Artificial Intelligence Jobs in the South West

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 94 125
Rank change year-on-year +68 +31 -35
Permanent jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 262 271 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.26% 2.62% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.88% 3.27% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 98 155 79
10th Percentile £24,000 £36,750 £43,125
25th Percentile £25,000 £43,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,700 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% -14.71% +31.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,028
90th Percentile £97,607 £111,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £66,350 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% -6.67% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,325 8,300 6,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 92.08% 80.15% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,904 5,880 3,490
10th Percentile £26,663 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,186 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% -5.21% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,938
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South West

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the South West.

Salary trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South West

Artificial Intelligence
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the South West over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the South West

Artificial Intelligence
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the South West region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Gloucestershire +92 98 £62,500 +20.19% 65
Bristol +30 91 £50,000 -28.57% 140
Dorset +15 35 £92,500 +60.87% 13
Devon +31 15 £25,000 -47.37% 31
Wiltshire +35 13 £75,000 +27.77% 32
Somerset +14 7 £50,891 +7.14% 64
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 20 (7.63%) Jupyter
2 5 (1.91%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.76%) CMS
3 2 (0.76%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) Luigi
Applications
1 20 (7.63%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.76%) Simulink
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.38%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (15.27%) AWS
2 21 (8.02%) Azure
3 15 (5.73%) Serverless
4 11 (4.20%) Amazon S3
4 11 (4.20%) GCP
5 10 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (3.82%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.29%) Amazon SageMaker
6 6 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.29%) Snowflake
7 5 (1.91%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (1.91%) SaaS
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon Bedrock
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.53%) Collibra
8 4 (1.53%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.53%) Vertex AI
9 3 (1.15%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.73%) Broadband
2 3 (1.15%) Internet
2 3 (1.15%) SAN
3 2 (0.76%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.76%) SMS
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.38%) Firewall
4 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.38%) VPN
4 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.03%) Big Data
2 10 (3.82%) Power BI
3 7 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.29%) MySQL
5 5 (1.91%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.53%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.53%) Metadata
6 4 (1.53%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.53%) Tableau
7 3 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.15%) Ataccama
7 3 (1.15%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.15%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.76%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.38%) DB2
Development Applications
1 11 (4.20%) JIRA
2 10 (3.82%) Git
3 7 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.29%) Selenium
5 4 (1.53%) Locust
6 3 (1.15%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.15%) JUnit
6 3 (1.15%) Maven
7 1 (0.38%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.38%) Vite
General
1 102 (38.93%) Finance
2 83 (31.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 49 (18.70%) Social Skills
4 40 (15.27%) Public Sector
5 38 (14.50%) Banking
6 33 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (11.83%) Marketing
8 29 (11.07%) Law
9 8 (3.05%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.67%) Games
11 6 (2.29%) Retail
12 5 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.53%) Advertising
14 3 (1.15%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.76%) Automotive
15 2 (0.76%) Electronics
15 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.76%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (32.44%) Senior
2 45 (17.18%) Data Scientist
3 41 (15.65%) Java Engineer
4 37 (14.12%) Software Engineer
5 32 (12.21%) Senior Java Engineer
6 24 (9.16%) Senior Data Scientist
7 23 (8.78%) Lead
8 20 (7.63%) Sales Executive
8 20 (7.63%) Trainer
9 16 (6.11%) Graduate
9 16 (6.11%) Graduate Sales Executive
10 15 (5.73%) Python Engineer
10 15 (5.73%) Python Software Engineer
11 13 (4.96%) Developer
12 9 (3.44%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (3.05%) Test Automation Engineer
13 8 (3.05%) Test Engineer
14 7 (2.67%) Architect
15 6 (2.29%) Release Engineer
15 6 (2.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.63%) React
2 15 (5.73%) Node.js
3 12 (4.58%) Software Packaging
4 11 (4.20%) Spring
5 9 (3.44%) GraphQL
6 6 (2.29%) Kafka
6 6 (2.29%) Middleware
6 6 (2.29%) Spring Boot
6 6 (2.29%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 6 (2.29%) WebGL
7 5 (1.91%) Pandas
7 5 (1.91%) REST
8 4 (1.53%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.53%) CSS
8 4 (1.53%) HTML
8 4 (1.53%) Playwright
8 4 (1.53%) pytest
8 4 (1.53%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.53%) TensorFlow
8 4 (1.53%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 54 (20.61%) Algorithms
2 40 (15.27%) Cyberattack
3 36 (13.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (8.40%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.67%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.29%) Animation
6 6 (2.29%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.29%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.29%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (1.91%) Robotics
7 5 (1.91%) Social Media
8 4 (1.53%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.53%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.53%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.15%) CUDA
9 3 (1.15%) Device Driver
9 3 (1.15%) NHS
9 3 (1.15%) PCIe
10 2 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.73%) Linux
2 10 (3.82%) Windows
3 6 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (40.46%) Machine Learning
2 92 (35.11%) Agile
3 80 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (29.77%) Software Engineering
5 65 (24.81%) Mathematics
6 63 (24.05%) Data Science
7 56 (21.37%) SDLC
7 56 (21.37%) Visualisation
8 54 (20.61%) Computer Science
9 51 (19.47%) Statistics
10 50 (19.08%) Analytics
11 45 (17.18%) CI/CD
12 42 (16.03%) Data Analysis
13 40 (15.27%) Exploratory Data Analysis
13 40 (15.27%) Mentoring
13 40 (15.27%) OpenUP
14 38 (14.50%) Decision-Making
15 33 (12.60%) DevOps
16 32 (12.21%) Cybersecurity
17 31 (11.83%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 77 (29.39%) Java
2 73 (27.86%) Python
3 40 (15.27%) JavaScript
4 13 (4.96%) SQL
5 8 (3.05%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.05%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.29%) HLSL
7 5 (1.91%) Bash
7 5 (1.91%) C++
8 4 (1.53%) PHP
9 3 (1.15%) C
9 3 (1.15%) C#
9 3 (1.15%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.38%) Bicep
10 1 (0.38%) R
10 1 (0.38%) Rust
10 1 (0.38%) Scala
10 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (31.30%) Degree
2 56 (21.37%) Security Cleared
3 51 (19.47%) DV Cleared
4 23 (8.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (7.63%) Master's Degree
5 20 (7.63%) Numerate Degree
6 19 (7.25%) PhD
7 6 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.15%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.76%) MBA
10 2 (0.76%) MCAD
10 2 (0.76%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.44%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.67%) GDPR
3 4 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.15%) NIST
5 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.38%) GMP
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.38%) QA
6 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (14.12%) Docker
2 6 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.15%) Firmware
5 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (14.12%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.29%) Terraform
3 4 (1.53%) Ansible
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.76%) Podman
4 2 (0.76%) SmoothWall
5 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (7.63%) PayPal
2 16 (6.11%) Red Hat
3 15 (5.73%) IBM
4 12 (4.58%) Microsoft
5 11 (4.20%) Databricks
6 10 (3.82%) Oracle
7 6 (2.29%) Cisco
7 6 (2.29%) Google
7 6 (2.29%) Graphcore
7 6 (2.29%) VMware
8 4 (1.53%) Dell
9 3 (1.15%) SAP
9 3 (1.15%) Sybase
10 2 (0.76%) EMC
10 2 (0.76%) iManage
10 2 (0.76%) Informatica
10 2 (0.76%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.38%) Meraki
11 1 (0.38%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
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