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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 583 743
Rank change year-on-year +434 +160 -
Permanent jobs citing Generative AI 856 177 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.16% 0.25% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 0.30% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 60 37 6
10th Percentile £42,450 £50,000 £68,750
25th Percentile £49,118 £55,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,496 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% -17.65% -
75th Percentile £101,250 £96,539 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 - -
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 36,826 59,821 56,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.51% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 17,888 41,261 29,198
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 21 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 21 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
Midlands +254 299 £45,000 +12.50% 51
South East +220 299 £100,000 +81.82% 222
North of England +167 219 £92,500 +27.59% 111
East Midlands +150 184 £75,000 +87.50% 16
Yorkshire +163 124 £92,500 -0.30% 28
West Midlands - 115 £45,000 - 32
North West +24 80 £70,000 -3.45% 71
Scotland +125 22 £50,445 -15.93% 39
North East +52 15 - - 12
South West +127 13 £71,991 -11.55% 50
East of England - 5 £110,000 - 61
Wales - 1 £35,000 - 10
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 7 (0.82%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.47%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.23%) Apache
4 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 19 (2.22%) Vertex AI
2 17 (1.99%) Azure
3 15 (1.75%) AWS
4 14 (1.64%) Salsify
5 11 (1.29%) Power Platform
6 10 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
8 6 (0.70%) GCP
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (0.47%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.23%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.23%) AWS KMS
11 2 (0.23%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.23%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.23%) SaaS
11 2 (0.23%) Serverless
12 1 (0.12%) Algolia
12 1 (0.12%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.12%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.75%) Data Mining
1 15 (1.75%) Metadata
2 12 (1.40%) Relational Database
3 10 (1.17%) Power BI
4 4 (0.47%) MySQL
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%) MongoDB
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%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (1.40%) Git
2 5 (0.58%) Vite
2 5 (0.58%) webpack
3 3 (0.35%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.35%) MLflow
4 2 (0.23%) Babel
5 1 (0.12%) JIRA
General
1 744 (86.92%) Retail
2 729 (85.16%) Manufacturing
3 192 (22.43%) Dutch Language
3 192 (22.43%) Finnish Language
3 192 (22.43%) Norwegian Language
4 107 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (6.43%) Social Skills
6 49 (5.72%) Law
7 48 (5.61%) Catalan Language
8 36 (4.21%) Finance
9 23 (2.69%) Legal
9 23 (2.69%) Marketing
10 22 (2.57%) Banking
11 9 (1.05%) Games
12 2 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.12%) Automotive
13 1 (0.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.12%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 720 (84.11%) Trainer
2 48 (5.61%) Senior
3 28 (3.27%) Lead
4 21 (2.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 21 (2.45%) Gen AI Engineer
5 16 (1.87%) Data Scientist
5 16 (1.87%) Senior Manager
6 12 (1.40%) Software Engineer
7 9 (1.05%) Architect
7 9 (1.05%) Gen AI Software Engineer
8 8 (0.93%) Developer
9 5 (0.58%) Data Manager
9 5 (0.58%) Data Science Manager
9 5 (0.58%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (0.47%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 4 (0.47%) Head of Engineering
10 4 (0.47%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
10 4 (0.47%) Senior Data Scientist
10 4 (0.47%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 3 (0.35%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.29%) React
2 8 (0.93%) PyTorch
2 8 (0.93%) TensorFlow
3 7 (0.82%) HTML
3 7 (0.82%) Pandas
3 7 (0.82%) scikit-learn
4 6 (0.70%) REST
5 4 (0.47%) Enzyme
5 4 (0.47%) Jest
5 4 (0.47%) Next.js
5 4 (0.47%) XGBoost
6 3 (0.35%) CSS3
6 3 (0.35%) HTML5
6 3 (0.35%) Kafka
6 3 (0.35%) OpenAPI
6 3 (0.35%) Parceljs
6 3 (0.35%) PySpark
6 3 (0.35%) Svelte
6 3 (0.35%) Vue
6 3 (0.35%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 725 (84.70%) Robotics
2 35 (4.09%) Algorithms
3 15 (1.75%) Taxonomies
4 14 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 12 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (0.82%) Public Cloud
7 6 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.47%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Licensing
8 4 (0.47%) PKI
9 3 (0.35%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.35%) Blog
9 3 (0.35%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.35%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.23%) IVR
10 2 (0.23%) NHS
10 2 (0.23%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.23%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.23%) Social Media
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.12%) Android
1 1 (0.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 843 (98.48%) Artificial Intelligence
2 787 (91.94%) Machine Learning
3 769 (89.84%) LLM
4 763 (89.14%) Problem-Solving
5 720 (84.11%) Red Team
6 544 (63.55%) Data Privacy
7 53 (6.19%) Analytics
8 48 (5.61%) Agile
8 48 (5.61%) Biochemistry
8 48 (5.61%) Biology
8 48 (5.61%) Chemistry
9 47 (5.49%) Data Science
10 39 (4.56%) Roadmaps
11 31 (3.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (3.39%) Data Engineering
12 29 (3.39%) MLOps
12 29 (3.39%) Strategic Thinking
13 28 (3.27%) Statistical Modelling
14 26 (3.04%) Use Case
15 25 (2.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 57 (6.66%) Python
2 23 (2.69%) Java
3 20 (2.34%) SQL
4 14 (1.64%) R
5 13 (1.52%) C++
6 12 (1.40%) Go
7 11 (1.29%) TypeScript
8 10 (1.17%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.58%) Clojure
9 5 (0.58%) Elixir
9 5 (0.58%) Rust
9 5 (0.58%) Scala
10 4 (0.47%) VBA
11 3 (0.35%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.12%) C
Qualifications
1 753 (87.97%) Degree
2 11 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (0.70%) Master's Degree
4 4 (0.47%) PhD
4 4 (0.47%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.35%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
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%) PMP
7 1 (0.12%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.15%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (0.23%) GDPR
3 2 (0.23%) ITGC
4 1 (0.12%) GRC
4 1 (0.12%) QA
System Software
1 6 (0.70%) Docker
2 4 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (2.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.35%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.12%) Grafana
3 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 739 (86.33%) Google
2 723 (84.46%) Databricks
3 720 (84.11%) Adobe
4 32 (3.74%) Microsoft
5 16 (1.87%) OpenAI
6 7 (0.82%) Oracle
7 4 (0.47%) Blue Prism
7 4 (0.47%) UiPath
8 2 (0.23%) Facebook
8 2 (0.23%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.23%) SAP
8 2 (0.23%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.12%) Adyen
9 1 (0.12%) Informatica