Artificial Intelligence Contracts in Cheshire

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 46 50 41
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 +11
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 12 8 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.67% 1.59% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 1.88% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 17
10th Percentile £449 - £414
25th Percentile £478 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% +4.18% -19.21%
75th Percentile £671 £595 £640
90th Percentile £680 £658 £693
North West median daily rate £550 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% -10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -42.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Cheshire

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Cheshire

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Cheshire

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Macclesfield +12 5 £600 +18.81% 3
Knutsford - 4 £671 - 1
Alderley Edge - 1 £430 -
Artificial Intelligence
North West

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (8.33%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) GCP
3 4 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
3 4 (33.33%) Azure AI
3 4 (33.33%) Google Gemini
4 3 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Neo4j
2 1 (8.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
General
1 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Finance
3 6 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (41.67%) Legal
5 4 (33.33%) Manufacturing
6 3 (25.00%) Banking
7 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior
3 4 (33.33%) Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (25.00%) Security Architect
4 3 (25.00%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Automation Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Major Incident Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Process Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 4 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Blockchain
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 9 (75.00%) Generative AI
3 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (58.33%) Agile
4 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
5 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (50.00%) LLM
5 6 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 6 (50.00%) SDLC
6 5 (41.67%) Data Cleansing
7 4 (33.33%) Business Analysis
7 4 (33.33%) Computer Vision
7 4 (33.33%) Data Privacy
7 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
7 4 (33.33%) Linear Algebra
7 4 (33.33%) Mathematics
7 4 (33.33%) Multi-Agent System
7 4 (33.33%) Pattern Recognition
7 4 (33.33%) RDF
7 4 (33.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) GDPR
2 3 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Ariba
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (8.33%) SAP
1 1 (8.33%) VMware