AI Contract Job Trends in Bath

AI
Somerset > Bath

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bath requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing AI 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bath 4.26% 1.92% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.97% 2.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £373 - -
25th Percentile £406 £381 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £388 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% - -
75th Percentile £644 £394 -
90th Percentile £738 - -
Somerset median daily rate £475 £800 -
% change year-on-year -40.63% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bath

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 Bath.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67 42 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath 71.28% 80.77% 77.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 32 36
10th Percentile £356 £149 £194
25th Percentile £463 £242 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £431 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +1.47% -6.59%
75th Percentile £659 £505 £478
90th Percentile £675 £648 £649
Somerset median daily rate £550 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% -7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £13.27 - -
25th Percentile £13.55 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.67%
75th Percentile - - £15.00
90th Percentile - - £15.90
Somerset median hourly rate £62.25 £60.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +3.75% +140.00% -51.82%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Bath

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath.

AI job vacancy trend in Bath

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Bath

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing AI

AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Bath

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI in Bath over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AI in Bath

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bath by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeCommit
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Traffic Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) LLM
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Management
2 2 (50.00%) SysML
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) UML
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Chartered Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Sparx