Generative AI Contracts in Dorset

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset requiring Generative AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Generative AI over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 1.08% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate £756 £613 -
% change year-on-year +23.47% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

Generative 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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87 136 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 93.55% 85.00% 83.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 87 104
10th Percentile £200 £173 £160
25th Percentile £384 £175 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £612
90th Percentile £675 £769 £650
South West median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 35 36
10th Percentile £14.47 £11.87 £17.50
25th Percentile £14.99 £13.69 £48.86
Median hourly rate £21.63 £15.31 £56.29
Median % change year-on-year +41.25% -72.80% +5.28%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.49 £62.72
90th Percentile - £61.25 £70.77
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +23.43%

Generative AI
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 Generative AI within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 11 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
Bournemouth - 1 - - 2
Generative AI
South West

Generative AI
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Code Climate
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI