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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 330 471
Rank change year-on-year +119 +141 -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 140 74 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.11% 0.42% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.48% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 54 1
10th Percentile £413 £400 -
25th Percentile £512 £463 £788
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £825
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -30.30% -
75th Percentile £850 £756 £863
90th Percentile £881 £875 -
England median daily rate £625 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +114.29% - -

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 11,626 15,521 22,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.36% 88.34% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,790 11,071 16,509
10th Percentile £338 £343 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 309 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -28.60% +9.63%
75th Percentile £50.25 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.15 £82.50
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

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 24 June 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 24 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 +13 15 £750 +7.14% 192
South London - 2 £700 - 3
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 11 (7.86%) Jupyter
2 10 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.71%) Apache
5 1 (0.71%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.71%) Camtasia
2 1 (0.71%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (0.71%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.71%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.71%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) SAP PP
1 2 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.71%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 47 (33.57%) Azure
2 42 (30.00%) AWS
3 23 (16.43%) GitHub
4 18 (12.86%) GCP
5 13 (9.29%) Snowflake
6 11 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (6.43%) Amazon SageMaker
8 9 (6.43%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.29%) dbt
10 5 (3.57%) Amazon Bedrock
10 5 (3.57%) Azure AI
10 5 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (3.57%) Vertex AI
11 4 (2.86%) Copilot Studio
12 3 (2.14%) Alation
12 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (1.43%) Power Automate
13 2 (1.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) LAN
1 1 (0.71%) Modbus
1 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.00%) Apache Hive
2 7 (5.00%) Big Data
2 7 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 7 (5.00%) Power BI
3 6 (4.29%) Data Lake
3 6 (4.29%) Data Vault
4 5 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (2.86%) MySQL
6 3 (2.14%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.14%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.43%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.71%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.71%) Tableau
8 1 (0.71%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 20 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 10 (7.14%) MLflow
3 7 (5.00%) Git
4 5 (3.57%) Terragrunt
5 4 (2.86%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.43%) JIRA
7 1 (0.71%) Qt Creator
General
1 46 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 38 (27.14%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (25.00%) Banking
3 35 (25.00%) Finance
4 23 (16.43%) Investment Banking
5 15 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (7.14%) Marketing
7 8 (5.71%) Financial Institution
7 8 (5.71%) Front Office
8 6 (4.29%) Legal
9 5 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.57%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.57%) Retail
10 4 (2.86%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (2.86%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.43%) Billing
11 2 (1.43%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.43%) Publishing
12 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (25.00%) Developer
2 26 (18.57%) Python Developer
3 20 (14.29%) Lead
4 19 (13.57%) Gen AI Developer
5 17 (12.14%) Architect
6 15 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 14 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 12 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 11 (7.86%) Python Engineer
10 10 (7.14%) Data Engineer
10 10 (7.14%) Gen AI Engineer
10 10 (7.14%) Senior
11 8 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (4.29%) Analyst
12 6 (4.29%) Backend Developer
12 6 (4.29%) Data Scientist
12 6 (4.29%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (4.29%) Gen AI Specialist
13 5 (3.57%) Consultant
14 4 (2.86%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (26.43%) FastAPI
2 23 (16.43%) TensorFlow
3 22 (15.71%) React
4 19 (13.57%) Django
4 19 (13.57%) LangChain
5 17 (12.14%) PyTorch
6 15 (10.71%) .NET
7 12 (8.57%) Pandas
7 12 (8.57%) PySpark
8 10 (7.14%) Hugging Face
8 10 (7.14%) NumPy
9 9 (6.43%) Flask
9 9 (6.43%) SQLAlchemy
10 8 (5.71%) REST
10 8 (5.71%) scikit-learn
11 6 (4.29%) Play Framework
12 5 (3.57%) HTML
13 4 (2.86%) JSON
13 4 (2.86%) pytest
13 4 (2.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.71%) Algorithms
2 9 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.00%) Credit Risk
4 6 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (4.29%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.57%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.86%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.86%) FMCG
6 4 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.43%) Life Science
8 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.43%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.71%) CMDB
9 1 (0.71%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (90.71%) Artificial Intelligence
2 76 (54.29%) Machine Learning
3 57 (40.71%) LLM
4 49 (35.00%) Agile
5 45 (32.14%) Data Science
6 43 (30.71%) CI/CD
7 38 (27.14%) SDLC
8 37 (26.43%) DevOps
9 29 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (20.71%) Use Case
10 27 (19.29%) Analytics
11 24 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (14.29%) MLOps
12 20 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
13 19 (13.57%) Data Engineering
14 17 (12.14%) Data Governance
15 16 (11.43%) Computer Science
15 16 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (11.43%) Technical Analysis
16 13 (9.29%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 97 (69.29%) Python
2 58 (41.43%) SQL
3 19 (13.57%) TypeScript
4 15 (10.71%) C#
4 15 (10.71%) Java
5 14 (10.00%) Scala
6 5 (3.57%) Clojure
6 5 (3.57%) Elixir
6 5 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.57%) Rust
7 4 (2.86%) R
8 1 (0.71%) Bash
8 1 (0.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (17.14%) Degree
2 19 (13.57%) Master's Degree
3 10 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.71%) PhD
5 7 (5.00%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.57%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) QA
2 7 (5.00%) GDPR
3 6 (4.29%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.57%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.71%) GRC
5 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (18.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (22.86%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.43%) Ansible
3 14 (10.00%) Terraform
4 1 (0.71%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 22 (15.71%) Databricks
2 17 (12.14%) Microsoft
3 14 (10.00%) Google
4 10 (7.14%) OpenAI
5 6 (4.29%) Dataiku
6 5 (3.57%) MicroStrategy
7 4 (2.86%) DataRobot
8 3 (2.14%) Adobe
8 3 (2.14%) Oracle
9 2 (1.43%) IBM
9 2 (1.43%) SAP
9 2 (1.43%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.71%) Foundry
10 1 (0.71%) Splunk