EU AI Act Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring EU AI Act skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing EU AI Act 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.13% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
South East median daily rate £525 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 398 299 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.66% 17.87% 18.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 141 297
10th Percentile £300 £250 £175
25th Percentile £406 £400 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £665
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 22
10th Percentile £15.38 £17.85 £18.10
25th Percentile £18.90 £60.75 £24.27
Median hourly rate £36.00 £61.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.46% +104.98% +25.00%
75th Percentile £81.75 £64.73 £69.00
90th Percentile £106.30 £65.81 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £38.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +35.71% -25.33% +50.00%

EU AI Act
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing EU AI Act relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

EU AI Act job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

EU AI Act
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing EU AI Act.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing EU AI Act

EU AI Act
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 EU AI Act within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 February 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
Oxfordshire - 2 £525 -
Berkshire - 1 - - 2
EU AI Act
South East

EU AI Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) Semantic Layer
General
1 3 (100.00%) Legal
2 2 (66.67%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Officer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Case Management
2 2 (66.67%) Due Diligence
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Register
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Master Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (66.67%) PERC
3 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (33.33%) NIST