Artificial Intelligence Specialist Contracts

AI Specialist
UK

The median AI Specialist daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 - 855
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Specialist 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% - 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% - 0.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - -

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 40,410 56,464 84,709
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,305 39,470 59,485
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.70% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,664 1,570 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%

Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Specialist in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Specialist in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Top 5 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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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 - 4 £500 - 5
Work from Home - 2 - - 2
UK excluding London - 2 £550 - 1
London - 2 £450 - 3
South West - 2 £550 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Artificial Intelligence Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Degree
4 2 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Data Science
4 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) LLM
5 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) AWS
5 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (20.00%) Fraud Detection
5 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (20.00%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) C++
5 1 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Deep Learning

Artificial Intelligence Specialist 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) Lucidchart
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (40.00%) Data Science
4 2 (40.00%) LLM
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (20.00%) Data Security
5 1 (20.00%) Deep Learning
5 1 (20.00%) Fraud Detection
5 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
5 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (20.00%) Predictive Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Probability Theory
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Numerate Degree
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Genesys