Artificial Intelligence Contracts in England

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Artificial Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 291 328
Rank change year-on-year +198 +37 -67
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 880 434 575
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.39% 0.89% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 0.98% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 295 396
10th Percentile £410 £412 £425
25th Percentile £500 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £578
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +1.73% +5.00%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £875 £753
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £598
% change year-on-year +4.35% -3.77% +10.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 16
10th Percentile £17.75 £20.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.38 £31.25 £30.56
Median hourly rate £46.18 £48.75 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% +16.07% +33.97%
75th Percentile £72.50 £69.06 £51.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £94.75 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £48.75 £39.75
% change year-on-year -5.27% +22.64% +26.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Artificial Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,794 44,158 63,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,826 30,977 45,197
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,739
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in England

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in England

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in England

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in England

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in England

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
London +192 509 £600 - 665
North of England +116 161 £500 -13.04% 114
Midlands +92 76 £613 +40.00% 62
North West +60 76 £500 -4.76% 80
Yorkshire +63 53 £600 -3.61% 27
West Midlands +64 50 £550 +29.41% 48
South West +17 44 £588 +2.17% 78
South East -1 42 £650 +16.07% 215
North East +38 34 - - 8
East Midlands +43 26 £750 +71.43% 14
East of England +34 24 £450 -26.53% 96
Artificial Intelligence
UK

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 69 (7.84%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (6.82%) Apache
3 11 (1.25%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.14%) Confluence
5 6 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.23%) CMS
8 2 (0.23%) SAS
9 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 249 (28.30%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.34%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.23%) Simulink
4 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 18 (2.05%) Aladdin
2 14 (1.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 13 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.68%) SimCorp Dimension
6 5 (0.57%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.23%) Magento
8 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.11%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 1 (0.11%) SAP CX
9 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.11%) Shopify
9 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 189 (21.48%) Azure
2 183 (20.80%) AWS
3 123 (13.98%) GCP
4 47 (5.34%) Power Platform
5 33 (3.75%) Vertex AI
6 31 (3.52%) Cloud Computing
7 21 (2.39%) Serverless
8 18 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (1.82%) SaaS
10 14 (1.59%) OCI
11 13 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (1.48%) GitHub
11 13 (1.48%) Snowflake
12 11 (1.25%) Google Compute Engine
13 10 (1.14%) ChatGPT
14 8 (0.91%) Amazon S3
14 8 (0.91%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (0.91%) PowerApps
15 7 (0.80%) Azure Functions
15 7 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.68%) Firewall
2 4 (0.45%) CTI
2 4 (0.45%) VoIP
2 4 (0.45%) Wireless
3 3 (0.34%) 5G
3 3 (0.34%) Internet
4 2 (0.23%) MQTT
4 2 (0.23%) Network Security
4 2 (0.23%) VPN
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (6.59%) Apache Ignite
3 40 (4.55%) Power BI
4 26 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (2.61%) BigQuery
6 22 (2.50%) Tableau
7 17 (1.93%) Big Data
8 12 (1.36%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.36%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.02%) Data Mining
10 8 (0.91%) DynamoDB
10 8 (0.91%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.80%) SQL Server
12 6 (0.68%) Crystal Reports
12 6 (0.68%) MySQL
13 5 (0.57%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.57%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.45%) Bigtable
14 4 (0.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 43 (4.89%) Cypress.io
2 29 (3.30%) JIRA
3 27 (3.07%) Git
4 12 (1.36%) ER Studio
4 12 (1.36%) ERwin
4 12 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.91%) MLflow
6 6 (0.68%) CircleCI
7 5 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.57%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.57%) NeoLoad
7 5 (0.57%) Selenium
8 4 (0.45%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.34%) Appium
9 3 (0.34%) GitLab
10 1 (0.11%) CMake
10 1 (0.11%) GoCD
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 179 (20.34%) Finance
2 119 (13.52%) Social Skills
3 104 (11.82%) Front Office
4 93 (10.57%) Banking
5 48 (5.45%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (2.95%) Legal
8 22 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (2.50%) Retail
8 22 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 21 (2.39%) Law
10 19 (2.16%) Marketing
10 19 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
11 17 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.70%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.14%) German Language
14 9 (1.02%) Electronics
15 8 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 359 (40.80%) Developer
2 219 (24.89%) Software Developer
3 82 (9.32%) Architect
4 81 (9.20%) Python Engineer
5 79 (8.98%) Software Engineer
6 73 (8.30%) Python Developer
7 63 (7.16%) Python Software Engineer
8 61 (6.93%) Lead
9 60 (6.82%) Analyst
10 58 (6.59%) Senior
11 57 (6.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 57 (6.48%) React Developer
12 52 (5.91%) Business Analyst
13 33 (3.75%) Full Stack Developer
14 32 (3.64%) Consultant
14 32 (3.64%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 31 (3.52%) Full Stack Engineer
16 30 (3.41%) Full Stack Python Developer
17 29 (3.30%) Full Stack Software Engineer
18 27 (3.07%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (13.64%) HTML
2 82 (9.32%) React
3 57 (6.48%) gRPC
3 57 (6.48%) Material-UI
3 57 (6.48%) Protocol Buffers
3 57 (6.48%) Redux
4 49 (5.57%) TensorFlow
5 36 (4.09%) PyTorch
6 32 (3.64%) Pandas
7 23 (2.61%) NumPy
7 23 (2.61%) scikit-learn
8 20 (2.27%) CSS
9 17 (1.93%) .NET
9 17 (1.93%) RESTful
10 15 (1.70%) Node.js
11 14 (1.59%) SciPy
12 9 (1.02%) .NET Core
13 8 (0.91%) Flask
13 8 (0.91%) Kafka
14 7 (0.80%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 94 (10.68%) Hedge funds
2 87 (9.89%) Fixed Income
3 60 (6.82%) Equities
4 55 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 43 (4.89%) Product Ownership
6 30 (3.41%) Derivative
6 30 (3.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 25 (2.84%) Robotics
8 18 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.59%) IoT
10 11 (1.25%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.25%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.25%) IVR
10 11 (1.25%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 10 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.14%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.80%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.25%) Linux
1 11 (1.25%) Windows
2 8 (0.91%) Android
3 6 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (41.14%) Machine Learning
2 252 (28.64%) Conversational UI
3 225 (25.57%) Software Engineering
4 224 (25.45%) Code Quality
5 213 (24.20%) Agile
6 117 (13.30%) Analytics
6 117 (13.30%) Data Science
7 100 (11.36%) DevOps
8 93 (10.57%) Asset Management
9 88 (10.00%) Generative AI
10 87 (9.89%) Investment Management
11 86 (9.77%) Computer Science
12 79 (8.98%) Roadmaps
13 76 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
14 72 (8.18%) Full Stack Development
15 58 (6.59%) CI/CD
16 57 (6.48%) Automated Trading
17 55 (6.25%) LLM
18 53 (6.02%) Natural Language Processing
19 48 (5.45%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 402 (45.68%) Python
2 228 (25.91%) SQL
3 149 (16.93%) JavaScript
4 140 (15.91%) C#
5 72 (8.18%) TypeScript
6 55 (6.25%) Java
7 26 (2.95%) PowerShell
8 20 (2.27%) C++
9 13 (1.48%) Bash
10 11 (1.25%) R
11 7 (0.80%) Go
11 7 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.80%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.68%) Clojure
12 6 (0.68%) Haskell
12 6 (0.68%) Rust
13 5 (0.57%) C
13 5 (0.57%) Scala
14 2 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 320 (36.36%) Degree
2 53 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (4.66%) Security Cleared
4 39 (4.43%) Master's Degree
5 36 (4.09%) SC Cleared
6 22 (2.50%) PhD
7 11 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.91%) PMI Certification
8 8 (0.91%) PMP
9 7 (0.80%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.57%) CISSP
10 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.45%) CISM
11 4 (0.45%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.34%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.18%) QA
2 21 (2.39%) GDPR
3 7 (0.80%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.45%) Dodd-Frank
5 4 (0.45%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.45%) MiFID
5 4 (0.45%) PMO
5 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.34%) GxP
6 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.34%) SLA
7 2 (0.23%) Basel III
7 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.11%) GRC
8 1 (0.11%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (2.39%) Docker
2 5 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 30 (3.41%) Terraform
3 7 (0.80%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.57%) Ansible
4 5 (0.57%) SysTrack
5 4 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.23%) OPNET
6 2 (0.23%) PowerCLI
6 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.11%) Grafana
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 218 (24.77%) PayPal
2 83 (9.43%) Google
3 59 (6.70%) Microsoft
4 23 (2.61%) OpenAI
4 23 (2.61%) SAP
5 22 (2.50%) Oracle
6 14 (1.59%) Sparx
7 13 (1.48%) Bloomberg
8 12 (1.36%) BISAM
8 12 (1.36%) Databricks
8 12 (1.36%) Genesys
8 12 (1.36%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.91%) Adobe
9 8 (0.91%) Ariba
9 8 (0.91%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.80%) Cisco
11 6 (0.68%) Citrix
11 6 (0.68%) SimCorp
12 5 (0.57%) Avaya
12 5 (0.57%) Hyperion