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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 86 162
Rank change year-on-year +37 +76 +1
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 81 51 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.25% 2.13% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 2.34% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 33 13
10th Percentile £425 £410 £414
25th Percentile £519 £463 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £693
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -20.58% +13.06%
75th Percentile £725 £763 £755
90th Percentile £775 £836 £853
London median daily rate £563 £610 £625
% change year-on-year -7.79% -2.40% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
London median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -

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 1,782 2,175 3,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.45% 90.93% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,157 1,539 2,277
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
75th Percentile £679 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 26
10th Percentile £19.04 £20.22 £14.75
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.00 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.38 £53.50
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year +14.29% -29.34% +11.62%

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 31 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 31 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 +27 73 £613 +11.36% 99
West End of London - 3 £520 - 23
City of Westminster - 1 £520 - 5
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 (7.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.70%) Sketch
3 2 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.46%) AWS
2 12 (14.81%) Azure
3 10 (12.35%) Power Platform
4 8 (9.88%) GCP
5 4 (4.94%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.94%) Figma
5 4 (4.94%) IBM Watson
5 4 (4.94%) Serverless
6 3 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (3.70%) AWS CodeCommit
6 3 (3.70%) ChatGPT
6 3 (3.70%) Cloud9 IDE
6 3 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.70%) GitHub
6 3 (3.70%) Snowflake
6 3 (3.70%) Textract
7 2 (2.47%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (2.47%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (2.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) Firewall
1 1 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.64%) Big Data
2 7 (8.64%) Power BI
3 6 (7.41%) Hadoop
4 5 (6.17%) Apache Hive
5 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.70%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.70%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.47%) MySQL
8 1 (1.23%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.23%) Metadata
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.23%) Redis
8 1 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (4.94%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (4.94%) Gradle
1 4 (4.94%) IntelliJ
1 4 (4.94%) JUnit
1 4 (4.94%) Maven
1 4 (4.94%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.23%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.23%) Git
2 1 (1.23%) git-flow
2 1 (1.23%) GitLab
2 1 (1.23%) Terragrunt
2 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (40.74%) Finance
2 21 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 19 (23.46%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (16.05%) Banking
5 11 (13.58%) Retail
6 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.17%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.94%) Law
8 4 (4.94%) Marketing
9 3 (3.70%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (3.70%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.70%) Retail Banking
10 2 (2.47%) Legal
10 2 (2.47%) Police
10 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.23%) French Language
11 1 (1.23%) Local Government
11 1 (1.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (18.52%) Senior
2 14 (17.28%) Developer
3 11 (13.58%) Architect
4 10 (12.35%) Analyst
5 8 (9.88%) Business Analyst
6 7 (8.64%) Lead
7 6 (7.41%) Designer
7 6 (7.41%) Python Developer
7 6 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.17%) Data Scientist
8 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Data Business Analyst
9 4 (4.94%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Security Architect
9 4 (4.94%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 3 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (3.70%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) TensorFlow
2 7 (8.64%) Pandas
3 6 (7.41%) NumPy
3 6 (7.41%) Spring
4 5 (6.17%) PySpark
4 5 (6.17%) React
5 4 (4.94%) FastAPI
5 4 (4.94%) Flask
5 4 (4.94%) JMS
5 4 (4.94%) JPA
6 3 (3.70%) HTML
6 3 (3.70%) JSON
6 3 (3.70%) OpenCV
6 3 (3.70%) pydantic
6 3 (3.70%) PyTorch
6 3 (3.70%) RESTful
6 3 (3.70%) scikit-learn
6 3 (3.70%) SciPy
6 3 (3.70%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (2.47%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.94%) Credit Risk
2 4 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.47%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (2.47%) Graphic Design
4 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.47%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.23%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.23%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.23%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.23%) Robotics
5 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.23%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (40.74%) Machine Learning
2 22 (27.16%) Agile
3 17 (20.99%) Data Science
3 17 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (18.52%) Generative AI
5 14 (17.28%) LLM
6 12 (14.81%) Analytics
7 11 (13.58%) CI/CD
7 11 (13.58%) Natural Language Processing
8 9 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (11.11%) Data Modelling
8 9 (11.11%) DevOps
8 9 (11.11%) Risk Management
8 9 (11.11%) Software Engineering
9 8 (9.88%) User Experience
10 7 (8.64%) Computer Science
10 7 (8.64%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (8.64%) Data Visualisation
10 7 (8.64%) Microservices
10 7 (8.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.04%) Python
2 24 (29.63%) SQL
3 7 (8.64%) Java
4 6 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (16.05%) Degree
2 9 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 9 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.88%) Master's Degree
4 5 (6.17%) PhD
5 3 (3.70%) CISM
5 3 (3.70%) CISSP
5 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.17%) GDPR
3 4 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.94%) NIST
4 3 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.70%) QA
5 2 (2.47%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.47%) PMO
6 1 (1.23%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.23%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (13.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.23%) Argo
3 1 (1.23%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (7.41%) Oracle
2 4 (4.94%) Genesys
2 4 (4.94%) Google
2 4 (4.94%) IBM
2 4 (4.94%) Splunk
3 3 (3.70%) Databricks
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.70%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.47%) Remedy
4 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.23%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.23%) LexisNexis
5 1 (1.23%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.23%) Salesforce