Semantic Kernel Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Semantic Kernel
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Semantic Kernel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Kernel 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £535 - -
25th Percentile £549 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 - -
75th Percentile £646 - -
90th Percentile £661 - -
Central London median daily rate £598 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

Semantic Kernel falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 423 510 673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.58% 24.27% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 302 458
10th Percentile £369 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £502 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £713
90th Percentile £738 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £46.25 - £46.93
25th Percentile £51.88 £36.75 £47.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £76.25 £40.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £83.75 - £52.58
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%

Semantic Kernel
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Semantic Kernel relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Semantic Kernel job vacancy trend in the City of London

Semantic Kernel
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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AI
2 2 (66.67%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) LangChain
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (33.33%) LangGraph
3 1 (33.33%) NumPy
3 1 (33.33%) Pandas
3 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) AI Agents
1 2 (66.67%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) EU AI Act
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) OpenAI
2 1 (33.33%) Alteryx
2 1 (33.33%) Foundry