Generative AI Job Trends in London

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Generative AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 271 352
Rank change year-on-year +122 +81 -
Permanent jobs citing Generative AI 262 163 91
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.86% 1.05% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 1.11% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 116 88 54
10th Percentile £68,375 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £71,875 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,750 £83,750 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% +1.52% -
75th Percentile £112,500 £99,063 £122,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £114,475 £149,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £83,750 £92,500
% change year-on-year -4.48% -9.46% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Generative AI falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,365 14,682 16,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.68% 94.64% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,912 8,070 13,469
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,125 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Generative AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Generative AI job vacancy trend in London

Generative AI
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Generative AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Generative AI

Generative AI
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Generative AI in London

Generative AI
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Generative AI within the London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Central London +52 40 £105,000 +16.67% 58
West London 0 2 £75,000 -25.00% 5
South London +39 1 - - 4
Generative AI
England

Generative AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.44%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.44%) Appian
3 8 (3.05%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.67%) Confluence
5 3 (1.15%) Luigi
5 3 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.29%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.38%) Blender
Cloud Services
1 97 (37.02%) AWS
2 90 (34.35%) Azure
3 35 (13.36%) GCP
4 31 (11.83%) Amazon Bedrock
5 29 (11.07%) Vertex AI
6 19 (7.25%) SaaS
7 18 (6.87%) Power Platform
8 17 (6.49%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (6.11%) Anthropic Claude
9 16 (6.11%) Azure AI
10 13 (4.96%) GitHub
11 12 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (4.58%) Microsoft Copilot
11 12 (4.58%) Serverless
11 12 (4.58%) Snowflake
12 11 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.20%) Power Automate
13 10 (3.82%) Amazon S3
13 10 (3.82%) ChatGPT
14 9 (3.44%) H2O.ai
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.53%) Broadband
2 1 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.40%) Data Lake
2 18 (6.87%) Pinecone
3 17 (6.49%) Metadata
4 16 (6.11%) Power BI
5 15 (5.73%) NoSQL
6 13 (4.96%) SQL Server
7 12 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.20%) MongoDB
9 10 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.05%) Big Data
10 8 (3.05%) Hadoop
11 6 (2.29%) Tableau
12 5 (1.91%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.53%) DataStage
13 4 (1.53%) QlikView
13 4 (1.53%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.15%) DynamoDB
15 2 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.76%) Apache Hive
15 2 (0.76%) Impala
Development Applications
1 20 (7.63%) MLflow
2 11 (4.20%) Git
3 8 (3.05%) JIRA
4 7 (2.67%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.29%) GitLab
5 6 (2.29%) Vite
6 4 (1.53%) ER Studio
6 4 (1.53%) ERwin
6 4 (1.53%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (1.15%) ESLint
8 2 (0.76%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.76%) JMeter
8 2 (0.76%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.76%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 100 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 75 (28.63%) Finance
3 70 (26.72%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.92%) Legal
5 23 (8.78%) Law
6 16 (6.11%) Banking
7 14 (5.34%) Marketing
8 12 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (4.58%) Retail
9 10 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (3.44%) Manufacturing
11 8 (3.05%) Advertising
11 8 (3.05%) Italian Language
12 7 (2.67%) German Language
12 7 (2.67%) Retail Banking
13 6 (2.29%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (2.29%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 65 (24.81%) Senior
2 35 (13.36%) Consultant
3 32 (12.21%) Gen AI Consultant
4 31 (11.83%) Lead
5 27 (10.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 26 (9.92%) Senior Consultant
7 18 (6.87%) Data Engineer
8 13 (4.96%) Gen AI Engineer
9 12 (4.58%) Developer
10 11 (4.20%) Architect
10 11 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (4.20%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.82%) Analyst
11 10 (3.82%) Data Scientist
11 10 (3.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (3.44%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (3.44%) Product Owner
13 8 (3.05%) Account Executive
13 8 (3.05%) Gen AI Developer
14 7 (2.67%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (21.37%) LangChain
2 41 (15.65%) TensorFlow
3 40 (15.27%) PyTorch
4 20 (7.63%) Hugging Face
5 19 (7.25%) .NET
5 19 (7.25%) FastAPI
6 17 (6.49%) LangGraph
6 17 (6.49%) React
7 15 (5.73%) REST
8 13 (4.96%) RESTful
9 12 (4.58%) OAuth
10 11 (4.20%) .NET Core
10 11 (4.20%) Faiss
10 11 (4.20%) pytest
10 11 (4.20%) Redux
10 11 (4.20%) scikit-learn
11 10 (3.82%) CrewAI
11 10 (3.82%) Flask
11 10 (3.82%) Pandas
11 10 (3.82%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 46 (17.56%) AI Agents
2 35 (13.36%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (7.25%) Product Ownership
4 16 (6.11%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.11%) Onboarding
5 15 (5.73%) Low-Code
6 14 (5.34%) Management Information System
7 12 (4.58%) Algorithms
8 10 (3.82%) Reinsurance
9 9 (3.44%) Data Centre
10 7 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.67%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.53%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.15%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.15%) Social Media
13 2 (0.76%) Clustering
13 2 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (93.51%) AI
2 124 (47.33%) Machine Learning
3 106 (40.46%) LLM
4 76 (29.01%) Agile
5 72 (27.48%) Analytics
6 71 (27.10%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 69 (26.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 68 (25.95%) Computer Science
9 56 (21.37%) CI/CD
9 56 (21.37%) MLOps
10 49 (18.70%) Roadmaps
11 48 (18.32%) Thought Leadership
12 46 (17.56%) Workflow
13 45 (17.18%) Data Science
13 45 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (16.41%) Prompt Engineering
15 40 (15.27%) Business Development
15 40 (15.27%) Data Engineering
15 40 (15.27%) Data Pipeline
15 40 (15.27%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 83 (31.68%) Python
2 46 (17.56%) SQL
3 24 (9.16%) TypeScript
4 12 (4.58%) C#
5 10 (3.82%) Java
5 10 (3.82%) Rust
6 8 (3.05%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.53%) R
8 3 (1.15%) Scala
9 1 (0.38%) C++
9 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 95 (36.26%) Degree
2 47 (17.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (13.74%) Master's Degree
4 16 (6.11%) Security Cleared
5 15 (5.73%) SC Cleared
6 10 (3.82%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.44%) DBS Check
8 8 (3.05%) MCP
9 7 (2.67%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.67%) IIBA
9 7 (2.67%) MBA
9 7 (2.67%) PhD
9 7 (2.67%) PMI Certification
9 7 (2.67%) PMP
10 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.38%) CISSP
11 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.45%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.29%) QA
3 4 (1.53%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.53%) GDPR
4 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 3 (1.15%) NIST
5 2 (0.76%) EU AI Act
5 2 (0.76%) PMO
6 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.38%) GxP
6 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.38%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (15.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (11.83%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.78%) Terraform
3 6 (2.29%) Grafana
3 6 (2.29%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.91%) Kubeflow
5 4 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.76%) Ansible
6 2 (0.76%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 47 (17.94%) Microsoft
2 42 (16.03%) Google
3 35 (13.36%) OpenAI
4 34 (12.98%) Databricks
5 9 (3.44%) Automation Anywhere
5 9 (3.44%) Dell
5 9 (3.44%) NVIDIA
5 9 (3.44%) UiPath
6 8 (3.05%) Alteryx
7 7 (2.67%) Anaplan
8 4 (1.53%) Facebook
8 4 (1.53%) IBM
8 4 (1.53%) Informatica
8 4 (1.53%) Oracle
9 3 (1.15%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.15%) YouTube
10 2 (0.76%) iManage
10 2 (0.76%) Intapp
10 2 (0.76%) ServiceNow