AI Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

AI
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 37 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs citing AI 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 2.00% 0.51% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 0.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £701 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £488 £701 -
% change year-on-year -30.41% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 81 160 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 81.00% 81.63% 79.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 95 98
10th Percentile £425 £473 £350
25th Percentile £463 £539 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £670 £695 £675
90th Percentile £751 £968 £711
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £575 £555
% change year-on-year -17.39% +3.60% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £41.28 £51.88 £23.40
25th Percentile £49.19 £65.63 £24.75
Median hourly rate £64.25 £72.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.38% +141.67% -55.88%
75th Percentile £81.19 £73.75 £36.00
90th Percentile £90.23 - £51.90
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £34.34 £33.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.06% -32.27% -17.66%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

AI job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing AI

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) Impala
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (50.00%) NLTK
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Edge Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana