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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 90 113
Rank change year-on-year +51 +23 +12
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 59 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.69% 0.68% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.32% 0.82% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 5 2
10th Percentile £408 £358 £481
25th Percentile £472 £425 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £465 £613
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -24.08% +12.39%
75th Percentile £669 £538 £703
90th Percentile £678 £551 £754
England median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +4.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 4
10th Percentile £48.50 - £68.63
25th Percentile £52.00 £16.72 £70.31
Median hourly rate £72.50 £17.47 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +315.00% -75.90% -
75th Percentile £85.75 £18.22 £73.75
90th Percentile £88.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.25 £44.11 £46.18
% change year-on-year +43.41% -4.49% +9.95%

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 1,110 1,347 1,709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.17% 82.84% 87.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 521 970
10th Percentile £200 £200 £225
25th Percentile £364 £310 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £704
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 503 357
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.97 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +6.01%
75th Percentile £66.31 £60.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £82.03 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +32 28 £638 - 38
Bedfordshire +1 13 £575 +5.99% 11
Cambridgeshire +7 8 £550 +22.22% 144
Essex - 7 £500 - 68
Suffolk -1 3 - - 12
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 9 (15.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.69%) CMS
3 1 (1.69%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Simulink
2 6 (10.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.12%) AWS
2 13 (22.03%) Azure
3 4 (6.78%) GCP
3 4 (6.78%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (5.08%) Serverless
5 2 (3.39%) ChatGPT
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.39%) Slack
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.69%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.69%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.34%) Network Security
2 11 (18.64%) DNS
2 11 (18.64%) FTP
2 11 (18.64%) HTTP
2 11 (18.64%) SMTP
2 11 (18.64%) SSL
3 7 (11.86%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.69%) Firewall
4 1 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.34%) Tableau
2 9 (15.25%) Big Data
2 9 (15.25%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.39%) Power BI
4 1 (1.69%) Metadata
4 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.69%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Git
1 1 (1.69%) GitLab
1 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 19 (32.20%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Electronics
4 7 (11.86%) Games
5 6 (10.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (6.78%) Law
7 3 (5.08%) Finance
7 3 (5.08%) Local Government
7 3 (5.08%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.69%) Automotive
9 1 (1.69%) Back Office
9 1 (1.69%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.69%) Marketing
9 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Developer
2 12 (20.34%) Analyst
3 10 (16.95%) Data Science Developer
3 10 (16.95%) SOC Analyst
4 8 (13.56%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 5 (8.47%) Design Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Digital Design Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) FPGA Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior
7 3 (5.08%) Architect
7 3 (5.08%) AWS Developer
7 3 (5.08%) CRM Manager
7 3 (5.08%) CRM Programme Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Firmware Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Programme Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Trainer
8 2 (3.39%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.34%) Matplotlib
1 12 (20.34%) PyTorch
1 12 (20.34%) scikit-learn
1 12 (20.34%) Seaborn
1 12 (20.34%) TensorFlow
2 11 (18.64%) LDAP
2 11 (18.64%) NumPy
2 11 (18.64%) Pandas
3 5 (8.47%) HTML
4 4 (6.78%) Flash
5 3 (5.08%) Node.js
6 2 (3.39%) React
7 1 (1.69%) .NET
7 1 (1.69%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.69%) CSS
7 1 (1.69%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (1.69%) JSON
7 1 (1.69%) Next.js
7 1 (1.69%) OSGi
7 1 (1.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (30.51%) Algorithms
2 11 (18.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (18.64%) CSOC
2 11 (18.64%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (18.64%) Cyberattack
2 11 (18.64%) FPGA
2 11 (18.64%) Management Information System
2 11 (18.64%) Security Operations Centre
3 7 (11.86%) PCIe
3 7 (11.86%) Verilog
4 4 (6.78%) Analogue Electronics
4 4 (6.78%) Life Science
4 4 (6.78%) VHDL
5 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.69%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.69%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (59.32%) Machine Learning
2 26 (44.07%) Analytics
3 16 (27.12%) Generative AI
4 15 (25.42%) LLM
5 14 (23.73%) Computer Science
5 14 (23.73%) Data Science
6 13 (22.03%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (22.03%) Visualisation
7 12 (20.34%) Data Munging
7 12 (20.34%) Security Operations
8 11 (18.64%) Behavioural Analytics
8 11 (18.64%) Data Analysis
8 11 (18.64%) Incident Response
8 11 (18.64%) Information Management
8 11 (18.64%) Information Security
8 11 (18.64%) Network Packet Capture
8 11 (18.64%) SIEM
8 11 (18.64%) Threat Detection
9 10 (16.95%) Statistical Modelling
10 9 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.85%) Python
2 12 (20.34%) R
3 7 (11.86%) C++
3 7 (11.86%) JavaScript
3 7 (11.86%) MATLAB
3 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
3 7 (11.86%) SystemVerilog
3 7 (11.86%) Tcl
4 5 (8.47%) SQL
5 4 (6.78%) C
6 3 (5.08%) C#
6 3 (5.08%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (32.20%) Degree
2 18 (30.51%) SC Cleared
2 18 (30.51%) Security Cleared
3 8 (13.56%) Master's Degree
4 7 (11.86%) DV Cleared
4 7 (11.86%) HNC
4 7 (11.86%) HND
4 7 (11.86%) PhD
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.64%) Data Quality
2 7 (11.86%) DO-254
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) GxP
3 1 (1.69%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.69%) NIST
3 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Firmware
2 2 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.39%) Terraform
3 1 (1.69%) Grafana
3 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Actel
1 7 (11.86%) Altera
1 7 (11.86%) Intel
1 7 (11.86%) Microsemi
1 7 (11.86%) Xilinx
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.08%) OpenAI
3 3 (5.08%) PayPal
3 3 (5.08%) Sun
4 2 (3.39%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) Adobe
5 1 (1.69%) Ariba
5 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.69%) Genesys
5 1 (1.69%) Google
5 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Zscaler