Artificial Intelligence Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 103 102
Rank change year-on-year +47 -1 +52
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 65 28 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.86% 1.27% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 1.48% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 15 29
10th Percentile £400 £346 £200
25th Percentile £525 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £700 £731 £800
90th Percentile £775 £800 £955
South East median daily rate £600 £500 £638
% change year-on-year +20.00% -21.57% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Median hourly rate £29.61 £28.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% - -
South East median hourly rate £29.61 £54.25 £103.50
% change year-on-year -45.42% -47.58% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,526 1,889 2,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.73% 85.44% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 942 1,055 1,651
10th Percentile £263 £300 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% -1.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £625
90th Percentile £650 £686 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 80 88
10th Percentile £14.28 £18.68 £16.36
25th Percentile £15.13 £30.31 £24.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £59.47 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.71% +18.95% +153.16%
75th Percentile £49.86 £67.50 £66.11
90th Percentile £80.60 £86.08 £75.08
South East median hourly rate £21.82 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -62.05% +9.52% +68.54%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Artificial Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Artificial Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Berkshire +44 59 £613 -2.00% 410
Buckinghamshire +13 6 £500 - 38
Artificial Intelligence
South East

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (4.62%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.08%) Appian
2 2 (3.08%) Camunda
3 1 (1.54%) CMS
3 1 (1.54%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.54%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (10.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (9.23%) SAP CO
2 6 (9.23%) SAP FI
2 6 (9.23%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.54%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 30 (46.15%) Azure
2 15 (23.08%) AWS
3 7 (10.77%) GCP
4 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.15%) GitHub
6 4 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (6.15%) Serverless
7 3 (4.62%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.08%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.08%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (3.08%) WhatsApp
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.54%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.54%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.54%) prismic.io
9 1 (1.54%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) 4G
1 3 (4.62%) 5G
1 3 (4.62%) DOCSIS
1 3 (4.62%) GPON
1 3 (4.62%) LTE
1 3 (4.62%) MPLS
1 3 (4.62%) Radio Access Network
1 3 (4.62%) VoIP
1 3 (4.62%) xDSL
2 2 (3.08%) Converged Networks
3 1 (1.54%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) Big Data
2 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.54%) Power BI
3 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Git
2 3 (4.62%) GitLab
3 2 (3.08%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.08%) Robot Framework
3 2 (3.08%) Selenium
3 2 (3.08%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.54%) CMake
4 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.54%) MLflow
General
1 20 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.46%) Telecoms
3 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.31%) Finance
4 4 (6.15%) Legal
5 3 (4.62%) Military
6 2 (3.08%) Back Office
6 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Law
7 1 (1.54%) Local Government
7 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.54%) Marketing
7 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (46.15%) Architect
2 16 (24.62%) Developer
3 14 (21.54%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 12 (18.46%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (10.77%) Python Developer
6 6 (9.23%) SAP Architect
6 6 (9.23%) Senior
7 5 (7.69%) Analyst
7 5 (7.69%) Security Architect
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Cloud Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Principal Architect
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Python Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Trainer
9 3 (4.62%) Azure Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 3 (4.62%) OSS Architect
9 3 (4.62%) React Developer
10 2 (3.08%) Gen AI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.31%) FastAPI
2 6 (9.23%) PyTorch
2 6 (9.23%) TensorFlow
3 5 (7.69%) RESTful
4 4 (6.15%) Google JAX
4 4 (6.15%) JAX
4 4 (6.15%) scikit-learn
5 3 (4.62%) JSON
5 3 (4.62%) Kafka
5 3 (4.62%) REST
6 2 (3.08%) FHIR
6 2 (3.08%) Jinja
6 2 (3.08%) NETCONF
6 2 (3.08%) React
6 2 (3.08%) XML
7 1 (1.54%) Express.js
7 1 (1.54%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.54%) LangChain
7 1 (1.54%) OpenVINO
7 1 (1.54%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Algorithms
2 6 (9.23%) Augmented Reality
3 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.62%) TM Forum
5 2 (3.08%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.08%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.08%) Robotics
5 2 (3.08%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.54%) NHS
6 1 (1.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Android
1 1 (1.54%) Linux
1 1 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (41.54%) Machine Learning
2 20 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 20 (30.77%) DevOps
3 19 (29.23%) LLM
4 18 (27.69%) Generative AI
5 15 (23.08%) Analytics
6 14 (21.54%) Data Visualisation
6 14 (21.54%) Visualisation
7 12 (18.46%) Data Science
8 11 (16.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (15.38%) Agile
9 10 (15.38%) Decision-Making
9 10 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (10.77%) Computer Vision
11 7 (10.77%) Containerisation
11 7 (10.77%) Predictive Analytics
11 7 (10.77%) Prototyping
11 7 (10.77%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.69%) Python
2 5 (7.69%) C++
3 4 (6.15%) Java
3 4 (6.15%) R
4 3 (4.62%) C
4 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.54%) Bicep
5 1 (1.54%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (9.23%) Degree
1 6 (9.23%) Master's Degree
2 3 (4.62%) PhD
3 2 (3.08%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) GDPR
2 5 (7.69%) EU AI Act
2 5 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.62%) NIST
4 2 (3.08%) OASIS TOSCA
4 2 (3.08%) PMO
5 1 (1.54%) HL7
5 1 (1.54%) QA
5 1 (1.54%) SLA
5 1 (1.54%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (4.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) Ansible
3 2 (3.08%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (3.08%) Terraform
4 1 (1.54%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 10 (15.38%) Databricks
1 10 (15.38%) OpenAI
2 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
3 8 (12.31%) Virgin Media
4 7 (10.77%) Salesforce
4 7 (10.77%) SAP
5 3 (4.62%) PayPal
6 2 (3.08%) Amdocs
6 2 (3.08%) Cisco
6 2 (3.08%) Ericsson
6 2 (3.08%) Huawei
6 2 (3.08%) NetCracker
6 2 (3.08%) Nokia
6 2 (3.08%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.08%) Veracode
7 1 (1.54%) Oracle
7 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.54%) Workday