Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 115 252 353
Rank change year-on-year +137 +101 -59
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 402 209 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.96% 0.87% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 0.98% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 143 98
10th Percentile £313 £375 £394
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £543
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% -6.36% +14.21%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £691 £713 £745
UK median daily rate £586 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +1.96% -4.17% +12.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 8
10th Percentile £15.88 - £31.28
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £39.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -4.76% -1.18%
75th Percentile £68.19 £68.75 £46.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £92.00 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £45.25 £42.00
% change year-on-year +2.06% +7.74% +13.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +114 161 £500 -13.04% 129
Midlands +95 77 £550 +25.71% 64
North West +59 77 £500 -2.44% 90
Scotland +77 59 £463 -2.63% 47
Yorkshire +63 52 £650 +4.42% 32
West Midlands +67 50 £550 +29.41% 44
South West +21 43 £588 +2.17% 100
South East 0 42 £650 +23.81% 283
North East +42 34 - - 8
East Midlands +41 27 £750 +71.43% 20
East of England +38 26 £450 -26.53% 124
Artificial Intelligence
UK

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (1.49%) Confluence
2 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.50%) Apache
3 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 221 (54.98%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.75%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.25%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 43 (10.70%) AWS
2 37 (9.20%) Azure
3 19 (4.73%) Power Platform
4 16 (3.98%) Serverless
5 15 (3.73%) GCP
6 13 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (2.24%) Amazon S3
8 9 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.99%) OpenShift
10 7 (1.74%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (1.49%) Azure Functions
11 6 (1.49%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.24%) OCI
13 4 (1.00%) ChatGPT
13 4 (1.00%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.00%) Rekognition
13 4 (1.00%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.00%) Wireless
2 2 (0.50%) 5G
2 2 (0.50%) Internet
2 2 (0.50%) MQTT
3 1 (0.25%) Network Security
3 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.23%) Power BI
2 13 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.99%) Big Data
5 7 (1.74%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (1.49%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.00%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.75%) Bigtable
8 3 (0.75%) Cloud Spanner
8 3 (0.75%) Tableau
9 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.50%) GIS
9 2 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.50%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.25%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.25%) MySQL
10 1 (0.25%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 20 (4.98%) Git
2 8 (1.99%) JIRA
3 7 (1.74%) Mercurial
3 7 (1.74%) Selenium
4 5 (1.24%) GitLab
4 5 (1.24%) WebDriver
5 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.75%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.50%) Appium
6 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.25%) CMake
7 1 (0.25%) Gradle
7 1 (0.25%) MLflow
General
1 40 (9.95%) Social Skills
2 27 (6.72%) Finance
3 16 (3.98%) Public Sector
4 14 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.24%) Legal
6 9 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (1.99%) Multimedia
8 7 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.74%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.74%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.49%) Law
9 6 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.49%) Retail
10 5 (1.24%) Marketing
11 4 (1.00%) Urdu Language
12 3 (0.75%) Banking
12 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Electronics
14 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 255 (63.43%) Developer
2 218 (54.23%) Software Developer
3 17 (4.23%) Architect
4 16 (3.98%) Lead
5 14 (3.48%) Data Engineer
6 12 (2.99%) Analyst
7 11 (2.74%) Senior
8 10 (2.49%) Software Engineer
9 9 (2.24%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 8 (1.99%) Full Stack Engineer
11 7 (1.74%) Business Analyst
11 7 (1.74%) Consultant
11 7 (1.74%) Python Engineer
11 7 (1.74%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.49%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (1.49%) Java Developer
12 6 (1.49%) Java Engineer
12 6 (1.49%) Project Manager
12 6 (1.49%) Python Developer
13 5 (1.24%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (30.10%) HTML
2 16 (3.98%) TensorFlow
3 15 (3.73%) PyTorch
3 15 (3.73%) Spring
4 13 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 13 (3.23%) CSS
4 13 (3.23%) REST
5 10 (2.49%) AWS CDK
5 10 (2.49%) JPA
5 10 (2.49%) React
5 10 (2.49%) Spring Boot
6 9 (2.24%) NumPy
6 9 (2.24%) Pandas
7 7 (1.74%) SciPy
8 6 (1.49%) RESTful
9 5 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.00%) OpenID
10 4 (1.00%) PostGIS
11 3 (0.75%) Node.js
11 3 (0.75%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.47%) Robotics
2 13 (3.23%) Algorithms
2 13 (3.23%) IoT
3 11 (2.74%) Public Cloud
4 7 (1.74%) Social Media
5 5 (1.24%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.24%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (1.00%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.00%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.00%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.00%) Operational Technology
7 3 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (0.75%) FMCG
7 3 (0.75%) Photography
8 2 (0.50%) e-Health
8 2 (0.50%) IVR
8 2 (0.50%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.48%) Windows
2 7 (1.74%) Linux
3 6 (1.49%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (57.21%) Code Quality
2 223 (55.47%) Conversational UI
3 144 (35.82%) Software Engineering
4 91 (22.64%) Machine Learning
5 57 (14.18%) Agile
6 48 (11.94%) DevOps
7 33 (8.21%) Analytics
8 28 (6.97%) Computer Science
9 25 (6.22%) CI/CD
9 25 (6.22%) Data Science
10 21 (5.22%) Decision-Making
11 20 (4.98%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (4.73%) Generative AI
13 18 (4.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (4.48%) Test Automation
13 18 (4.48%) Visualisation
14 17 (4.23%) Roadmaps
15 16 (3.98%) Microservices
16 14 (3.48%) Full Stack Development
16 14 (3.48%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 182 (45.27%) Python
2 147 (36.57%) SQL
3 122 (30.35%) C#
4 120 (29.85%) JavaScript
5 32 (7.96%) Java
6 19 (4.73%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.24%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.74%) C++
9 5 (1.24%) R
10 4 (1.00%) Scala
11 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.25%) Bash
12 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 246 (61.19%) Degree
2 19 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.48%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.48%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.74%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.75%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.75%) PhD
6 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.25%) CIPD
7 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.99%) GDPR
1 8 (1.99%) QA
2 6 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.50%) GxP
3 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.50%) SLA
4 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.25%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (2.49%) Docker
2 5 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.25%) KVM
4 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.99%) Grafana
3 5 (1.24%) SysTrack
4 4 (1.00%) Terraform
5 3 (0.75%) Ansible
6 1 (0.25%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.25%) Nagios
6 1 (0.25%) OPNET
6 1 (0.25%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.25%) Puppet
6 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 216 (53.73%) PayPal
2 23 (5.72%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.74%) Google
3 7 (1.74%) Oracle
3 7 (1.74%) SAP
4 5 (1.24%) Citrix
4 5 (1.24%) New Relic
4 5 (1.24%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.75%) Genesys
5 3 (0.75%) Hyperion
6 2 (0.50%) Ariba
6 2 (0.50%) Databricks
6 2 (0.50%) NVIDIA
6 2 (0.50%) Perfecto Mobile
6 2 (0.50%) Sage
6 2 (0.50%) VMware
7 1 (0.25%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.25%) Avaya
7 1 (0.25%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.25%) UiPath