Generative AI Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Generative AI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Generative AI over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £485 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £813 - -
90th Percentile £830 - -
Central London median daily rate £700 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Generative AI is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,001 3,346 3,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.50% 91.82% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 2,259 2,942
10th Percentile £363 £355 £388
25th Percentile £454 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 42
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +128.09%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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 29 April 2024.

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (10.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Financial Institution
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (10.00%) GCP Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (30.00%) LLM
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Content Writing
5 2 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
5 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (20.00%) Data Science
5 2 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (20.00%) Open Source
6 1 (10.00%) DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Front End Development
6 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (10.00%) Structured Programming
6 1 (10.00%) Use Case
6 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) Clojure
2 3 (30.00%) Haskell
2 3 (30.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) Rust
3 2 (20.00%) Go
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform