectionsLive · Updated weeklyNSWE
01🏙️
London
57jobs100%
02🌃
Manchester
7jobs12%
03📍
Portsmouth
2jobs4%
04📍
Rotherham
2jobs4%
05📍
United Kingdom
2jobs4%
06📍
Sevenoaks
2jobs4%
07📍
CB21GG
2jobs4%
08📍
Ipswich
2jobs4%
09📍
WC1A1AP
2jobs4%
10📍
EC2V6EE
2jobs4%

London dominates UK AI hiring. Strong hubs in Cambridge (biotech AI), Edinburgh (NLP/fintech), Bristol (robotics).

Hiring Velocity by Role

Year-over-year growth

AI / LLM Engineer

YoY change

+62%

MLOps / Platform

YoY change

+44%

AI Safety Engineer

YoY change

+38%

ML Engineer

YoY change

+18%

Data Scientist

YoY change

+6%

Data Analyst

YoY change

-4%

Illustrative pending live YoY data. Based on sector reporting and MarketForge internal estimates.

Salary Distribution

All UK AI/ML roles · Gross annual · GBP

£70k

median salary

£43k£70k£93k
Lower quartileMedianUpper quartile

£43k

Lower quartile

25th percentile

£70k

Median

50th percentile

£93k

Upper quartile

75th percentile