Generative AI Contracts in England

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Generative AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Generative AI over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 447 -
Rank change year-on-year +168 - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 216 95 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.89% 0.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 150 70 0
10th Percentile £449 £400 -
25th Percentile £550 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £850 £750 -
90th Percentile £881 £875 -
UK median daily rate £671 £600 -
% change year-on-year +11.83% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £23.25 - -
25th Percentile £25.25 - -
Median hourly rate £50.25 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.57% - -
75th Percentile £76.88 £46.25 -
90th Percentile £78.13 £66.50 -
UK median hourly rate £50.25 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +43.57% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Generative 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in England

Generative AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Generative AI in England.

Daily rate trend for Generative AI in England

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in England

Generative AI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Generative AI in England.

Hourly rate trend for Generative AI in England

Generative AI
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Generative AI in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Generative AI in England

Generative AI
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 Generative AI within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +117 155 £750 +30.43% 595
East of England - 21 £650 - 63
North of England +26 16 £600 -4.00% 339
North West +22 13 £661 +5.68% 151
South East +49 8 £575 -4.17% 380
Midlands +23 6 £160 -77.14% 354
West Midlands +14 4 - - 160
Yorkshire - 3 £356 - 150
East Midlands +11 2 £160 -78.67% 191
South West +41 1 £413 -32.65% 59
Generative AI
UK

Generative AI
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 25 (11.57%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.31%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.85%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (1.85%) Confluence
5 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.46%) Apache
6 1 (0.46%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) Camtasia
2 1 (0.46%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.46%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.46%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.39%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.46%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 65 (30.09%) Azure
2 57 (26.39%) AWS
3 27 (12.50%) GCP
4 20 (9.26%) GitHub
5 12 (5.56%) Snowflake
6 10 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (4.17%) Azure AI
8 8 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
8 8 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (3.24%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.78%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.31%) Amazon Bedrock
11 5 (2.31%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.31%) dbt
11 5 (2.31%) Google Gemini
11 5 (2.31%) OpenShift
11 5 (2.31%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.46%) LAN
1 1 (0.46%) Modbus
1 1 (0.46%) WAN
1 1 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.26%) Hadoop
2 18 (8.33%) Big Data
2 18 (8.33%) Tableau
3 7 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.78%) Apache Hive
4 6 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.78%) MySQL
4 6 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.31%) Power BI
6 4 (1.85%) Data Vault
6 4 (1.85%) Neo4j
6 4 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (1.39%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 31 (14.35%) Jenkins
2 13 (6.02%) Git
3 7 (3.24%) JIRA
3 7 (3.24%) MLflow
4 4 (1.85%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.85%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.46%) Qt Creator
General
1 74 (34.26%) Analytical Skills
2 63 (29.17%) Finance
3 50 (23.15%) Banking
4 49 (22.69%) Social Skills
5 30 (13.89%) Investment Banking
6 19 (8.80%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (6.94%) Front Office
8 13 (6.02%) Financial Institution
9 10 (4.63%) Legal
9 10 (4.63%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (3.24%) Manufacturing
11 7 (3.24%) Marketing
11 7 (3.24%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.85%) Billing
13 4 (1.85%) Games
13 4 (1.85%) Polish Language
14 3 (1.39%) Retail
15 2 (0.93%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 71 (32.87%) Developer
2 38 (17.59%) Python Developer
3 36 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 33 (15.28%) Senior
5 32 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 32 (14.81%) Gen AI Developer
6 23 (10.65%) Gen AI Engineer
6 23 (10.65%) Lead
6 23 (10.65%) Python Engineer
7 16 (7.41%) Architect
8 15 (6.94%) Data Science Developer
9 14 (6.48%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.56%) Data Scientist
11 11 (5.09%) Senior Developer
12 10 (4.63%) Designer
13 8 (3.70%) Consultant
14 7 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (3.24%) Project Manager
14 7 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
15 6 (2.78%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (21.76%) FastAPI
2 39 (18.06%) TensorFlow
3 35 (16.20%) React
4 32 (14.81%) PyTorch
5 31 (14.35%) Django
5 31 (14.35%) Pandas
6 30 (13.89%) NumPy
7 26 (12.04%) .NET
8 23 (10.65%) LangChain
8 23 (10.65%) scikit-learn
9 16 (7.41%) Matplotlib
9 16 (7.41%) Seaborn
10 12 (5.56%) PySpark
11 10 (4.63%) REST
12 9 (4.17%) Hugging Face
13 8 (3.70%) Flask
14 6 (2.78%) HTML
14 6 (2.78%) Kafka
14 6 (2.78%) Play Framework
14 6 (2.78%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 41 (18.98%) Algorithms
2 10 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.24%) Credit Risk
6 6 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.31%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.31%) FMCG
8 4 (1.85%) Mobile Games
8 4 (1.85%) Virtual Reality
8 4 (1.85%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.39%) Life Science
9 3 (1.39%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.39%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.39%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.39%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.46%) Linux
1 1 (0.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (91.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 130 (60.19%) Machine Learning
3 114 (52.78%) LLM
4 68 (31.48%) CI/CD
5 66 (30.56%) Data Science
6 65 (30.09%) Agile
7 51 (23.61%) SDLC
8 48 (22.22%) Use Case
9 42 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (18.06%) DevOps
11 38 (17.59%) Analytics
12 31 (14.35%) Computer Science
12 31 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (13.43%) Data Engineering
14 28 (12.96%) Technical Analysis
15 25 (11.57%) Visualisation
16 24 (11.11%) Decision-Making
17 21 (9.72%) Software Engineering
18 20 (9.26%) Data Analysis
19 19 (8.80%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 150 (69.44%) Python
2 66 (30.56%) SQL
3 39 (18.06%) TypeScript
4 34 (15.74%) Java
5 24 (11.11%) C#
6 21 (9.72%) Scala
7 18 (8.33%) R
8 10 (4.63%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.70%) Clojure
9 8 (3.70%) Rust
10 7 (3.24%) Elixir
11 3 (1.39%) PHP
11 3 (1.39%) Ruby
12 2 (0.93%) C++
12 2 (0.93%) Go
12 2 (0.93%) Haskell
13 1 (0.46%) Bash
13 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (17.59%) Degree
2 29 (13.43%) Master's Degree
3 18 (8.33%) PhD
4 16 (7.41%) Security Cleared
5 14 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (6.02%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.31%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.39%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.93%) PMP
10 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.46%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.57%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.17%) GDPR
3 7 (3.24%) QA
4 6 (2.78%) EU AI Act
5 3 (1.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.46%) GRC
6 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 49 (22.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (27.31%) Kubernetes
2 29 (13.43%) Ansible
3 12 (5.56%) Terraform
4 1 (0.46%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 18 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.87%) Databricks
3 13 (6.02%) Google
4 7 (3.24%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.78%) Oracle
6 5 (2.31%) Dataiku
6 5 (2.31%) Foundry
7 4 (1.85%) MicroStrategy
7 4 (1.85%) Palantir
7 4 (1.85%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.85%) SAP
8 3 (1.39%) DataRobot
8 3 (1.39%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.93%) Adobe
9 2 (0.93%) IBM
9 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.46%) Ariba
10 1 (0.46%) OutSystems
10 1 (0.46%) Screaming Frog