UK AI roles offer salaries of up to £325,000, research reveals

Artificial intelligence (AI) roles in the UK are offering salaries of up to £325,000 as businesses increasingly integrate the technology into their operations, research from MyPerfectCV found.

The analysis found roles where AI takes on routine work were seeing wage growth 42% faster than average.

The UK also had the second-highest number of job postings requiring AI skills in Europe, according to the report.

MyPerfectCV said 35% of UK businesses had fully integrated AI into their operations, contributing to the emergence of new specialist roles combining AI skills with existing professional expertise.

Chief AI officer and head of AI positions were among the highest-paying roles identified, with salaries ranging from £140,000 to £325,000.

AI governance managers could earn between £75,000 and £150,000, while agentic AI architects were offered between £70,000 and £145,000.

Other roles identified included AI red teamers, cybersecurity AI specialists, generative AI engineers, AI user experience (UX) designers and AI forward deployed engineers.

AI data trainers had the largest number of active vacancies identified by the research, at 336, followed by generative AI engineers at 205 and AI content strategists at 195.