Generative AI Contracts in the UK excluding London

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Generative AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Generative AI over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 429 -
Rank change year-on-year +48 - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 20 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.004% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.005% -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 0
10th Percentile £483 - -
25th Percentile £506 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% - -
75th Percentile £731 £500 -
90th Percentile £750 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £550 -
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Generative AI 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in the UK excluding London

Generative AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Generative AI in the UK excluding London

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in the UK excluding London

Generative AI
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 Generative AI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England - 8 £500 - 10
North West - 6 £500 - 6
Midlands +21 5 £700 +47.37% 4
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 3
South East - 4 £600 - 15
South West - 2 £563 - 4
East Midlands +7 1 £750 +57.89% 1
North East - 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Generative AI
UK

Generative AI
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 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) GeoServer
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (5.00%) NetSuite
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.00%) SAP BPC
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) AWS
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.00%) Supabase
3 1 (5.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) GIS
2 1 (5.00%) Metadata
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Electronics
3 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.00%) Local Government
3 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Vision Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Manager
3 2 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Product Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Product Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Gen AI Developer
4 1 (5.00%) GIS Developer
4 1 (5.00%) IT Director
4 1 (5.00%) Senior IT Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (15.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (10.00%) DirectX
2 2 (10.00%) Hugging Face
2 2 (10.00%) LangChain
2 2 (10.00%) OpenGL
2 2 (10.00%) OpenGL ES
2 2 (10.00%) Vulkan
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) OpenLayers
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (5.00%) PostGIS
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) Svelte
3 1 (5.00%) SvelteKit
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (15.00%) FMCG
1 3 (15.00%) Photography
2 2 (10.00%) Blockchain
3 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Digital Media
3 1 (5.00%) Hedge funds
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (35.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) Analytics
4 4 (20.00%) Computer Vision
4 4 (20.00%) LLM
5 3 (15.00%) Android Development
5 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) Data Science
5 3 (15.00%) Deep Learning
5 3 (15.00%) Open Source
6 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 2 (10.00%) Image Processing
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (10.00%) User Experience
6 2 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) C++
2 4 (20.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) R
5 1 (5.00%) Scala
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (10.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Google
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Blue Prism
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Hyperion
2 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) PeopleSoft
2 1 (5.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) UiPath