AI Contract Job Trends in Dunstable

AI
Bedfordshire > Dunstable

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dunstable 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 1 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dunstable 57.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 57.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £464 - -
25th Percentile £485 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - -
75th Percentile £573 - -
90th Percentile £604 - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £553 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +5.36% +16.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dunstable

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 Dunstable.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7 9 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dunstable 100.00% 81.82% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 12
10th Percentile £431 £103 -
25th Percentile £459 £189 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £230 £400
Median % change year-on-year +119.60% -42.51% -40.74%
75th Percentile £519 £375 £478
90th Percentile £573 £390 £500
Bedfordshire median daily rate £515 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +0.15% -2.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £82.25 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +49.55% - +0.64%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Dunstable

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

AI job vacancy trend in Dunstable

AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Dunstable

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI in Dunstable over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI in Dunstable

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dunstable 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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Conversational UI
1 3 (75.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (75.00%) Natural Language Understanding
2 2 (50.00%) Conversational AI
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft