AI Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

AI
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Blackpool requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 9.09% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £460 £550 -
% change year-on-year -16.36% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Blackpool

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 Blackpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20 24 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 90.91% 96.00% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 64
10th Percentile £351 £259 £513
25th Percentile £368 £285 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £355 £645
Median % change year-on-year +15.66% -45.04% +17.27%
75th Percentile £490 £595 £720
90th Percentile £549 £668 -
Lancashire median daily rate £455 £516 £623
% change year-on-year -11.86% -17.07% +18.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £22.12 - -
25th Percentile £24.07 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% - -
75th Percentile - £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.56% - +15.39%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

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

AI job vacancy trend in Blackpool

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform