Artificial Intelligence Contracts

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 289 309
Rank change year-on-year +186 +20 -67
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 951 541 811
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.18% 0.90% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 1.00% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 351 567
10th Percentile £410 £406 £435
25th Percentile £496 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £850 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £548
% change year-on-year - -8.68% +15.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 18
10th Percentile £18.50 £19.85 £19.03
25th Percentile £27.19 £20.00 £29.81
Median hourly rate £46.18 £37.50 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -5.66% +28.23%
75th Percentile £69.63 £67.81 £46.13
90th Percentile £75.75 £70.00 £64.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £35.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +78.57% -16.67% +64.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence.

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Top 15 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 +193 847 £600 +2.13% 1,249
Work from Home +189 478 £575 +4.55% 653
London +182 476 £623 +3.75% 651
UK excluding London +142 402 £500 - 624
North of England +113 163 £500 -4.76% 134
North West +54 80 £500 -2.44% 88
Midlands +97 73 £638 +45.71% 63
Scotland +66 58 £463 -2.63% 46
Yorkshire +66 51 £650 +4.42% 40
West Midlands +74 47 £600 +41.18% 39
South West +21 43 £588 -9.62% 91
South East -6 42 £625 +25.00% 187
North East +43 34 - - 6
East of England +37 29 £470 -23.27% 96
East Midlands +34 26 £750 +71.43% 24

Artificial Intelligence
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 54 (5.68%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (4.84%) Apache
3 10 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.95%) Confluence
5 7 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.32%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.21%) CMS
8 2 (0.21%) SAS
9 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 269 (28.29%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.63%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.21%) Simulink
4 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 19 (2.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 16 (1.68%) Aladdin
3 13 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.63%) SAP BPC
5 5 (0.53%) Distributed Ledger
5 5 (0.53%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.32%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.21%) Magento
8 1 (0.11%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.11%) SAP CX
8 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 186 (19.56%) AWS
2 185 (19.45%) Azure
3 114 (11.99%) GCP
4 48 (5.05%) Power Platform
5 33 (3.47%) Vertex AI
6 31 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
7 25 (2.63%) Serverless
8 24 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (1.68%) OCI
11 15 (1.58%) Amazon S3
11 15 (1.58%) SaaS
11 15 (1.58%) Snowflake
12 14 (1.47%) ChatGPT
12 14 (1.47%) GitHub
13 12 (1.26%) Amazon SageMaker
14 11 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (1.16%) Google Compute Engine
15 9 (0.95%) Azure Cognitive Services
15 9 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.53%) Firewall
1 5 (0.53%) Network Security
2 4 (0.42%) Wireless
3 3 (0.32%) 5G
3 3 (0.32%) Internet
4 2 (0.21%) MQTT
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) Junos
5 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (4.42%) Apache Ignite
3 39 (4.10%) Power BI
4 33 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (3.15%) Big Data
6 24 (2.52%) Tableau
7 23 (2.42%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.26%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.05%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.05%) SQL Server
10 8 (0.84%) Data Mining
10 8 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (0.63%) Hadoop
11 6 (0.63%) MySQL
12 5 (0.53%) Crystal Reports
12 5 (0.53%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.53%) SAP HANA
13 4 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.42%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 33 (3.47%) Cypress.io
2 31 (3.26%) Git
3 28 (2.94%) JIRA
4 14 (1.47%) ER Studio
4 14 (1.47%) ERwin
5 13 (1.37%) Jenkins
6 10 (1.05%) Selenium
7 8 (0.84%) MLflow
8 7 (0.74%) GitLab
8 7 (0.74%) Mercurial
9 6 (0.63%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.53%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.42%) Appium
11 4 (0.42%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.42%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.42%) WebDriver
12 2 (0.21%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.11%) GoCD
13 1 (0.11%) Gradle
13 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 170 (17.88%) Finance
2 134 (14.09%) Social Skills
3 81 (8.52%) Front Office
4 75 (7.89%) Banking
5 67 (7.05%) Public Sector
6 48 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (2.73%) Telecoms
8 25 (2.63%) Law
9 24 (2.52%) Legal
10 21 (2.21%) Manufacturing
10 21 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (2.10%) Marketing
12 18 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
13 17 (1.79%) Retail
14 15 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (1.47%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.47%) Investment Banking
16 11 (1.16%) Electronics
17 9 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.95%) German Language
Job Titles
1 379 (39.85%) Developer
2 244 (25.66%) Software Developer
3 88 (9.25%) Architect
4 68 (7.15%) Python Engineer
5 65 (6.83%) Software Engineer
6 62 (6.52%) Senior
7 59 (6.20%) Lead
8 58 (6.10%) Python Developer
9 53 (5.57%) Analyst
10 49 (5.15%) Python Software Engineer
11 47 (4.94%) Business Analyst
12 41 (4.31%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 41 (4.31%) React Developer
13 39 (4.10%) Consultant
14 37 (3.89%) Data Engineer
15 33 (3.47%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 32 (3.36%) Full Stack Engineer
17 27 (2.84%) Data Scientist
17 27 (2.84%) Full Stack Developer
18 24 (2.52%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (14.93%) HTML
2 67 (7.05%) React
3 59 (6.20%) TensorFlow
4 46 (4.84%) PyTorch
5 41 (4.31%) gRPC
5 41 (4.31%) Material-UI
5 41 (4.31%) Protocol Buffers
5 41 (4.31%) Redux
6 34 (3.58%) Pandas
7 27 (2.84%) CSS
7 27 (2.84%) NumPy
8 24 (2.52%) RESTful
8 24 (2.52%) scikit-learn
9 21 (2.21%) REST
10 18 (1.89%) SciPy
11 16 (1.68%) Spring
12 15 (1.58%) Kafka
12 15 (1.58%) Node.js
13 14 (1.47%) AngularJS
14 12 (1.26%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 75 (7.89%) Hedge funds
2 67 (7.05%) Fixed Income
3 62 (6.52%) Algorithms
4 42 (4.42%) Equities
5 41 (4.31%) Product Ownership
6 26 (2.73%) Derivative
6 26 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 25 (2.63%) Robotics
8 18 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (1.89%) Public Cloud
9 17 (1.79%) IoT
10 14 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 13 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.37%) IVR
12 12 (1.26%) Cloud Native
12 12 (1.26%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (1.05%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
16 7 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.47%) Windows
2 12 (1.26%) Linux
3 8 (0.84%) Android
4 6 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (40.59%) Machine Learning
2 273 (28.71%) Conversational UI
3 255 (26.81%) Code Quality
4 232 (24.40%) Software Engineering
5 218 (22.92%) Agile
6 129 (13.56%) Data Science
7 113 (11.88%) DevOps
8 111 (11.67%) Analytics
9 95 (9.99%) Generative AI
10 91 (9.57%) Computer Science
11 85 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
12 81 (8.52%) Roadmaps
13 75 (7.89%) CI/CD
14 72 (7.57%) Asset Management
15 67 (7.05%) Investment Management
16 66 (6.94%) Full Stack Development
17 60 (6.31%) Natural Language Processing
18 57 (5.99%) LLM
19 51 (5.36%) Data Modelling
20 48 (5.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 423 (44.48%) Python
2 248 (26.08%) SQL
3 159 (16.72%) JavaScript
4 150 (15.77%) C#
5 75 (7.89%) Java
6 74 (7.78%) TypeScript
7 25 (2.63%) PowerShell
8 20 (2.10%) C++
9 13 (1.37%) Bash
10 11 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
10 11 (1.16%) R
10 11 (1.16%) Scala
11 7 (0.74%) Clojure
11 7 (0.74%) Go
11 7 (0.74%) Haskell
11 7 (0.74%) Rust
12 6 (0.63%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.53%) C
14 4 (0.42%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.21%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 355 (37.33%) Degree
2 49 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (4.73%) Security Cleared
4 39 (4.10%) Master's Degree
4 39 (4.10%) SC Cleared
5 25 (2.63%) PhD
6 9 (0.95%) PMI Certification
6 9 (0.95%) PMP
7 8 (0.84%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.84%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.42%) CISM
8 4 (0.42%) CISSP
9 3 (0.32%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.32%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.21%) CCNA
11 1 (0.11%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.26%) QA
2 10 (1.05%) GDPR
3 7 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.42%) GxP
4 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.42%) MiFID
4 4 (0.42%) PMO
5 3 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (0.32%) NCSC
5 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.32%) SLA
6 2 (0.21%) Basel III
7 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.11%) GRC
7 1 (0.11%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 26 (2.73%) Docker
2 5 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.11%) KVM
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (4.73%) Kubernetes
2 30 (3.15%) Terraform
3 9 (0.95%) Grafana
4 7 (0.74%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.53%) Ansible
5 5 (0.53%) SysTrack
6 4 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.11%) Nagios
7 1 (0.11%) OPNET
7 1 (0.11%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.11%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 241 (25.34%) PayPal
2 67 (7.05%) Microsoft
3 66 (6.94%) Google
4 29 (3.05%) Oracle
4 29 (3.05%) SAP
5 22 (2.31%) OpenAI
6 19 (2.00%) Sparx
7 15 (1.58%) Databricks
8 14 (1.47%) Genesys
9 12 (1.26%) Bloomberg
10 11 (1.16%) BISAM
11 8 (0.84%) Adobe
11 8 (0.84%) Ariba
12 7 (0.74%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.74%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.63%) Citrix
13 6 (0.63%) Hyperion
14 5 (0.53%) New Relic
14 5 (0.53%) SimCorp
14 5 (0.53%) UiPath