Generative AI Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Generative AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - 78
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.87% - 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £462 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £600
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £678 - -
South West median daily rate £550 £431 £600
% change year-on-year +27.54% -28.13% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Generative 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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 697 647 898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 86.69% 86.61% 86.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 358 562
10th Percentile £256 £225 £308
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -13.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £650
90th Percentile £725 £746 £706
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 89 120
10th Percentile £14.72 £45.20 £33.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £55.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +0.77% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £77.19
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £59.84
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.62% -7.94%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Generative AI job vacancy trend in Bristol

Generative AI
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Generative AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Generative AI

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in Bristol over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in Bristol

Generative AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe XD
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
1 1 (14.29%) Sketch
1 1 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Figma
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Visual Designer
2 1 (14.29%) UX Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) AI
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) A/B Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Vision
4 1 (14.29%) Content Writing
4 1 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
4 1 (14.29%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (14.29%) Infographics
4 1 (14.29%) Mobile First
4 1 (14.29%) OCR
4 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
4 1 (14.29%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Hotjar