Semantic Kernel Contracts in London

Microsoft Semantic Kernel
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Semantic Kernel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Semantic Kernel over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Kernel 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.030% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £348 - -
25th Percentile £381 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £631 - -
90th Percentile £665 - -
England median daily rate £575 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

Semantic Kernel falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,503 4,432 6,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.92% 27.38% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,434 3,164 4,564
10th Percentile £363 £377 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £695 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 24 39
10th Percentile £32.25 £16.25 £30.60
25th Percentile £33.87 £23.80 £41.40
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -44.03% +21.82%
75th Percentile £63.13 £50.19 £75.50
90th Percentile £78.20 £72.01 £87.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £61.25
% change year-on-year -3.08% -7.35% +2.08%

Semantic Kernel
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic Kernel in London over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Kernel in London

Semantic Kernel
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Data Science Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
2 1 (25.00%) CrewAI
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Intelligent Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Probabilistic Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Foundry
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Workday