Gen AI Specialist Contracts in London

Generative AI Specialist
England > London

The median Generative AI Specialist daily rate in London is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Gen AI Specialist 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £738 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £806 - -
90th Percentile £833 - -
England median daily rate £750 - -

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 11,753 16,611 25,696
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 93.26% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,049 12,008 18,613
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £679 £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 142 338 287
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.05 £20.02 £22.57
Median hourly rate £34.33 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.88 £64.67 £76.10
England median hourly rate £30.78 £36.02 £44.77
% change year-on-year -14.55% -19.53% +98.96%

Gen AI Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Gen AI Specialist in London

Gen AI Specialist
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 Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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 - 3 £750 -
Gen AI Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Gen AI Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
1 5 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
2 4 (80.00%) PySpark
2 4 (80.00%) Master's Degree
2 4 (80.00%) Apache Hive
2 4 (80.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (80.00%) TensorFlow
2 4 (80.00%) Credit Risk Management
2 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) Mathematics
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Credit Risk
2 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) PhD
3 3 (60.00%) Deep Learning
4 2 (40.00%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (40.00%) MySQL
4 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Personalization

Gen AI Specialist 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 4 (80.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (80.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) PySpark
1 4 (80.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Credit Risk
2 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
1 5 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Credit Risk Management
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
2 4 (80.00%) Mathematics
2 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (60.00%) Deep Learning
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Data Extraction
4 2 (40.00%) Personalization
4 2 (40.00%) Statistics
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (20.00%) Financial Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Open Source
5 1 (20.00%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Master's Degree
1 4 (80.00%) PhD
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dataiku
1 1 (20.00%) Google