Artificial Intelligence Developer Contracts

AI Developer
UK

The median AI Developer daily rate in the UK is £708 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 694 859
Rank change year-on-year +126 +165 -195
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Developer 11 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.010% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.011% 0.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £563 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £708 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% - -
75th Percentile £875 £763 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £725 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Developer in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Developer.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Developer in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Developer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Developer in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England +118 10 £708 -2.41% 6
London +117 8 £779 +41.59% 2
Work from Home - 6 £850 - 4
UK excluding London +66 1 - - 3
North of England - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - -

Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Artificial Intelligence Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Artificial Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (81.82%) Python
3 6 (54.55%) Azure
4 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 5 (45.45%) Generative AI
5 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
5 4 (36.36%) Distributed Ledger
5 4 (36.36%) Conversational UI
5 4 (36.36%) Chatbot
5 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
5 4 (36.36%) OO
5 4 (36.36%) Financial Institution
5 4 (36.36%) Finance
6 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
7 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (18.18%) Degree
7 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
7 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (18.18%) AWS
7 2 (18.18%) QA
7 2 (18.18%) Web Services
7 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
7 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
8 1 (9.09%) SQL
8 1 (9.09%) .NET

Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (9.09%) GeoServer
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (9.09%) ChatGPT
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) GIS
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Financial Institution
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Danish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Web Services
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
2 1 (9.09%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) OpenLayers
2 1 (9.09%) PostGIS
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Generative AI
3 4 (36.36%) Conversational UI
3 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
3 4 (36.36%) OO
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (9.09%) Econometrics
6 1 (9.09%) Natural Language Processing
6 1 (9.09%) Open Source
6 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Usability Testing
6 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Validation
6 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
6 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) OpenAI