Semantic Kernel Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Semantic Kernel
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Semantic Kernel skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Kernel 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.15% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.94% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £575 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 212 267 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.26% 17.37% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 105 142
10th Percentile £354 £299 £363
25th Percentile £428 £340 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -16.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £613
90th Percentile £700 £638 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 58 10
10th Percentile £40.75 - £20.45
25th Percentile £43.00 - £44.47
Median hourly rate £63.00 £43.00 £56.53
Median % change year-on-year +46.51% -23.93% -13.03%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £67.00 - £73.98
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.60% +4.88% -5.40%

Semantic Kernel
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Kernel within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire - 2 - - 1
Semantic Kernel
England

Semantic Kernel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) EU AI Act
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft