Generative AI Jobs

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Generative AI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Generative AI over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 934 -
Rank change year-on-year +363 - -
Permanent jobs citing Generative AI 358 12 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.013% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.013% -
Number of salaries quoted 107 10 0
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,375 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £68,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% - -
75th Percentile £93,125 £95,000 -
90th Percentile £110,500 £96,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 -
% change year-on-year -17.65% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Generative AI is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Generative AI in the UK

Generative AI
Top 13 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 2 June 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 +367 331 £78,250 -7.94% 158
UK excluding London +131 179 £70,000 -17.65% 33
London +264 163 £79,000 +8.97% 123
Work from Home +142 97 £72,500 -19.44% 91
South East +75 88 £55,000 - 14
North of England +93 61 £67,500 +58.82% 11
North West +41 54 £72,500 +70.59% 9
Scotland - 17 £65,000 - 2
South West -24 11 £92,778 +3.09% 2
North East - 4 £35,000 -
Yorkshire - 3 £92,778 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £40,000 - 1
Midlands - 2 £40,000 - 2

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 7 (1.96%) Apache Spark
1 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.40%) Confluence
2 5 (1.40%) WordPress
3 4 (1.12%) Drupal
4 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.12%) FrameMaker
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 187 (52.23%) Azure
2 140 (39.11%) Serverless
3 130 (36.31%) Azure Functions
3 130 (36.31%) Azure Logic Apps
3 130 (36.31%) Azure Service Bus
4 129 (36.03%) Azure DevOps
5 125 (34.92%) Azure API Management
5 125 (34.92%) IBM Cloud
6 43 (12.01%) AWS
6 43 (12.01%) GCP
7 29 (8.10%) Power Platform
8 21 (5.87%) PowerApps
9 13 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (2.23%) Azure Machine Learning
11 8 (2.23%) ChatGPT
12 7 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.96%) Power Automate
12 7 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.96%) Intranet
2 3 (0.84%) WebEx
3 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (36.31%) NoSQL
2 128 (35.75%) PostgreSQL
3 127 (35.47%) MongoDB
4 126 (35.20%) Relational Database
5 125 (34.92%) DB2
6 49 (13.69%) Tableau
7 15 (4.19%) Power BI
8 14 (3.91%) Big Data
9 12 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.96%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.40%) Data Mining
13 4 (1.12%) DTS
13 4 (1.12%) Text Mining
14 3 (0.84%) Data Lake
15 2 (0.56%) Neo4j
15 2 (0.56%) SQL Server
16 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 61 (17.04%) Git
2 7 (1.96%) JIRA
3 5 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.84%) JUnit
6 2 (0.56%) MLflow
6 2 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.28%) JMeter
7 1 (0.28%) Mockito
7 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 137 (38.27%) Public Sector
2 118 (32.96%) Social Skills
3 26 (7.26%) Finance
4 23 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.59%) Legal
6 17 (4.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.35%) Banking
8 9 (2.51%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.96%) Automotive
10 7 (1.96%) Law
10 7 (1.96%) Marketing
10 7 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.68%) Games
12 4 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.84%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.56%) Advertising
14 2 (0.56%) Retail
15 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 143 (39.94%) Developer
2 133 (37.15%) Full Stack Developer
3 125 (34.92%) Azure Developer
4 91 (25.42%) Senior
5 69 (19.27%) Data Scientist
6 63 (17.60%) Senior Data Scientist
7 28 (7.82%) Architect
8 27 (7.54%) Lead
9 13 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.07%) Lead Data Scientist
11 10 (2.79%) Data Engineer
12 9 (2.51%) Python Engineer
12 9 (2.51%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.23%) Audit Manager
13 8 (2.23%) Senior Manager
13 8 (2.23%) Technical Architect
14 7 (1.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 7 (1.96%) Digital Architect
14 7 (1.96%) Digital Solutions Architect
15 5 (1.40%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (40.50%) React
2 142 (39.66%) .NET
3 133 (37.15%) AngularJS
4 132 (36.87%) REST
5 131 (36.59%) HTML
5 131 (36.59%) Vue
6 130 (36.31%) CSS
7 128 (35.75%) Web Services
8 126 (35.20%) ASP.NET
8 126 (35.20%) jQuery
9 125 (34.92%) ASP.NET Core
9 125 (34.92%) Backbone.js
9 125 (34.92%) Ember.js
9 125 (34.92%) Node.js
9 125 (34.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 72 (20.11%) TensorFlow
11 55 (15.36%) scikit-learn
12 53 (14.80%) Pandas
13 45 (12.57%) PySpark
14 27 (7.54%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 199 (55.59%) Algorithms
2 146 (40.78%) Data Structures
3 125 (34.92%) Blockchain
3 125 (34.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.51%) IoT
6 8 (2.23%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.96%) Biopharmaceutical
7 7 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.68%) Social Media
9 5 (1.40%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.84%) Blog
10 3 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.84%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.84%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.56%) Social Network
11 2 (0.56%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 133 (37.15%) Linux
2 127 (35.47%) Windows
3 125 (34.92%) Android
3 125 (34.92%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (94.97%) Artificial Intelligence
2 148 (41.34%) DevOps
3 140 (39.11%) Full Stack Development
4 138 (38.55%) User Experience
5 130 (36.31%) Web Development
6 129 (36.03%) Machine Learning
7 128 (35.75%) MVC
7 128 (35.75%) OO
8 127 (35.47%) Design Patterns
9 126 (35.20%) OOP
10 125 (34.92%) API Management
10 125 (34.92%) Co-Creation
10 125 (34.92%) Design Thinking
10 125 (34.92%) MVVM
10 125 (34.92%) Responsive Web Design
10 125 (34.92%) SOLID
11 106 (29.61%) Data Science
12 92 (25.70%) Natural Language Processing
13 82 (22.91%) Decision-Making
14 79 (22.07%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 254 (70.95%) Python
2 214 (59.78%) SQL
3 153 (42.74%) Java
4 152 (42.46%) JavaScript
5 131 (36.59%) C#
6 8 (2.23%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.96%) R
8 6 (1.68%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.40%) Go
10 4 (1.12%) Clojure
10 4 (1.12%) F#
10 4 (1.12%) Haskell
10 4 (1.12%) Scala
11 2 (0.56%) C
11 2 (0.56%) C++
11 2 (0.56%) Rust
12 1 (0.28%) Bash
12 1 (0.28%) PHP
12 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 125 (34.92%) Degree
2 60 (16.76%) Master's Degree
3 45 (12.57%) DBS Check
4 21 (5.87%) PhD
5 18 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.91%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (3.07%) Security Cleared
9 6 (1.68%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.28%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.28%) MCP
11 1 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.28%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.40%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.84%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.56%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (2.51%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) IAG
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (4.47%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.68%) Terraform
3 2 (0.56%) Kubeflow
3 2 (0.56%) RSA Archer
3 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.28%) Ansible
4 1 (0.28%) Kibana
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.28%) MOM
Vendors
1 125 (34.92%) IBM
1 125 (34.92%) Red Hat
2 59 (16.48%) Databricks
3 22 (6.15%) Microsoft
4 21 (5.87%) OpenAI
5 16 (4.47%) Google
6 6 (1.68%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.40%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.12%) Confluent
8 4 (1.12%) Dell
9 3 (0.84%) Alteryx
9 3 (0.84%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.56%) SAP
10 2 (0.56%) TikTok
10 2 (0.56%) Workday
10 2 (0.56%) YouTube
11 1 (0.28%) Adobe
11 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.28%) Tealium
11 1 (0.28%) VMware