Generative AI Contracts in London

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Generative AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Generative AI over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 318 -
Rank change year-on-year +117 - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 155 73 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.24% 0.41% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.46% -
Number of daily rates quoted 117 52 0
10th Percentile £456 £400 -
25th Percentile £550 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% - -
75th Percentile £875 £761 -
90th Percentile £881 £875 -
England median daily rate £700 £600 -
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.25 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +43.57% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Generative AI 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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Generative AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in London

Generative AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Generative AI in London

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in London

Generative AI
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 Generative AI 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 +16 22 £700 - 49
South London - 3 £700 -
East London +15 1 £575 -25.81% 4
Generative AI
England

Generative AI
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 8 (5.16%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.23%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.58%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (1.29%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.65%) Apache
6 1 (0.65%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.65%) Camtasia
2 1 (0.65%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (0.65%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.65%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.65%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.29%) SAP PP
1 2 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.65%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.65%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.87%) Azure
2 27 (17.42%) AWS
3 18 (11.61%) GitHub
4 14 (9.03%) GCP
5 11 (7.10%) Snowflake
6 10 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (5.16%) Amazon SageMaker
9 7 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (4.52%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (3.87%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (3.87%) Power Platform
11 5 (3.23%) Azure AI
11 5 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (3.23%) dbt
11 5 (3.23%) OpenShift
11 5 (3.23%) Vertex AI
12 3 (1.94%) Alation
12 3 (1.94%) Amazon Bedrock
12 3 (1.94%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) LAN
1 1 (0.65%) Modbus
1 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.87%) Apache Hive
2 6 (3.87%) Hadoop
2 6 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.23%) Power BI
4 4 (2.58%) Big Data
4 4 (2.58%) Data Vault
4 4 (2.58%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.58%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (1.94%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.94%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.94%) MySQL
6 2 (1.29%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.29%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.29%) Tableau
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.65%) DTS
7 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.52%) Git
2 7 (4.52%) MLflow
3 4 (2.58%) Bitbucket
3 4 (2.58%) Terragrunt
4 3 (1.94%) JIRA
5 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.65%) Qt Creator
General
1 56 (36.13%) Finance
2 51 (32.90%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (31.61%) Banking
4 41 (26.45%) Social Skills
5 30 (19.35%) Investment Banking
6 19 (12.26%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (9.68%) Front Office
8 13 (8.39%) Financial Institution
9 7 (4.52%) Marketing
10 6 (3.87%) Legal
11 5 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (2.58%) Billing
12 4 (2.58%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.94%) Retail
14 2 (1.29%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
15 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (29.68%) Developer
2 36 (23.23%) Python Developer
3 29 (18.71%) Gen AI Developer
4 27 (17.42%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 22 (14.19%) Lead
6 20 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 19 (12.26%) Gen AI Engineer
8 18 (11.61%) Python Engineer
9 13 (8.39%) Senior
10 10 (6.45%) Architect
10 10 (6.45%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) Data Scientist
12 7 (4.52%) Consultant
13 5 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 5 (3.23%) Backend Developer
13 5 (3.23%) Designer
13 5 (3.23%) Gen AI Specialist
14 4 (2.58%) Full-Stack Developer
14 4 (2.58%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 4 (2.58%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (29.03%) FastAPI
2 32 (20.65%) React
3 31 (20.00%) Django
4 23 (14.84%) .NET
4 23 (14.84%) LangChain
5 18 (11.61%) TensorFlow
6 15 (9.68%) Pandas
7 14 (9.03%) NumPy
8 12 (7.74%) PyTorch
9 10 (6.45%) REST
10 9 (5.81%) Hugging Face
10 9 (5.81%) PySpark
11 8 (5.16%) Flask
12 7 (4.52%) scikit-learn
13 6 (3.87%) Kafka
13 6 (3.87%) Play Framework
13 6 (3.87%) SQLAlchemy
14 5 (3.23%) Dask
15 4 (2.58%) RESTful
15 4 (2.58%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.32%) Algorithms
2 10 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.81%) Public Cloud
4 7 (4.52%) Credit Risk
5 6 (3.87%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.23%) FMCG
7 3 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.94%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.29%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.29%) Life Science
8 2 (1.29%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.65%) CMDB
9 1 (0.65%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.65%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.65%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.65%) Linux
1 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (90.32%) Artificial Intelligence
2 90 (58.06%) Machine Learning
3 73 (47.10%) LLM
4 58 (37.42%) CI/CD
5 53 (34.19%) Agile
6 46 (29.68%) Use Case
7 44 (28.39%) SDLC
8 42 (27.10%) Data Science
9 38 (24.52%) DevOps
10 31 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (18.06%) Technical Analysis
12 23 (14.84%) Data Engineering
13 22 (14.19%) Analytics
14 18 (11.61%) MLOps
15 17 (10.97%) Data Governance
16 16 (10.32%) Computer Science
16 16 (10.32%) Software Engineering
17 13 (8.39%) Risk Management
18 12 (7.74%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 109 (70.32%) Python
2 63 (40.65%) SQL
3 31 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 30 (19.35%) Java
5 24 (15.48%) C#
6 18 (11.61%) Scala
7 8 (5.16%) Clojure
7 8 (5.16%) Rust
8 7 (4.52%) Elixir
9 3 (1.94%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.29%) C++
10 2 (1.29%) Go
10 2 (1.29%) Haskell
11 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (14.84%) Degree
2 17 (10.97%) Master's Degree
3 11 (7.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.52%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.87%) PhD
6 5 (3.23%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.58%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.29%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.29%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.29%) PMP
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.65%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.87%) Data Quality
1 6 (3.87%) EU AI Act
1 6 (3.87%) GDPR
1 6 (3.87%) QA
2 1 (0.65%) GRC
2 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (26.45%) Docker
2 2 (1.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (33.55%) Kubernetes
2 29 (18.71%) Ansible
3 11 (7.10%) Terraform
4 1 (0.65%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 15 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.03%) Databricks
3 10 (6.45%) Google
4 5 (3.23%) Dataiku
4 5 (3.23%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.58%) MicroStrategy
5 4 (2.58%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.94%) DataRobot
6 3 (1.94%) Oracle
7 2 (1.29%) Adobe
7 2 (1.29%) IBM
7 2 (1.29%) SAP
7 2 (1.29%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.65%) Foundry
8 1 (0.65%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.65%) Screaming Frog