AI Contract Job Trends in West London

AI
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing AI 25 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in West London 7.99% - 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.06% - 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 3
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £452 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.82%
75th Percentile £614 - £519
90th Percentile £629 - £530
London median daily rate £600 £642 £650
% change year-on-year -6.54% -1.23% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £31.49 - -
London median hourly rate £42.79 £42.03 £47.40
% change year-on-year +1.81% -11.33% -7.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West London

AI 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 in West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 276 178 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 88.18% 82.79% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 126 276
10th Percentile £204 £220 £200
25th Percentile £358 £363 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £411 £515
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -20.15% +0.73%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £600
90th Percentile £638 £588 £649
London median daily rate £526 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.45% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 23
10th Percentile £19.54 £20.20 £17.10
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.13 £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.93 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -58.31% -11.29%
75th Percentile £30.56 £28.63 £69.50
90th Percentile £37.88 £37.53 £83.00
London median hourly rate £31.00 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -13.90% +5.88% -11.39%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

AI job vacancy trend in West London

AI
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing AI

AI
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI in West London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI in West London

AI
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing AI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing AI

AI
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the West London region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Hillingdon - 8 £388 - 17
Richmond upon Thames - 6 £603 - 2
Hounslow - 4 £525 - 18
Wembley - 1 £600 - 6
Hammersmith - 1 £200 - 2
AI
London

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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 7 (28.00%) Apache
1 7 (28.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (4.00%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) AWS
1 11 (44.00%) GCP
2 10 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 10 (40.00%) Azure
3 9 (36.00%) Power Platform
4 8 (32.00%) Collibra
5 7 (28.00%) Amazon S3
5 7 (28.00%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (28.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (12.00%) Datadog
7 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (4.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (4.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (4.00%) FTP
1 1 (4.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (4.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (4.00%) RTP
1 1 (4.00%) SSH
1 1 (4.00%) VPN
1 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) BigQuery
2 9 (36.00%) Power BI
3 8 (32.00%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (32.00%) Data Lake
3 8 (32.00%) Mixpanel
4 7 (28.00%) OLAP
4 7 (28.00%) OLTP
5 3 (12.00%) Big Data
6 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.00%) Metadata
6 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Aviation
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 6 (24.00%) Data Engineer
1 6 (24.00%) Principal Data Engineer
1 6 (24.00%) Principal Engineer
1 6 (24.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 6 (24.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Data Scientist
3 4 (16.00%) Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Product Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Python Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) Great Expectations
1 7 (28.00%) Kafka
2 4 (16.00%) TensorFlow
3 3 (12.00%) Pandas
3 3 (12.00%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.00%) PySpark
4 1 (4.00%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.00%) BYOD
5 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 12 (48.00%) Analytics
2 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (44.00%) Data Modelling
3 11 (44.00%) DevOps
4 10 (40.00%) LLM
4 10 (40.00%) Observability
5 9 (36.00%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (36.00%) Data Engineering
5 9 (36.00%) Data Governance
5 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (32.00%) Data Architecture
6 8 (32.00%) Data Privacy
6 8 (32.00%) ETL
6 8 (32.00%) Software Engineering
7 7 (28.00%) Batch Processing
7 7 (28.00%) Dimensional Modelling
7 7 (28.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (28.00%) Monte Carlo Method
7 7 (28.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Python
1 12 (48.00%) SQL
2 7 (28.00%) C#
3 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) PgMP
3 1 (4.00%) PhD
3 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) Data Quality
1 8 (32.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) EU AI Act
3 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
3 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Google
2 8 (32.00%) Databricks
3 3 (12.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Informatica
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) New Relic
4 1 (4.00%) UiPath
4 1 (4.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) Workday