Generative AI Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Generative AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.22% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £825 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
75th Percentile £875 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +41.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 354 125 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 77.12% 88.03% 72.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 74 84
10th Percentile £225 £181 £173
25th Percentile £400 £250 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £444 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% -1.39% -
75th Percentile £675 £550 £503
90th Percentile £775 £684 £638
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 13 5
10th Percentile £12.84 £20.86 £13.39
25th Percentile £14.24 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.75 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.10% +0.60% -22.62%
75th Percentile £54.69 £83.00 £27.50
90th Percentile £65.13 £89.63 £67.25
South East median hourly rate £50.49 £20.75 £57.35
% change year-on-year +143.30% -63.82% +7.20%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Generative AI job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Generative 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes