Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 121 149
Rank change year-on-year +13 +28 -45
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 28 31 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.05% 1.07% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.16% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 10
10th Percentile £519 £320 £422
25th Percentile £650 £427 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -8.70% +35.29%
75th Percentile £688 £596 £657
90th Percentile £750 £634 £725
South East median daily rate £650 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +23.81% -8.70% +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,313 2,661 3,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.02% 91.82% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 1,850 2,115
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £576
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 64 87
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.88 £12.15
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.51%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Berkshire -5 25 £675 +24.42% 57
Buckinghamshire +24 2 £700 +40.00% 23
Oxfordshire +6 1 £675 +86.21% 64
Artificial Intelligence
South East

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) ChatGPT
3 2 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) AWS
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Big Data
1 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.57%) Neo4j
1 1 (3.57%) Power BI
1 1 (3.57%) Power Query
1 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) CMake
2 1 (3.57%) MLflow
General
1 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.14%) Legal
4 2 (7.14%) Marketing
4 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (7.14%) Analyst
2 2 (7.14%) Architect
2 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (7.14%) Chief Technology Officer
2 2 (7.14%) Communications Specialist
3 1 (3.57%) Analytics Manager
3 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Business Analyst
3 1 (3.57%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (3.57%) Data Analytics Manager
3 1 (3.57%) Data Science Manager
3 1 (3.57%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (3.57%) Lead .NET Developer
3 1 (3.57%) Python Developer
3 1 (3.57%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) TensorFlow
2 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) CNTK
3 1 (3.57%) CSS
3 1 (3.57%) Django
3 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.57%) HTML
3 1 (3.57%) Hugging Face
3 1 (3.57%) jQuery
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) LangChain
3 1 (3.57%) NumPy
3 1 (3.57%) OpenVINO
3 1 (3.57%) Pandas
3 1 (3.57%) PySpark
3 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) Robotics
2 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 2 (7.14%) Social Media
4 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.57%) Blog
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Android
3 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) DevOps
2 13 (46.43%) Agile
3 12 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 5 (17.86%) Analytics
5 5 (17.86%) Data Science
5 5 (17.86%) Prototyping
5 5 (17.86%) User Experience
6 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.71%) Data Management
7 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
7 3 (10.71%) IT Strategy
7 3 (10.71%) Project Management
7 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps
7 3 (10.71%) Service Delivery
8 2 (7.14%) Business Strategy
8 2 (7.14%) Content Strategy
8 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (7.14%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Python
2 3 (10.71%) SQL
3 1 (3.57%) Bash
3 1 (3.57%) C++
3 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
1 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
1 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Ansible
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle