16% of open engineering leadership roles in the United Kingdom mention AI coding tools
Across 297 open EM, Staff, Principal, Head, Director and VP engineering roles at 109 companies, from public job boards. "EU" here means Europe: the EU-27, the UK, Switzerland, Norway and the rest of Europe, plus remote roles open across Europe.
As of 13 Nov 2026, 16% of open engineering leadership roles in the United Kingdom mention AI coding tools (47 of 297); there are 1,313 open engineering roles in the United Kingdom in total, at 267 companies.
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A mention is not adoption, and not a requirement. A posting can name a tool the team uses, is trying out, or lists as nice to have. These are counts of job postings, not of users or seats.
United Kingdom at a glance
Snapshot: 13 Nov 2026 (last completed crawl)
16%
Leadership share
47 of 297 open leadership roles mention AI coding tools
1,313
Open engineering roles
At 267 companies
30
Mention AI governance or the EU AI Act
2.3% of open engineering roles
297
Open leadership roles in the United Kingdom
47
Mention AI coding tools
16%
6
Mention AI governance or the EU AI Act
2.0%
By country
All of Europe →| Country | Open roles | Mention AI tools | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 47 | 16% | |
| Germany | 49 | 20% | |
| France | 8 | 8.3% | |
| Poland | 29 | 39% | |
| Spain | 22 | 30% | |
| Remote, Europe-wide | 4 | 7.5% | |
| Netherlands | 9 | 23% | |
| Portugal | 9 | 26% | |
| Ireland | 7 | 21% | |
| Sweden | 5 | 17% | |
| Belgium | 6 | 33% | |
| Serbia | 1 | 5.9% | |
| Switzerland | 1 | 6.3% | |
| Finland | 5 | 33% | |
| Greece | 1 | 7.7% | |
| Austria | 2 | 18% | |
| Bulgaria | 2 | 18% | |
| Lithuania | 4 | 36% | |
| Italy | 2 | 20% | |
| Denmark | 2 | 20% | |
| Romania | 1 | 13% | |
| Norway | 0 | 0% | |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0% | |
| Czechia | 2 | 33% | |
| Cyprus | 1 | 17% | |
| Hungary | 2 | 40% | |
| Latvia | 0 | 0% | |
| Slovenia | 1 | 33% | |
| Ukraine | 0 | 0% | |
| Malta | 0 | 0% | |
| Croatia | 0 | 0% | |
| North Macedonia | 0 | 0% |
A posting counts for the first European country it lists. Remote roles open across Europe have no single country.
Leadership vs individual contributors in the United Kingdom
All 1,313 open engineering roles: 14% mention AI coding tools. Leadership 16%, individual contributors 14%.
| Role family | Share mentioning AI tools | Mention AI | Open roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering leadership | 47 | 297 | |
| Software (general) | 56 | 374 | |
| Data / ML engineering | 26 | 206 | |
| DevOps / SRE / Platform | 14 | 127 | |
| Backend | 14 | 126 | |
| Security engineering | 6 | 63 | |
| Full stack | 15 | 42 | |
| Mobile | 3 | 29 | |
| QA / Test / SDET | 2 | 27 | |
| Frontend | 2 | 22 |
Posting languages in the United Kingdom
All open engineering roles by the language the posting is written in. Tags are matched in English and eight other European languages, so local-language postings count too.
| Language | Share of postings | Open roles | Mention AI tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | 1,313 | 14% |
Top tools in the United Kingdom
- Agentic workflows441
- AI-assisted development224
- Guardrails118
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)116
- Claude Code115
- Agentic coding113
- GitHub Copilot412
- Claude111
- RAG110
- Evals / LLM evaluation19
- Multi-agent systems09
- OpenAI07
- LLMOps / MLOps06
- Prompt / context engineering06
- Cursor15
- Fine-tuning / LoRA / PEFT15
- Responsible AI15
- Anthropic05
- AI security05
- AI / agent harness05
- Vector databases04
- Amazon Bedrock04
- LangGraph04
- Embeddings13
- LangChain02
- CrewAI02
- AI governance02
- Amazon SageMaker01
- OpenAI Codex01
- AI code review01
- EU AI Act01
- pgvector01
AI coding tools in the United Kingdom
Open engineering roles of all kinds that mention each tool or practice.
AI governance and the EU AI Act
Open engineering roles in the United Kingdom whose posting mentions each topic. This counts mentions only; it says nothing about how a company complies.
Companies hiring engineers in the United Kingdom
By open engineering roles in the United Kingdom, with how many mention AI coding tools.
- Graphcore54 roles · 1 AI
- Wise48 roles · 3 AI
- Faculty41 roles
- Wayve37 roles · 3 AI
- Quberesearchandtechnologies36 roles · 5 AI
- Deliveroo35 roles · 10 AI
- Bet365129 roles · 8 AI
- Elastic24 roles · 3 AI
- Xdesign22 roles · 6 AI
- Netcompany122 roles
- Palantir22 roles
- OpenAI20 roles · 2 AI
- Anthropic18 roles · 1 AI
- Cloudflare16 roles · 6 AI
- Talan16 roles
- ASOS15 roles · 4 AI
- Neptunenorth15 roles
- Version115 roles
- PAConsulting14 roles
- GitLab13 roles · 4 AI
Latest roles mentioning AI tools
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