Generative AI Job Trends in West Sussex

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Generative AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 46 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Permanent jobs citing Generative AI 1 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 0.25% 0.68% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.84% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 -
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 357 357 550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 88.59% 80.77% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 242 195 359
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,700 £75,000
South East median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.91% - -

Generative AI
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Generative AI within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Burgess Hill - 1 £65,000 - 2
Generative AI
South East

Generative AI
Co-Occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) WebdriverIO
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA