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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 58 148
Rank change year-on-year +17 +90 0
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 89 65 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.85% 3.16% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.14% 3.44% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 49 17
10th Percentile £413 £441 £400
25th Percentile £513 £481 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £593 £700
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% -15.36% +20.43%
75th Percentile £708 £725 £800
90th Percentile £771 £828 £875
Central London median daily rate £625 £593 £700
% change year-on-year +5.49% -15.36% +20.43%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,730 1,890 2,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.23% 91.88% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 1,254 1,990
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £598
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% +3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 15
10th Percentile £17.62 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.21 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.15 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £50.25 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £28.79 £26.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.49% -23.49% -17.65%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Artificial Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Artificial Intelligence

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 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the City of London

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Artificial Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the City of London region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £800 -
Artificial Intelligence
Central 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 (6.74%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Chatbot
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.37%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) ResourceLink
1 1 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.84%) Azure
2 14 (15.73%) AWS
2 14 (15.73%) Power Platform
3 10 (11.24%) GCP
4 9 (10.11%) Snowflake
5 8 (8.99%) GitHub
6 6 (6.74%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (5.62%) Azure AI
7 5 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.49%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (4.49%) ChatGPT
8 4 (4.49%) Copilot Studio
8 4 (4.49%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.49%) Figma
8 4 (4.49%) IBM Watson
8 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (4.49%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.37%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.36%) Power BI
2 6 (6.74%) Apache Hive
2 6 (6.74%) Hadoop
3 5 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.49%) Big Data
4 4 (4.49%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.37%) Tableau
6 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.25%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.25%) MySQL
6 2 (2.25%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.12%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.12%) Metadata
7 1 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.12%) Spatial Data
7 1 (1.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Git
2 2 (2.25%) MLflow
3 1 (1.12%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.12%) git-flow
3 1 (1.12%) GitLab
3 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.12%) Terragrunt
3 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (51.69%) Finance
2 27 (30.34%) Social Skills
3 23 (25.84%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (20.22%) Banking
5 11 (12.36%) Retail
6 7 (7.87%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.49%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.49%) Legal
8 3 (3.37%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.37%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.37%) Law
8 3 (3.37%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.25%) Marketing
9 2 (2.25%) Police
9 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.12%) Front Office
10 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (13.48%) Senior
2 11 (12.36%) Architect
2 11 (12.36%) Developer
3 7 (7.87%) Analyst
3 7 (7.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 7 (7.87%) Data Scientist
3 7 (7.87%) Lead
3 7 (7.87%) Python Developer
4 6 (6.74%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.62%) Designer
6 4 (4.49%) Business Analyst
6 4 (4.49%) Consultant
6 4 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (4.49%) Gen AI Specialist
6 4 (4.49%) Programme Manager
7 3 (3.37%) Data Architect
7 3 (3.37%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 3 (3.37%) Gen AI Developer
7 3 (3.37%) React Developer
7 3 (3.37%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.99%) Flask
2 7 (7.87%) Pandas
3 6 (6.74%) HTML
3 6 (6.74%) PySpark
3 6 (6.74%) TensorFlow
4 5 (5.62%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.37%) CSS
5 3 (3.37%) JSON
5 3 (3.37%) LangChain
5 3 (3.37%) React
5 3 (3.37%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (2.25%) .NET
6 2 (2.25%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.25%) Django
6 2 (2.25%) Faiss
6 2 (2.25%) Hugging Face
6 2 (2.25%) Kafka
6 2 (2.25%) NumPy
6 2 (2.25%) Spring
6 2 (2.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.11%) Algorithms
2 7 (7.87%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.74%) AI Agents
3 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.62%) Credit Risk
5 4 (4.49%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.25%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (2.25%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.25%) Reinsurance
7 2 (2.25%) Replication
8 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.12%) Hackathon
8 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.12%) Robotics
8 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (46.07%) Machine Learning
2 27 (30.34%) Agile
3 20 (22.47%) LLM
4 19 (21.35%) Analytics
4 19 (21.35%) Data Science
4 19 (21.35%) Generative AI
5 16 (17.98%) Data Modelling
6 15 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (15.73%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (13.48%) CI/CD
9 11 (12.36%) Computer Science
9 11 (12.36%) DevOps
9 11 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (11.24%) Natural Language Processing
10 10 (11.24%) Risk Management
11 9 (10.11%) Data Governance
11 9 (10.11%) Mathematics
11 9 (10.11%) Visualisation
12 8 (8.99%) Change Management
12 8 (8.99%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 34 (38.20%) Python
2 22 (24.72%) SQL
3 9 (10.11%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.49%) Java
5 3 (3.37%) C#
5 3 (3.37%) Go
6 1 (1.12%) Bicep
6 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (16.85%) Degree
2 10 (11.24%) Master's Degree
2 10 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.11%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.74%) PhD
5 3 (3.37%) CISM
5 3 (3.37%) CISSP
5 3 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.25%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.25%) PMP
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.12%) MCP
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.24%) GDPR
2 9 (10.11%) NIST
3 8 (8.99%) Data Quality
4 6 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (4.49%) EU AI Act
6 3 (3.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (3.37%) PMO
7 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (2.25%) QA
8 1 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
8 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (1.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (7.87%) Docker
2 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (8.99%) Kubernetes
1 8 (8.99%) Terraform
2 3 (3.37%) Argo
3 1 (1.12%) Grafana
3 1 (1.12%) Istio
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (10.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.62%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.49%) Bloomberg
3 4 (4.49%) Databricks
3 4 (4.49%) Genesys
3 4 (4.49%) Google
3 4 (4.49%) IBM
4 3 (3.37%) Cloudera
4 3 (3.37%) Oracle
5 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.25%) UiPath
6 1 (1.12%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.12%) LexisNexis
6 1 (1.12%) MicroStrategy