AI Transformation Contract Job Trends in the South East

AI Transformation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring AI Transformation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 180 -
Rank change year-on-year +19 - -
Contract jobs citing AI Transformation 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.084% 0.046% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.055% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £543 - -
25th Percentile £569 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £669 - -
90th Percentile £688 - -
England median daily rate £700 £850 -
% change year-on-year -17.65% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

AI Transformation 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,157 3,629 4,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 88.90% 82.97% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,978 2,174 3,333
10th Percentile £213 £254 £248
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 201 260
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £24.07
Median hourly rate £22.19 £58.38 £54.38
Median % change year-on-year -61.99% +7.35% +80.48%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.18 £66.70
90th Percentile £69.11 £76.86 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +47.11%

AI Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

AI Transformation job vacancy trend in the South East

AI Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI Transformation in the South East over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI Transformation in the South East

AI Transformation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI Transformation within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 October 2025. 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
Thames Valley +10 3 £625 -
Berkshire +17 2 £700 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £550 -
AI Transformation
England

AI Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Podman
1 1 (33.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler