Generative AI Contracts in Central London

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Generative AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Generative AI 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 107 123 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 22 10 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.10% 0.41% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.45% -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 0
10th Percentile £550 £485 -
25th Percentile £625 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 -
75th Percentile £763 £813 -
90th Percentile £825 £830 -
London median daily rate £750 £575 -
% change year-on-year +30.43% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 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%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Generative AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in Central London

Generative AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Generative AI in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Generative AI in Central London

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in Central London

Generative AI
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 Generative AI 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 +19 21 £713 +1.79% 31
West End of London - 1 £650 - 6
Generative AI
London

Generative AI
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 (27.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) GCP
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Copilot
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.55%) Alation
4 1 (4.55%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) Azure
4 1 (4.55%) dbt
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Apache Hive
1 5 (22.73%) Hadoop
2 2 (9.09%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) Data Vault
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Power BI
3 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) MLflow
1 1 (4.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (77.27%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Banking
3 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (27.27%) Financial Institution
5 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
6 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 2 (9.09%) Retail
7 1 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (4.55%) Front Office
7 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Data Scientist
2 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Designer
2 3 (13.64%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Gen AI Specialist
2 3 (13.64%) Lead
2 3 (13.64%) Python Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Solutions Designer
3 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Gen AI Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Gen AI Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Lead Data Scientist
3 2 (9.09%) Python Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Automation Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Data Science Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) LangChain
1 6 (27.27%) PySpark
1 6 (27.27%) TensorFlow
2 4 (18.18%) Hugging Face
3 2 (9.09%) Dask
3 2 (9.09%) FastAPI
3 2 (9.09%) NumPy
3 2 (9.09%) Pandas
3 2 (9.09%) React
4 1 (4.55%) Django
4 1 (4.55%) Flask
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) JSON
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) Spring
4 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.55%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Credit Risk
2 4 (18.18%) Algorithms
3 3 (13.64%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (59.09%) LLM
3 12 (54.55%) Data Science
4 10 (45.45%) Machine Learning
5 6 (27.27%) Risk Management
6 5 (22.73%) Agile
6 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
6 5 (22.73%) Credit Risk Management
6 5 (22.73%) Mathematics
6 5 (22.73%) Prompt Engineering
7 4 (18.18%) Prototyping
7 4 (18.18%) Rapid Prototyping
7 4 (18.18%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 3 (13.64%) Analytics
8 3 (13.64%) Data Extraction
8 3 (13.64%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
8 3 (13.64%) Deep Learning
8 3 (13.64%) Personalization
8 3 (13.64%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) Python
2 9 (40.91%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Scala
4 1 (4.55%) Clojure
4 1 (4.55%) Elixir
4 1 (4.55%) Go
4 1 (4.55%) Haskell
4 1 (4.55%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) Rust
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
1 7 (31.82%) Master's Degree
2 5 (22.73%) PhD
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) OutSystems
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat