Gen AI Engineer Jobs in England

Generative AI Engineer
UK > England

The median Generative AI Engineer salary in England is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 660 824 -
Rank change year-on-year +164 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Gen AI Engineer 30 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.061% 0.006% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.006% -
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 0
10th Percentile - £54,750 -
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £80,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.94% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £127,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £71,250 £80,000 -
% change year-on-year -10.94% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 45,023 81,588 81,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 94.56% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,443 60,779 51,494
10th Percentile £29,913 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Gen AI Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Gen AI Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Gen AI Engineer in England

Gen AI Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Gen AI Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Gen AI Engineer in England

Gen AI Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Gen AI Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Gen AI Engineer in England

Gen AI Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Gen AI Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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
South East - 14 - - 7
North of England - 9 £70,000 - 5
London +113 7 £72,500 -9.38% 15
North West - 5 £70,000 - 4
Yorkshire - 4 £92,500 - 1
Gen AI Engineer
UK

Gen AI Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Gen AI Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Gen AI Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 30 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 25 (83.33%) Python
3 20 (66.67%) LLM
4 19 (63.33%) Software Engineering
5 18 (60.00%) Law
5 18 (60.00%) Machine Learning
5 18 (60.00%) CI/CD
6 14 (46.67%) Kubernetes
6 14 (46.67%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (46.67%) Accessibility
7 12 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 12 (40.00%) Algorithms
7 12 (40.00%) Use Case
8 11 (36.67%) Finance
9 10 (33.33%) SDLC
9 10 (33.33%) MLOps
10 9 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
10 9 (30.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 9 (30.00%) Degree
11 8 (26.67%) Pair Programming
11 8 (26.67%) Games
11 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
11 8 (26.67%) User Experience
11 8 (26.67%) Go
11 8 (26.67%) Open Source
11 8 (26.67%) Cloud Security
12 6 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
12 6 (20.00%) REST

Gen AI Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) Amazon Bedrock
2 4 (13.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (3.33%) ChatGPT
3 1 (3.33%) Google Gemini
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Cypress.io
1 4 (13.33%) Git
1 4 (13.33%) Vite
1 4 (13.33%) webpack
General
1 18 (60.00%) Law
2 11 (36.67%) Finance
3 8 (26.67%) Games
4 4 (13.33%) Legal
4 4 (13.33%) Marketing
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) REST
2 4 (13.33%) Enzyme
2 4 (13.33%) Jest
2 4 (13.33%) LangChain
2 4 (13.33%) Next.js
2 4 (13.33%) Node.js
2 4 (13.33%) OpenAPI
2 4 (13.33%) Parceljs
2 4 (13.33%) React
2 4 (13.33%) Svelte
2 4 (13.33%) Vue
2 4 (13.33%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 4 (13.33%) Robotics
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 30 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 20 (66.67%) LLM
3 19 (63.33%) Software Engineering
4 18 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 18 (60.00%) Machine Learning
5 14 (46.67%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 12 (40.00%) Use Case
7 10 (33.33%) MLOps
7 10 (33.33%) SDLC
8 9 (30.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 9 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
9 8 (26.67%) Cloud Security
9 8 (26.67%) Open Source
9 8 (26.67%) Pair Programming
9 8 (26.67%) User Experience
10 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
10 6 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (83.33%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) Go
2 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (20.00%) Clojure
3 6 (20.00%) Elixir
3 6 (20.00%) Rust
3 6 (20.00%) Scala
4 4 (13.33%) C
4 4 (13.33%) C++
4 4 (13.33%) Java
4 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (46.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 14 (46.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) OpenAI
2 4 (13.33%) Remedy
2 4 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft