Generative AI Job Trends in South London

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South London requiring Generative AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 76 56
Rank change year-on-year +31 -20 -
Permanent jobs citing Generative AI 1 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 0.21% 0.35% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.36% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
London median annual salary £97,500 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +14.71% +3.03% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 408 553 363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 87.55% 97.36% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 173 182 276
10th Percentile £28,400 £27,075 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £53,500 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year -20.56% -7.36% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £74,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,125 £83,750
London median annual salary £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Generative AI job vacancy trend in South London

Generative AI
Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Kingston Upon Thames +4 1 - -
Generative AI
London

Generative AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) H2O.ai
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Keras
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Business Development
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storytelling
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Value Proposition
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA