AI Contract Job Trends in Oxford

AI
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing AI 9 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 8.33% - 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.84% - 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £600 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £950 - -
90th Percentile £1,025 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £700 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +150.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76 68 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 70.37% 95.77% 77.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 26 58
10th Percentile £260 £214 £180
25th Percentile £400 £229 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £363 £450
Median % change year-on-year +44.83% -19.44% -
75th Percentile £625 £547 £500
90th Percentile £775 £644 £556
Oxfordshire median daily rate £494 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +9.72% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 11
10th Percentile £17.81 £13.08 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £23.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £29.97 £46.30 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year -35.27% +77.87% -
75th Percentile £41.25 £64.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £57.38 £89.63 -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £47.50 £26.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +79.25% +35.90% -39.63%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

AI job vacancy trend in Oxford

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing AI

AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI in Oxford over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AI in Oxford

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
1 1 (11.11%) InfiniBand
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) MLflow
General
1 2 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (11.11%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Analyst
1 1 (11.11%) Architect
1 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
1 1 (11.11%) Process Analyst
1 1 (11.11%) Retail Business Analyst
1 1 (11.11%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) LangGraph
2 2 (22.22%) LangChain
2 2 (22.22%) PyTorch
2 2 (22.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) AI Agents
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) LLM
1 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) MLOps
3 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (22.22%) Biotechnology
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Observability
3 2 (22.22%) Open Source
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Signal Processing
3 2 (22.22%) Statistics
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Content Management
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
1 2 (22.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) OpenAI
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) NVIDIA