Generative AI Jobs

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 867 -
Rank change year-on-year +353 - -
Permanent jobs citing Generative AI 355 20 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.025% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.026% -
Number of salaries quoted 102 16 0
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,875 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £85,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% - -
75th Percentile £94,688 £95,000 -
90th Percentile £117,500 £102,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £85,000 -
% change year-on-year -23.53% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Generative AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in the UK

Generative AI
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Generative AI in the UK

Generative AI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Generative AI over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Generative AI in the UK

Generative AI
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England +325 331 £79,000 -7.06% 43
UK excluding London +135 174 £65,000 -23.53% 16
London +230 163 £82,500 -2.94% 32
Work from Home +134 96 £75,000 -16.67% 35
South East +89 84 £55,000 - 3
North of England +73 65 £57,500 +35.29% 3
North West +44 53 £72,500 +70.59% 3
Scotland - 10 £60,000 - 1
South West -3 9 £100,000 +11.11% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £60,000 -
North East - 6 £35,000 -
Midlands - 4 £40,000 - 4
East Midlands - 3 £40,000 - 1
East of England - 2 £122,500 -
West Midlands - 1 - - 3

Generative AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (3.38%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.41%) WordPress
3 4 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.13%) Drupal
3 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.13%) FrameMaker
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 193 (54.37%) Azure
2 139 (39.15%) Serverless
3 130 (36.62%) Azure DevOps
3 130 (36.62%) Azure Functions
3 130 (36.62%) Azure Logic Apps
3 130 (36.62%) Azure Service Bus
4 125 (35.21%) Azure API Management
4 125 (35.21%) IBM Cloud
5 41 (11.55%) GCP
6 38 (10.70%) AWS
7 21 (5.92%) Power Platform
8 16 (4.51%) GitHub
8 16 (4.51%) PowerApps
9 14 (3.94%) Google Gemini
10 13 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.97%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.97%) SaaS
14 6 (1.69%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.13%) Intranet
2 1 (0.28%) Network Security
2 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (36.62%) NoSQL
1 130 (36.62%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (36.34%) Relational Database
3 127 (35.77%) MongoDB
4 125 (35.21%) DB2
5 46 (12.96%) Tableau
6 19 (5.35%) Big Data
7 12 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (3.38%) Power BI
8 9 (2.54%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.41%) Data Mining
10 4 (1.13%) DTS
11 3 (0.85%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.85%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.85%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.56%) Flink
12 2 (0.56%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.56%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 59 (16.62%) Git
2 5 (1.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.85%) JMeter
3 3 (0.85%) JUnit
3 3 (0.85%) Mockito
3 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.56%) MLflow
4 2 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.28%) JIRA
5 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 143 (40.28%) Public Sector
2 117 (32.96%) Social Skills
3 35 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.45%) Finance
5 24 (6.76%) Legal
6 17 (4.79%) Banking
7 11 (3.10%) Marketing
8 9 (2.54%) Games
8 9 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.97%) Retail
10 6 (1.69%) Automotive
10 6 (1.69%) Law
10 6 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.13%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.85%) Advertising
12 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 138 (38.87%) Developer
2 133 (37.46%) Full Stack Developer
3 125 (35.21%) Azure Developer
4 87 (24.51%) Senior
5 56 (15.77%) Data Scientist
6 54 (15.21%) Senior Data Scientist
7 30 (8.45%) Architect
8 20 (5.63%) Lead
9 13 (3.66%) Data Science Manager
9 13 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (3.38%) Data Model Manager
11 11 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 11 (3.10%) Consultant
12 10 (2.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 8 (2.25%) Audit Manager
13 8 (2.25%) Technical Architect
14 7 (1.97%) Data Engineer
14 7 (1.97%) Python Engineer
15 6 (1.69%) Junior
16 5 (1.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (39.72%) .NET
2 140 (39.44%) React
3 135 (38.03%) HTML
4 132 (37.18%) CSS
5 130 (36.62%) AngularJS
5 130 (36.62%) REST
5 130 (36.62%) Web Services
6 129 (36.34%) Vue
7 128 (36.06%) jQuery
8 126 (35.49%) ASP.NET
9 125 (35.21%) ASP.NET Core
9 125 (35.21%) Backbone.js
9 125 (35.21%) Ember.js
9 125 (35.21%) Node.js
9 125 (35.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 77 (21.69%) TensorFlow
11 52 (14.65%) scikit-learn
12 46 (12.96%) Pandas
13 45 (12.68%) PySpark
14 32 (9.01%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 195 (54.93%) Algorithms
2 140 (39.44%) Data Structures
3 125 (35.21%) Blockchain
3 125 (35.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (2.54%) IoT
5 8 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.41%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.13%) Biopharmaceutical
10 3 (0.85%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.85%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.85%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.85%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.85%) Virtual Reality
11 2 (0.56%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.56%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 128 (36.06%) Linux
2 127 (35.77%) Windows
3 125 (35.21%) Android
3 125 (35.21%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (94.37%) Artificial Intelligence
2 146 (41.13%) DevOps
3 138 (38.87%) Machine Learning
4 135 (38.03%) Full Stack Development
5 132 (37.18%) User Experience
6 129 (36.34%) Web Development
7 128 (36.06%) MVC
8 127 (35.77%) Design Patterns
9 125 (35.21%) API Management
9 125 (35.21%) Co-Creation
9 125 (35.21%) Design Thinking
9 125 (35.21%) MVVM
9 125 (35.21%) OO
9 125 (35.21%) OOP
9 125 (35.21%) Responsive Web Design
9 125 (35.21%) SOLID
10 116 (32.68%) Data Science
11 87 (24.51%) Natural Language Processing
12 84 (23.66%) Mathematics
13 80 (22.54%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 262 (73.80%) Python
2 227 (63.94%) SQL
3 154 (43.38%) Java
4 149 (41.97%) JavaScript
5 133 (37.46%) C#
6 13 (3.66%) R
7 8 (2.25%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.41%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.85%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.56%) C++
10 2 (0.56%) Go
11 1 (0.28%) Bash
11 1 (0.28%) C
11 1 (0.28%) PHP
11 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 125 (35.21%) Degree
2 64 (18.03%) Master's Degree
3 45 (12.68%) DBS Check
4 18 (5.07%) PhD
5 13 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.66%) Numerate Degree
6 12 (3.38%) Security Cleared
7 11 (3.10%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.13%) SC Cleared
10 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.28%) MBA
12 1 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.28%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.85%) GRC
2 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 10 (2.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) IAG
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (5.07%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.69%) Terraform
3 3 (0.85%) Kibana
4 2 (0.56%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.56%) RSA Archer
4 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Argo
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.28%) MOM
Vendors
1 125 (35.21%) IBM
1 125 (35.21%) Red Hat
2 57 (16.06%) Databricks
3 28 (7.89%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.79%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.82%) Google
6 6 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.13%) Dell
7 4 (1.13%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.85%) Dataiku
8 3 (0.85%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.85%) Splunk
9 2 (0.56%) Confluent
9 2 (0.56%) SAP
9 2 (0.56%) TikTok
9 2 (0.56%) Workday
9 2 (0.56%) YouTube
10 1 (0.28%) Adobe
10 1 (0.28%) Tealium
10 1 (0.28%) VMware