Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the South East

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 148 219
Rank change year-on-year -11 +71 -69
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 42 63 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.76% 1.11% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.24% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 32 30
10th Percentile £441 £209 £438
25th Percentile £528 £425 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £543 £575
Median % change year-on-year +19.82% -5.65% +27.78%
75th Percentile £688 £742 £650
90th Percentile £744 £834 £775
England median daily rate £600 £588 £575
% change year-on-year +2.13% +2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile - £58.75 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £62.50 £56.50
Median hourly rate £20.50 £67.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.63% +14.41% +73.53%
75th Percentile £50.88 £70.00 £61.50
90th Percentile £68.35 £91.15 -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £48.75 £42.00
% change year-on-year -5.27% +16.07% +33.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,650 5,085 6,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.33% 89.37% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,713 3,536 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £402 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 222 283
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.05 £12.26
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.59 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South East

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South East

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the South East over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the South East

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South East

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the South East over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the South East

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 8 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
Thames Valley +6 28 £675 +28.57% 111
Berkshire -7 25 £675 +20.54% 41
Surrey +16 11 £600 +103.39% 31
Hampshire -10 3 £525 -8.70% 47
Buckinghamshire +23 2 £700 +40.00% 16
Oxfordshire +8 1 £675 +86.21% 54
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.38%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (7.14%) ChatGPT
2 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.76%) AWS
3 2 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.76%) GCP
3 2 (4.76%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Network Security
1 1 (2.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Power BI
2 2 (4.76%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (4.76%) Tableau
3 1 (2.38%) Big Data
3 1 (2.38%) Data Hub
3 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.38%) Neo4j
3 1 (2.38%) Power Query
3 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) JIRA
3 1 (2.38%) CMake
3 1 (2.38%) MLflow
General
1 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Electronics
4 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.76%) Legal
4 2 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (2.38%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) German Language
5 1 (2.38%) Military
5 1 (2.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (14.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Architect
4 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.76%) Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (4.76%) Chief Technology Officer
5 2 (4.76%) Communications Specialist
5 2 (4.76%) Computer Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Computer Vision Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Data Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Python Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) SAP Architect
5 2 (4.76%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (2.38%) Analytics Manager
6 1 (2.38%) Data Science Manager
6 1 (2.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Full Stack Python Developer
6 1 (2.38%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) TensorFlow
2 6 (14.29%) PyTorch
3 2 (4.76%) DirectX
3 2 (4.76%) OpenGL
3 2 (4.76%) OpenGL ES
3 2 (4.76%) Vulkan
4 1 (2.38%) .NET
4 1 (2.38%) CNTK
4 1 (2.38%) CSS
4 1 (2.38%) Django
4 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.38%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.38%) HTML
4 1 (2.38%) jQuery
4 1 (2.38%) Kafka
4 1 (2.38%) NumPy
4 1 (2.38%) OpenVINO
4 1 (2.38%) Pandas
4 1 (2.38%) PySpark
4 1 (2.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Robotics
2 3 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.14%) Photography
3 2 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.76%) IoT
3 2 (4.76%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.76%) Social Media
4 1 (2.38%) Blog
4 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.38%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.38%) GNSS
4 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Android
2 3 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) Agile
2 17 (40.48%) DevOps
3 16 (38.10%) Machine Learning
4 12 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (21.43%) Analytics
6 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (16.67%) User Experience
7 6 (14.29%) Data Science
8 5 (11.90%) Computer Science
8 5 (11.90%) Generative AI
8 5 (11.90%) Prototyping
8 5 (11.90%) Service Delivery
9 4 (9.52%) Android Development
9 4 (9.52%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (9.52%) Deep Learning
9 4 (9.52%) Visualisation
10 3 (7.14%) Computer Vision
10 3 (7.14%) Data Engineering
10 3 (7.14%) Data Protection
10 3 (7.14%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (26.19%) Python
2 6 (14.29%) SQL
3 5 (11.90%) C++
4 3 (7.14%) Java
5 2 (4.76%) Scala
6 1 (2.38%) Bash
6 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) Degree
2 6 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.76%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Ansible
1 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
1 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Ariba
2 2 (4.76%) Databricks
2 2 (4.76%) SAP
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle