AI Contract Job Trends in Bury

AI
Manchester > Bury

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bury 54.55% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 54.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile £763 - -
Manchester median daily rate £513 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% -17.02%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bury

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 Bury.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bury 100.00% 70.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile £500 - -
25th Percentile £575 £193 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £728 £205 £325
Median % change year-on-year +255.03% -36.92% -
75th Percentile £764 £218 £338
90th Percentile £782 - -
Manchester median daily rate £478 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +6.17% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.10 -
Manchester median hourly rate £60.50 £32.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +89.06% +18.52% +35.00%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Bury

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

AI job vacancy trend in Bury

AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Bury

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

Daily rate histogram for AI in Bury

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bury 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 3 (50.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 3 (50.00%) Google Gemini
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Claude Code
1 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 6 (100.00%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Product Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile Product Manager
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Next.js
1 3 (50.00%) React
1 3 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Culture of Ownership
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Customer Experience
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Mobile First
3 3 (50.00%) Pair Programming
3 3 (50.00%) Product Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Product Thinking
3 3 (50.00%) Product Vision
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform