Artificial Intelligence Contracts in Dorset

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 27 -
Rank change year-on-year +18 - -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 12 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 14.12% 0.57% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.00% 0.68% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile - £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 -
75th Percentile - £575 -
90th Percentile £620 - -
South West median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +2.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 80 146 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 94.12% 83.43% 84.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 93 106
10th Percentile £190 £175 £200
25th Percentile £308 £175 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £519
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -18.07% +9.21%
75th Percentile £550 £630 £614
90th Percentile £616 £765 £681
South West median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 35 36
10th Percentile £14.50 £11.87 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.20 £13.69 £42.79
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.62 £56.29
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -72.25% +5.28%
75th Percentile £46.25 £56.91 £62.72
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.25 £70.77
South West median hourly rate £35.50 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -35.45% -4.35% +18.61%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Dorset

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Dorset

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Dorset over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Dorset

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 29 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
Poole +1 6 £550 - 2
Bournemouth - 5 - - 211
Artificial Intelligence
South West

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (25.00%) Serverless
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Dialogflow
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Code Climate
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Node.js
2 4 (33.33%) RESTful
3 3 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (25.00%) CSS
3 3 (25.00%) HTML
3 3 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (8.33%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) User Experience
4 3 (25.00%) CAD
4 3 (25.00%) Community of Practice
4 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) ITSM
4 3 (25.00%) Operational Stability
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) Service Management
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) UX Design
4 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 3 (25.00%) Web Development
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Graphite
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) OpenAI