Generative AI Jobs in the Thames Valley

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Generative AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Generative AI over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 230 259
Rank change year-on-year +123 +29 -
Permanent jobs citing Generative AI 73 10 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.17% 0.15% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 0.17% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 15 0 0
10th Percentile £69,800 - -
25th Percentile £77,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - -
75th Percentile £102,500 - -
90th Percentile £115,000 - -
South East median annual salary £100,000 £55,000 -
% change year-on-year +81.82% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,150 5,748 5,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.56% 85.18% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 3,995 3,143
10th Percentile £28,800 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,875 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.00% -9.09% -

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Generative AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in the Thames Valley

Generative AI
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Generative AI in the Thames Valley

Generative AI
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Generative AI in the Thames Valley

Generative AI
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Generative AI within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 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
Berkshire - 38 £100,000 - 10
Buckinghamshire - 28 £57,500 - 98
Oxfordshire +35 7 £85,000 - 8
Generative AI
South East

Generative AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (2.74%) Apache
1 2 (2.74%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.55%) Vertex AI
2 14 (19.18%) Salsify
3 8 (10.96%) AWS
4 2 (2.74%) Azure
5 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.55%) Data Mining
2 14 (19.18%) Metadata
3 3 (4.11%) Pinecone
3 3 (4.11%) Weaviate
4 2 (2.74%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.37%) MySQL
5 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Git
2 3 (4.11%) MLflow
3 2 (2.74%) Babel
3 2 (2.74%) Vite
3 2 (2.74%) webpack
General
1 50 (68.49%) Retail
2 31 (42.47%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (42.47%) Social Skills
3 29 (39.73%) Law
4 27 (36.99%) Manufacturing
5 14 (19.18%) Legal
5 14 (19.18%) Marketing
6 9 (12.33%) Dutch Language
6 9 (12.33%) Finnish Language
6 9 (12.33%) Norwegian Language
7 4 (5.48%) Finance
8 1 (1.37%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 33 (45.21%) Senior
2 27 (36.99%) Trainer
3 18 (24.66%) Lead
4 14 (19.18%) Senior Manager
5 7 (9.59%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (2.74%) Architect
6 2 (2.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (2.74%) Technical Architect
7 1 (1.37%) .NET Architect
7 1 (1.37%) .NET Technical Architect
7 1 (1.37%) Analyst
7 1 (1.37%) Developer
7 1 (1.37%) Digital Analyst
7 1 (1.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (1.37%) Senior Developer
7 1 (1.37%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (1.37%) Senior Software Architect
7 1 (1.37%) Senior Technical Architect
7 1 (1.37%) Software Architect
7 1 (1.37%) Technical Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.11%) CSS
1 3 (4.11%) CSS3
1 3 (4.11%) HTML
1 3 (4.11%) HTML5
1 3 (4.11%) Kafka
1 3 (4.11%) PyTorch
1 3 (4.11%) RESTful
1 3 (4.11%) scikit-learn
1 3 (4.11%) TensorFlow
2 2 (2.74%) MobX
2 2 (2.74%) NumPy
2 2 (2.74%) Pandas
2 2 (2.74%) React
2 2 (2.74%) Redux
2 2 (2.74%) WebSockets
3 1 (1.37%) Enzyme
3 1 (1.37%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.37%) Jest
3 1 (1.37%) Next.js
3 1 (1.37%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 27 (36.99%) Robotics
2 16 (21.92%) Algorithms
3 14 (19.18%) Management Information System
3 14 (19.18%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.37%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 60 (82.19%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (72.60%) Machine Learning
4 51 (69.86%) LLM
5 32 (43.84%) Analytics
5 32 (43.84%) Data Privacy
6 31 (42.47%) Agile
7 29 (39.73%) Roadmaps
7 29 (39.73%) Strategic Thinking
8 27 (36.99%) Red Team
9 18 (24.66%) MLOps
10 17 (23.29%) Natural Language Processing
10 17 (23.29%) Use Case
11 15 (20.55%) Data Engineering
11 15 (20.55%) DevOps
11 15 (20.55%) Performance Monitoring
11 15 (20.55%) Product Management
11 15 (20.55%) Statistical Modelling
11 15 (20.55%) Time Series Analysis
11 15 (20.55%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.44%) Python
2 3 (4.11%) C++
2 3 (4.11%) Java
2 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.11%) R
3 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (46.58%) Degree
2 6 (8.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (5.48%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (4.11%) Kubeflow
1 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Grafana
2 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (57.53%) Google
2 27 (36.99%) Adobe
2 27 (36.99%) Databricks
3 16 (21.92%) OpenAI
4 15 (20.55%) Microsoft