Artificial Intelligence Developer Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

AI Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median AI Developer daily rate in Berkshire is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.085% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
South East median daily rate £400 £400 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,072 1,544 1,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 90.98% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 824 1,072
10th Percentile £300 £313 £271
25th Percentile £406 £427 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £696 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 79 61
10th Percentile £14.75 £38.88 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.66 £56.25 £43.33
Median hourly rate £32.18 £61.80 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year -47.92% +8.63% +63.04%
75th Percentile £68.75 £76.20 £72.33
90th Percentile £87.28 £97.50 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.26% +15.00% +106.78%

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Developer in Berkshire

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Developer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Developer job vacancies in Berkshire

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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
Reading - 1 £400 - 3
Artificial Intelligence Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, 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 across the Berkshire region featuring Artificial Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) HL7
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Express.js
1 1 (100.00%) Twilio
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) WhatsApp
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) FHIR
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Twilio
1 1 (100.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Express.js
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) FHIR
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) HL7
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform