Semantic Kernel Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Semantic Kernel
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Semantic Kernel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Kernel 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.030% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £315 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 - -
75th Percentile £345 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £575 -
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

Semantic Kernel falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 982 639 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.90% 18.43% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 432 551
10th Percentile £325 £293 £325
25th Percentile £431 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £561 £619
90th Percentile £725 £625 £675
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 16 29
10th Percentile £29.07 £22.78 £27.00
25th Percentile £54.84 £49.06 £56.65
Median hourly rate £68.11 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +36.22% -18.83% +2.67%
75th Percentile £70.13 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.44 £58.13 £74.89
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.10%

Semantic Kernel
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 Semantic Kernel within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 September 2026. 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
East Sussex - 1 £330 -
West Sussex - 1 - - 2
Semantic Kernel
England

Semantic Kernel
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Chroma
1 1 (50.00%) Milvus
1 1 (50.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Weaviate
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CrewAI
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) LangChain
1 2 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Faiss
2 1 (50.00%) gRPC
2 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (50.00%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (50.00%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (50.00%) pgvector
2 1 (50.00%) pydantic
2 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI