Ray Contract Job Trends in Central London

Ray
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Ray skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 131 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Ray 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.052% 0.085% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 0.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £813 -
London median daily rate £725 £850 £375
% change year-on-year -14.71% +126.67% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

Ray falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 454 556 704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 23.72% 23.69% 23.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 342 489
10th Percentile £363 £413 £404
25th Percentile £425 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £675 £708 £713
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
London median daily rate £530 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £44.97 £27.67 £46.93
25th Percentile £48.67 £31.07 £47.94
Median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.00 £51.94
90th Percentile £81.25 £41.45 £52.58
London median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% -22.41% -0.85%

Ray
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ray relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Ray job vacancy trend in Central London

Ray
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 Ray within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 November 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 -2 1 - - 10
Ray
London

Ray
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Autonomous Agent
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCP