EU AI Act Contract Job Trends in England

European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring EU AI Act skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 530 -
Rank change year-on-year +44 - -
Contract jobs citing EU AI Act 34 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.015% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.71% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 0
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £697 - -
90th Percentile £780 - -
UK median daily rate £625 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

EU AI Act falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,766 4,306 5,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.28% 13.12% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,112 2,563 4,083
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £402 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £653
90th Percentile £725 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 209 235
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.96 £15.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £33.07 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% -8.14% +60.00%
75th Percentile £62.25 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.90 £70.00 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year +9.09% -22.54% +54.35%

EU AI Act
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing EU AI Act as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for EU AI Act in England

EU AI Act
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EU AI Act.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EU AI Act

EU AI Act
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EU AI Act in England over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EU AI Act in England

EU AI Act
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EU AI Act within the England region over the 6 months to 21 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
London +45 25 £650 - 27
South East +23 5 £575 - 19
East of England - 3 - - 2
North of England - 1 £575 - 1
North West - 1 £575 -
EU AI Act
UK

EU AI Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.94%) Jupyter
1 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) GitHub
3 6 (17.65%) Azure AKS
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Functions
4 4 (11.76%) GitHub Copilot
4 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Copilot
4 4 (11.76%) PaaS
4 4 (11.76%) Serverless
5 3 (8.82%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (8.82%) Azure AI
5 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
5 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.88%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (5.88%) Azure API Management
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.88%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) JMeter
2 2 (5.88%) MLflow
2 2 (5.88%) Postman
2 2 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (2.94%) GitLab
3 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (41.18%) Finance
2 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 8 (23.53%) Legal
4 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Aerospace
6 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.94%) Retail
7 1 (2.94%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Architect
2 6 (17.65%) Security Architect
3 5 (14.71%) Analyst
3 5 (14.71%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 5 (14.71%) Lead
3 5 (14.71%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Data Scientist
4 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Technical Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (2.94%) Consultant
5 1 (2.94%) Data Consultant
5 1 (2.94%) Data Governance Consultant
5 1 (2.94%) Deployment Specialist
5 1 (2.94%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Governance Consultant
5 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (29.41%) PyTorch
1 10 (29.41%) TensorFlow
2 6 (17.65%) .NET
3 5 (14.71%) Semantic Kernel
4 4 (11.76%) Google JAX
4 4 (11.76%) JAX
4 4 (11.76%) RESTful
4 4 (11.76%) scikit-learn
5 2 (5.88%) LangChain
6 1 (2.94%) Faiss
6 1 (2.94%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Algorithms
2 7 (20.59%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.76%) AI Agents
4 3 (8.82%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (5.88%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.94%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (97.06%) Artificial Intelligence
2 24 (70.59%) Machine Learning
3 18 (52.94%) LLM
4 14 (41.18%) Risk Management
5 12 (35.29%) Data Science
5 12 (35.29%) Deep Learning
6 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
6 11 (32.35%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (29.41%) Data Governance
7 10 (29.41%) Decision-Making
7 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (29.41%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 9 (26.47%) Generative AI
8 9 (26.47%) Regulatory Compliance
8 9 (26.47%) Threat Modelling
8 9 (26.47%) Use Case
8 9 (26.47%) Validation
9 8 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (23.53%) Prompt Engineering
9 8 (23.53%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) R
3 4 (11.76%) C++
3 4 (11.76%) Java
4 3 (8.82%) C
5 1 (2.94%) Bicep
5 1 (2.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) MCP
2 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) CISM
5 1 (2.94%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (61.76%) NIST
2 15 (44.12%) GDPR
3 9 (26.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 3 (8.82%) SOC 2
6 2 (5.88%) QA
7 1 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (32.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.82%) Terraform
3 2 (5.88%) Kubeflow
4 1 (2.94%) Grafana
4 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Foundry
3 2 (5.88%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.94%) Google
4 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow