AI Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

AI
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing AI 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 6.38% 2.33% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% 2.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
Central London median daily rate £550 £613 £588
% change year-on-year -10.24% +4.30% -11.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42 39 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 89.36% 90.70% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 31 26
10th Percentile £335 £409 £425
25th Percentile £463 £435 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -7.37% +7.95%
75th Percentile £636 £634 £819
90th Percentile £655 £675 £994
Central London median daily rate £550 £574 £550
% change year-on-year -4.14% +4.32% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
Median hourly rate £26.11 - £40.00
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

AI job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing AI

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Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 30 April 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Paddington - 2 £500 -
Westminster -4 1 - - 3
AI
Central London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (66.67%) BigQuery Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Snowflake Architect
3 1 (33.33%) GCP Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Sharing
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Refactoring
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Edge Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Google