Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the North West

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 115 153
Rank change year-on-year +51 +38 -29
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 77 40 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.85% 1.27% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 1.40% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 29 17
10th Percentile £413 £404 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -10.87% +43.75%
75th Percentile £628 £594 £700
90th Percentile £641 £680 £778
England median daily rate £600 £588 £575
% change year-on-year +2.13% +2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.25
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year - -42.03% -
75th Percentile - £31.25 £36.75
90th Percentile - £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £45.25 £42.00
% change year-on-year +2.06% +7.74% +13.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,327 2,859 3,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.25% 90.59% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,033 2,605
10th Percentile £306 £313 £240
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 143 163
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.31 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.11 £37.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.72% +77.62% +14.50%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.95 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the North West

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the North West

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the North West

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the North West

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Manchester +41 41 £500 -4.76% 60
Merseyside - 25 - - 5
Cheshire -10 8 £505 +8.63% 11
Lancashire +6 3 - - 3
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (2.60%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) GeoServer
Applications
1 50 (64.94%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.30%) SAP BPC
1 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.39%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (9.09%) Azure
3 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.60%) AWS
4 2 (2.60%) BrowserStack
4 2 (2.60%) GitHub
4 2 (2.60%) Miro
4 2 (2.60%) SaaS
4 2 (2.60%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.30%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.30%) Figma
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.30%) OCI
5 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.30%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.60%) Power BI
2 1 (1.30%) GIS
2 1 (1.30%) MySQL
2 1 (1.30%) QGIS
2 1 (1.30%) SAP BW
2 1 (1.30%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Git
1 4 (5.19%) JIRA
2 2 (2.60%) Appium
2 2 (2.60%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.60%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.60%) GitLab
2 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.60%) Selenium
General
1 7 (9.09%) Manufacturing
1 7 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.49%) Law
2 5 (6.49%) Legal
2 5 (6.49%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (5.19%) Finance
4 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Banking
5 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (67.53%) Developer
2 49 (63.64%) Software Developer
3 6 (7.79%) Lead
4 5 (6.49%) Analyst
4 5 (6.49%) Business Analyst
5 3 (3.90%) Architect
5 3 (3.90%) Project Manager
5 3 (3.90%) Senior
6 2 (2.60%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (2.60%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (2.60%) QA Engineer
6 2 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (2.60%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.30%) Analytics Manager
7 1 (1.30%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 1 (1.30%) Content Designer
7 1 (1.30%) Data Analytics Manager
7 1 (1.30%) Designer
7 1 (1.30%) Digital Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (35.06%) HTML
2 3 (3.90%) PyTorch
2 3 (3.90%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.60%) pytest
3 2 (2.60%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (1.30%) .NET
4 1 (1.30%) CSS
4 1 (1.30%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.30%) LangChain
4 1 (1.30%) Node.js
4 1 (1.30%) OpenLayers
4 1 (1.30%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.30%) React
4 1 (1.30%) RESTful
4 1 (1.30%) Svelte
4 1 (1.30%) SvelteKit
4 1 (1.30%) Web Services
4 1 (1.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) IoT
2 7 (9.09%) Robotics
3 5 (6.49%) Industry 4.0
4 2 (2.60%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 2 (2.60%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.30%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.30%) Life Science
5 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (67.53%) Conversational UI
2 49 (63.64%) Code Quality
3 28 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 8 (10.39%) Agile
4 8 (10.39%) Machine Learning
4 8 (10.39%) Roadmaps
5 7 (9.09%) Business Case
5 7 (9.09%) DevOps
5 7 (9.09%) Use Case
6 6 (7.79%) Analytics
6 6 (7.79%) Business Analysis
6 6 (7.79%) Data Protection
6 6 (7.79%) Generative AI
7 5 (6.49%) Change Management
7 5 (6.49%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
7 5 (6.49%) Creative Thinking
7 5 (6.49%) Data Strategy
7 5 (6.49%) Visualisation
7 5 (6.49%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (5.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (42.86%) Python
2 27 (35.06%) JavaScript
3 26 (33.77%) C#
3 26 (33.77%) SQL
4 1 (1.30%) Java
4 1 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (63.64%) Degree
2 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.60%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) GDPR
1 4 (5.19%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) GxP
2 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (63.64%) PayPal
2 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.90%) SAP
4 2 (2.60%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (1.30%) Google
5 1 (1.30%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle