Generative AI Jobs in the UK excluding London

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 594 745
Rank change year-on-year +448 +151 -
Permanent jobs citing Generative AI 860 177 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.18% 0.24% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 0.29% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 55 37 8
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £59,625
25th Percentile £55,625 £55,000 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £96,539 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,923 -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Generative AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in the UK excluding London

Generative AI
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Generative AI in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Generative AI in the UK excluding London

Generative AI
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Generative AI in the UK excluding London

Generative AI
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 Generative AI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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 +229 304 £100,000 +81.82% 962
Midlands +274 295 £45,000 +12.50% 571
North of England +174 219 £81,250 +12.07% 667
East Midlands +156 184 £75,000 +87.50% 230
Yorkshire +161 123 £92,500 -0.30% 273
West Midlands - 111 £45,000 - 302
North West +35 81 £70,000 -3.45% 308
Scotland +125 24 £50,445 -22.39% 156
North East +59 15 - - 86
South West +107 13 £83,314 -10.20% 383
East of England - 6 £110,000 - 464
Wales - 1 £35,000 - 90
Generative AI
UK

Generative AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (0.93%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.47%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.23%) Apache
4 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 29 (3.37%) AWS
2 26 (3.02%) Azure
3 19 (2.21%) Vertex AI
4 18 (2.09%) GCP
5 14 (1.63%) Salsify
6 11 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
8 6 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (0.70%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.47%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (0.47%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.23%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.23%) AWS KMS
10 2 (0.23%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.23%) Serverless
11 1 (0.12%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.12%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.12%) BigCommerce
11 1 (0.12%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.74%) Data Mining
1 15 (1.74%) Metadata
2 8 (0.93%) Relational Database
3 6 (0.70%) Power BI
4 5 (0.58%) MySQL
5 3 (0.35%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.35%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.35%) Pinecone
5 3 (0.35%) Weaviate
6 2 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.23%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.12%) Big Data
7 1 (0.12%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.12%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.12%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.12%) Redis
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.12%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 12 (1.40%) Git
2 4 (0.47%) Vite
2 4 (0.47%) webpack
3 3 (0.35%) MLflow
4 2 (0.23%) Babel
4 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.12%) JIRA
General
1 744 (86.51%) Retail
2 725 (84.30%) Manufacturing
3 192 (22.33%) Dutch Language
3 192 (22.33%) Finnish Language
3 192 (22.33%) Norwegian Language
4 103 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (7.56%) Social Skills
6 59 (6.86%) Law
7 48 (5.58%) Catalan Language
8 45 (5.23%) Finance
9 35 (4.07%) Legal
10 24 (2.79%) Banking
11 19 (2.21%) Marketing
12 8 (0.93%) Games
13 4 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.12%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 720 (83.72%) Trainer
2 58 (6.74%) Senior
3 29 (3.37%) Lead
4 27 (3.14%) Senior Manager
5 19 (2.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 18 (2.09%) Gen AI Engineer
7 14 (1.63%) Software Engineer
8 13 (1.51%) Data Scientist
9 8 (0.93%) Developer
9 8 (0.93%) Gen AI Software Engineer
10 7 (0.81%) Architect
11 6 (0.70%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (0.58%) Data Manager
12 5 (0.58%) Data Science Manager
13 4 (0.47%) Head of Engineering
13 4 (0.47%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
13 4 (0.47%) Senior Data Scientist
14 3 (0.35%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 3 (0.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 3 (0.35%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.56%) PyTorch
2 21 (2.44%) TensorFlow
3 15 (1.74%) Hugging Face
4 13 (1.51%) LangChain
5 11 (1.28%) Pandas
5 11 (1.28%) React
5 11 (1.28%) scikit-learn
6 7 (0.81%) HTML
7 6 (0.70%) NumPy
8 5 (0.58%) PySpark
8 5 (0.58%) REST
9 4 (0.47%) RESTful
9 4 (0.47%) XGBoost
10 3 (0.35%) CSS
10 3 (0.35%) CSS3
10 3 (0.35%) Enzyme
10 3 (0.35%) HTML5
10 3 (0.35%) Jest
10 3 (0.35%) Kafka
10 3 (0.35%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 724 (84.19%) Robotics
2 35 (4.07%) Algorithms
3 15 (1.74%) Taxonomies
4 14 (1.63%) Management Information System
5 12 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (0.70%) Public Cloud
7 5 (0.58%) AI Agents
7 5 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.47%) Blog
8 4 (0.47%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Licensing
8 4 (0.47%) PKI
9 2 (0.23%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.23%) IVR
9 2 (0.23%) NHS
9 2 (0.23%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.23%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.23%) Social Media
10 1 (0.12%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.12%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.12%) Android
1 1 (0.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 847 (98.49%) Artificial Intelligence
2 794 (92.33%) Machine Learning
3 780 (90.70%) LLM
4 766 (89.07%) Problem-Solving
5 720 (83.72%) Red Team
6 555 (64.53%) Data Privacy
7 55 (6.40%) Data Science
8 51 (5.93%) Agile
9 50 (5.81%) Roadmaps
10 49 (5.70%) Analytics
11 48 (5.58%) Biochemistry
11 48 (5.58%) Biology
11 48 (5.58%) Chemistry
12 40 (4.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (4.65%) Strategic Thinking
13 38 (4.42%) MLOps
14 30 (3.49%) Incident Management
15 29 (3.37%) Computer Science
16 27 (3.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 26 (3.02%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (6.16%) Python
2 20 (2.33%) Java
3 18 (2.09%) SQL
4 11 (1.28%) R
4 11 (1.28%) TypeScript
5 10 (1.16%) C++
5 10 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.05%) Go
7 4 (0.47%) Clojure
7 4 (0.47%) Elixir
7 4 (0.47%) Rust
7 4 (0.47%) Scala
7 4 (0.47%) VBA
8 2 (0.23%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.12%) C
9 1 (0.12%) C#
9 1 (0.12%) Julia
Qualifications
1 759 (88.26%) Degree
2 20 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (1.98%) Master's Degree
4 5 (0.58%) PhD
5 3 (0.35%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.35%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.12%) CBAP
7 1 (0.12%) CISSP
7 1 (0.12%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.12%) MBA
7 1 (0.12%) MCAD
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.12%) PMP
7 1 (0.12%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.91%) Data Quality
2 15 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.35%) GDPR
4 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.23%) ITGC
System Software
1 9 (1.05%) Docker
2 4 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.40%) Grafana
2 12 (1.40%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.35%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 740 (86.05%) Google
2 724 (84.19%) Databricks
3 720 (83.72%) Adobe
4 27 (3.14%) Microsoft
4 27 (3.14%) OpenAI
5 7 (0.81%) Oracle
6 4 (0.47%) Blue Prism
6 4 (0.47%) UiPath
7 2 (0.23%) Facebook
7 2 (0.23%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.23%) SAP
7 2 (0.23%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.12%) Adyen
8 1 (0.12%) Informatica