Artificial Intelligence Contract Job Trends in Reading

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 78 81
Rank change year-on-year +44 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 27 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.66% 1.26% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.06% 1.46% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 7
10th Percentile £391 £344 £380
25th Percentile £519 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £520 £425
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +22.35% -41.38%
75th Percentile - £763 £525
90th Percentile £620 £800 £623
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -24.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Artificial Intelligence 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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 534 957 1,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.07% 86.06% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 511 661
10th Percentile £350 £350 £311
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £711 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 30 20
10th Percentile - £14.50 £18.40
25th Percentile £14.75 £53.74 £52.23
Median hourly rate £27.50 £61.60 £65.56
Median % change year-on-year -55.36% -6.04% +87.91%
75th Percentile £55.00 £76.46 £74.20
90th Percentile £58.00 £87.46 £75.42
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £58.44
% change year-on-year -47.55% +5.40% +41.87%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Reading

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Artificial Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Reading over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Reading

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) Appian
2 1 (3.70%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP QM
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) AWS
3 6 (22.22%) GCP
4 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) GitHub
5 4 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
6 2 (7.41%) WhatsApp
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.70%) Azure App Service
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.70%) Serverless
7 1 (3.70%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (3.70%) Twilio
7 1 (3.70%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) 4G
1 1 (3.70%) 5G
1 1 (3.70%) Converged Networks
1 1 (3.70%) DOCSIS
1 1 (3.70%) GPON
1 1 (3.70%) LTE
1 1 (3.70%) MPLS
1 1 (3.70%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (3.70%) SMS
1 1 (3.70%) VoIP
1 1 (3.70%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Big Data
1 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) CMake
3 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) MLflow
3 1 (3.70%) Robot Framework
3 1 (3.70%) Selenium
3 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (29.63%) Telecoms
2 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Back Office
4 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Architect
2 8 (29.63%) Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 7 (25.93%) Python Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Security Architect
5 4 (14.81%) Cloud Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Senior
5 4 (14.81%) Senior Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Senior Python Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (11.11%) Azure Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 3 (11.11%) React Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Gen AI Developer
7 2 (7.41%) PMO Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Transformation Analyst
8 1 (3.70%) Consultant
8 1 (3.70%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) FastAPI
2 6 (22.22%) PyTorch
2 6 (22.22%) TensorFlow
3 4 (14.81%) Google JAX
3 4 (14.81%) JAX
3 4 (14.81%) RESTful
3 4 (14.81%) scikit-learn
4 3 (11.11%) REST
5 2 (7.41%) FHIR
5 2 (7.41%) Kafka
5 2 (7.41%) React
6 1 (3.70%) CNTK
6 1 (3.70%) Express.js
6 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.70%) Hugging Face
6 1 (3.70%) JSON
6 1 (3.70%) LangChain
6 1 (3.70%) NETCONF
6 1 (3.70%) XML
6 1 (3.70%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Algorithms
1 4 (14.81%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.41%) AI Agents
2 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.70%) NHS
3 1 (3.70%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Android
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Machine Learning
2 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
2 11 (40.74%) Generative AI
3 10 (37.04%) DevOps
3 10 (37.04%) LLM
4 6 (22.22%) Data Science
4 6 (22.22%) Design Patterns
4 6 (22.22%) MLOps
5 5 (18.52%) Security Architecture
6 4 (14.81%) Analytics
6 4 (14.81%) CQRS
6 4 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (14.81%) Incident Response
6 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.81%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (14.81%) Threat Modelling
6 4 (14.81%) Workflow
7 3 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 17 (62.96%) Python
2 5 (18.52%) C++
3 4 (14.81%) Java
3 4 (14.81%) R
4 3 (11.11%) C
5 1 (3.70%) Bicep
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) EU AI Act
1 5 (18.52%) GDPR
1 5 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (11.11%) NIST
3 2 (7.41%) PMO
4 1 (3.70%) HL7
4 1 (3.70%) QA
4 1 (3.70%) SLA
4 1 (3.70%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Databricks
2 8 (29.63%) Virgin Media
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.41%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco
5 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (3.70%) Veracode