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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 124 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 19 10 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.92% 0.43% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.47% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 0
10th Percentile £565 £488 -
25th Percentile £613 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £686 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.53% - -
75th Percentile £763 £828 -
90th Percentile - £838 -
London median daily rate £625 £563 £788
% change year-on-year +11.11% -28.57% -

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 1,938 2,109 3,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.76% 91.54% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,264 1,456 2,224
10th Percentile £334 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £719
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 18
10th Percentile £22.15 £20.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.63 £15.59
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.75 £65.63 £49.96
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £58.25
London median hourly rate £29.75 £34.25 £41.50
% change year-on-year -13.14% -17.47% +17.73%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +12 16 £750 - 11
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 7 (36.84%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) GitHub
2 1 (5.26%) Alation
2 1 (5.26%) dbt
2 1 (5.26%) Figma
2 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (5.26%) Miro
2 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Apache Hive
1 6 (31.58%) Hadoop
2 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.53%) MySQL
4 1 (5.26%) Data Vault
4 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.26%) Power BI
4 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (63.16%) Banking
2 10 (52.63%) Finance
3 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (26.32%) Financial Institution
5 4 (21.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (21.05%) Retail
5 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
6 3 (15.79%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (15.79%) Investment Banking
6 3 (15.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Analyst
1 4 (21.05%) Business Analyst
1 4 (21.05%) Developer
1 4 (21.05%) Gen AI Specialist
1 4 (21.05%) Python Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Data Business Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Python Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Gen AI Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) React Developer
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Transformation Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Data Scientist
3 2 (10.53%) Designer
3 2 (10.53%) Lead Data Scientist
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Scientist
3 2 (10.53%) Service Designer
4 1 (5.26%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) PySpark
1 7 (36.84%) TensorFlow
2 3 (15.79%) FastAPI
2 3 (15.79%) Flask
2 3 (15.79%) HTML
2 3 (15.79%) JSON
2 3 (15.79%) React
2 3 (15.79%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (5.26%) Dask
3 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.26%) Hugging Face
3 1 (5.26%) LangChain
3 1 (5.26%) NumPy
3 1 (5.26%) Pandas
3 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Credit Risk
2 5 (26.32%) Algorithms
3 4 (21.05%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (42.11%) Data Science
2 8 (42.11%) LLM
2 8 (42.11%) Machine Learning
3 7 (36.84%) Risk Management
4 6 (31.58%) Computer Science
4 6 (31.58%) Credit Risk Management
4 6 (31.58%) Mathematics
5 5 (26.32%) Agile
5 5 (26.32%) Analytics
5 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
6 4 (21.05%) Data Extraction
6 4 (21.05%) Deep Learning
6 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (15.79%) API Development
7 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (15.79%) Personalization
7 3 (15.79%) SQL Optimisation
7 3 (15.79%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) Python
2 14 (73.68%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) Go
4 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Degree
2 7 (36.84%) Master's Degree
3 6 (31.58%) PhD
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Adobe
3 1 (5.26%) MicroStrategy