The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Artificial Intelligence in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Artificial Intelligence over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Rank 506 547 568
Rank change year-on-year
+41 +21
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 4 11 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.010% 0.021% 0.007%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.036% 0.082% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 2
Average daily rate £350 £600 £195
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-41.66% +207.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £330 £159
10% offered a daily rate of more than £446 £600 £231
UK excluding London average daily rate £238 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
11144 13491 16543
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 26.81% 25.29% 29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6882 8110 9959
Average daily rate £443 £430 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.90% -18.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £601 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 496 619 691
Average hourly rate £24.00 £23.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.31
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Artificial Intelligence
UK

Artificial Intelligence
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Artificial Intelligence across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

England Artificial Intelligence Jobs Demand Trend

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence across the England region.

England Artificial Intelligence Daily Rate Trend

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Artificial Intelligence Daily Rate Histogram

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Artificial Intelligence across the England region.

England Artificial Intelligence Hourly Rate Trend

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +13 3 £410 -31.66%
East of England - 1 £238 -
Artificial Intelligence
UK

Artificial Intelligence
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Artificial Intelligence also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Artificial Intelligence.

1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Spring MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Haskell
3 2 (33.33%) Scala
3 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) Apache Hive
3 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Big Data
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) J2EE
3 2 (33.33%) Apache Pig
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) MySQL
4 1 (16.67%) Business Objects
4 1 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
4 1 (16.67%) SAS
4 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (16.67%) Games

Artificial Intelligence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Artificial Intelligence also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Artificial Intelligence. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) J2EE
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
1 2 (33.33%) Spring MVC
2 1 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Pig
2 1 (16.67%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
1 1 (16.67%) Games
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Testing Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 2 (33.33%) Open Source
2 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Statistics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) MVC
1 2 (33.33%) TDD
1 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (16.67%) Statistical Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Haskell
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Business Objects