Artificial Intelligence Contracts in Central London

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 85 151
Rank change year-on-year +34 +66 +5
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 79 48 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.96% 1.96% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 2.17% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 34 14
10th Percentile £425 £410 £452
25th Percentile £516 £500 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £588 £663
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% -11.32% +9.28%
75th Percentile £725 £766 £740
90th Percentile £786 £836 £760
London median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
London median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -8.57% -18.13% +14.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Artificial Intelligence 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Central London

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Central London

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Central London

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Central London

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +33 74 £638 +8.51% 97
West End of London - 3 £520 - 24
City of Westminster - 1 £520 - 6
Artificial Intelligence
London

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (7.59%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.05%) AWS
2 12 (15.19%) Azure
2 12 (15.19%) Power Platform
3 8 (10.13%) GCP
4 6 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (5.06%) Serverless
6 3 (3.80%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (3.80%) AWS CodeCommit
6 3 (3.80%) Cloud9 IDE
6 3 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.80%) GitHub
6 3 (3.80%) Textract
7 2 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.53%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.27%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) Firewall
1 1 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) Hadoop
1 6 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (7.59%) Power BI
2 5 (6.33%) Apache Hive
3 3 (3.80%) Big Data
3 3 (3.80%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.53%) MySQL
4 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.53%) Tableau
5 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.27%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.27%) Redis
5 1 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (5.06%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (5.06%) Gradle
1 4 (5.06%) IntelliJ
1 4 (5.06%) JUnit
1 4 (5.06%) Maven
1 4 (5.06%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.27%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.27%) MLflow
2 1 (1.27%) Terragrunt
2 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (41.77%) Finance
2 21 (26.58%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (24.05%) Social Skills
4 10 (12.66%) Banking
5 6 (7.59%) Financial Institution
5 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.59%) Retail
6 4 (5.06%) Law
6 4 (5.06%) Marketing
7 2 (2.53%) Front Office
7 2 (2.53%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.53%) Local Government
7 2 (2.53%) Police
7 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.27%) Back Office
8 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.27%) Legal
8 1 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (16.46%) Senior
2 12 (15.19%) Developer
3 10 (12.66%) Data Scientist
4 9 (11.39%) Architect
5 8 (10.13%) Analyst
6 6 (7.59%) Business Analyst
6 6 (7.59%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (6.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Designer
7 5 (6.33%) Lead
8 4 (5.06%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Security Architect
8 4 (5.06%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Gen AI Specialist
9 3 (3.80%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Solutions Designer
10 2 (2.53%) Gen AI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.13%) TensorFlow
2 6 (7.59%) LangChain
2 6 (7.59%) Pandas
3 5 (6.33%) NumPy
3 5 (6.33%) PySpark
3 5 (6.33%) React
4 4 (5.06%) Hugging Face
4 4 (5.06%) JMS
4 4 (5.06%) JPA
4 4 (5.06%) RESTful
4 4 (5.06%) Spring
5 3 (3.80%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.80%) OpenCV
5 3 (3.80%) pydantic
5 3 (3.80%) PyTorch
5 3 (3.80%) scikit-learn
5 3 (3.80%) SciPy
6 2 (2.53%) Dask
6 2 (2.53%) Flask
6 2 (2.53%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.86%) Algorithms
2 4 (5.06%) Credit Risk
3 3 (3.80%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.53%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (2.53%) Graphic Design
4 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.53%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.27%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Robotics
5 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.27%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (44.30%) Machine Learning
2 22 (27.85%) Data Science
3 19 (24.05%) Generative AI
4 18 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (21.52%) LLM
6 14 (17.72%) Agile
7 10 (12.66%) CI/CD
8 9 (11.39%) Decision-Making
8 9 (11.39%) Risk Management
8 9 (11.39%) Software Engineering
9 8 (10.13%) Analytics
9 8 (10.13%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (10.13%) Data Visualisation
9 8 (10.13%) Natural Language Processing
9 8 (10.13%) Visualisation
10 7 (8.86%) Collaborative Working
10 7 (8.86%) DevOps
11 6 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (7.59%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 29 (36.71%) Python
2 16 (20.25%) SQL
3 5 (6.33%) Java
4 4 (5.06%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.27%) Clojure
6 1 (1.27%) Elixir
6 1 (1.27%) Go
6 1 (1.27%) Haskell
6 1 (1.27%) Rust
6 1 (1.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (17.72%) Degree
2 10 (12.66%) SC Cleared
2 10 (12.66%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.86%) Master's Degree
4 5 (6.33%) PhD
5 3 (3.80%) CISM
5 3 (3.80%) CISSP
5 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.33%) Data Quality
1 5 (6.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.06%) GDPR
2 4 (5.06%) NIST
3 2 (2.53%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.53%) PMO
3 2 (2.53%) QA
4 1 (1.27%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.27%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (3.80%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (12.66%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.06%) Terraform
3 1 (1.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (7.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.06%) Oracle
2 4 (5.06%) Splunk
3 3 (3.80%) Databricks
4 2 (2.53%) Google
4 2 (2.53%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.53%) Remedy
4 2 (2.53%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.27%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.27%) IBM
5 1 (1.27%) LexisNexis
5 1 (1.27%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.27%) Salesforce