AI Transformation Contract Job Trends

AI Transformation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring AI Transformation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 533 639
Rank change year-on-year +11 +106 -
Contract jobs citing AI Transformation 30 16 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.091% 0.042% 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.049% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 0
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £581 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £850 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% - -
75th Percentile £775 £956 -
90th Percentile £850 £1,043 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

AI Transformation 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,886 32,659 43,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.55% 85.92% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,552 19,727 29,515
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,876 1,335 1,584
10th Percentile £14.31 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -2.35% +45.65%
75th Percentile £43.22 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £74.26 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -48.10% +1.18% +73.47%

AI Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI Transformation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AI Transformation job vacancy trend in the UK

AI Transformation
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AI Transformation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AI Transformation

AI Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI Transformation over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI Transformation in the UK

AI Transformation
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI Transformation within the UK over the 6 months to 5 October 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
England +20 22 £700 -17.65% 5
London +20 16 £700 -22.22% 5
Work from Home +24 10 £500 -4.76% 4
UK excluding London -4 5 £700 - 2
South East +19 3 £625 -
North of England - 1 £850 -
East of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 £850 -

AI Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (10.00%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.67%) Copilot Studio
5 2 (6.67%) Figma
5 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.67%) Serverless
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Pinecone
2 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
1 3 (10.00%) JMeter
1 3 (10.00%) Locust
1 3 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (3.33%) Balsamiq
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Legal
4 2 (6.67%) Marketing
4 2 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Aviation
5 1 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Electronics
5 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.33%) Front Office
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Social Science
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (13.33%) Architect
1 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 4 (13.33%) Gen AI Engineer
1 4 (13.33%) Lead
2 3 (10.00%) Consultant
2 3 (10.00%) Sales Director
2 3 (10.00%) Senior
2 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Designer
3 2 (6.67%) Python Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Security Consultant
3 2 (6.67%) Service Designer
3 2 (6.67%) Software Development Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.67%) Technical Leader
3 2 (6.67%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) LangChain
2 3 (10.00%) pytest
3 2 (6.67%) LangGraph
3 2 (6.67%) Playwright
4 1 (3.33%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.33%) FMCG
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.33%) PKI
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (96.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 15 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 13 (43.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (26.67%) Agile
5 7 (23.33%) Business Transformation
5 7 (23.33%) LLM
5 7 (23.33%) Roadmaps
6 6 (20.00%) Generative AI
6 6 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 6 (20.00%) Use Case
7 5 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
7 5 (16.67%) Prototyping
8 4 (13.33%) Data Science
8 4 (13.33%) DevOps
8 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (13.33%) Service Delivery
9 3 (10.00%) B2B
9 3 (10.00%) Change Management
9 3 (10.00%) Validation
9 3 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Python
2 2 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.33%) CISM
3 1 (3.33%) CISSP
3 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.33%) PgMP
3 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Podman
2 1 (3.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.33%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) Zscaler