Artificial Intelligence Contracts in Cardiff

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.98% - 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% - 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £340 - -
25th Percentile £363 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £350
75th Percentile £588 - £375
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £488 - £350
% change year-on-year - - -36.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 153 169 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.07% 70.42% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 135 173
10th Percentile £230 £143 £184
25th Percentile £303 £366 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.35% +3.16% -
75th Percentile £494 £552 £586
90th Percentile £650 £611 £638
South Wales median daily rate £400 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 6
10th Percentile £12.21 £13.61 £13.00
25th Percentile £12.43 £15.48 £13.81
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £19.47
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% -4.63% -2.64%
75th Percentile £21.08 £21.67 £24.69
90th Percentile £23.75 - £25.50
South Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £20.24 £18.82
% change year-on-year -20.93% +7.55% -7.04%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Cardiff

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Cardiff

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Cardiff over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Cardiff

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) IT Trainer
1 2 (40.00%) Trainer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (40.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (40.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (20.00%) Anaconda
2 1 (20.00%) Express.js
2 1 (20.00%) NestJS
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) NumPy
2 1 (20.00%) Pandas
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Science
1 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Munging
3 1 (20.00%) Deep Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Google