Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the West Midlands

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 133 144
Rank change year-on-year +71 +11 -36
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 51 4 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.67% 0.17% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 0.19% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 18
10th Percentile £302 £338 £427
25th Percentile £361 £356 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £750 £506 £691
90th Percentile £930 £533 £729
England median daily rate £600 £588 £575
% change year-on-year +2.13% +2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £25.90 - -
25th Percentile £41.50 £92.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £95.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £97.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £48.75 £42.00
% change year-on-year -5.27% +16.07% +33.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,602 2,065 3,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.96% 88.63% 90.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 1,415 2,341
10th Percentile £276 £263 £275
25th Percentile £371 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +14.71%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 47 65
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +12.93% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.25 £27.94 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £50.00 £21.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the West Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the West Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the West Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the West Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the West Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
Birmingham +51 40 £688 - 25
Worcestershire - 4 £550 -
Warwickshire +8 3 £369 +5.36% 10
Coventry +17 1 £550 +10.00% 5
Staffordshire - 1 £550 - 2
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (1.96%) Confluence
1 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (47.06%) Chatbot
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.96%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.61%) Power Platform
2 9 (17.65%) Azure
3 5 (9.80%) Azure Functions
3 5 (9.80%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (9.80%) Serverless
4 3 (5.88%) AWS
5 2 (3.92%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.92%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.96%) GCP
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) 5G
1 2 (3.92%) Internet
1 2 (3.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.65%) Power BI
2 1 (1.96%) Big Data
2 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.96%) DB2
2 1 (1.96%) OLAP
2 1 (1.96%) OLTP
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Finance
3 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Retail
4 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Local Government
5 1 (1.96%) Marketing
5 1 (1.96%) Multimedia
5 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (50.98%) Developer
2 24 (47.06%) Software Developer
3 3 (5.88%) Architect
3 3 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (5.88%) Senior
4 2 (3.92%) Consultant
4 2 (3.92%) Data Architect
4 2 (3.92%) Programme Director
4 2 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (3.92%) Software Engineer
5 1 (1.96%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (1.96%) Data Analyst
5 1 (1.96%) Data Engineer
5 1 (1.96%) Desktop Specialist
5 1 (1.96%) Digital Director
5 1 (1.96%) HR Analyst
5 1 (1.96%) HR Data Analyst
5 1 (1.96%) Monitoring Specialist
5 1 (1.96%) Presales Consultant
5 1 (1.96%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.53%) HTML
2 1 (1.96%) Dask
2 1 (1.96%) Keras
2 1 (1.96%) NumPy
2 1 (1.96%) Pandas
2 1 (1.96%) PySpark
2 1 (1.96%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.96%) RESTful
2 1 (1.96%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.96%) SOAP
2 1 (1.96%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.92%) FMCG
2 2 (3.92%) IoT
3 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.96%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Windows
2 2 (3.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (47.06%) Code Quality
1 24 (47.06%) Conversational UI
2 14 (27.45%) Software Engineering
3 12 (23.53%) Analytics
4 7 (13.73%) Data Science
5 6 (11.76%) Computer Science
5 6 (11.76%) ITIL
5 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (9.80%) Data Analysis
6 5 (9.80%) Incident Management
6 5 (9.80%) Machine Learning
6 5 (9.80%) Problem Management
6 5 (9.80%) Runbook
6 5 (9.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (7.84%) Agile
7 4 (7.84%) Decision-Making
7 4 (7.84%) DevOps
7 4 (7.84%) Generative AI
7 4 (7.84%) Project Management
7 4 (7.84%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 21 (41.18%) Python
2 14 (27.45%) SQL
3 12 (23.53%) C#
3 12 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 6 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.96%) C++
5 1 (1.96%) Java
5 1 (1.96%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (54.90%) Degree
2 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.96%) CIPD
3 1 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.96%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) GDPR
1 2 (3.92%) SLA
2 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.96%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) SysTrack
2 1 (1.96%) Functional Safety
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (47.06%) PayPal
2 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.80%) Citrix
3 5 (9.80%) New Relic
3 5 (9.80%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.92%) NVIDIA
5 1 (1.96%) Anaplan
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle
5 1 (1.96%) Sage