Mistral Contract Job Trends

Mistral
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Mistral products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mistral over the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Mistral AI SAS.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 669 556 -
Rank change year-on-year -113 - -
Contract jobs citing Mistral 13 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.012% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.058% 0.026% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile £580 £465 -
25th Percentile £681 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% - -
75th Percentile £900 £563 -
90th Percentile £960 £585 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £688 - -

All Vendors
UK

Mistral falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,566 15,550 16,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.80% 47.19% 43.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,905 9,524 10,392
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,173 793 745
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.69 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% -11.75% -33.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.14 £67.90 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.24 £27.50
% change year-on-year +31.83% -22.76% -31.25%

Mistral
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Mistral job vacancy trend in the UK

Mistral
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mistral

Mistral
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mistral over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Mistral in the UK

Mistral
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mistral within the UK over the 6 months to 30 August 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
England -99 10 £688 +52.78%
London -71 7 £900 +100.00%
Work from Home -57 5 £1,050 +100.00%
UK excluding London - 3 £688 -
North of England - 3 £688 -
Yorkshire - 3 £688 -

Mistral
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Anthropic Claude
2 7 (53.85%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 3 (23.08%) Google Gemini
5 2 (15.38%) Azure AI
5 2 (15.38%) ChatGPT
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub
5 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (7.69%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MLflow
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Legal
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
1 4 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Lead
1 4 (30.77%) Technical Leader
2 3 (23.08%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Gen AI Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Principal Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Security Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) LangGraph
2 4 (30.77%) Kafka
2 4 (30.77%) Spring
2 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
3 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
3 3 (23.08%) CrewAI
3 3 (23.08%) React
3 3 (23.08%) Vue
4 2 (15.38%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) AI Agents
2 4 (30.77%) Public Cloud
3 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) AI
1 13 (100.00%) LLM
2 8 (61.54%) Software Engineering
3 6 (46.15%) Prompt Engineering
3 6 (46.15%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
5 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven
5 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (30.77%) Fraud Detection
5 4 (30.77%) Generative AI
5 4 (30.77%) Intelligent Automation
5 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
5 4 (30.77%) SDLC
5 4 (30.77%) Software Delivery
5 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (30.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Java
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Scala
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) C++
3 1 (7.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) OpenAI
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 4 (30.77%) Databricks
3 4 (30.77%) Google
4 3 (23.08%) Foundry