AI Transformation Contract Job Trends in the East of England

AI Transformation
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring AI Transformation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Transformation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.16% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
England median daily rate £663 £900 £625
% change year-on-year -26.39% +44.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

AI Transformation 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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,470 900 1,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 79.80% 86.87% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 457 826
10th Percentile £197 £245 £250
25th Percentile £351 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £690 £707
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 149 510
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.45 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +31.16% +15.52%
75th Percentile £64.75 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -17.14% +2.94% -5.56%

AI Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

AI Transformation job vacancy trend in the East of England

AI Transformation
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AI Transformation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AI Transformation

AI Transformation
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI Transformation within the East of England region over the 6 months to 3 March 2026. 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
Suffolk - 2 £750 - 2
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 3
AI Transformation
England

AI Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Head of AI
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Process Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) BPMN
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Swim Lanes
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow