Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the East of England

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 97 114
Rank change year-on-year +59 +17 +19
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 54 16 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.89% 0.83% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.49% 0.98% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 9 2
10th Percentile £373 - £481
25th Percentile £499 £263 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £375 £613
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -38.78% +11.87%
75th Percentile £675 £483 £703
90th Percentile - £561 £754
England median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 4
10th Percentile £74.23 £29.33 £68.63
25th Percentile £80.25 £48.24 £70.31
Median hourly rate £84.34 £62.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.94% -13.79% -
75th Percentile £88.00 £66.25 £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £49.97 £54.34 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.04% -16.40% +54.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 983 1,625 1,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.04% 84.50% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 651 1,015
10th Percentile £212 £200 £229
25th Percentile £363 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 608 348
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.17 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.94 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.38 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the East of England

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the East of England

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the East of England

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the East of England

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the East of England

Artificial Intelligence
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 Artificial Intelligence within the East of England region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Hertfordshire +44 20 £650 +73.33% 324
Bedfordshire +10 15 £500 -10.71% 137
Essex +19 8 £393 +42.98% 278
Suffolk -4 6 - - 66
Cambridgeshire +11 5 £650 +42.08% 467
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.85%) Apache
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.85%) CMS
3 1 (1.85%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Chatbot
2 6 (11.11%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.70%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.19%) AWS
2 14 (25.93%) Azure
3 6 (11.11%) GCP
4 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (5.56%) Serverless
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.70%) ChatGPT
5 2 (3.70%) GitHub
6 1 (1.85%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.85%) dbt
6 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.85%) SaaS
6 1 (1.85%) Slack
6 1 (1.85%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) Ethernet
2 4 (7.41%) Network Security
3 3 (5.56%) DNS
3 3 (5.56%) FTP
3 3 (5.56%) HTTP
3 3 (5.56%) SMTP
3 3 (5.56%) SSL
4 1 (1.85%) Firewall
4 1 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (29.63%) Tableau
2 12 (22.22%) Big Data
2 12 (22.22%) Hadoop
3 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.56%) Metadata
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.85%) Looker
5 1 (1.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (31.48%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.81%) Finance
4 7 (12.96%) Electronics
4 7 (12.96%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (11.11%) Games
6 3 (5.56%) Law
7 2 (3.70%) Automotive
7 2 (3.70%) Health Technology
7 2 (3.70%) Local Government
7 2 (3.70%) Marketing
7 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.85%) Aviation
8 1 (1.85%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 25 (46.30%) Developer
2 13 (24.07%) Data Science Developer
3 8 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 7 (12.96%) Senior
5 6 (11.11%) Analyst
5 6 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Trainer
6 5 (9.26%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.41%) FPGA Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Architect
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Business Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) CRM Manager
8 3 (5.56%) CRM Programme Manager
8 3 (5.56%) Insight Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) Programme Manager
9 2 (3.70%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) SOC Analyst
9 2 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (27.78%) Matplotlib
1 15 (27.78%) NumPy
1 15 (27.78%) Pandas
1 15 (27.78%) PyTorch
1 15 (27.78%) scikit-learn
1 15 (27.78%) Seaborn
1 15 (27.78%) TensorFlow
2 7 (12.96%) HTML
3 3 (5.56%) LDAP
3 3 (5.56%) Node.js
3 3 (5.56%) PySpark
3 3 (5.56%) React
4 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.85%) .NET
5 1 (1.85%) CSS
5 1 (1.85%) Flash
5 1 (1.85%) JSR 170
5 1 (1.85%) Kafka
5 1 (1.85%) Next.js
5 1 (1.85%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 20 (37.04%) Algorithms
2 7 (12.96%) FPGA
3 6 (11.11%) PCIe
3 6 (11.11%) Verilog
4 5 (9.26%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (5.56%) CSOC
5 3 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (5.56%) Cyberattack
5 3 (5.56%) Life Science
5 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.85%) Analogue Electronics
6 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.85%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.85%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) Machine Learning
2 21 (38.89%) Analytics
2 21 (38.89%) Generative AI
3 17 (31.48%) Data Science
3 17 (31.48%) LLM
4 16 (29.63%) Computer Science
4 16 (29.63%) Visualisation
5 15 (27.78%) Data Munging
6 14 (25.93%) Data Analysis
6 14 (25.93%) Decision-Making
7 13 (24.07%) Statistical Modelling
8 12 (22.22%) Predictive Analytics
8 12 (22.22%) Reinforcement Learning
8 12 (22.22%) Time Series Forecasting
9 11 (20.37%) Data Analytics
9 11 (20.37%) Feature Engineering
10 9 (16.67%) Conversational UI
11 8 (14.81%) Customer Requirements
12 7 (12.96%) Code Quality
13 6 (11.11%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 28 (51.85%) Python
2 15 (27.78%) R
3 9 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 9 (16.67%) SQL
4 7 (12.96%) C++
5 6 (11.11%) C#
5 6 (11.11%) MATLAB
5 6 (11.11%) SystemVerilog
5 6 (11.11%) Tcl
6 4 (7.41%) Java
7 1 (1.85%) C
Qualifications
1 23 (42.59%) Degree
2 10 (18.52%) Master's Degree
2 10 (18.52%) PhD
3 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.81%) Security Cleared
4 6 (11.11%) HNC
4 6 (11.11%) HND
5 2 (3.70%) CCA
5 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (25.93%) Data Quality
2 6 (11.11%) DO-254
3 2 (3.70%) GDPR
4 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Firmware
2 1 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Actel
1 6 (11.11%) Altera
1 6 (11.11%) Intel
1 6 (11.11%) Microsemi
1 6 (11.11%) PayPal
1 6 (11.11%) Xilinx
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) SAP
3 3 (5.56%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.70%) Anaplan
4 2 (3.70%) Ariba
4 2 (3.70%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.85%) Adobe
5 1 (1.85%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.85%) Google
5 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.85%) Zscaler