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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 290 325
Rank change year-on-year +197 +35 -69
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 844 455 598
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.27% 0.90% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 0.99% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 298 416
10th Percentile £410 £406 £428
25th Percentile £500 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £578
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +1.73% +8.96%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £875 £759
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 16
10th Percentile £18.50 £19.55 £22.00
25th Percentile £27.19 £20.00 £32.44
Median hourly rate £46.18 £37.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -10.71% +35.48%
75th Percentile £69.63 £67.50 £51.00
90th Percentile £75.75 £70.00 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £37.50 £39.75
% change year-on-year +23.15% -5.66% +28.23%

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 32,205 45,779 64,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.51% 90.27% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,157 32,091 45,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,623 1,778
10th Percentile £12.87 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.62 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.16
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +182 474 £600 - 825
North of England +109 161 £500 -4.76% 142
North West +48 78 £500 -2.44% 88
Midlands +88 74 £613 +40.00% 62
Yorkshire +68 51 £650 +4.42% 45
West Midlands +71 48 £550 +29.41% 37
South West +24 43 £588 -8.20% 96
South East -7 42 £625 +25.00% 236
North East +43 34 - - 9
East of England +33 29 £470 -23.27% 120
East Midlands +39 26 £750 +71.43% 25
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 53 (6.28%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (5.21%) Apache
3 11 (1.30%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.07%) Confluence
5 4 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
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
1 240 (28.44%) 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 (1.90%) Aladdin
1 16 (1.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 13 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.59%) SAP BPC
4 5 (0.59%) SimCorp Dimension
5 4 (0.47%) 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
1 164 (19.43%) Azure
2 149 (17.65%) AWS
3 104 (12.32%) GCP
4 45 (5.33%) Power Platform
5 32 (3.79%) Vertex AI
6 27 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
7 17 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (1.90%) OCI
8 16 (1.90%) Serverless
9 15 (1.78%) SaaS
10 14 (1.66%) Snowflake
11 13 (1.54%) GitHub
12 12 (1.42%) ChatGPT
13 11 (1.30%) Google Compute Engine
14 8 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (0.83%) Azure Cognitive Services
15 7 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (0.83%) Azure Functions
15 7 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (0.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.59%) Firewall
2 4 (0.47%) 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 52 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (4.98%) Apache Ignite
3 38 (4.50%) Power BI
4 26 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (2.73%) Tableau
6 22 (2.61%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.90%) Big Data
8 12 (1.42%) Data Lake
9 11 (1.30%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.95%) Data Mining
10 8 (0.95%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.71%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.59%) Crystal Reports
12 5 (0.59%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.59%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.59%) MySQL
13 4 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (0.47%) Bigtable
13 4 (0.47%) Cloud Spanner
13 4 (0.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (3.79%) Cypress.io
2 29 (3.44%) Git
3 27 (3.20%) JIRA
4 14 (1.66%) ER Studio
4 14 (1.66%) ERwin
5 11 (1.30%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.95%) MLflow
7 7 (0.83%) Mercurial
8 5 (0.59%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.59%) Selenium
9 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.47%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.47%) 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
1 150 (17.77%) Finance
2 118 (13.98%) Social Skills
3 81 (9.60%) Front Office
4 75 (8.89%) Banking
5 51 (6.04%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (2.84%) Law
8 23 (2.73%) Legal
9 21 (2.49%) Telecoms
10 20 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
12 17 (2.01%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.01%) Marketing
12 17 (2.01%) Retail
13 14 (1.66%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.18%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.07%) Electronics
15 9 (1.07%) German Language
16 8 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.95%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 340 (40.28%) Developer
2 219 (25.95%) Software Developer
3 69 (8.18%) Architect
4 67 (7.94%) Python Engineer
5 62 (7.35%) Software Engineer
6 56 (6.64%) Python Developer
6 56 (6.64%) Senior
7 55 (6.52%) Lead
8 52 (6.16%) Analyst
9 49 (5.81%) Python Software Engineer
10 46 (5.45%) Business Analyst
11 41 (4.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 41 (4.86%) React Developer
12 34 (4.03%) Consultant
13 32 (3.79%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 29 (3.44%) Data Engineer
15 25 (2.96%) Data Scientist
15 25 (2.96%) Full Stack Developer
16 24 (2.84%) Full Stack Engineer
17 22 (2.61%) Full Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (14.34%) HTML
2 65 (7.70%) React
3 52 (6.16%) TensorFlow
4 41 (4.86%) gRPC
4 41 (4.86%) Material-UI
4 41 (4.86%) Protocol Buffers
4 41 (4.86%) Redux
5 39 (4.62%) PyTorch
6 33 (3.91%) Pandas
7 26 (3.08%) NumPy
8 21 (2.49%) scikit-learn
9 18 (2.13%) RESTful
10 17 (2.01%) CSS
10 17 (2.01%) SciPy
11 13 (1.54%) Node.js
12 11 (1.30%) .NET
13 10 (1.18%) LangChain
14 9 (1.07%) Kafka
15 8 (0.95%) Hugging Face
15 8 (0.95%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 73 (8.65%) Hedge funds
2 67 (7.94%) Fixed Income
3 56 (6.64%) Algorithms
4 42 (4.98%) Equities
5 39 (4.62%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.08%) Derivative
6 26 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 25 (2.96%) Robotics
8 17 (2.01%) IoT
9 16 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 10 (1.18%) Cloud Native
12 10 (1.18%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.18%) IVR
13 8 (0.95%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.95%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.83%) FMCG
14 7 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.66%) Windows
2 11 (1.30%) Linux
3 8 (0.95%) Android
4 6 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (39.22%) Machine Learning
2 243 (28.79%) Conversational UI
3 226 (26.78%) Code Quality
4 205 (24.29%) Software Engineering
5 190 (22.51%) Agile
6 116 (13.74%) Data Science
7 102 (12.09%) Analytics
8 93 (11.02%) DevOps
9 89 (10.55%) Generative AI
10 84 (9.95%) Computer Science
11 75 (8.89%) Roadmaps
12 73 (8.65%) Problem-Solving
13 72 (8.53%) Asset Management
14 67 (7.94%) Investment Management
15 55 (6.52%) Full Stack Development
16 53 (6.28%) CI/CD
17 52 (6.16%) Natural Language Processing
18 50 (5.92%) LLM
19 46 (5.45%) Data Modelling
20 43 (5.09%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 380 (45.02%) Python
2 214 (25.36%) SQL
3 146 (17.30%) JavaScript
4 135 (16.00%) C#
5 54 (6.40%) TypeScript
6 53 (6.28%) Java
7 23 (2.73%) PowerShell
8 20 (2.37%) C++
9 13 (1.54%) Bash
10 10 (1.18%) R
11 9 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.71%) Clojure
12 6 (0.71%) Go
12 6 (0.71%) Haskell
12 6 (0.71%) Rust
12 6 (0.71%) Scala
12 6 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.59%) C
14 4 (0.47%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.24%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 321 (38.03%) Degree
2 49 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (4.74%) Security Cleared
4 36 (4.27%) Master's Degree
5 34 (4.03%) SC Cleared
6 24 (2.84%) PhD
7 9 (1.07%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.07%) PMP
8 6 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.47%) CISM
10 4 (0.47%) CISSP
11 3 (0.36%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.36%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.24%) CCNA
12 2 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.20%) QA
2 10 (1.18%) GDPR
3 7 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.47%) GxP
4 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.47%) MiFID
4 4 (0.47%) PMO
5 3 (0.36%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.36%) SLA
6 2 (0.24%) Basel III
7 1 (0.12%) GRC
7 1 (0.12%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (2.01%) Docker
2 5 (0.59%) 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 33 (3.91%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.32%) Terraform
3 7 (0.83%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.59%) SysTrack
5 4 (0.47%) Ansible
5 4 (0.47%) 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 (25.83%) PayPal
2 62 (7.35%) Google
3 56 (6.64%) Microsoft
4 23 (2.73%) Oracle
4 23 (2.73%) SAP
5 21 (2.49%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.90%) Sparx
7 13 (1.54%) Databricks
8 12 (1.42%) Bloomberg
9 11 (1.30%) BISAM
9 11 (1.30%) Genesys
10 8 (0.95%) Adobe
10 8 (0.95%) Ariba
11 7 (0.83%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.71%) Citrix
13 5 (0.59%) Hyperion
13 5 (0.59%) New Relic
13 5 (0.59%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.59%) SimCorp
14 4 (0.47%) iManage