Generative AI Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Generative AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 69 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 22 16 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.39% 1.41% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 0
10th Percentile £440 £400 -
25th Percentile £522 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £495 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
75th Percentile £638 £644 -
90th Percentile £659 £675 -
England median daily rate £550 £630 £650
% change year-on-year -12.70% -3.08% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Generative 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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,340 956 1,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.38% 84.01% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 411 795
10th Percentile £187 £231 £247
25th Percentile £363 £338 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £576 £585 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 184 359
10th Percentile £14.11 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.40 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.88 £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -30.42% +40.78% -3.14%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Generative AI job vacancy trend in the East of England

Generative AI
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in the East of England

Generative AI
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 Generative AI within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 December 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 -14 12 £625 +4.17% 30
Bedfordshire +2 6 £478 - 22
Cambridgeshire -8 3 - - 19
Norfolk - 1 £550 - 6
Generative AI
England

Generative AI
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 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Chatbot
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (13.64%) Serverless
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.55%) 802.11
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
2 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Tableau
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.09%) Big Data
2 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Parquet
3 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
1 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Retail
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Aviation
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Data Science Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 2 (9.09%) Programme Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Programme Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Procurement Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Security Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Strategy Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Matplotlib
1 3 (13.64%) Node.js
1 3 (13.64%) PyTorch
1 3 (13.64%) scikit-learn
1 3 (13.64%) Seaborn
1 3 (13.64%) TensorFlow
2 2 (9.09%) NumPy
2 2 (9.09%) Pandas
2 2 (9.09%) React
3 1 (4.55%) 802.1X
3 1 (4.55%) CSS
3 1 (4.55%) HTML
3 1 (4.55%) ISPF
3 1 (4.55%) JSON
3 1 (4.55%) Redux
3 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Algorithms
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) PDA
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) AI
2 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
3 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (27.27%) Analytics
4 6 (27.27%) Data Science
5 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
6 4 (18.18%) LLM
6 4 (18.18%) Predictive Analytics
6 4 (18.18%) Programme Management
7 3 (13.64%) Data Analysis
7 3 (13.64%) Data Munging
7 3 (13.64%) Feature Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) IT Strategy
7 3 (13.64%) Reinforcement Learning
7 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
7 3 (13.64%) Statistical Modelling
7 3 (13.64%) Technology Strategy
7 3 (13.64%) Visualisation
8 2 (9.09%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.64%) R
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) CLIST
4 1 (4.55%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) JCL
4 1 (4.55%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
2 3 (13.64%) PhD
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) CCIE
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
1 1 (4.55%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) zSecure
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) Adobe
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco
2 1 (4.55%) IBM
2 1 (4.55%) Meraki
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.55%) Tealium