AI Model Optimisation Contract Job Trends in London

AI Model Optimisation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring AI Model Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 363 392
Rank change year-on-year -83 +29 -
Contract jobs citing AI Model Optimisation 4 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.020% 0.074% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.080% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 1
10th Percentile £515 £534 -
25th Percentile £538 £613 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -21.88% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £850
90th Percentile £635 £659 -
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

AI Model Optimisation 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,024 12,449 14,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.45% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,783 8,281 9,881
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 255 191
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -9.86% -11.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

AI Model Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

AI Model Optimisation job vacancy trend in London

AI Model Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AI Model Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AI Model Optimisation

AI Model Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI Model Optimisation in London over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AI Model Optimisation in London

AI Model Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI Model Optimisation within the London region over the 6 months to 30 August 2026. 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
Central London -17 1 - -
AI Model Optimisation
England

AI Model Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (25.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Parquet
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (25.00%) Health Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Gen AI Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (25.00%) CrewAI
1 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (25.00%) LangChain
1 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (25.00%) LlamaIndex
1 1 (25.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 3 (75.00%) Generative AI
2 3 (75.00%) LLM
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Change Data Capture
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) MLOps
4 1 (25.00%) Multi-Agent System
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker