Updated June 2026 · UK · United Kingdom
Cambridge AI compensation.
AI research density per capita is the highest in the UK. Anchored by University of Cambridge, DeepMind alumni networks, and biotech cluster.
AI salaries in the UK.
A Software Engineer in the UK earns a median of £56,264 per year in base salary.
Base salary, annual, in GBP. Reconciled from ONS ASHE Table 14 (SOC 2020). UK figures are national today; Cambridge city-level data is on the roadmap (ONS ASHE Table 15).
| Role | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Scientist | £45,344 | £60,642 | £80,704 |
| Data Engineer | £45,344 | £60,642 | £80,704 |
| AI Research Scientist | £45,344 | £60,642 | £80,704 |
| AI Solutions Architect | £45,344 | £60,642 | £80,704 |
| AI Infrastructure Engineer | £45,344 | £60,642 | £80,704 |
| NLP Engineer | £41,059 | £56,264 | £76,393 |
| Prompt Engineer | £41,059 | £56,264 | £76,393 |
| Computer Vision Engineer | £41,059 | £56,264 | £76,393 |
| LLM Engineer | £41,059 | £56,264 | £76,393 |
| Generative AI Developer | £41,059 | £56,264 | £76,393 |
| Software Engineer | £41,059 | £56,264 | £76,393 |
| Backend Developer | £41,059 | £56,264 | £76,393 |
| Frontend Developer | £41,059 | £56,264 | £76,393 |
| Full Stack Developer | £41,059 | £56,264 | £76,393 |
| Machine Learning Engineer | £41,059 | £56,264 | £76,393 |
| AI Engineer | £41,059 | £56,264 | £76,393 |
| ML Engineer | £41,059 | £56,264 | £76,393 |
| AI Product Manager | £43,160 | £56,040 | £71,916 |
| Engineering Manager | £43,160 | £56,040 | £71,916 |
| DevOps Engineer | £35,968 | £49,930 | £65,551 |
City facts.
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population (metro)
- 0.13M
- ONS GSS code
- E07000008
- Industries
- ai-research, biotech, deep-tech
How the number is built.
UK figures come from ONS ASHE Table 14, the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, which publishes the national gross weekly pay distribution per 4-digit SOC 2020 occupation. Each Orbyt role maps to its SOC code, and the figure is gross base salary in pounds. These are national figures today; Cambridge city-level data (ONS ASHE Table 15, region by occupation) is on the roadmap.
Every estimate traces back to its government source through the methodology paper, and the API returns a USD-normalized value alongside the pound figure for cross-country comparison. Income tax and National Insurance are the consumer's calculation, not baked in.
Cite the source.
Every Cambridge estimate Orbyt publishes traces back to a specific government data source. The methodology paper documents the per-source weights, confidence tiers, and reconciliation rules.