🔴 LIVE Senior SWE London £97,000 ↑7.2% LLM Engineer £138,000 ↑18% Data Scientist Manchester £68,000 AI Product Manager £120,000 ↑14% DevOps Engineer £95,000 Python demand +34% Excel demand −23% MLOps Engineer £110,000 ↑22% UX Designer Edinburgh £62,000 Carbon Accountant £58,000 ↑47% 🔴 LIVE Senior SWE London £97,000 ↑7.2% LLM Engineer £138,000 ↑18% Data Scientist Manchester £68,000 AI Product Manager £120,000 ↑14% DevOps Engineer £95,000
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Senior Software Engineer
📍 London
£85k–£115k
↑ 7.2% vs last year
ML / LLM Engineer
📍 London
£95k–£165k
↑ 18.4% vs last year
Senior Product Manager
📍 London
£95k–£130k
↑ 9.1% vs last year
Software Engineer
📍 Manchester
£48k–£80k
↑ 7.2% vs last year
Data Scientist
📍 London
£75k–£115k
↑ 8.8% vs last year
Software Engineer
📍 Cambridge
£60k–£108k
↑ 10.2% vs last year
Skill demand signals
Which skills are gaining — and losing — value in 2026
Based on analysis of 200,000+ live UK job listings over 12 months
Rising fast
01LLM / GenAI Engineering
+51%
02AI Product Management
+44%
03MLOps Engineering
+38%
04Python (ML/AI focus)
+34%
05Carbon Accounting
+47%
06dbt / Modern Data Stack
+29%
Declining
01PHP Development
−31%
02Excel (Advanced)
−23%
03Manual QA Testing
−22%
04Tableau (Standalone)
−18%
05Hadoop
−28%
06Legacy ETL Tools
−17%

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City salary comparison
Senior Software Engineer — UK cities 2026
How salaries compare across UK cities for the same role and seniority level
CityMedian salaryRangeYoY changevs London
London£97,000£85k–£115k+7.2%Baseline
Cambridge£82,000£60k–£108k+10.2%−15%
Oxford£74,000£52k–£98k+8.6%−24%
Manchester£68,000£48k–£88k+7.2%−30%
Edinburgh£64,000£45k–£85k+8.1%−34%
Bristol£66,000£46k–£86k+7.6%−32%
Birmingham£61,000£42k–£80k+6.8%−37%
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