Gen AI Developer Contracts

Generative AI Developer
UK

The median Generative AI Developer daily rate in the UK is £838, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 577 -
Rank change year-on-year +91 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Gen AI Developer 34 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.011% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.012% -
Number of daily rates quoted 32 5 0
10th Percentile £625 - -
25th Percentile £794 £825 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £838 £850 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% - -
75th Percentile £881 £875 -
90th Percentile £893 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Gen AI Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Gen AI Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Gen AI Developer in the UK

Gen AI Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Gen AI Developer.

Daily rate trend for Gen AI Developer in the UK

Gen AI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gen AI Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gen AI Developer in the UK

Gen AI Developer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gen AI Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +84 32 £838 -1.47% 4
London +62 29 £838 -1.47% 4
Work from Home +61 24 £838 -1.47% 4
UK excluding London - 3 £650 - 1
East of England - 2 £650 -
Wales - 1 £475 -

Gen AI Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Gen AI Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Gen AI Developer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Python
1 34 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 34 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 31 (91.18%) LLM
3 29 (85.29%) Agile
4 28 (82.35%) Machine Learning
4 28 (82.35%) React
4 28 (82.35%) FastAPI
4 28 (82.35%) CI/CD
5 27 (79.41%) Kubernetes
5 27 (79.41%) Docker
5 27 (79.41%) Banking
5 27 (79.41%) SQL
6 26 (76.47%) Jenkins
6 26 (76.47%) TypeScript
6 26 (76.47%) Technical Analysis
6 26 (76.47%) Django
6 26 (76.47%) Use Case
6 26 (76.47%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (76.47%) Ansible
7 23 (67.65%) Investment Banking
8 22 (64.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (64.71%) Java
8 22 (64.71%) SDLC
8 22 (64.71%) DevOps
9 21 (61.76%) .NET
10 20 (58.82%) C#
11 18 (52.94%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
12 7 (20.59%) Finance

Gen AI Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) AWS
2 3 (8.82%) Azure
2 3 (8.82%) GCP
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (2.94%) IaaS
3 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.94%) PaaS
3 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Big Data
1 2 (5.88%) Hadoop
1 2 (5.88%) Tableau
2 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.94%) MySQL
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (76.47%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (79.41%) Banking
2 26 (76.47%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (67.65%) Investment Banking
4 18 (52.94%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (20.59%) Finance
5 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
6 5 (14.71%) Financial Institution
6 5 (14.71%) Front Office
7 1 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.94%) Retail
7 1 (2.94%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (82.35%) FastAPI
1 28 (82.35%) React
2 26 (76.47%) Django
3 21 (61.76%) .NET
4 2 (5.88%) HTML
4 2 (5.88%) JSON
4 2 (5.88%) Matplotlib
4 2 (5.88%) NumPy
4 2 (5.88%) Pandas
4 2 (5.88%) PyTorch
4 2 (5.88%) scikit-learn
4 2 (5.88%) Seaborn
4 2 (5.88%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.94%) CSS
5 1 (2.94%) Flask
5 1 (2.94%) Spring
5 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.94%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 34 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 31 (91.18%) LLM
3 29 (85.29%) Agile
4 28 (82.35%) CI/CD
4 28 (82.35%) Machine Learning
5 26 (76.47%) Technical Analysis
5 26 (76.47%) Use Case
6 22 (64.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (64.71%) DevOps
6 22 (64.71%) SDLC
7 5 (14.71%) E-Commerce
8 3 (8.82%) Data Science
9 2 (5.88%) Data Analysis
9 2 (5.88%) Data Munging
9 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 2 (5.88%) Reinforcement Learning
9 2 (5.88%) Software Engineering
9 2 (5.88%) Visualisation
10 1 (2.94%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 34 (100.00%) Python
2 27 (79.41%) SQL
3 26 (76.47%) TypeScript
4 22 (64.71%) Java
5 20 (58.82%) C#
6 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.88%) R
7 1 (2.94%) Go
7 1 (2.94%) PHP
7 1 (2.94%) Ruby
7 1 (2.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (79.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (79.41%) Kubernetes
2 26 (76.47%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle
1 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
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