Semantic Kernel Contracts

Microsoft Semantic Kernel
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Kernel 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.040% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £340 - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £620 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,469 8,572 11,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.52% 21.96% 22.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,045 5,851 8,629
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £427 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £635 £665 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 248 156
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.50 £32.88
25th Percentile £40.88 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.94 £53.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% -10.42% +6.50%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.35 £74.46 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £58.60 £58.55
% change year-on-year -6.15% +0.10% +1.82%

Semantic Kernel
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic Kernel over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Kernel in the UK

Semantic Kernel
Top 3 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 2 £375 - 5
England - 2 £375 - 12
Work from Home - 1 £400 - 7

Semantic Kernel
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AI
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Science Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Gen AI Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LangChain
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Probabilistic Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Asynchronous Programming
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Foundry
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Workday