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

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 956 -
Rank change year-on-year +383 - -
Permanent jobs citing Generative AI 356 12 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.012% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.013% -
Number of salaries quoted 106 10 0
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,375 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £68,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% - -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 -
90th Percentile £110,625 £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 85,989 93,723 157,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.40% 95.55% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 60,364 55,437 82,675
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 26 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 26 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 +360 330 £79,000 -7.06% 186
UK excluding London +162 177 £70,000 -17.65% 89
London +269 163 £79,500 +9.66% 150
Work from Home +145 96 £75,000 -16.67% 64
South East +89 87 £55,000 - 72
North of England +99 60 £72,500 +70.59% 11
North West +61 54 £72,500 +70.59% 6
Scotland - 17 £65,000 - 2
South West -10 11 £92,778 +3.09% 2
North East - 3 £35,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 3 £92,778 - 3
East Midlands - 2 £40,000 -
Midlands - 2 £40,000 - 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 (1.97%) Apache Spark
1 7 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (1.97%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.40%) Confluence
3 4 (1.12%) Drupal
3 4 (1.12%) WordPress
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
1 188 (52.81%) Azure
2 140 (39.33%) Serverless
3 130 (36.52%) Azure DevOps
3 130 (36.52%) Azure Functions
3 130 (36.52%) Azure Logic Apps
3 130 (36.52%) Azure Service Bus
4 125 (35.11%) Azure API Management
4 125 (35.11%) IBM Cloud
5 44 (12.36%) GCP
6 43 (12.08%) AWS
7 29 (8.15%) Power Platform
8 21 (5.90%) PowerApps
9 13 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (2.53%) Azure Machine Learning
12 8 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (2.25%) ChatGPT
13 7 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.97%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.97%) Intranet
2 3 (0.84%) WebEx
3 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (36.52%) NoSQL
2 127 (35.67%) MongoDB
2 127 (35.67%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (35.11%) DB2
3 125 (35.11%) Relational Database
4 49 (13.76%) Tableau
5 15 (4.21%) Power BI
6 14 (3.93%) Big Data
7 12 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.97%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.69%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.40%) Text Mining
12 4 (1.12%) DTS
13 3 (0.84%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.56%) Neo4j
14 2 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 60 (16.85%) Git
2 7 (1.97%) JIRA
3 5 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.56%) JUnit
5 2 (0.56%) MLflow
5 2 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 136 (38.20%) Public Sector
2 118 (33.15%) Social Skills
3 28 (7.87%) Finance
4 24 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.62%) Legal
6 17 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.37%) Banking
8 9 (2.53%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.97%) Automotive
10 7 (1.97%) Law
10 7 (1.97%) Marketing
10 7 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.40%) Games
12 4 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.56%) Advertising
14 2 (0.56%) Retail
14 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 140 (39.33%) Developer
2 131 (36.80%) Full Stack Developer
3 125 (35.11%) Azure Developer
4 91 (25.56%) Senior
5 71 (19.94%) Data Scientist
6 64 (17.98%) Senior Data Scientist
7 28 (7.87%) Architect
8 27 (7.58%) Lead
9 13 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (3.37%) Lead Data Scientist
11 11 (3.09%) Data Engineer
12 10 (2.81%) Python Engineer
13 8 (2.25%) Audit Manager
13 8 (2.25%) Senior Manager
13 8 (2.25%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.25%) Technical Architect
14 7 (1.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 7 (1.97%) Digital Architect
14 7 (1.97%) Digital Solutions Architect
15 5 (1.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (40.73%) React
2 142 (39.89%) .NET
3 133 (37.36%) AngularJS
4 132 (37.08%) REST
5 130 (36.52%) Vue
6 129 (36.24%) CSS
6 129 (36.24%) HTML
7 127 (35.67%) Web Services
8 126 (35.39%) ASP.NET
9 125 (35.11%) ASP.NET Core
9 125 (35.11%) Backbone.js
9 125 (35.11%) Ember.js
9 125 (35.11%) jQuery
9 125 (35.11%) Node.js
9 125 (35.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 72 (20.22%) TensorFlow
11 55 (15.45%) scikit-learn
12 53 (14.89%) Pandas
13 45 (12.64%) PySpark
14 27 (7.58%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 198 (55.62%) Algorithms
2 146 (41.01%) Data Structures
3 125 (35.11%) Blockchain
3 125 (35.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.53%) IoT
6 8 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.97%) Biopharmaceutical
8 6 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.69%) 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%) FPGA
11 2 (0.56%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 133 (37.36%) Linux
2 127 (35.67%) Windows
3 125 (35.11%) Android
3 125 (35.11%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (94.94%) Artificial Intelligence
2 149 (41.85%) DevOps
3 138 (38.76%) Full Stack Development
3 138 (38.76%) User Experience
4 131 (36.80%) Machine Learning
5 130 (36.52%) Web Development
6 129 (36.24%) OO
7 127 (35.67%) Design Patterns
7 127 (35.67%) MVC
8 126 (35.39%) OOP
9 125 (35.11%) API Management
9 125 (35.11%) Co-Creation
9 125 (35.11%) Design Thinking
9 125 (35.11%) MVVM
9 125 (35.11%) Responsive Web Design
9 125 (35.11%) SOLID
10 108 (30.34%) Data Science
11 94 (26.40%) Natural Language Processing
12 82 (23.03%) Decision-Making
13 81 (22.75%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 256 (71.91%) Python
2 215 (60.39%) SQL
3 152 (42.70%) Java
4 149 (41.85%) JavaScript
5 130 (36.52%) C#
6 7 (1.97%) R
6 7 (1.97%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.69%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.40%) Go
9 4 (1.12%) Clojure
9 4 (1.12%) F#
9 4 (1.12%) Haskell
9 4 (1.12%) Scala
10 2 (0.56%) C
10 2 (0.56%) C++
10 2 (0.56%) Rust
11 1 (0.28%) Bash
11 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 127 (35.67%) Degree
2 60 (16.85%) Master's Degree
3 45 (12.64%) DBS Check
4 21 (5.90%) PhD
5 18 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.93%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (3.09%) Security Cleared
9 6 (1.69%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.56%) 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 5 (1.40%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.84%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.56%) GRC
4 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 8 (2.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) IAG
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.69%) 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%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.28%) MOM
Vendors
1 125 (35.11%) IBM
1 125 (35.11%) Red Hat
2 59 (16.57%) Databricks
3 22 (6.18%) Microsoft
4 20 (5.62%) OpenAI
5 17 (4.78%) Google
6 6 (1.69%) 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%) Pega
11 1 (0.28%) Tealium
11 1 (0.28%) VMware