Gen AI Developer Contracts in London

Generative AI Developer
England > London

The median Generative AI Developer daily rate in London is £838, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 386 -
Rank change year-on-year +62 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Gen AI Developer 29 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.028% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.030% -
Number of daily rates quoted 27 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £794 £825 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £838 £850 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% - -
75th Percentile £881 £875 -
90th Percentile £894 - -
England median daily rate £838 £850 -
% change year-on-year -1.47% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Gen AI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Gen AI Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Gen AI Developer in London

Gen AI Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Gen AI Developer in London.

Daily rate trend for Gen AI Developer in London

Gen AI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gen AI Developer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gen AI Developer in London

Gen AI Developer
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 Gen AI Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 2 - - 1
East London - 1 £575 -
Gen AI Developer
England

Gen AI Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Gen AI Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Gen AI Developer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Python
1 29 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 29 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 28 (96.55%) Agile
2 28 (96.55%) CI/CD
3 27 (93.10%) FastAPI
3 27 (93.10%) Kubernetes
3 27 (93.10%) React
3 27 (93.10%) Docker
3 27 (93.10%) Banking
3 27 (93.10%) SQL
4 26 (89.66%) Ansible
4 26 (89.66%) TypeScript
4 26 (89.66%) Technical Analysis
4 26 (89.66%) Django
4 26 (89.66%) Use Case
4 26 (89.66%) Machine Learning
4 26 (89.66%) Jenkins
4 26 (89.66%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (89.66%) LLM
5 23 (79.31%) Investment Banking
6 22 (75.86%) SDLC
6 22 (75.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (72.41%) DevOps
7 21 (72.41%) Java
8 20 (68.97%) C#
8 20 (68.97%) .NET
9 18 (62.07%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
10 6 (20.69%) Finance

Gen AI Developer Skill Set
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 1 (3.45%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (89.66%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (93.10%) Banking
2 26 (89.66%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (79.31%) Investment Banking
4 18 (62.07%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (20.69%) Finance
5 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
6 5 (17.24%) Financial Institution
6 5 (17.24%) Front Office
7 1 (3.45%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Retail
7 1 (3.45%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (93.10%) FastAPI
1 27 (93.10%) React
2 26 (89.66%) Django
3 20 (68.97%) .NET
4 2 (6.90%) JSON
5 1 (3.45%) Flask
5 1 (3.45%) HTML
5 1 (3.45%) Spring
5 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.45%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 29 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 28 (96.55%) Agile
2 28 (96.55%) CI/CD
3 26 (89.66%) LLM
3 26 (89.66%) Machine Learning
3 26 (89.66%) Technical Analysis
3 26 (89.66%) Use Case
4 22 (75.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (75.86%) SDLC
5 21 (72.41%) DevOps
6 5 (17.24%) E-Commerce
7 2 (6.90%) Software Engineering
8 1 (3.45%) API Development
8 1 (3.45%) Data Engineering
8 1 (3.45%) Data Governance
8 1 (3.45%) Data Modelling
8 1 (3.45%) OO
8 1 (3.45%) Wealth Management
8 1 (3.45%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Python
2 27 (93.10%) SQL
3 26 (89.66%) TypeScript
4 21 (72.41%) Java
5 20 (68.97%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) Scala
System Software
1 27 (93.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (93.10%) Kubernetes
2 26 (89.66%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle
1 1 (3.45%) Red Hat