Artificial Intelligence Developer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

AI Developer
Central London > City of London

The median AI Developer daily rate in the City of London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Developer 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.23% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £574 - -
25th Percentile £607 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £731 - -
90th Percentile £758 - -
Central London median daily rate £675 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,652 2,010 2,532
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 93.18% 93.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,234 1,800
10th Percentile £327 £363 £352
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £766 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 15
10th Percentile £20.02 £17.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.00 £20.09
Median hourly rate £34.00 £48.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +92.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £47.75
90th Percentile £64.48 £137.50 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +40.00% -41.18%

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Artificial Intelligence Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Artificial Intelligence Developer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Developer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Developer job vacancies in the City of London

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Developer in the City of London

Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 30 November 2025, Artificial Intelligence Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Artificial Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure AI
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Foundry
3 2 (50.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) OpenAI
3 2 (50.00%) User Research
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Docker
4 1 (25.00%) Feature Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development

Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (25.00%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Vertex AI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) LangChain
1 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) User Research
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) Intelligent Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Foundry
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft