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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 972 -
Rank change year-on-year +412 - -
Permanent jobs citing Generative AI 363 8 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.008% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.008% -
Number of salaries quoted 113 6 0
10th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £68,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% - -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 -
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 -
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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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 10 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 10 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 +413 336 £79,363 -6.63% 158
UK excluding London +160 176 £70,000 -17.65% 69
London +280 171 £80,000 +10.34% 88
Work from Home +157 94 £82,000 -8.89% 54
South East +94 87 £55,000 - 49
North of England - 58 £72,500 - 10
North West - 54 £72,500 - 7
Scotland - 19 £60,000 - 2
South West -14 10 £81,389 -4.25% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £92,778 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £40,000 - 2
Midlands - 2 £40,000 - 5
North East - 1 £72,500 - 1

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 (1.93%) Apache Spark
1 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.10%) Confluence
2 4 (1.10%) Drupal
2 4 (1.10%) WordPress
3 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) FrameMaker
2 2 (0.55%) 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 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.55%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 188 (51.79%) Azure
2 142 (39.12%) Serverless
3 130 (35.81%) Azure DevOps
3 130 (35.81%) Azure Functions
3 130 (35.81%) Azure Logic Apps
3 130 (35.81%) Azure Service Bus
4 125 (34.44%) Azure API Management
4 125 (34.44%) IBM Cloud
5 48 (13.22%) AWS
5 48 (13.22%) GCP
6 31 (8.54%) Power Platform
7 21 (5.79%) PowerApps
8 13 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (2.75%) Azure Machine Learning
10 10 (2.75%) ChatGPT
11 8 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.93%) Power Automate
12 7 (1.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.93%) Intranet
2 5 (1.38%) WebEx
3 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (35.54%) NoSQL
2 127 (34.99%) MongoDB
2 127 (34.99%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (34.44%) DB2
3 125 (34.44%) Relational Database
4 46 (12.67%) Tableau
5 17 (4.68%) Power BI
6 13 (3.58%) Big Data
7 12 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.93%) Data Mining
9 7 (1.93%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.65%) Text Mining
11 4 (1.10%) DTS
12 3 (0.83%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.55%) Neo4j
13 2 (0.55%) SQL Server
14 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 55 (15.15%) Git
2 9 (2.48%) JIRA
3 5 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.55%) JUnit
4 2 (0.55%) MLflow
4 2 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 137 (37.74%) Public Sector
2 118 (32.51%) Social Skills
3 29 (7.99%) Finance
4 27 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.51%) Legal
6 18 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.31%) Banking
8 8 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.20%) Marketing
8 8 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.93%) Automotive
9 7 (1.93%) Law
9 7 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.10%) Games
10 4 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Advertising
11 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Retail
12 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 142 (39.12%) Developer
2 131 (36.09%) Full Stack Developer
3 125 (34.44%) Azure Developer
4 91 (25.07%) Senior
5 68 (18.73%) Data Scientist
6 60 (16.53%) Senior Data Scientist
7 31 (8.54%) Architect
8 27 (7.44%) Lead
9 16 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.86%) Data Engineer
11 13 (3.58%) Lead Data Scientist
12 11 (3.03%) Python Engineer
13 9 (2.48%) Senior Manager
14 8 (2.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 8 (2.20%) Audit Manager
14 8 (2.20%) Technical Architect
15 7 (1.93%) Backend Developer
15 7 (1.93%) Digital Architect
15 7 (1.93%) Digital Solutions Architect
15 7 (1.93%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (39.94%) React
2 141 (38.84%) .NET
3 133 (36.64%) AngularJS
3 133 (36.64%) REST
4 130 (35.81%) Vue
5 129 (35.54%) CSS
6 128 (35.26%) HTML
7 127 (34.99%) Web Services
8 125 (34.44%) ASP.NET
8 125 (34.44%) ASP.NET Core
8 125 (34.44%) Backbone.js
8 125 (34.44%) Ember.js
8 125 (34.44%) jQuery
8 125 (34.44%) Node.js
8 125 (34.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 68 (18.73%) TensorFlow
10 51 (14.05%) scikit-learn
11 48 (13.22%) Pandas
12 40 (11.02%) PySpark
13 28 (7.71%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 195 (53.72%) Algorithms
2 146 (40.22%) Data Structures
3 125 (34.44%) Blockchain
3 125 (34.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.48%) IoT
7 7 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.93%) Biopharmaceutical
8 6 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.65%) Social Media
9 5 (1.38%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.38%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.38%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (0.83%) Blog
10 3 (0.83%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.83%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.55%) FPGA
11 2 (0.55%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 131 (36.09%) Linux
2 126 (34.71%) Android
2 126 (34.71%) Apple iOS
2 126 (34.71%) Windows
3 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (94.77%) Artificial Intelligence
2 148 (40.77%) DevOps
3 141 (38.84%) Full Stack Development
3 141 (38.84%) User Experience
4 134 (36.91%) Machine Learning
5 130 (35.81%) OO
5 130 (35.81%) Web Development
6 126 (34.71%) Design Patterns
6 126 (34.71%) MVC
6 126 (34.71%) OOP
7 125 (34.44%) API Management
7 125 (34.44%) Co-Creation
7 125 (34.44%) Design Thinking
7 125 (34.44%) MVVM
7 125 (34.44%) Responsive Web Design
7 125 (34.44%) SOLID
8 106 (29.20%) Data Science
9 93 (25.62%) Natural Language Processing
10 81 (22.31%) Decision-Making
11 77 (21.21%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 254 (69.97%) Python
2 211 (58.13%) SQL
3 154 (42.42%) Java
4 149 (41.05%) JavaScript
5 127 (34.99%) C#
6 7 (1.93%) Clojure
6 7 (1.93%) F#
6 7 (1.93%) Haskell
6 7 (1.93%) R
6 7 (1.93%) Scala
6 7 (1.93%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.65%) Go
7 6 (1.65%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.83%) C++
9 2 (0.55%) C
9 2 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 134 (36.91%) Degree
2 57 (15.70%) Master's Degree
3 40 (11.02%) DBS Check
4 22 (6.06%) PhD
5 19 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.86%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (3.31%) Security Cleared
9 7 (1.93%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.28%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.28%) MCP
11 1 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.28%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.65%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.83%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.83%) QA
3 2 (0.55%) GRC
4 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 7 (1.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.55%) IAG
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (3.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.65%) Terraform
3 2 (0.55%) Kubeflow
3 2 (0.55%) RSA Archer
3 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.28%) MOM
Vendors
1 125 (34.44%) IBM
1 125 (34.44%) Red Hat
2 56 (15.43%) Databricks
3 22 (6.06%) OpenAI
4 21 (5.79%) Microsoft
5 19 (5.23%) Google
6 6 (1.65%) Dataiku
6 6 (1.65%) Dell
6 6 (1.65%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.38%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.10%) Confluent
9 2 (0.55%) SAP
9 2 (0.55%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.55%) TikTok
9 2 (0.55%) Workday
9 2 (0.55%) YouTube
10 1 (0.28%) Adobe
10 1 (0.28%) Pega
10 1 (0.28%) Tealium