16% of open engineering leadership roles in United Kingdom mention AI coding tools
Across 293 open EM, Staff, Principal, Head, Director and VP engineering roles at 110 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.
293
Open leadership roles in United Kingdom
47
Mention AI coding tools
16%
6
Mention AI governance or the EU AI Act
2.0%
By country
Show all of Europe →| Country | Open roles | Mention AI tools | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 293 | 47 | 16% |
| Germany | 243 | 50 | 21% |
| France | 93 | 7 | 7.5% |
| Poland | 74 | 29 | 39% |
| Spain | 73 | 22 | 30% |
| Remote, Europe-wide | 53 | 4 | 7.5% |
| Netherlands | 40 | 9 | 23% |
| Portugal | 36 | 9 | 25% |
| Ireland | 33 | 6 | 18% |
| Sweden | 29 | 5 | 17% |
| Switzerland | 17 | 1 | 5.9% |
| Belgium | 17 | 6 | 35% |
| Serbia | 17 | 1 | 5.9% |
| Finland | 15 | 5 | 33% |
| Greece | 14 | 1 | 7.1% |
| Austria | 14 | 2 | 14% |
| Lithuania | 11 | 4 | 36% |
| Bulgaria | 11 | 2 | 18% |
| Italy | 10 | 2 | 20% |
| Denmark | 10 | 2 | 20% |
| Romania | 9 | 1 | 11% |
| Norway | 9 | 0 | 0% |
| Slovakia | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| Cyprus | 6 | 1 | 17% |
| Czechia | 6 | 2 | 33% |
| Hungary | 5 | 2 | 40% |
| Latvia | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Slovenia | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| Ukraine | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Malta | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Croatia | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 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 United Kingdom
All 1,318 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 | 16% | 47 | 293 |
| Software (general) | 15% | 57 | 378 |
| Data / ML engineering | 13% | 27 | 211 |
| DevOps / SRE / Platform | 11% | 14 | 129 |
| Backend | 12% | 15 | 128 |
| Security engineering | 10% | 6 | 60 |
| Full stack | 36% | 14 | 39 |
| Mobile | 9.7% | 3 | 31 |
| QA / Test / SDET | 7.4% | 2 | 27 |
| Frontend | 9.1% | 2 | 22 |
Posting languages in 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 | 100% | 1,318 | 14% |
Top tools in United Kingdom
- Agentic workflows340
- 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
- Responsible AI15
- Anthropic05
- AI security05
- AI / agent harness05
- Fine-tuning / LoRA / PEFT05
- Vector databases04
- Amazon Bedrock04
- LangGraph04
- Embeddings03
- LangChain02
- CrewAI02
- AI governance02
- Amazon SageMaker01
- OpenAI Codex01
- AI code review01
- EU AI Act01
- pgvector01
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