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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 578 952
Rank change year-on-year +401 +374 -
Permanent jobs citing Generative AI 1,024 356 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.87% 0.35% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 0.41% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 128 106 10
10th Percentile £47,882 £47,500 £42,375
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £99,063 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,625 £96,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% -

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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Generative AI in the UK

Generative AI
Top 16 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 28 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
England +364 982 £87,500 +10.76% 881
UK excluding London +449 855 £75,000 +7.14% 298
Work from Home +390 646 £91,250 +21.67% 589
South East +224 301 £100,000 +81.82% 50
Midlands +261 295 £45,000 +12.50% 34
North of England +167 217 £92,500 +27.59% 82
East Midlands +153 184 £75,000 +87.50% 10
London +100 145 £85,000 +6.92% 626
Yorkshire +164 123 £92,500 -0.30% 16
West Midlands - 111 £45,000 - 24
North West +25 79 £70,000 -3.45% 60
Scotland +130 23 £50,445 -22.39% 33
North East +60 15 - - 6
South West +121 14 £71,991 -22.40% 44
East of England - 6 £110,000 - 38
Wales - 1 £35,000 - 8

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 15 (1.46%) Apache Spark
2 10 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (0.68%) Apache
4 6 (0.59%) CMS
4 6 (0.59%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.39%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.098%) CICS
7 1 (0.098%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.07%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.29%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.098%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.098%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
1 4 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
1 4 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (0.39%) Shopify
2 1 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 68 (6.64%) Azure
2 55 (5.37%) AWS
3 26 (2.54%) Microsoft Copilot
4 24 (2.34%) GCP
5 19 (1.86%) Azure AI
5 19 (1.86%) Vertex AI
6 18 (1.76%) Power Platform
7 14 (1.37%) SaaS
7 14 (1.37%) Salsify
8 10 (0.98%) Snowflake
9 8 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (0.78%) Power Automate
9 8 (0.78%) Serverless
10 7 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.68%) ChatGPT
11 6 (0.59%) Amazon S3
11 6 (0.59%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (0.59%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.20%) DNS
1 2 (0.20%) Internet
2 1 (0.098%) FTP
2 1 (0.098%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.66%) Data Mining
2 15 (1.46%) Metadata
2 15 (1.46%) Power BI
3 13 (1.27%) Tableau
4 10 (0.98%) Relational Database
5 8 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.68%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.59%) MySQL
8 5 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.39%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.29%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.29%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.29%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.29%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.20%) Big Data
11 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.20%) DB2
12 1 (0.098%) ArangoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (2.54%) Git
2 6 (0.59%) MLflow
3 4 (0.39%) Vite
3 4 (0.39%) webpack
4 3 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.20%) Babel
5 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.098%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.098%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.098%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.098%) GitLab
6 1 (0.098%) JIRA
6 1 (0.098%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.098%) TeamCity
General
1 770 (75.20%) Retail
2 742 (72.46%) Manufacturing
3 196 (19.14%) Dutch Language
3 196 (19.14%) Finnish Language
3 196 (19.14%) Norwegian Language
4 127 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
5 103 (10.06%) Social Skills
6 94 (9.18%) Law
7 71 (6.93%) Finance
8 49 (4.79%) Catalan Language
9 47 (4.59%) Legal
9 47 (4.59%) Marketing
10 25 (2.44%) Banking
11 10 (0.98%) Games
12 9 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.68%) Public Sector
14 5 (0.49%) Advertising
14 5 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.49%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 735 (71.78%) Trainer
2 105 (10.25%) Senior
3 44 (4.30%) Lead
4 37 (3.61%) Senior Manager
5 31 (3.03%) Architect
6 28 (2.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 28 (2.73%) Data Scientist
7 25 (2.44%) Gen AI Engineer
8 21 (2.05%) Software Engineer
9 20 (1.95%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.76%) Senior Data Scientist
11 14 (1.37%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 13 (1.27%) Gen AI Software Engineer
13 12 (1.17%) Consultant
13 12 (1.17%) Senior Software Engineer
14 9 (0.88%) Data Engineer
14 9 (0.88%) Developer
14 9 (0.88%) Principal Data Scientist
14 9 (0.88%) Senior Technologist
14 9 (0.88%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.83%) TensorFlow
2 21 (2.05%) PyTorch
3 20 (1.95%) scikit-learn
4 19 (1.86%) Pandas
5 18 (1.76%) React
6 14 (1.37%) LangChain
7 13 (1.27%) PySpark
8 11 (1.07%) Hugging Face
8 11 (1.07%) Kafka
9 8 (0.78%) Node.js
10 7 (0.68%) HTML
10 7 (0.68%) Next.js
11 6 (0.59%) REST
12 5 (0.49%) CSS
12 5 (0.49%) Django
12 5 (0.49%) Flask
12 5 (0.49%) MACH
12 5 (0.49%) NumPy
13 4 (0.39%) SAP Fiori
13 4 (0.39%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 739 (72.17%) Robotics
2 65 (6.35%) Algorithms
3 30 (2.93%) Management Information System
4 15 (1.46%) Taxonomies
5 12 (1.17%) Cloud Native
5 12 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (0.88%) Credit Risk
8 8 (0.78%) Product Ownership
8 8 (0.78%) Public Cloud
9 7 (0.68%) AI Agents
9 7 (0.68%) Social Media
10 6 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.49%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.39%) Blog
12 4 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.39%) IoT
12 4 (0.39%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.39%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.29%) Linux
2 2 (0.20%) Android
3 1 (0.098%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.098%) Windows
3 1 (0.098%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 995 (97.17%) Artificial Intelligence
2 876 (85.55%) Machine Learning
3 832 (81.25%) LLM
4 814 (79.49%) Problem-Solving
5 735 (71.78%) Red Team
6 573 (55.96%) Data Privacy
7 114 (11.13%) Analytics
8 92 (8.98%) Data Science
9 79 (7.71%) Roadmaps
10 75 (7.32%) Agile
11 69 (6.74%) MLOps
12 49 (4.79%) Biochemistry
12 49 (4.79%) Biology
12 49 (4.79%) Chemistry
12 49 (4.79%) Natural Language Processing
13 48 (4.69%) Computer Science
14 47 (4.59%) DevOps
15 46 (4.49%) Use Case
16 45 (4.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 44 (4.30%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 120 (11.72%) Python
2 55 (5.37%) SQL
3 29 (2.83%) Java
4 17 (1.66%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.27%) C++
6 12 (1.17%) Go
6 12 (1.17%) R
7 11 (1.07%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.49%) C
8 5 (0.49%) Rust
8 5 (0.49%) Scala
9 4 (0.39%) Clojure
9 4 (0.39%) Elixir
9 4 (0.39%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.39%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.39%) VBA
10 2 (0.20%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.098%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.098%) COBOL
11 1 (0.098%) REXX
Qualifications
1 834 (81.45%) Degree
2 32 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 32 (3.13%) Master's Degree
3 14 (1.37%) Azure Certification
4 13 (1.27%) Security Cleared
5 9 (0.88%) DBS Check
5 9 (0.88%) PhD
5 9 (0.88%) SC Cleared
6 8 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.78%) MBA
7 7 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.20%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.098%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.098%) CBAP
10 1 (0.098%) CISSP
10 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.098%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.22%) Data Quality
2 22 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.66%) GDPR
4 13 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.20%) ITGC
7 1 (0.098%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.098%) GRC
7 1 (0.098%) NIST
7 1 (0.098%) QA
System Software
1 22 (2.15%) Docker
2 4 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.88%) Grafana
2 9 (0.88%) Prometheus
3 8 (0.78%) Terraform
4 3 (0.29%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.20%) Ansible
6 1 (0.098%) Argo
6 1 (0.098%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.098%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 774 (75.59%) Google
2 762 (74.41%) Databricks
3 738 (72.07%) Adobe
4 57 (5.57%) Microsoft
5 44 (4.30%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.05%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.66%) SAP
8 11 (1.07%) Workday
9 7 (0.68%) Oracle
10 6 (0.59%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.39%) Blue Prism
11 4 (0.39%) DocuSign
11 4 (0.39%) Foundry
11 4 (0.39%) Remedy
11 4 (0.39%) UiPath
11 4 (0.39%) Xero
12 3 (0.29%) Apple
12 3 (0.29%) Facebook
13 2 (0.20%) Hitachi
13 2 (0.20%) IBM