Semantic Kernel Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Semantic Kernel
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Semantic Kernel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Semantic Kernel over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Semantic Kernel 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.070% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,845 3,044 3,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.39% 16.77% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,895 1,956 2,770
10th Percentile £313 £325 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £612 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £678
UK median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 180 107
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £39.85
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +5.88% -1.62%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.96 £74.45 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -

Semantic Kernel
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
East Midlands - 1 £575 -
Midlands - 1 £575 -
North West - 1 £575 -
North of England - 1 £575 - 1
Semantic Kernel
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Semantic Kernel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Neptune
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Google Gemini
2 1 (50.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CrewAI
2 1 (50.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Twin
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI