Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the City of London

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 81 158
Rank change year-on-year +33 +77 -9
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 74 46 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.21% 2.09% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 2.31% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 32 13
10th Percentile £425 £410 £451
25th Percentile £528 £491 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £588 £675
Median % change year-on-year +8.51% -12.96% +11.34%
75th Percentile £725 £769 £755
90th Percentile £780 £837 £761
Central London median daily rate £613 £588 £663
% change year-on-year +4.30% -11.32% +9.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - +84.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Artificial Intelligence 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 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the City of London

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the City of London

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the City of London

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the City of London

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 6 (8.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.97%) AWS
2 12 (16.22%) Azure
2 12 (16.22%) Power Platform
3 8 (10.81%) GCP
4 6 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.05%) GitHub
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.70%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.70%) Serverless
8 1 (1.35%) Alation
8 1 (1.35%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.35%) dbt
8 1 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) Firewall
1 1 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.11%) Hadoop
1 6 (8.11%) Power BI
2 5 (6.76%) Apache Hive
3 4 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.05%) Big Data
5 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.70%) MySQL
5 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.70%) Tableau
6 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.35%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.35%) Redis
6 1 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (5.41%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (5.41%) Gradle
1 4 (5.41%) IntelliJ
1 4 (5.41%) JUnit
1 4 (5.41%) Maven
1 4 (5.41%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.35%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.35%) MLflow
2 1 (1.35%) Terragrunt
2 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (43.24%) Finance
2 21 (28.38%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
4 10 (13.51%) Banking
5 6 (8.11%) Financial Institution
5 6 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.11%) Retail
6 4 (5.41%) Law
6 4 (5.41%) Marketing
7 2 (2.70%) Front Office
7 2 (2.70%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.70%) Local Government
7 2 (2.70%) Police
7 2 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.35%) Back Office
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.35%) Legal
8 1 (1.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (16.22%) Senior
2 11 (14.86%) Developer
3 9 (12.16%) Architect
4 8 (10.81%) Data Scientist
5 7 (9.46%) Analyst
6 6 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Business Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) Designer
7 5 (6.76%) Lead
8 4 (5.41%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Security Architect
9 3 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Gen AI Specialist
9 3 (4.05%) Project Manager
9 3 (4.05%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Solutions Designer
10 2 (2.70%) Gen AI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) LangChain
1 6 (8.11%) TensorFlow
2 5 (6.76%) PySpark
2 5 (6.76%) React
3 4 (5.41%) Hugging Face
3 4 (5.41%) JMS
3 4 (5.41%) JPA
3 4 (5.41%) Pandas
3 4 (5.41%) RESTful
3 4 (5.41%) Spring
4 3 (4.05%) FastAPI
4 3 (4.05%) NumPy
5 2 (2.70%) Dask
5 2 (2.70%) Flask
5 2 (2.70%) JSON
5 2 (2.70%) Middleware
6 1 (1.35%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.35%) Plotly
6 1 (1.35%) pydantic
6 1 (1.35%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.11%) Algorithms
2 4 (5.41%) Credit Risk
3 3 (4.05%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.70%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (2.70%) Graphic Design
4 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.70%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.35%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Robotics
5 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.35%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.89%) Machine Learning
2 20 (27.03%) Data Science
3 19 (25.68%) Generative AI
4 16 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (20.27%) LLM
6 13 (17.57%) Agile
7 10 (13.51%) CI/CD
8 9 (12.16%) Risk Management
8 9 (12.16%) Software Engineering
9 8 (10.81%) Analytics
9 8 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (10.81%) Decision-Making
10 7 (9.46%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (8.11%) Data Visualisation
11 6 (8.11%) DevOps
11 6 (8.11%) Mathematics
11 6 (8.11%) Natural Language Processing
11 6 (8.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (36.49%) Python
2 14 (18.92%) SQL
3 5 (6.76%) Java
4 4 (5.41%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.35%) Clojure
6 1 (1.35%) Elixir
6 1 (1.35%) Go
6 1 (1.35%) Haskell
6 1 (1.35%) Rust
6 1 (1.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (18.92%) Degree
2 9 (12.16%) SC Cleared
2 9 (12.16%) Security Cleared
3 7 (9.46%) Master's Degree
4 5 (6.76%) PhD
5 3 (4.05%) CISM
5 3 (4.05%) CISSP
5 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) Data Quality
1 5 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.41%) GDPR
2 4 (5.41%) NIST
3 2 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.70%) PMO
3 2 (2.70%) QA
4 1 (1.35%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.35%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (4.05%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.41%) Splunk
3 3 (4.05%) Databricks
4 2 (2.70%) Google
4 2 (2.70%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle
4 2 (2.70%) Remedy
5 1 (1.35%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.35%) IBM
5 1 (1.35%) LexisNexis
5 1 (1.35%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow