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AI courses and bootcamps in the UK

Square1 Ai is an online school, registered in Sri Lanka. Its 27 live bootcamps run for twelve weeks on Zoom with one instructor and 10 projects you keep, from £119; self-paced courses start at £24. UK cohorts meet on weekday evenings from 7 PM UK time, with full-day sessions at weekends.

£119Live bootcamps
7:00 PM UK timeWeekday sessions start
12 weeksLive, 10 projects you keep

Founding price, half the £239 standard, until 1 December. Self-paced courses from £24.

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What AI roles pay

What AI and tech roles pay in the UK

Annual base salary in the UK, from Payscale (read 22 October 2026). The range is the middle half of reported salaries, and each row shows how many salary profiles it rests on.

What AI and tech roles pay in the UK
RoleMedian a yearMiddle halfTrain for it
Solutions architectPayscale233 salary profiles£66,600£56,200 to £82,900Forward Deployed Engineer
Senior software engineerPayscale882 salary profiles£62,600£52,100 to £77,800Claude Code for Engineering, Codex for Software Engineering
Product managerPayscale208 salary profiles£59,200£45,500 to £73,200AI Product Manager
Machine learning engineerPayscale110 salary profiles£53,100£41,400 to £71,600ML Engineer
DevOps engineerPayscale143 salary profiles£51,900£40,500 to £69,100LLMOps, Cloud Engineer with AI
Data engineerPayscale224 salary profiles£45,500£38,400 to £59,700Data Engineering with AI

Salaries are what employers in the UK report paying, not what Square1 Ai students earn: the first cohorts have not graduated.

Live bootcamps

Bootcamps that fit a working week in UK.

Twelve weeks each, weekday evenings and weekend days, 25 spots a cohort. Reserving a seat holds the founding price.

Gen AI BootcampBuild and ship LLM products: prompting, retrieval, agents, evals, production.£119See the bootcampAgentic AI BootcampMulti-agent systems that plan, coordinate and run in production.£119See the bootcampRAG and Search Engineering BootcampRetrieval that actually finds the right thing, measured, at scale.£119See the bootcampVoice AI Agents BootcampPhone and in-app voice agents that hold a conversation and complete a task.£119See the bootcampML Engineer BootcampTrain, evaluate and serve models that pass contract tests, not notebooks that run once.£119See the bootcampComputer Vision BootcampFrom pixels to a deployed vision pipeline you can explain line by line.£119See the bootcampFine-Tuning and Open-Weights BootcampPost-train, evaluate and deploy your own model for a real task.£119See the bootcampPhysical AI and Robotics BootcampPerception, control and simulation for machines that move.£119See the bootcampData Science BootcampFrom messy data to a decision a business acts on, six times.£119See the bootcampData Engineering with AI BootcampPipelines, warehouses and quality checks, with agents doing the grunt work.£119See the bootcampData Analyst with AI BootcampSQL, dashboards and AI-assisted analysis that answer a manager's question with evidence.£119See the bootcampAnalytics Engineer BootcampSQL, modelling and AI-assisted analysis that a finance team trusts.£119See the bootcampCodex for Software Engineering BootcampBuild and maintain real codebases with Codex as the pair, from spec to release.£119See the bootcampForward Deployed Engineer BootcampDeploy AI systems inside a customer's walls and hand them over running.£119See the bootcampClaude Code for Engineering BootcampRun an engineering workflow where Claude Code writes, tests and ships under your review.£119See the bootcampSoftware Engineering with AI BootcampShip a full-stack product with coding agents, then prove the defect is fixed.£119See the bootcampLLMOps BootcampServe, observe and pay for LLMs in production without surprises.£119See the bootcampLLM Evals and Reliability BootcampMake an AI system you can trust: evals, guardrails, monitoring, incident review.£119See the bootcampCybersecurity BootcampFind the vulnerability, prove it against a withheld key, fix it.£119See the bootcampAI Security and Red-Teaming BootcampAttack and defend LLM applications: prompt injection, data exfiltration, model abuse.£119See the bootcampCloud Security Engineer BootcampSecure AWS, Azure and Kubernetes the way a cloud security team does: find it, fix it, prove it.£119See the bootcampAI Automation Engineer BootcampReplace six manual business processes with agents and automation that keep running.£119See the bootcampGTM Engineer BootcampBuild the outbound machine: data, enrichment, automation, CRM, attribution.£119See the bootcampAI Sales Engineer BootcampRun the technical side of an AI sale: discovery, demo, proof of concept.£119See the bootcampAI Product Manager BootcampDecide what an AI product should do, prove it with evals, and ship it.£119See the bootcampAI Founder BootcampGo from idea to a launched AI product with paying users in twelve weeks.£119See the bootcampCloud Engineer with AI BootcampDesign, deploy and run cloud systems with AI doing the toil.£119See the bootcamp
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AI courses in the UK, side by side

AI courses you can take in the UK in 2026, with their length, how they are taught and the fee each provider lists.

AI courses in the UK, side by side
CourseLengthHow it is taughtFee
AI for Business Transformation: Generative AI, Agentic AI and BeyondImperial College Business School6 weeksonline£1,700
Agentic Workflows: Design, Build, and Deploy Enterprise AI Agents (online)University of Oxford Lifelong Learning2 weeks, Mon/Wed/Fri afternoons (30 Nov to 11 Dec 2026)live online (Microsoft Teams)£1,495.00
AI Leader (apprenticeship units, Level 5)Makers18 weeks continuous or 15 full days intensiveNot stated (employer-funded apprenticeship)£2,250 (funded by the Apprenticeship Levy)
AI Product BuilderLe Wagon London40 hourslive online or classroom, LondonNot listed on its site
Live AI bootcamps (27 tracks)Square1 Ai12 weeks, about 15 hours a weekLive online, weekday evenings from 7 PM UK time and weekend days£119 (founding price)

Fees and lengths as each provider lists them on its own site, checked 22 October 2026. Ask the provider for the current intake before you pay.

Your options

Four ways to learn AI in the UK

Each fits a different person. The right one depends on whether you need a degree, a university name, a free start or a portfolio.

  1. Route 1

    A degree or master's

    Fits when You want a formal qualification in AI, or the theory in depth.

    Watch for Years of study and a large fee; check how much of it uses the tools teams work with now.

  2. Route 2

    A university or institute short course

    Fits when You want a known name on a short AI course, online or on campus.

    Watch for Most are a few weeks and teach concepts; ask whether you build and deploy something.

  3. Route 3

    A free or funded programme

    Fits when You want to try AI before paying for anything.

    Watch for Good for basics; nobody reviews your work, so you still need projects to show.

  4. Route 4

    A live online bootcamp

    Fits when You are working and want a job-shaped portfolio in twelve weeks, taught live on UK time.

    Watch for Square1 Ai's bootcamps are new and not accredited: the first cohorts have not graduated, so there is no placement rate yet.

Questions

Questions people in the UK ask

Which AI course is best in the UK?

It depends on what you need. Imperial College Business School's AI for Business Transformation: Generative AI, Agentic AI and Beyond lists £1,700 and University of Oxford Lifelong Learning's Agentic Workflows: Design, Build, and Deploy Enterprise AI Agents (online) lists £1,495.00; the table above lists each one's length and fee. If you are working and want a portfolio an employer can check, Square1 Ai's twelve-week live bootcamps are £119 at the founding price.

How much does an AI course cost in the UK?

A Square1 Ai live AI bootcamp is £119, the founding price until 1 December (the standard price is £239), and a self-paced course is £24. Other providers' fees are in the table above.

What does a solutions architect earn in the UK?

Payscale puts the median base salary for a solutions architect in the UK at £66,600 a year, with the middle half between £56,200 and £82,900, from 233 salary profiles.

Are there free AI or tech courses in the UK?

Yes. Skills Bootcamps (Department for Education): Government-funded courses of up to 16 weeks for adults aged 19+ in England, in digital subjects such as software development, data engineering, coding and digital marketing, ending with a job interview. School of Code free bootcamp: Free coding bootcamp run around the UK, delivered fully remote or blended. Code First Girls free courses: Free courses for women: Coding Kickstarter (Python, Data & SQL, C#, JavaScript), a 16-week CFGdegree in software/data engineering or data science, and +Masters tracks in AI/ML, data analysis and cyber security. Square1 Ai's certification practice is free too: practice questions, timed mock exams and study plans for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, CompTIA, Cisco, ISC2 and Claude exams.

Can I learn AI online in the UK while working full time?

Yes. UK cohorts meet on weekday evenings from 7 PM UK time, with full-day sessions at weekends. The work between sessions is graded by Nova, Square1 Ai's AI tutor, whenever you submit it. Plan for about fifteen hours a week across the twelve weeks.

Is it a regulated qualification, or a government-funded Skills Bootcamp?

Neither. Square1 Ai's bootcamps are not Ofqual-regulated qualifications and are not part of the Department for Education's Skills Bootcamps, so they are not government funded. You leave with 10 deployed projects and a recorded defence of your work.

Does the bootcamp guarantee a job?

No. No placement rate is published because the first cohorts have not graduated. You leave with 10 projects an employer can open and run, a recorded defence of your work, and a hiring plan worked through with your instructor.

How do I pay?

Reserving a seat is free and takes your name, email and country. Nothing is charged until the start date is confirmed and you say yes.

25 spots a cohort. Hold one on UK time.

Pick a bootcamp, reserve with your name and email, and hear the start date first. Nothing is charged until you confirm.

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