Generative AI Contract Job Trends in Reading

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Generative AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 57 -
Rank change year-on-year -30 - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 5 11 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.44% 1.81% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.96% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 0
10th Percentile £410 £525 -
25th Percentile £463 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £600 -
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 945 560 976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 82.68% 92.26% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 357 529
10th Percentile £360 £350 £331
25th Percentile £453 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £585
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -8.12% +6.36%
75th Percentile £645 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £700 £715
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +3.45% -7.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 17 34
10th Percentile £57.50 - £14.50
25th Percentile £80.75 £14.75 £51.86
Median hourly rate £84.00 £20.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +304.82% -66.31% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £38.42 £75.83
90th Percentile £104.50 £60.50 £87.46
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.50 £32.18 £60.83
% change year-on-year +159.48% -47.10% +6.94%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Generative AI job vacancy trend in Reading

Generative AI
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Generative AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Generative AI

Generative AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Earned Value Management
2 3 (60.00%) Impact Assessments
2 3 (60.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) API Design
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) GRC
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) NEC
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk