EU AI Act Contracts in the South East

European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring EU AI Act skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited EU AI Act over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 182 -
Rank change year-on-year +25 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing EU AI Act 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.17% 0.062% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.91% 0.51% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £531 - -
25th Percentile £559 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

EU AI Act falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 657 594 785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 18.59% 12.24% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 303 495
10th Percentile £200 £237 £242
25th Percentile £388 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £714
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 53 47
10th Percentile £15.12 £10.82 £15.21
25th Percentile £15.40 £17.63 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.17 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.46% -27.67% +150.00%
75th Percentile £68.58 £62.96 £55.22
90th Percentile £87.50 £70.00 £72.64
England median hourly rate £31.64 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.05% -21.43% +52.17%

EU AI Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing EU AI Act as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for EU AI Act in the South East

EU AI Act
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing EU AI Act.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing EU AI Act

EU AI Act
DemandTrendContract 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 EU AI Act within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +16 6 £588 - 4
Thames Valley +11 6 £588 - 6
Hampshire - 1 £600 -
EU AI Act
England

EU AI Act
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (16.67%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (16.67%) SonarCloud
1 1 (16.67%) Vertex AI
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) MLflow
2 1 (16.67%) Snyk
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
1 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 5 (83.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Compliance Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Compliance Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Data Compliance Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Compliance Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) PyTorch
1 5 (83.33%) TensorFlow
2 4 (66.67%) Google JAX
2 4 (66.67%) JAX
2 4 (66.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
1 5 (83.33%) Security Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 4 (66.67%) Data Science
2 4 (66.67%) LLM
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Deep Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (50.00%) MLOps
3 3 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (50.00%) Secure Coding
3 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Workflow
4 2 (33.33%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) C++
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) R
3 3 (50.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Kubeflow
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform