Artificial Intelligence Contracts in London

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 83 277
Rank change year-on-year +35 +194 -3
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 593 505 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.85% 2.86% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 3.24% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 382 156
10th Percentile £363 £413 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £720 £750 £755
90th Percentile £850 £837 £931
England median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £28.60 £25.63 -
25th Percentile £29.50 - -
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - -
75th Percentile £41.38 - -
90th Percentile £46.40 £61.25 -
England median hourly rate £46.75 £46.18 £51.84
% change year-on-year +1.23% -10.92% +23.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Artificial Intelligence 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 11,276 15,580 23,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.26% 88.30% 90.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,534 11,158 16,700
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £425 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £681 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 318 264
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.00 £22.29
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.25 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.27% -27.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £49.88 £48.75 £64.13
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.23 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.46 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.12% +4.17% +44.00%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in London

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in London.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in London

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in London

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in London.

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in London

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in London

Artificial Intelligence
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 Artificial Intelligence within the London region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Central London +37 84 £613 +11.36% 207
East London - 9 £618 - 40
South London - 5 £700 - 10
West London 0 2 £502 -12.65% 31
North London -1 2 £650 +68.83%
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 35 (5.90%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.85%) Jupyter
4 8 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.35%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.01%) Apache
6 5 (0.84%) Confluence
7 4 (0.67%) CMS
8 2 (0.34%) Drupal
8 2 (0.34%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) Facebook Platform
9 1 (0.17%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 26 (4.38%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.01%) Sketch
5 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.51%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.34%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.17%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.17%) Revit
8 1 (0.17%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Shopify
2 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.34%) assyst
3 2 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.17%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.17%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.17%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 156 (26.31%) Azure
2 145 (24.45%) AWS
3 71 (11.97%) GCP
4 59 (9.95%) Power Platform
5 32 (5.40%) GitHub
6 29 (4.89%) Snowflake
7 27 (4.55%) Serverless
8 25 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (4.05%) Amazon SageMaker
9 24 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 22 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (3.20%) dbt
11 19 (3.20%) Microsoft Copilot
12 18 (3.04%) Amazon S3
13 14 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.36%) Vertex AI
14 13 (2.19%) Azure AI
15 12 (2.02%) Figma
15 12 (2.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.18%) Firewall
1 7 (1.18%) HTTP
2 6 (1.01%) Network Security
3 4 (0.67%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.67%) VPN
4 3 (0.51%) DNS
4 3 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (0.51%) SNMP
5 2 (0.34%) BGP
5 2 (0.34%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.34%) Internet
5 2 (0.34%) MPLS
5 2 (0.34%) NAS
5 2 (0.34%) SAN
5 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.34%) VLAN
6 1 (0.17%) DHCP
6 1 (0.17%) LAN
6 1 (0.17%) OSPF
6 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (8.26%) Power BI
2 35 (5.90%) Big Data
3 30 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (2.87%) Data Lake
6 16 (2.70%) BigQuery
7 14 (2.36%) NoSQL
8 13 (2.19%) Tableau
9 10 (1.69%) Hadoop
9 10 (1.69%) Metadata
10 8 (1.35%) Data Mining
10 8 (1.35%) Delta Lake
10 8 (1.35%) Oracle Database
10 8 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (1.01%) Apache Hive
11 6 (1.01%) Data Vault
11 6 (1.01%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.84%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (5.40%) Jenkins
2 20 (3.37%) Git
3 17 (2.87%) MLflow
4 14 (2.36%) JIRA
5 7 (1.18%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.18%) GitLab
6 6 (1.01%) ERwin
6 6 (1.01%) Gradle
6 6 (1.01%) IntelliJ
6 6 (1.01%) Maven
7 5 (0.84%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.84%) Terragrunt
8 4 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.67%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (0.67%) JUnit
8 4 (0.67%) Postman
8 4 (0.67%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.51%) Mocha
10 2 (0.34%) Eclipse
General
1 165 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 158 (26.64%) Finance
3 110 (18.55%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (11.30%) Banking
5 42 (7.08%) Investment Banking
6 41 (6.91%) Legal
7 38 (6.41%) Marketing
8 31 (5.23%) Public Sector
9 29 (4.89%) Retail
10 24 (4.05%) Financial Institution
11 19 (3.20%) Front Office
12 18 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (2.02%) Advertising
15 12 (2.02%) Law
16 10 (1.69%) Publishing
17 8 (1.35%) Local Government
18 7 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (1.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (17.54%) Developer
2 69 (11.64%) Senior
3 56 (9.44%) Architect
4 49 (8.26%) Lead
5 48 (8.09%) Python Developer
6 45 (7.59%) Analyst
7 43 (7.25%) Data Engineer
8 33 (5.56%) Consultant
9 32 (5.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 30 (5.06%) Business Analyst
11 29 (4.89%) Data Scientist
12 22 (3.71%) Gen AI Developer
13 21 (3.54%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 21 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
13 21 (3.54%) Project Manager
13 21 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (3.37%) Python Engineer
15 18 (3.04%) Product Manager
16 17 (2.87%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 16 (2.70%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (9.11%) FastAPI
2 46 (7.76%) React
3 39 (6.58%) TensorFlow
4 36 (6.07%) PyTorch
5 27 (4.55%) Pandas
6 26 (4.38%) Django
7 25 (4.22%) LangChain
8 24 (4.05%) scikit-learn
9 20 (3.37%) NumPy
10 18 (3.04%) .NET
10 18 (3.04%) Node.js
10 18 (3.04%) PySpark
10 18 (3.04%) REST
10 18 (3.04%) RESTful
11 14 (2.36%) Kafka
12 13 (2.19%) Flask
13 12 (2.02%) HTML
13 12 (2.02%) pydantic
14 11 (1.85%) Hugging Face
15 10 (1.69%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.90%) Algorithms
2 24 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (3.04%) Management Information System
5 17 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.36%) AI Agents
6 14 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
9 10 (1.69%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.18%) Educational Technology
11 7 (1.18%) Life Science
11 7 (1.18%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.01%) IoT
12 6 (1.01%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.85%) Linux
2 7 (1.18%) Android
2 7 (1.18%) Windows
3 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.51%) Unix
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (46.04%) Machine Learning
2 143 (24.11%) Agile
3 138 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
4 131 (22.09%) Generative AI
5 125 (21.08%) Data Science
6 120 (20.24%) LLM
7 117 (19.73%) Analytics
8 108 (18.21%) CI/CD
9 107 (18.04%) DevOps
10 60 (10.12%) Data Pipeline
11 57 (9.61%) Business Intelligence
12 55 (9.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 54 (9.11%) Decision-Making
14 53 (8.94%) Data Modelling
14 53 (8.94%) Natural Language Processing
15 52 (8.77%) Use Case
16 51 (8.60%) Data Engineering
17 50 (8.43%) Roadmaps
18 49 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
19 48 (8.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 274 (46.21%) Python
2 126 (21.25%) SQL
3 58 (9.78%) Java
4 44 (7.42%) JavaScript
4 44 (7.42%) TypeScript
5 26 (4.38%) C#
6 23 (3.88%) Scala
7 15 (2.53%) R
8 14 (2.36%) C++
9 10 (1.69%) C
10 9 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.35%) BeanShell
11 8 (1.35%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.35%) Rust
12 7 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.01%) Bash
13 6 (1.01%) Go
14 5 (0.84%) Clojure
14 5 (0.84%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 73 (12.31%) Degree
2 44 (7.42%) Security Cleared
3 37 (6.24%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.55%) Master's Degree
5 18 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.19%) PhD
7 9 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.52%) CISSP
8 8 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.01%) CISM
11 5 (0.84%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.84%) PMP
12 3 (0.51%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.34%) Tableau Certification
13 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.90%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.72%) GDPR
3 26 (4.38%) QA
4 15 (2.53%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.02%) NIST
6 8 (1.35%) EU AI Act
7 6 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.84%) PMO
9 3 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.34%) GRC
10 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.34%) NCSC
10 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.34%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.34%) WCAG
11 1 (0.17%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 59 (9.95%) Docker
2 8 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.34%) OpenAM
4 2 (0.34%) OpenDJ
4 2 (0.34%) OpenIDM
4 2 (0.34%) vSphere
5 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 78 (13.15%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.08%) Terraform
3 23 (3.88%) Ansible
4 8 (1.35%) Grafana
4 8 (1.35%) Kubeflow
4 8 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.51%) Kibana
7 2 (0.34%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.34%) Nagios
7 2 (0.34%) Puppet
8 1 (0.17%) Argo
8 1 (0.17%) Istio
8 1 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.17%) vMotion
Vendors
1 83 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 49 (8.26%) Databricks
3 45 (7.59%) Google
4 23 (3.88%) OpenAI
5 19 (3.20%) ServiceNow
6 17 (2.87%) Oracle
7 13 (2.19%) SAP
8 12 (2.02%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.85%) Adobe
10 10 (1.69%) Foundry
10 10 (1.69%) Palantir
11 9 (1.52%) IBM
12 8 (1.35%) Dataiku
12 8 (1.35%) Splunk
13 6 (1.01%) Sitecore
14 5 (0.84%) DataRobot
14 5 (0.84%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.84%) Genesys
14 5 (0.84%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.67%) Talend