Gen AI Developer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Generative AI Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Generative AI Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Gen AI Developer 8 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% - -
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £60,750 - -
25th Percentile £73,125 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £82,500 £55,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% +69.23% -27.78%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 65,845 28,190 72,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 89.21% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 45,712 15,718 51,965
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -5.87%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,254 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -12.50%

Gen AI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Gen AI Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Gen AI Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Gen AI Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Gen AI Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Gen AI Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Gen AI Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Gen AI Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Gen AI Developer in the UK excluding London

Gen AI Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Gen AI Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Northern Ireland - 7 £75,000 -
North of England - 1 £45,000 -
North West - 1 £45,000 -
Gen AI Developer
UK

Gen AI Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 July 2026, Gen AI Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Gen AI Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 7 (87.50%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) AI
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) LangChain
4 2 (25.00%) LLM
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) MLOps
4 2 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) API Integration
5 1 (12.50%) AWS
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
5 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) GitLab
5 1 (12.50%) HOOD
5 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
5 1 (12.50%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
5 1 (12.50%) NumPy
5 1 (12.50%) OpenAI
5 1 (12.50%) OpenShift

Gen AI Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) LangChain
2 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
2 1 (12.50%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (12.50%) NumPy
2 1 (12.50%) Pandas
2 1 (12.50%) pgvector
2 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 3 (37.50%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) LLM
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) MLOps
3 2 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) API Integration
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) HOOD
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) OpenAI