AI Transformation Contract Job Trends in London

AI Transformation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring AI Transformation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 373 419
Rank change year-on-year +8 +46 -
Contract jobs citing AI Transformation 20 13 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.083% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.093% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 0
10th Percentile £615 - -
25th Percentile £625 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £850 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% - -
75th Percentile £850 £956 -
90th Percentile £890 £1,043 -
England median daily rate £700 £800 -
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

AI Transformation 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 12,862 13,995 18,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.47% 89.11% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,472 9,006 13,076
10th Percentile £331 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £800
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 165 238
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.01 £25.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% +1.52% -
75th Percentile £46.88 £58.75 £61.31
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.45 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

AI Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

AI Transformation job vacancy trend in London

AI Transformation
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AI Transformation

AI Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI Transformation in London over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI Transformation in London

AI Transformation
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 Transformation within the London region over the 6 months to 7 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
West London - 1 - - 3
AI Transformation
England

AI Transformation
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) BlazeMeter
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) Copilot Studio
3 2 (10.00%) Figma
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JMeter
1 3 (15.00%) Locust
1 3 (15.00%) Selenium
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Balsamiq
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Legal
5 2 (10.00%) Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Marketing
5 2 (10.00%) Retail
6 1 (5.00%) Aviation
6 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Electronics
6 1 (5.00%) Front Office
6 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Social Science
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Consultant
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Technical Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Designer
3 2 (10.00%) Development Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Management Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Service Designer
3 2 (10.00%) Software Development Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Test Development Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Designer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) pytest
2 2 (10.00%) LangChain
2 2 (10.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) AI
2 9 (45.00%) Machine Learning
2 9 (45.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (40.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) Use Case
5 3 (15.00%) Business Transformation
5 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (15.00%) Data Science
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (15.00%) Performance Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (15.00%) Scrum
5 3 (15.00%) SDET
5 3 (15.00%) Service Design
5 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.00%) User Experience
5 3 (15.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) CISM
2 1 (5.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) PgMP
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) SAP