Artificial Intelligence Contracts

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Artificial Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 295 307
Rank change year-on-year +190 +12 -52
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 875 492 770
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.04% 0.87% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 0.97% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 334 508
10th Percentile £410 £413 £431
25th Percentile £500 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% +9.26%
75th Percentile £738 £694 £675
90th Percentile £788 £868 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £545
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% +21.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 19
10th Percentile £17.75 £20.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.38 £35.00 £27.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £43.34 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% +3.19% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.94 £48.55
90th Percentile £76.50 £85.63 £63.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £43.34 £42.00
% change year-on-year +44.21% +3.19% +23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Artificial Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence.

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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 +191 772 £600 +2.13% 1,221
London +189 494 £620 -0.80% 668
Work from Home +158 365 £575 +3.60% 586
UK excluding London +95 298 £500 -2.44% 549
North of England +78 105 £500 -13.98% 138
Midlands +64 52 £613 +40.00% 57
North West +42 52 £500 -14.89% 93
Scotland +62 48 £461 -2.89% 32
South East -4 44 £625 +7.76% 153
West Midlands +41 38 £550 +29.41% 43
South West -4 34 £575 +4.55% 83
Yorkshire +38 32 £600 -3.61% 37
North East +28 23 - - 8
East of England +23 20 £388 -36.73% 66
East Midlands +23 14 £750 +71.43% 14
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 14

Artificial Intelligence
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 78 (8.91%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (8.00%) Apache
3 10 (1.14%) Confluence
3 10 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.46%) SAS
7 3 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.23%) CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 158 (18.06%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.23%) Gliffy
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.11%) Simulink
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (2.17%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 12 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.80%) SimCorp Dimension
5 5 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.57%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.34%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.23%) Magento
8 1 (0.11%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.11%) SAP CX
8 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.11%) Shopify
8 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 238 (27.20%) AWS
2 229 (26.17%) Azure
3 148 (16.91%) GCP
4 43 (4.91%) Cloud Computing
5 42 (4.80%) Power Platform
6 34 (3.89%) Vertex AI
7 32 (3.66%) Serverless
8 24 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (2.29%) Amazon S3
10 19 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (1.49%) Amazon SageMaker
11 13 (1.49%) GitHub
11 13 (1.49%) SaaS
12 12 (1.37%) ChatGPT
12 12 (1.37%) OpenShift
13 11 (1.26%) Google Compute Engine
13 11 (1.26%) OCI
13 11 (1.26%) Snowflake
14 9 (1.03%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.03%) CTI
1 9 (1.03%) VoIP
2 5 (0.57%) Firewall
2 5 (0.57%) Internet
2 5 (0.57%) Network Security
3 4 (0.46%) 5G
3 4 (0.46%) VPN
3 4 (0.46%) Wireless
4 2 (0.23%) MQTT
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) DHCP
5 1 (0.11%) DNS
5 1 (0.11%) Junos
5 1 (0.11%) LTE
5 1 (0.11%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (7.54%) Apache Ignite
3 32 (3.66%) Power BI
4 29 (3.31%) Big Data
5 28 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (2.74%) BigQuery
7 22 (2.51%) Tableau
8 12 (1.37%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.37%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.14%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.03%) DynamoDB
11 8 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (0.91%) Data Mining
12 7 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
12 7 (0.80%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.69%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.69%) MySQL
14 5 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (0.46%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 53 (6.06%) Cypress.io
2 35 (4.00%) Git
3 32 (3.66%) JIRA
4 14 (1.60%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.26%) Selenium
6 9 (1.03%) ER Studio
6 9 (1.03%) ERwin
7 8 (0.91%) MLflow
8 7 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.80%) CircleCI
8 7 (0.80%) GitLab
9 6 (0.69%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.57%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.57%) NeoLoad
10 5 (0.57%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.46%) Appium
11 4 (0.46%) Mercurial
12 1 (0.11%) CMake
12 1 (0.11%) Gradle
12 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 203 (23.20%) Finance
2 138 (15.77%) Social Skills
3 113 (12.91%) Front Office
4 109 (12.46%) Banking
5 54 (6.17%) Public Sector
6 47 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (3.43%) Telecoms
8 28 (3.20%) Retail
9 26 (2.97%) Legal
10 21 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (2.29%) Law
11 20 (2.29%) Marketing
12 19 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 19 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
13 16 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.71%) Investment Banking
15 10 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.14%) German Language
16 9 (1.03%) Electronics
16 9 (1.03%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 287 (32.80%) Developer
2 125 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 110 (12.57%) Architect
4 92 (10.51%) Software Engineer
5 88 (10.06%) Python Engineer
6 79 (9.03%) Python Developer
7 71 (8.11%) Python Software Engineer
8 69 (7.89%) Lead
9 66 (7.54%) React Developer
10 65 (7.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 62 (7.09%) Senior
12 61 (6.97%) Analyst
13 52 (5.94%) Business Analyst
14 43 (4.91%) Full Stack Engineer
15 40 (4.57%) Full Stack Developer
16 35 (4.00%) Consultant
16 35 (4.00%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 34 (3.89%) Data Engineer
18 33 (3.77%) Full Stack Python Developer
19 29 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (16.11%) HTML
2 94 (10.74%) React
3 65 (7.43%) gRPC
3 65 (7.43%) Material-UI
3 65 (7.43%) Protocol Buffers
3 65 (7.43%) Redux
4 62 (7.09%) TensorFlow
5 52 (5.94%) PyTorch
6 33 (3.77%) Pandas
7 31 (3.54%) CSS
7 31 (3.54%) scikit-learn
8 27 (3.09%) NumPy
9 20 (2.29%) .NET
10 19 (2.17%) AngularJS
10 19 (2.17%) REST
11 18 (2.06%) Spring
12 17 (1.94%) Node.js
13 16 (1.83%) RESTful
14 15 (1.71%) SciPy
15 13 (1.49%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 103 (11.77%) Hedge funds
2 95 (10.86%) Fixed Income
3 68 (7.77%) Equities
4 65 (7.43%) Algorithms
5 45 (5.14%) Product Ownership
6 30 (3.43%) Derivative
6 30 (3.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 23 (2.63%) Robotics
8 20 (2.29%) Public Cloud
9 19 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (2.17%) Management Information System
10 16 (1.83%) IoT
11 14 (1.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 13 (1.49%) IVR
13 11 (1.26%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.14%) Cloud Native
15 9 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
15 9 (1.03%) FMCG
16 8 (0.91%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.26%) Linux
1 11 (1.26%) Windows
2 7 (0.80%) Android
3 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (48.57%) Machine Learning
2 271 (30.97%) Software Engineering
3 263 (30.06%) Agile
4 162 (18.51%) Conversational UI
5 137 (15.66%) DevOps
6 134 (15.31%) Code Quality
7 128 (14.63%) Analytics
8 124 (14.17%) Data Science
9 102 (11.66%) Asset Management
10 96 (10.97%) Computer Science
10 96 (10.97%) Full Stack Development
11 95 (10.86%) Investment Management
12 94 (10.74%) Generative AI
13 91 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
14 86 (9.83%) CI/CD
15 81 (9.26%) Roadmaps
16 69 (7.89%) LLM
17 67 (7.66%) Natural Language Processing
18 65 (7.43%) Automated Trading
19 54 (6.17%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 454 (51.89%) Python
2 264 (30.17%) SQL
3 160 (18.29%) JavaScript
4 158 (18.06%) C#
5 99 (11.31%) TypeScript
6 78 (8.91%) Java
7 31 (3.54%) PowerShell
8 22 (2.51%) C++
9 15 (1.71%) Bash
9 15 (1.71%) R
10 8 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (0.91%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.80%) C
11 7 (0.80%) Scala
11 7 (0.80%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.69%) Clojure
12 6 (0.69%) Go
12 6 (0.69%) Haskell
12 6 (0.69%) Rust
13 2 (0.23%) Julia
Qualifications
1 237 (27.09%) Degree
2 60 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 47 (5.37%) Master's Degree
4 46 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 41 (4.69%) SC Cleared
6 21 (2.40%) PhD
7 19 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.37%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.91%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.91%) PMP
11 7 (0.80%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.57%) CISSP
12 5 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.46%) CISM
14 3 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.34%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.20%) QA
2 26 (2.97%) GDPR
3 10 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.03%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 8 (0.91%) HIPAA
5 8 (0.91%) SOC 2
6 4 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
6 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.46%) MiFID
6 4 (0.46%) PMO
7 3 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.34%) NCSC
7 3 (0.34%) SLA
8 2 (0.23%) Basel III
8 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.23%) GxP
8 2 (0.23%) NIST
8 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 37 (4.23%) Docker
2 5 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.34%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.23%) HDFS
6 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.11%) KVM
6 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 55 (6.29%) Kubernetes
2 35 (4.00%) Terraform
3 10 (1.14%) Grafana
4 7 (0.80%) Ansible
4 7 (0.80%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.57%) SysTrack
6 4 (0.46%) Kibana
6 4 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.34%) OPNET
7 3 (0.34%) PowerCLI
8 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.11%) Nagios
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 121 (13.83%) PayPal
2 99 (11.31%) Google
3 77 (8.80%) Microsoft
4 27 (3.09%) SAP
5 25 (2.86%) Oracle
6 24 (2.74%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.83%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.49%) Bloomberg
8 13 (1.49%) Cisco
8 13 (1.49%) Genesys
8 13 (1.49%) Sparx
9 12 (1.37%) BISAM
10 11 (1.26%) Databricks
11 9 (1.03%) Adobe
11 9 (1.03%) Avaya
11 9 (1.03%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.91%) Ariba
13 7 (0.80%) SimCorp
13 7 (0.80%) UiPath
14 6 (0.69%) Citrix