Semantic Kernel Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Semantic Kernel
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Semantic Kernel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Kernel 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.16% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £535 - -
25th Percentile £549 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 - -
75th Percentile £646 - -
90th Percentile £661 - -
London median daily rate £555 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

Semantic Kernel 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 447 558 715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 23.58% 23.91% 24.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 335 491
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £501 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £713
90th Percentile £748 £838 £825
London median daily rate £540 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.09% -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 £51.44 £49.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.92% -17.50% +0.84%

Semantic Kernel
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Semantic Kernel job vacancy trend in Central London

Semantic Kernel
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 Semantic Kernel within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 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 - 3 £598 - 9
Semantic Kernel
London

Semantic Kernel
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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AI
2 2 (66.67%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) LangChain
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (33.33%) LangGraph
3 1 (33.33%) NumPy
3 1 (33.33%) Pandas
3 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) AI Agents
1 2 (66.67%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) EU AI Act
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) OpenAI
2 1 (33.33%) Alteryx
2 1 (33.33%) Foundry