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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 967 -
Rank change year-on-year +417 - -
Permanent jobs citing Generative AI 364 10 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.010% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.011% -
Number of salaries quoted 111 8 0
10th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £69,375 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% - -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 -
90th Percentile £110,000 £99,500 -
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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +395 337 £79,000 -7.06% 183
UK excluding London +138 177 £70,000 -17.65% 91
London +279 171 £80,000 +10.34% 116
Work from Home +168 97 £75,000 -16.67% 72
South East +88 87 £55,000 - 63
North of England - 59 £72,500 - 13
North West - 54 £72,500 - 7
Scotland - 19 £60,000 - 3
South West -22 10 £81,389 -4.25% 3
Yorkshire - 3 £92,778 - 3
East Midlands - 2 £40,000 - 2
Midlands - 2 £40,000 - 5
North East - 2 £53,750 - 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 7 (1.92%) Apache Spark
1 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.37%) Confluence
3 4 (1.10%) Drupal
3 4 (1.10%) WordPress
4 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) FrameMaker
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.55%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 190 (52.20%) Azure
2 141 (38.74%) Serverless
3 130 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
3 130 (35.71%) Azure Functions
3 130 (35.71%) Azure Logic Apps
3 130 (35.71%) Azure Service Bus
4 125 (34.34%) Azure API Management
4 125 (34.34%) IBM Cloud
5 49 (13.46%) AWS
5 49 (13.46%) GCP
6 30 (8.24%) Power Platform
7 21 (5.77%) PowerApps
8 13 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (2.75%) Azure Machine Learning
10 10 (2.75%) ChatGPT
11 8 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.92%) Power Automate
12 7 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.92%) Intranet
2 4 (1.10%) WebEx
3 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (35.71%) NoSQL
2 127 (34.89%) MongoDB
2 127 (34.89%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (34.34%) DB2
3 125 (34.34%) Relational Database
4 50 (13.74%) Tableau
5 16 (4.40%) Power BI
6 13 (3.57%) Big Data
7 12 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.92%) Data Mining
9 7 (1.92%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.65%) Text Mining
11 4 (1.10%) DTS
12 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.55%) Neo4j
13 2 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 61 (16.76%) Git
2 8 (2.20%) JIRA
3 5 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.55%) JUnit
5 2 (0.55%) MLflow
5 2 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 137 (37.64%) Public Sector
2 121 (33.24%) Social Skills
3 29 (7.97%) Finance
4 26 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.49%) Legal
6 18 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.57%) Banking
8 9 (2.47%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.92%) Automotive
10 7 (1.92%) Law
10 7 (1.92%) Marketing
10 7 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.10%) Games
11 4 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Advertising
13 2 (0.55%) Retail
14 1 (0.27%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 140 (38.46%) Developer
2 131 (35.99%) Full Stack Developer
3 125 (34.34%) Azure Developer
4 92 (25.27%) Senior
5 73 (20.05%) Data Scientist
6 65 (17.86%) Senior Data Scientist
7 29 (7.97%) Architect
8 27 (7.42%) Lead
9 14 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (3.57%) Data Engineer
10 13 (3.57%) Lead Data Scientist
11 11 (3.02%) Python Engineer
12 8 (2.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (2.20%) Audit Manager
12 8 (2.20%) Senior Manager
12 8 (2.20%) Software Engineer
12 8 (2.20%) Technical Architect
13 7 (1.92%) Digital Architect
13 7 (1.92%) Digital Solutions Architect
13 7 (1.92%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (40.11%) React
2 142 (39.01%) .NET
3 134 (36.81%) AngularJS
4 133 (36.54%) REST
5 131 (35.99%) Vue
6 129 (35.44%) CSS
6 129 (35.44%) HTML
7 127 (34.89%) Web Services
8 126 (34.62%) ASP.NET
9 125 (34.34%) ASP.NET Core
9 125 (34.34%) Backbone.js
9 125 (34.34%) Ember.js
9 125 (34.34%) jQuery
9 125 (34.34%) Node.js
9 125 (34.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 73 (20.05%) TensorFlow
11 56 (15.38%) scikit-learn
12 53 (14.56%) Pandas
13 45 (12.36%) PySpark
14 28 (7.69%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 200 (54.95%) Algorithms
2 146 (40.11%) Data Structures
3 125 (34.34%) Blockchain
3 125 (34.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.47%) IoT
5 9 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.92%) Biopharmaceutical
7 6 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.65%) Social Media
8 5 (1.37%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (0.82%) Blog
10 3 (0.82%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.82%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.55%) Social Network
11 2 (0.55%) Verilog
11 2 (0.55%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 133 (36.54%) Linux
2 127 (34.89%) Windows
3 126 (34.62%) Android
3 126 (34.62%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (94.78%) Artificial Intelligence
2 150 (41.21%) DevOps
3 140 (38.46%) User Experience
4 139 (38.19%) Full Stack Development
5 136 (37.36%) Machine Learning
6 130 (35.71%) OO
6 130 (35.71%) Web Development
7 127 (34.89%) Design Patterns
7 127 (34.89%) MVC
8 126 (34.62%) OOP
9 125 (34.34%) API Management
9 125 (34.34%) Co-Creation
9 125 (34.34%) Design Thinking
9 125 (34.34%) MVVM
9 125 (34.34%) Responsive Web Design
9 125 (34.34%) SOLID
10 111 (30.49%) Data Science
11 98 (26.92%) Natural Language Processing
12 84 (23.08%) Decision-Making
13 82 (22.53%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 259 (71.15%) Python
2 217 (59.62%) SQL
3 154 (42.31%) Java
4 149 (40.93%) JavaScript
5 128 (35.16%) C#
6 7 (1.92%) R
6 7 (1.92%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.65%) Go
7 6 (1.65%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.37%) Clojure
8 5 (1.37%) F#
8 5 (1.37%) Haskell
8 5 (1.37%) Scala
9 3 (0.82%) C++
10 2 (0.55%) C
10 2 (0.55%) Rust
11 1 (0.27%) Bash
11 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 134 (36.81%) Degree
2 62 (17.03%) Master's Degree
3 45 (12.36%) DBS Check
4 22 (6.04%) PhD
5 19 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.85%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (3.30%) Security Cleared
9 7 (1.92%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.27%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.27%) MCP
11 1 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.65%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.55%) GRC
4 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.27%) QA
System Software
1 8 (2.20%) Docker
2 2 (0.55%) IAG
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.92%) Terraform
3 2 (0.55%) Kubeflow
3 2 (0.55%) RSA Archer
3 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.27%) Ansible
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.27%) MOM
Vendors
1 125 (34.34%) IBM
1 125 (34.34%) Red Hat
2 60 (16.48%) Databricks
3 22 (6.04%) Microsoft
3 22 (6.04%) OpenAI
4 20 (5.49%) Google
5 6 (1.65%) Dataiku
5 6 (1.65%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.10%) Alteryx
6 4 (1.10%) Confluent
6 4 (1.10%) Dell
7 3 (0.82%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.55%) SAP
8 2 (0.55%) TikTok
8 2 (0.55%) Workday
8 2 (0.55%) YouTube
9 1 (0.27%) Adobe
9 1 (0.27%) Pega
9 1 (0.27%) Tealium
9 1 (0.27%) VMware