AI Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

AI
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 15 21
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing AI 2 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.16% 1.10% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.35% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £174
25th Percentile £450 £388 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £208
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +104.82% -58.50%
75th Percentile £550 £463 £510
90th Percentile - - £644
South East median daily rate £550 £538 £625
% change year-on-year +2.33% -14.00% +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 145 74 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 84.30% 81.32% 86.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 43 106
10th Percentile £203 £239 £144
25th Percentile £322 £406 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £444
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +12.68% -6.58%
75th Percentile £547 £575 £550
90th Percentile £604 £638 £625
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £517
% change year-on-year -2.12% -1.24% +1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 4 12
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.96 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.41 £25.19
Median hourly rate £22.00 £35.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.02% +36.52% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £52.50 £32.99
90th Percentile £58.57 £61.50 £47.38
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -44.53% -22.73% +26.44%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

AI job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing AI

AI
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Oxford - 2 £500 - 42
AI
South East

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform