Artificial Intelligence Contracts in Bristol

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 37 89
Rank change year-on-year -3 +52 +3
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 15 37 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.79% 3.50% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 4.21% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 8
10th Percentile £253 £411 £393
25th Percentile £460 £525 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +28.95% +5.56%
75th Percentile £788 £638 £550
90th Percentile - £641 -
South West median daily rate £620 £588 £588
% change year-on-year +5.53% - +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £75.00 £16.00 -
% change year-on-year +368.75% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Artificial Intelligence 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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 493 879 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.81% 83.16% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 484 750
10th Percentile £222 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £567 £602 £631
90th Percentile £657 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 184 220
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £42.51 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +36.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £83.88
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Bristol

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Bristol

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Bristol

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Bristol

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (6.67%) Simulink
1 1 (6.67%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP BPC
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Akamai
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (6.67%) GitHub
1 1 (6.67%) IaaS
1 1 (6.67%) PaaS
1 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
1 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) LTE
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Metadata
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) MLflow
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Electronics
2 2 (13.33%) Legal
2 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (13.33%) Marketing
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.67%) Aviation
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Architect
1 3 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Chief Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Flutter Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Principal Technologist
2 2 (13.33%) Technologist
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithm Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Data Scientist
3 1 (6.67%) Designer
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Flutter
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
2 1 (6.67%) Django
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (6.67%) SailPoint
2 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Machine Learning
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (20.00%) User Experience
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Change Management
5 2 (13.33%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (13.33%) Cyber Resilience
5 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
5 2 (13.33%) Data Science
5 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (13.33%) Mobile Development
5 2 (13.33%) Programme Management
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Dart
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Fortran
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) MATLAB
3 1 (6.67%) Perl
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) MCITP
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) F5
3 1 (6.67%) Google