Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 115 158
Rank change year-on-year +10 +43 -53
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 32 32 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.19% 1.11% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.23% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 11
10th Percentile £400 £200 £400
25th Percentile £490 £413 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -13.04% +27.78%
75th Percentile £691 £580 £634
90th Percentile £750 £649 £715
South East median daily rate £600 £543 £575
% change year-on-year +10.60% -5.65% +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,291 2,607 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.42% 90.62% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,771 2,166
10th Percentile £224 £313 £250
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £699 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 67 89
10th Percentile £14.50 £17.00 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.23 £12.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.39
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -6 28 £675 +28.57% 24
Buckinghamshire +25 2 £700 +40.00% 11
Oxfordshire +1 2 £500 +150.00% 29
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 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) GCP
2 3 (9.38%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) Azure AI
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (3.13%) ChatGPT
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.13%) Figma
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.13%) Big Data
2 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.13%) Looker
2 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) Power Query
2 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) CMake
2 1 (3.13%) MLflow
General
1 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.25%) Legal
3 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Advertising
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Marketing
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Developer
2 6 (18.75%) Architect
2 6 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Security Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Chief Technology Officer
5 2 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Analytics Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Data Analytics Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Data Science Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) IoT Software Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) TensorFlow
2 5 (15.63%) PyTorch
3 3 (9.38%) Google JAX
3 3 (9.38%) Kafka
3 3 (9.38%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.13%) CNTK
4 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.13%) Hugging Face
4 1 (3.13%) LangChain
4 1 (3.13%) NestJS
4 1 (3.13%) Next.js
4 1 (3.13%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) NumPy
4 1 (3.13%) OpenVINO
4 1 (3.13%) Pandas
4 1 (3.13%) PySpark
4 1 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (43.75%) Robotics
2 4 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
3 3 (9.38%) Security Posture
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.25%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.13%) IoT
5 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.13%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Android
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) DevOps
2 13 (40.63%) Agile
3 12 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (31.25%) Machine Learning
5 8 (25.00%) Data Science
6 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
6 7 (21.88%) Data Protection
7 6 (18.75%) Analytics
7 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (18.75%) Threat Modelling
8 5 (15.63%) Prototyping
8 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
8 5 (15.63%) User Experience
8 5 (15.63%) Workflow
9 4 (12.50%) Deep Learning
9 4 (12.50%) LLM
10 3 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
10 3 (9.38%) DataOps
10 3 (9.38%) Incident Response
10 3 (9.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) C++
3 5 (15.63%) Java
4 4 (12.50%) C
4 4 (12.50%) R
4 4 (12.50%) SQL
5 3 (9.38%) Bash
5 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.25%) Go
6 2 (6.25%) Groovy
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.25%) Scala
7 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) GDPR
2 3 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (9.38%) NIST
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (3.13%) Adobe