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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 573 941
Rank change year-on-year +401 +368 -
Permanent jobs citing Generative AI 1,022 357 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.86% 0.35% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 0.41% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 127 106 10
10th Percentile £45,750 £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 £98,612 £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 51,417 86,448 93,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.74% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,323 60,550 54,986
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 £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -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 29 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 29 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 +355 980 £85,000 +7.59% 825
UK excluding London +453 853 £75,000 +7.14% 262
Work from Home +381 646 £90,000 +20.00% 536
South East +229 299 £100,000 +81.82% 45
Midlands +259 295 £45,000 +12.50% 28
North of England +164 218 £92,500 +27.59% 76
East Midlands +149 184 £75,000 +87.50% 9
London +80 145 £85,000 +6.92% 599
Yorkshire +163 123 £92,500 -0.30% 17
West Midlands - 111 £45,000 - 19
North West +32 80 £70,000 -3.45% 53
Scotland +130 23 £50,445 -22.39% 29
North East +58 15 - - 6
South West +119 13 £83,314 -10.20% 34
East of England - 6 £110,000 - 38
Wales - 1 £35,000 - 6

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 (1.47%) 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 (1.08%) 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 (6.65%) Azure
2 55 (5.38%) AWS
3 26 (2.54%) Microsoft Copilot
4 24 (2.35%) GCP
5 19 (1.86%) Azure AI
5 19 (1.86%) Vertex AI
6 17 (1.66%) Power Platform
7 14 (1.37%) SaaS
7 14 (1.37%) Salsify
8 9 (0.88%) 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%) GitHub
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 (1.47%) Metadata
3 14 (1.37%) Power BI
4 12 (1.17%) Tableau
5 11 (1.08%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.68%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.59%) MongoDB
7 6 (0.59%) MySQL
8 5 (0.49%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.29%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.29%) Pinecone
9 3 (0.29%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.29%) Weaviate
10 2 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.20%) Big Data
10 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.20%) DB2
10 2 (0.20%) Neo4j
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 (75.34%) Retail
2 742 (72.60%) Manufacturing
3 196 (19.18%) Dutch Language
3 196 (19.18%) Finnish Language
3 196 (19.18%) Norwegian Language
4 127 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
5 102 (9.98%) Social Skills
6 93 (9.10%) Law
7 72 (7.05%) Finance
8 49 (4.79%) Catalan Language
9 48 (4.70%) Legal
10 47 (4.60%) Marketing
11 25 (2.45%) Banking
12 9 (0.88%) 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 (71.92%) Trainer
2 104 (10.18%) Senior
3 43 (4.21%) Lead
4 36 (3.52%) Senior Manager
5 31 (3.03%) Architect
6 29 (2.84%) Data Scientist
7 28 (2.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 25 (2.45%) Gen AI Engineer
9 21 (2.05%) Software Engineer
10 20 (1.96%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (1.76%) Senior Data Scientist
12 14 (1.37%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 13 (1.27%) Gen AI Software Engineer
14 12 (1.17%) Senior Software Engineer
15 11 (1.08%) Consultant
16 10 (0.98%) Developer
17 9 (0.88%) Data Manager
17 9 (0.88%) Principal Data Scientist
17 9 (0.88%) Senior Technologist
17 9 (0.88%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.94%) TensorFlow
2 22 (2.15%) PyTorch
3 21 (2.05%) scikit-learn
4 20 (1.96%) Pandas
5 18 (1.76%) React
6 14 (1.37%) LangChain
7 13 (1.27%) PySpark
8 12 (1.17%) Hugging Face
9 11 (1.08%) Kafka
10 8 (0.78%) Node.js
11 7 (0.68%) HTML
11 7 (0.68%) Next.js
12 6 (0.59%) NumPy
12 6 (0.59%) REST
13 5 (0.49%) CSS
13 5 (0.49%) Django
13 5 (0.49%) Flask
13 5 (0.49%) MACH
14 4 (0.39%) SAP Fiori
14 4 (0.39%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 739 (72.31%) Robotics
2 64 (6.26%) Algorithms
3 30 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 15 (1.47%) Taxonomies
5 12 (1.17%) Cloud Native
5 12 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (0.88%) Credit Risk
7 8 (0.78%) AI Agents
7 8 (0.78%) Product Ownership
7 8 (0.78%) Public Cloud
8 7 (0.68%) Social Media
9 6 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.49%) Blog
10 5 (0.49%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.39%) IoT
11 4 (0.39%) IVR
11 4 (0.39%) PKI
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
1 994 (97.26%) Artificial Intelligence
2 874 (85.52%) Machine Learning
3 832 (81.41%) LLM
4 815 (79.75%) Problem-Solving
5 735 (71.92%) Red Team
6 573 (56.07%) Data Privacy
7 113 (11.06%) Analytics
8 91 (8.90%) Data Science
9 79 (7.73%) Roadmaps
10 75 (7.34%) Agile
11 68 (6.65%) MLOps
12 50 (4.89%) Natural Language Processing
13 49 (4.79%) Biochemistry
13 49 (4.79%) Biology
13 49 (4.79%) Chemistry
14 47 (4.60%) Computer Science
14 47 (4.60%) DevOps
15 45 (4.40%) Continuous Improvement
16 44 (4.31%) Strategic Thinking
16 44 (4.31%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 119 (11.64%) Python
2 55 (5.38%) SQL
3 30 (2.94%) Java
4 18 (1.76%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.37%) C++
6 13 (1.27%) R
7 11 (1.08%) Go
7 11 (1.08%) 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
1 833 (81.51%) Degree
2 32 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 32 (3.13%) Master's Degree
3 14 (1.37%) Azure Certification
4 12 (1.17%) 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 2 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.20%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.098%) CBAP
9 1 (0.098%) CISSP
9 1 (0.098%) MCAD
9 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.098%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 21 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.76%) 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 23 (2.25%) Docker
2 4 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (3.72%) 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 (75.73%) Google
2 761 (74.46%) Databricks
3 738 (72.21%) Adobe
4 57 (5.58%) Microsoft
5 44 (4.31%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.05%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.66%) SAP
8 11 (1.08%) 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