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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 539 633
Rank change year-on-year -11 +94 -
Contract jobs citing AI Transformation 37 16 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.044% 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.051% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 13 0
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £600 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £800 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £850 £950 -
90th Percentile £895 £1,035 -
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 31,497 31,611 41,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.10% 86.07% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,721 19,029 27,959
10th Percentile £294 £310 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,046 1,115 1,587
10th Percentile £14.45 £15.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.46 £20.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.03 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.20% -20.21% +25.43%
75th Percentile £43.21 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.57 £35.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -35.52% -20.36% +49.97%

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 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI Transformation in the UK

AI Transformation
Top 9 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 7 November 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 -9 29 £700 -12.50% 285
London +8 20 £700 -17.65% 175
Work from Home +24 13 £575 +9.52% 159
UK excluding London -31 8 £700 - 174
South East +5 4 £550 - 119
North of England - 3 £850 - 26
East of England - 1 - - 5
North East - 1 £800 - 1
North West - 1 £850 - 21

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 (8.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) AWS
3 4 (10.81%) GCP
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (8.11%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (8.11%) GitHub
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (8.11%) Serverless
5 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) Copilot Studio
5 2 (5.41%) Figma
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Pinecone
2 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.70%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
1 3 (8.11%) JMeter
1 3 (8.11%) Locust
1 3 (8.11%) Selenium
2 1 (2.70%) Balsamiq
General
1 15 (40.54%) Finance
2 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Legal
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Marketing
5 2 (5.41%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Aviation
6 1 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Electronics
6 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.70%) Front Office
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Social Science
6 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (13.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 5 (13.51%) Lead
2 4 (10.81%) Architect
2 4 (10.81%) Consultant
2 4 (10.81%) Gen AI Engineer
2 4 (10.81%) Senior
3 3 (8.11%) Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Business Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Sales Director
3 3 (8.11%) Software Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Technical Leader
4 2 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Designer
4 2 (5.41%) Management Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Programme Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Python Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) LangChain
2 3 (8.11%) LangGraph
2 3 (8.11%) pytest
3 2 (5.41%) Playwright
4 1 (2.70%) CrewAI
4 1 (2.70%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) AI Agents
2 3 (8.11%) PKI
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (97.30%) AI
2 17 (45.95%) Machine Learning
3 13 (35.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 9 (24.32%) Agile
5 8 (21.62%) Generative AI
5 8 (21.62%) LLM
5 8 (21.62%) Use Case
6 7 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (18.92%) Roadmaps
7 6 (16.22%) Business Transformation
7 6 (16.22%) DevOps
7 6 (16.22%) Prototyping
7 6 (16.22%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
8 5 (13.51%) Incident Response
8 5 (13.51%) Prompt Engineering
8 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (10.81%) Data Science
9 4 (10.81%) Service Delivery
9 4 (10.81%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) Python
2 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.11%) SQL
3 1 (2.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) Degree
2 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) CISM
3 1 (2.70%) CISSP
3 1 (2.70%) PgMP
3 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Ansible
1 3 (8.11%) Podman
1 3 (8.11%) Proxmox
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) OpenAI
3 3 (8.11%) Zscaler
4 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow