AI Contract Job Trends in Paddington

AI
City of Westminster > Paddington

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Paddington requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -
Contract jobs citing AI 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Paddington 27.78% 5.88% 5.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.78% 6.67% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £525
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £495 - £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £64.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
City of Westminster median hourly rate £54.50 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Paddington

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 Paddington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18 15 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Paddington 100.00% 88.24% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 14
10th Percentile £173 £346 £440
25th Percentile £294 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +22.09%
75th Percentile £620 £575 £569
90th Percentile £731 £660 £575
City of Westminster median daily rate £531 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -5.56% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +188.82% - -
75th Percentile £64.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
City of Westminster median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 -
% change year-on-year +204.72% - -

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Paddington

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

AI job vacancy trend in Paddington

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Paddington

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Paddington citing AI

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Paddington 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
General
1 3 (60.00%) Retail
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) BigQuery Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing Director
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Life Science
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Sharing
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Economics
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy