Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
Four numbers that frame the whole market $173,482 — Glassdoor's February 2026 figure for the median US AI/ML engineer, with the 90th percentile at $269,611. £85,000 — the UK median Gen AI Engineer salary in ITJobsWatch's six-month window to 8 August 2026, up 21.4% year on year. ₹40–65 LPA — what senior AI engineers at Global Capability Centres in India now earn, against ₹20–35 LPA at IT services firms for the same experience. 3.2:1 — the global demand-to-supply ratio for qualified AI engineers, per FutureProofing's July 2026 analysis: roughly 1.6 million open positions chasing about 518,000 qualified candidates. Salary surveys usually disagree with each other. This year they mostly do not. Between February and August 2026, five independent datasets — Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, Robert Half's…
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