Artificial Intelligence Contracts in England

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 290 324
Rank change year-on-year +193 +34 -58
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 837 462 591
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.26% 0.91% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 1.01% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 303 411
10th Percentile £410 £407 £425
25th Percentile £500 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +2.17% +7.98%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £870 £763
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +13.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £18.50 - £22.00
25th Percentile £27.19 £20.00 £32.44
Median hourly rate £46.18 £50.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% +20.24% +34.72%
75th Percentile £69.63 £68.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £75.75 £81.00 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £50.50 £39.75
% change year-on-year -8.55% +27.04% +27.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in England

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in England

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in England

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in England

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in England

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +179 470 £600 - 660
North of England +111 161 £500 -4.76% 137
North West +48 78 £500 -2.44% 90
Midlands +86 74 £613 +40.00% 65
Yorkshire +62 51 £650 +4.42% 40
West Midlands +73 48 £550 +29.41% 46
South West +15 43 £588 -2.08% 89
South East 0 40 £650 +26.83% 219
North East +45 34 - - 7
East of England +39 28 £465 -24.08% 100
East Midlands +39 26 £750 +71.43% 19
Artificial Intelligence
UK

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 52 (6.21%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (5.26%) Apache
3 11 (1.31%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.08%) Confluence
5 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.24%) CMS
7 2 (0.24%) SAS
8 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.12%) nginx
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 241 (28.79%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.24%) Simulink
4 1 (0.12%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 16 (1.91%) Aladdin
1 16 (1.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 13 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.60%) SAP BPC
4 5 (0.60%) SimCorp Dimension
5 4 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.24%) Magento
6 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.12%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.12%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 161 (19.24%) Azure
2 147 (17.56%) AWS
3 103 (12.31%) GCP
4 45 (5.38%) Power Platform
5 32 (3.82%) Vertex AI
6 27 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
7 17 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (1.91%) OCI
8 16 (1.91%) Serverless
9 15 (1.79%) SaaS
10 14 (1.67%) Snowflake
11 12 (1.43%) ChatGPT
11 12 (1.43%) GitHub
12 11 (1.31%) Google Compute Engine
13 8 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (0.84%) Azure Cognitive Services
14 7 (0.84%) Azure Functions
14 7 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (0.84%) PowerApps
15 6 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.60%) Firewall
2 4 (0.48%) Wireless
3 3 (0.36%) 5G
3 3 (0.36%) Internet
4 2 (0.24%) MQTT
4 2 (0.24%) Network Security
5 1 (0.12%) Broadband
5 1 (0.12%) Junos
5 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (5.02%) Apache Ignite
3 38 (4.54%) Power BI
4 25 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (2.75%) Tableau
6 22 (2.63%) BigQuery
7 15 (1.79%) Big Data
8 11 (1.31%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.31%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.96%) Data Mining
9 8 (0.96%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.60%) Crystal Reports
10 5 (0.60%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.60%) MySQL
11 4 (0.48%) Bigtable
11 4 (0.48%) Cloud Spanner
11 4 (0.48%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.48%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.48%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (3.70%) Cypress.io
2 29 (3.46%) Git
3 27 (3.23%) JIRA
4 14 (1.67%) ER Studio
4 14 (1.67%) ERwin
5 11 (1.31%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.96%) MLflow
7 7 (0.84%) Mercurial
8 5 (0.60%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.60%) Selenium
9 4 (0.48%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.48%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.48%) NeoLoad
10 3 (0.36%) Appium
10 3 (0.36%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.36%) GitLab
11 1 (0.12%) CMake
11 1 (0.12%) GoCD
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 151 (18.04%) Finance
2 114 (13.62%) Social Skills
3 83 (9.92%) Front Office
4 74 (8.84%) Banking
5 47 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 34 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (2.75%) Law
7 23 (2.75%) Legal
8 21 (2.51%) Telecoms
9 19 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 17 (2.03%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.03%) Marketing
11 17 (2.03%) Retail
12 14 (1.67%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.19%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.08%) Electronics
14 9 (1.08%) German Language
15 8 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.96%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 337 (40.26%) Developer
2 219 (26.16%) Software Developer
3 70 (8.36%) Architect
4 67 (8.00%) Python Engineer
5 62 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 56 (6.69%) Python Developer
7 55 (6.57%) Lead
7 55 (6.57%) Senior
8 53 (6.33%) Analyst
9 49 (5.85%) Python Software Engineer
10 47 (5.62%) Business Analyst
11 41 (4.90%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 41 (4.90%) React Developer
12 34 (4.06%) Consultant
13 32 (3.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 27 (3.23%) Data Engineer
15 25 (2.99%) Data Scientist
15 25 (2.99%) Full Stack Developer
16 24 (2.87%) Full Stack Engineer
17 23 (2.75%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (14.34%) HTML
2 64 (7.65%) React
3 50 (5.97%) TensorFlow
4 41 (4.90%) gRPC
4 41 (4.90%) Material-UI
4 41 (4.90%) Protocol Buffers
4 41 (4.90%) Redux
5 37 (4.42%) PyTorch
6 33 (3.94%) Pandas
7 26 (3.11%) NumPy
8 21 (2.51%) scikit-learn
9 18 (2.15%) RESTful
10 17 (2.03%) SciPy
11 16 (1.91%) CSS
12 13 (1.55%) Node.js
13 11 (1.31%) .NET
14 9 (1.08%) LangChain
15 8 (0.96%) Hugging Face
16 7 (0.84%) Kafka
16 7 (0.84%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 74 (8.84%) Hedge funds
2 68 (8.12%) Fixed Income
3 53 (6.33%) Algorithms
4 44 (5.26%) Equities
5 40 (4.78%) Product Ownership
6 27 (3.23%) Derivative
6 27 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 25 (2.99%) Robotics
8 16 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (1.91%) IoT
9 11 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 10 (1.19%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.19%) IVR
11 8 (0.96%) Management Information System
11 8 (0.96%) Public Cloud
12 7 (0.84%) FMCG
12 7 (0.84%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.67%) Windows
2 10 (1.19%) Linux
3 8 (0.96%) Android
4 6 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (39.31%) Machine Learning
2 244 (29.15%) Conversational UI
3 226 (27.00%) Code Quality
4 205 (24.49%) Software Engineering
5 189 (22.58%) Agile
6 114 (13.62%) Data Science
7 101 (12.07%) Analytics
8 91 (10.87%) DevOps
9 87 (10.39%) Generative AI
10 83 (9.92%) Computer Science
11 76 (9.08%) Roadmaps
12 74 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
13 73 (8.72%) Asset Management
14 68 (8.12%) Investment Management
15 55 (6.57%) Full Stack Development
16 52 (6.21%) CI/CD
17 51 (6.09%) Natural Language Processing
18 49 (5.85%) LLM
19 46 (5.50%) Data Modelling
20 43 (5.14%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 375 (44.80%) Python
2 212 (25.33%) SQL
3 145 (17.32%) JavaScript
4 136 (16.25%) C#
5 53 (6.33%) TypeScript
6 52 (6.21%) Java
7 23 (2.75%) PowerShell
8 19 (2.27%) C++
9 13 (1.55%) Bash
10 9 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (1.08%) R
11 6 (0.72%) Clojure
11 6 (0.72%) Go
11 6 (0.72%) Haskell
11 6 (0.72%) Rust
11 6 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.60%) Scala
13 4 (0.48%) C
14 3 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.24%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 319 (38.11%) Degree
2 48 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (4.42%) Security Cleared
4 35 (4.18%) Master's Degree
5 32 (3.82%) SC Cleared
6 22 (2.63%) PhD
7 9 (1.08%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.08%) PMP
8 6 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.48%) CISM
9 4 (0.48%) CISSP
9 4 (0.48%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.36%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.24%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.24%) CCNA
11 2 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.12%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.23%) QA
2 11 (1.31%) GDPR
3 6 (0.72%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.48%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.48%) MiFID
4 4 (0.48%) PMO
5 3 (0.36%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (0.36%) GxP
5 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.36%) SLA
6 2 (0.24%) Basel III
7 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.12%) GRC
7 1 (0.12%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (2.03%) Docker
2 5 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (3.82%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.23%) Terraform
3 7 (0.84%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.60%) SysTrack
5 4 (0.48%) Ansible
5 4 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.12%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.12%) Grafana
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.12%) OPNET
7 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 218 (26.05%) PayPal
2 62 (7.41%) Google
3 57 (6.81%) Microsoft
4 23 (2.75%) Oracle
4 23 (2.75%) SAP
5 21 (2.51%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.91%) Sparx
7 12 (1.43%) Bloomberg
7 12 (1.43%) Databricks
8 11 (1.31%) BISAM
8 11 (1.31%) Genesys
9 8 (0.96%) Adobe
9 8 (0.96%) Ariba
10 7 (0.84%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.72%) Citrix
11 6 (0.72%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.60%) Hyperion
12 5 (0.60%) New Relic
12 5 (0.60%) SimCorp
13 4 (0.48%) iManage