Generative AI Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Generative AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.17% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £491 - -
25th Percentile £493 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 - -
75th Percentile £518 - -
90th Percentile £519 - -
South East median daily rate £600 £650 £295
% change year-on-year -7.69% +120.34% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,017 878 1,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.82% 81.30% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 589 645
10th Percentile £311 £360 £300
25th Percentile £428 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 59 85
10th Percentile £16.17 £26.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.71 £65.85 £51.42
Median % change year-on-year -68.55% +28.06% +14.27%
75th Percentile £27.50 £75.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £50.00 - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £58.05 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.39% +10.56% +18.00%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Generative AI job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Generative AI
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
Farnborough - 2 £508 - 2
Generative AI
South East

Generative AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Pinecone
1 2 (100.00%) Weaviate
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Gen AI Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Faiss
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement Process
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python