Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Generative AI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Generative AI over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 963 -
Rank change year-on-year +398 - -
Permanent jobs citing Generative AI 351 7 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.007% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.007% -
Number of salaries quoted 109 5 0
10th Percentile £51,000 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 -
90th Percentile £110,000 £104,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 -
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Generative AI is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Generative AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in the UK

Generative AI
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Generative AI.

Salary trend for Generative AI in the UK

Generative AI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Generative AI over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Generative AI in the UK

Generative AI
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Generative AI within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +413 324 £79,000 -1.25% 136
UK excluding London +181 172 £70,000 -12.50% 57
London +289 159 £80,000 +10.34% 84
Work from Home +181 90 £75,000 -16.67% 59
South East +112 83 £55,000 - 27
North of England - 59 £72,500 - 14
North West - 55 £72,500 - 10
Scotland - 19 £60,000 - 6
South West +5 9 £70,000 -12.50% 3
Yorkshire - 3 £92,778 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £40,000 - 1
Midlands - 2 £40,000 - 5
North East - 1 £72,500 - 2

Generative AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (1.99%) Apache Spark
1 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.14%) Confluence
2 4 (1.14%) Drupal
2 4 (1.14%) WordPress
3 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.14%) FrameMaker
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 181 (51.57%) Azure
2 134 (38.18%) Serverless
3 122 (34.76%) Azure DevOps
3 122 (34.76%) Azure Functions
3 122 (34.76%) Azure Logic Apps
3 122 (34.76%) Azure Service Bus
4 117 (33.33%) Azure API Management
4 117 (33.33%) IBM Cloud
5 52 (14.81%) AWS
6 51 (14.53%) GCP
7 32 (9.12%) Power Platform
8 21 (5.98%) PowerApps
9 13 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (3.42%) Azure Machine Learning
10 12 (3.42%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (2.85%) ChatGPT
12 8 (2.28%) Amazon SageMaker
12 8 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.99%) Intranet
2 5 (1.42%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (34.47%) NoSQL
2 119 (33.90%) MongoDB
2 119 (33.90%) PostgreSQL
3 117 (33.33%) DB2
3 117 (33.33%) Relational Database
4 35 (9.97%) Tableau
5 18 (5.13%) Power BI
6 12 (3.42%) Big Data
6 12 (3.42%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.99%) Data Mining
8 7 (1.99%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.71%) Text Mining
10 4 (1.14%) DTS
11 3 (0.85%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.57%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.57%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 43 (12.25%) Git
2 9 (2.56%) JIRA
3 5 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.57%) JUnit
4 2 (0.57%) MLflow
4 2 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 131 (37.32%) Public Sector
2 116 (33.05%) Social Skills
3 38 (10.83%) Finance
4 26 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (5.70%) Legal
6 14 (3.99%) Banking
7 8 (2.28%) Automotive
7 8 (2.28%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.28%) Marketing
7 8 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.99%) Law
8 7 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.14%) Games
9 4 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Advertising
10 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Retail
11 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 134 (38.18%) Developer
2 123 (35.04%) Full Stack Developer
3 117 (33.33%) Azure Developer
4 89 (25.36%) Senior
5 58 (16.52%) Data Scientist
6 49 (13.96%) Senior Data Scientist
7 39 (11.11%) Architect
8 27 (7.69%) Lead
9 24 (6.84%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (4.56%) Data Engineer
11 15 (4.27%) Senior Architect
12 13 (3.70%) Lead Data Scientist
13 11 (3.13%) Principal Architect
13 11 (3.13%) Principal Solutions Architect
13 11 (3.13%) Python Engineer
13 11 (3.13%) Senior Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 9 (2.56%) Senior Manager
16 8 (2.28%) Audit Manager
16 8 (2.28%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (39.03%) React
2 133 (37.89%) .NET
3 125 (35.61%) AngularJS
3 125 (35.61%) REST
4 122 (34.76%) Vue
5 120 (34.19%) CSS
6 119 (33.90%) HTML
6 119 (33.90%) Web Services
7 117 (33.33%) ASP.NET
7 117 (33.33%) ASP.NET Core
7 117 (33.33%) Backbone.js
7 117 (33.33%) Ember.js
7 117 (33.33%) jQuery
7 117 (33.33%) Node.js
7 117 (33.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 58 (16.52%) TensorFlow
9 41 (11.68%) scikit-learn
10 36 (10.26%) Pandas
11 30 (8.55%) PyTorch
12 28 (7.98%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 176 (50.14%) Algorithms
2 138 (39.32%) Data Structures
3 117 (33.33%) Blockchain
3 117 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.85%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.28%) IoT
7 7 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.99%) Biopharmaceutical
8 6 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.71%) Social Media
9 5 (1.42%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.42%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (0.85%) Blog
10 3 (0.85%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.85%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.57%) FPGA
11 2 (0.57%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.57%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 123 (35.04%) Linux
2 119 (33.90%) Android
2 119 (33.90%) Apple iOS
3 118 (33.62%) Windows
4 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (94.87%) Artificial Intelligence
2 140 (39.89%) DevOps
3 133 (37.89%) User Experience
4 132 (37.61%) Full Stack Development
4 132 (37.61%) Machine Learning
5 122 (34.76%) OO
5 122 (34.76%) Web Development
6 118 (33.62%) Design Patterns
6 118 (33.62%) MVC
6 118 (33.62%) OOP
7 117 (33.33%) API Management
7 117 (33.33%) Co-Creation
7 117 (33.33%) Design Thinking
7 117 (33.33%) MVVM
7 117 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
7 117 (33.33%) SOLID
8 97 (27.64%) Data Science
9 83 (23.65%) Natural Language Processing
10 68 (19.37%) Decision-Making
10 68 (19.37%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 233 (66.38%) Python
2 192 (54.70%) SQL
3 148 (42.17%) Java
4 140 (39.89%) JavaScript
5 118 (33.62%) C#
6 8 (2.28%) R
7 7 (1.99%) Clojure
7 7 (1.99%) F#
7 7 (1.99%) Haskell
7 7 (1.99%) Scala
8 6 (1.71%) Go
8 6 (1.71%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.71%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.85%) C++
10 2 (0.57%) C
10 2 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 132 (37.61%) Degree
2 46 (13.11%) Master's Degree
3 28 (7.98%) DBS Check
4 22 (6.27%) PhD
5 19 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.99%) Azure Certification
6 14 (3.99%) Security Cleared
7 13 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.56%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.28%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.28%) MCP
10 1 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.28%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.42%) QA
2 6 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.57%) GRC
4 2 (0.57%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 7 (1.99%) Docker
2 2 (0.57%) IAG
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.28%) Terraform
3 2 (0.57%) Kubeflow
3 2 (0.57%) RSA Archer
3 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 117 (33.33%) IBM
1 117 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 46 (13.11%) Databricks
3 22 (6.27%) Google
4 21 (5.98%) Microsoft
4 21 (5.98%) OpenAI
5 15 (4.27%) Dell
6 8 (2.28%) Dataiku
7 6 (1.71%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.42%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.14%) Confluent
10 2 (0.57%) SAP
10 2 (0.57%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.57%) TikTok
10 2 (0.57%) Workday
10 2 (0.57%) YouTube
11 1 (0.28%) Adobe
11 1 (0.28%) DataRobot
11 1 (0.28%) Pega
11 1 (0.28%) Tealium