The UK’s data and AI labour market reached record levels in 2025, with vacancies rising 18.4% year-on-year as businesses moved beyond pilot programmes and began integrating AI into core workflows at scale. Annualised 2026 figures point to a further 13.2% increase, with January and February already posting year-on-year growth of 20.0% and 31.7% respectively. If current trends continue, one in four jobs in the sector will have been created in the last two years, a pace of growth unmatched by virtually any other part of the UK economy.
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The AI Transformation Forum (March 26), hosted with Mercury CRM, is a breakfast event for business leaders exploring how AI and the UK’s Industrial Strategy are influencing hiring trends. The presentation will focus on AI’s impact in Biotech, Fintech, and Law, highlighting new capabilities, workforce implications, and future industry hotspots, followed by a Q&A and networking session.
This session shows how to assess and improve your AI visibility with a practical framework, led by experts who have successfully built recognised domain authority in an AI-first world.
This report analyses how AI is driving one of the few areas of growth in the UK labour market, with IT and data hiring accelerating even as wider recruitment slows. It explores how major tech and banking firms are investing aggressively in AI capability, while retail and professional services rapidly follow suit — reshaping job roles, skill demands and the competitive landscape across the country.
