Generative AI Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Generative AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 102 126
Rank change year-on-year +8 +24 -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 21 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.42% 0.066% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 0.073% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 1
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £544 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £425
75th Percentile £678 - £438
90th Percentile £700 - -
South East median daily rate £563 £650 £425
% change year-on-year -13.46% +52.94% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Generative AI falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,309 1,372 1,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.45% 90.32% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 876 760 964
10th Percentile £304 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 39 68
10th Percentile £14.75 £24.68 £24.31
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% -3.98% +29.36%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.08 £67.75
90th Percentile £95.25 £68.57 £77.20
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.78 £53.50
% change year-on-year -52.91% -10.69% +42.67%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Generative AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Generative AI job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Generative AI
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Generative AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Generative AI

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in Berkshire

Generative AI
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Generative AI within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +20 8 £600 - 11
Windsor - 6 £675 - 2
Wokingham - 3 £655 - 2
Bracknell - 1 - -
Generative AI
South East

Generative AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.76%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 6 (28.57%) SAP CO
1 6 (28.57%) SAP FI
1 6 (28.57%) SAP FI/CO
1 6 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.76%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.76%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Broadband
1 3 (14.29%) MPLS
1 3 (14.29%) NaaS
1 3 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 3 (14.29%) VPN
1 3 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) MLflow
General
1 7 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Publishing
4 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Architect
2 6 (28.57%) SAP Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Senior
3 5 (23.81%) Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Python Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Principal Architect
5 3 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Gen AI Developer
6 2 (9.52%) React Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Telecoms Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Telecoms Specialist
7 1 (4.76%) Network Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) FastAPI
2 3 (14.29%) RESTful
3 2 (9.52%) React
3 2 (9.52%) REST
4 1 (4.76%) Kafka
4 1 (4.76%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Augmented Reality
2 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
3 3 (14.29%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) TM Forum
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) AI
2 7 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 6 (28.57%) Accounts Receivable
3 6 (28.57%) Business Activity Monitoring
3 6 (28.57%) Cash Management
3 6 (28.57%) Cost Centre Accounting
3 6 (28.57%) Cost Control
3 6 (28.57%) Cost Management
3 6 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 6 (28.57%) Profit Centre Accounting
3 6 (28.57%) Resource Allocation
4 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 5 (23.81%) Design Patterns
4 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) CQRS
6 3 (14.29%) DevOps
6 3 (14.29%) Observability
6 3 (14.29%) Service Catalogue
7 2 (9.52%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) CCIE
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) SLA
2 2 (9.52%) NIST
3 1 (4.76%) EU AI Act
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubeflow
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Databricks
1 6 (28.57%) SAP
1 6 (28.57%) Virgin Media
2 3 (14.29%) Cisco
2 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 3 (14.29%) Juniper
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) OpenAI