AI Model Optimisation Contract Job Trends in the City of London

AI Model Optimisation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring AI Model Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 123 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing AI Model Optimisation 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.043% 0.055% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.049% 0.059% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £400 -
Central London median daily rate - £400 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

AI Model Optimisation 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,042 1,709 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.87% 94.26% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,404 1,129 1,242
10th Percentile £382 £325 £375
25th Percentile £462 £421 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £49.64 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -22.86%

AI Model Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI Model Optimisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

AI Model Optimisation job vacancy trend in the City of London

AI Model Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AI Model Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AI Model Optimisation

AI Model Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake Schema
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL