Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the East Midlands

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 47 39 80
Rank change year-on-year -8 +41 +18
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 9 27 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.68% 3.49% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 4.48% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £249 - -
25th Percentile £308 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £750 £438
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +71.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £700 - £444
90th Percentile £725 - £463
England median daily rate £600 £600 £588
% change year-on-year - +2.13% +2.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the East Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the East Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the East Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands 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
Leicestershire +11 6 £316 -57.87% 58
Northamptonshire - 2 £700 - 14
Nottinghamshire -14 1 - - 87
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) 3G
1 1 (11.11%) 3GPP
1 1 (11.11%) 4G
1 1 (11.11%) 5G
1 1 (11.11%) LTE
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 1 (11.11%) GIS
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (22.22%) Games
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Animator
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Architect
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) GIS Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Animation
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
2 2 (22.22%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Game Development
2 2 (22.22%) Generative AI
2 2 (22.22%) Mathematics
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Conversational UI
3 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
3 1 (11.11%) Ontologies
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft