Generative AI Contracts in the City of London

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Generative AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Generative AI 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 98 117 -
Rank change year-on-year +19 - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 21 10 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.20% 0.46% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 0.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 0
10th Percentile £550 £485 -
25th Percentile £666 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% - -
75th Percentile £770 £813 -
90th Percentile £825 £830 -
Central London median daily rate £700 £700 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Generative AI 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%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in the City of London

Generative AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Generative AI in the City of London

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in the City of London

Generative AI
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 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) GCP
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.76%) Alation
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure
4 1 (4.76%) dbt
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Apache Hive
1 5 (23.81%) Hadoop
2 2 (9.52%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) Data Vault
3 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Power BI
3 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) MLflow
1 1 (4.76%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (80.95%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Banking
3 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (28.57%) Financial Institution
5 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
6 2 (9.52%) Retail
7 1 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (4.76%) Front Office
7 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Data Scientist
2 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Designer
2 3 (14.29%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Gen AI Specialist
2 3 (14.29%) Lead
2 3 (14.29%) Python Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Solutions Designer
3 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Gen AI Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Gen AI Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Lead Data Scientist
3 2 (9.52%) Python Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Data Science Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) React Developer
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) LangChain
1 6 (28.57%) PySpark
1 6 (28.57%) TensorFlow
2 4 (19.05%) Hugging Face
3 2 (9.52%) Dask
3 2 (9.52%) FastAPI
3 2 (9.52%) NumPy
3 2 (9.52%) Pandas
3 2 (9.52%) React
4 1 (4.76%) Django
4 1 (4.76%) Flask
4 1 (4.76%) HTML
4 1 (4.76%) JSON
4 1 (4.76%) Kafka
4 1 (4.76%) RESTful
4 1 (4.76%) Spring
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.76%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Credit Risk
2 4 (19.05%) Algorithms
3 3 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (61.90%) LLM
3 12 (57.14%) Data Science
4 9 (42.86%) Machine Learning
5 6 (28.57%) Risk Management
6 5 (23.81%) Agile
6 5 (23.81%) Computer Science
6 5 (23.81%) Credit Risk Management
6 5 (23.81%) Mathematics
6 5 (23.81%) Prompt Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Prototyping
7 4 (19.05%) Rapid Prototyping
7 4 (19.05%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 3 (14.29%) Analytics
8 3 (14.29%) Data Extraction
8 3 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
8 3 (14.29%) Deep Learning
8 3 (14.29%) Personalization
8 3 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) Python
2 9 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Scala
4 1 (4.76%) Clojure
4 1 (4.76%) Elixir
4 1 (4.76%) Go
4 1 (4.76%) Haskell
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) Rust
4 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Degree
1 7 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 5 (23.81%) PhD
3 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat