AI Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

AI
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hillingdon requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 6.41% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.94% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £422 - -
90th Percentile £435 - -
West London median daily rate £600 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -25.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63 26 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 80.77% 72.22% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 37
10th Percentile £290 £172 £197
25th Percentile £341 £400 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £442 £475 £525
90th Percentile £463 £575 £575
West London median daily rate £450 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 3
10th Percentile £19.48 - -
25th Percentile £21.46 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £100.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -74.85% +471.43% -61.11%
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - £19.95
West London median hourly rate £25.15 £24.80 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.43% -54.92% -11.29%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

AI job vacancy trend in Hillingdon

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing AI

AI
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Heathrow - 3 £400 - 5
Uxbridge - 1 - - 2
West Drayton - 1 - - 3
AI
West London

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (40.00%) Datadog
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Aviation
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Product Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Workstream Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) AI Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PgMP
1 1 (20.00%) PhD
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) New Relic