Semantic Kernel Contracts in England

Microsoft Semantic Kernel
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Semantic Kernel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Semantic Kernel over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Kernel 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.018% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.082% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile £658 - -
UK median daily rate £575 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,121 7,331 9,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.01% 22.12% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,185 5,028 7,179
10th Percentile £350 £360 £381
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 220 143
10th Percentile £31.25 £24.16 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -5.42% -
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.52% -12.50% -

Semantic Kernel
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic Kernel in England over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Kernel in England

Semantic Kernel
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 Semantic Kernel within the England region over the 6 months to 17 August 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 - 4 £488 - 12
North West - 1 £575 -
North of England - 1 £575 - 1
Semantic Kernel
UK

Semantic Kernel
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CrewAI
1 2 (40.00%) LangChain
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (20.00%) Pandas
2 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) C#
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (40.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) Foundry
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Workday