Artificial Intelligence Contracts in England

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 94 283
Rank change year-on-year +34 +189 +42
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 902 851 460
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.70% 2.29% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.06% 2.64% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 444 301
10th Percentile £388 £410 £406
25th Percentile £475 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year - +2.13% +2.17%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £700
90th Percentile £850 £788 £875
UK median daily rate £575 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -0.86% +0.87% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 17
10th Percentile £22.72 £18.50 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £27.19 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.00 £46.18 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.87% -8.55% +20.24%
75th Percentile £75.63 £69.63 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.75 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £46.18 £50.50
% change year-on-year -16.63% -8.55% +27.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
London +29 572 £600 - 3,028
South East +90 87 £575 -11.54% 1,220
North of England -53 62 £525 +5.00% 784
East of England +51 56 £600 +29.03% 292
South West +47 44 £620 +5.53% 242
North West -15 44 £550 +10.00% 425
Midlands -31 22 £450 -18.18% 631
West Midlands -22 13 £475 -13.64% 308
Yorkshire -30 13 £525 -19.23% 282
East Midlands -8 9 £425 -43.33% 308
North East -24 5 £200 - 80
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 60 (6.65%) Apache Spark
2 14 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.22%) Apache
5 10 (1.11%) Confluence
6 8 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.67%) CMS
8 5 (0.55%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.22%) Drupal
10 2 (0.22%) SAS
11 1 (0.11%) Camunda
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Facebook Platform
11 1 (0.11%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 36 (3.99%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.67%) Camtasia
4 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.44%) Simulink
6 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.33%) Sketch
7 2 (0.22%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.22%) Revit
7 2 (0.22%) Weka
8 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.11%) Trello
8 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 16 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.55%) Shopify
3 4 (0.44%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.22%) assyst
5 2 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.22%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP SRM
6 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.11%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 221 (24.50%) Azure
2 183 (20.29%) AWS
3 94 (10.42%) GCP
4 73 (8.09%) Power Platform
5 40 (4.43%) GitHub
6 39 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (4.21%) Serverless
8 29 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (2.99%) Snowflake
11 26 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
12 25 (2.77%) Amazon SageMaker
12 25 (2.77%) Azure Machine Learning
13 24 (2.66%) Amazon S3
13 24 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (2.11%) SaaS
16 16 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
16 16 (1.77%) OpenShift
16 16 (1.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.00%) DNS
2 17 (1.88%) Firewall
3 16 (1.77%) SMTP
4 13 (1.44%) HTTP
4 13 (1.44%) Network Security
5 12 (1.33%) VPN
6 9 (1.00%) DHCP
7 7 (0.78%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.78%) FTP
7 7 (0.78%) SSL
8 6 (0.67%) InfiniBand
9 3 (0.33%) 5G
9 3 (0.33%) Internet
9 3 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.33%) LTE
9 3 (0.33%) NAS
9 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.33%) Wireless
10 2 (0.22%) SAN
10 2 (0.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (7.54%) Big Data
2 57 (6.32%) Power BI
3 42 (4.66%) Tableau
4 33 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (3.22%) Hadoop
5 29 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (2.77%) Metadata
7 18 (2.00%) Data Lake
8 16 (1.77%) BigQuery
9 14 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (1.55%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.33%) Data Mining
10 12 (1.33%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.00%) MySQL
12 9 (1.00%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (0.78%) Apache Hive
14 7 (0.78%) DynamoDB
14 7 (0.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 45 (4.99%) Git
1 45 (4.99%) Jenkins
2 24 (2.66%) JIRA
3 13 (1.44%) MLflow
4 11 (1.22%) GitLab
5 7 (0.78%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.78%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.67%) ERwin
6 6 (0.67%) Gradle
6 6 (0.67%) IntelliJ
6 6 (0.67%) Maven
6 6 (0.67%) Selenium
6 6 (0.67%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.44%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.44%) JUnit
7 4 (0.44%) Postman
7 4 (0.44%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.33%) Mocha
General
1 245 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 231 (25.61%) Finance
3 176 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (9.53%) Banking
5 79 (8.76%) Public Sector
6 50 (5.54%) Legal
7 45 (4.99%) Investment Banking
8 44 (4.88%) Front Office
9 39 (4.32%) Marketing
10 31 (3.44%) Retail
11 27 (2.99%) Financial Institution
12 24 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (2.55%) Telecoms
14 21 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (2.22%) Law
16 19 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (2.00%) Manufacturing
17 18 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (1.55%) Local Government
19 13 (1.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 169 (18.74%) Developer
2 119 (13.19%) Senior
3 91 (10.09%) Architect
4 77 (8.54%) Analyst
5 60 (6.65%) Lead
6 58 (6.43%) Python Developer
7 54 (5.99%) Business Analyst
8 51 (5.65%) Data Scientist
9 48 (5.32%) Data Engineer
10 46 (5.10%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 43 (4.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 43 (4.77%) Consultant
12 37 (4.10%) Product Manager
13 34 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
14 32 (3.55%) Gen AI Developer
14 32 (3.55%) Python Engineer
15 31 (3.44%) Project Manager
16 24 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
17 23 (2.55%) Business Manager
17 23 (2.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (7.87%) TensorFlow
2 66 (7.32%) PyTorch
3 63 (6.98%) FastAPI
3 63 (6.98%) React
4 44 (4.88%) Pandas
4 44 (4.88%) scikit-learn
5 38 (4.21%) .NET
5 38 (4.21%) NumPy
6 37 (4.10%) Django
7 33 (3.66%) HTML
8 28 (3.10%) Node.js
9 26 (2.88%) CSS
9 26 (2.88%) LangChain
10 22 (2.44%) PySpark
10 22 (2.44%) RESTful
11 21 (2.33%) Kafka
12 19 (2.11%) REST
13 16 (1.77%) Matplotlib
13 16 (1.77%) Seaborn
14 15 (1.66%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 93 (10.31%) Algorithms
2 39 (4.32%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 26 (2.88%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (2.33%) Equities
6 21 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 20 (2.22%) Hedge funds
8 19 (2.11%) Derivative
8 19 (2.11%) Fixed Income
9 18 (2.00%) Cloud Native
9 18 (2.00%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.77%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.77%) IoT
11 15 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
12 14 (1.55%) Educational Technology
12 14 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (3.55%) Linux
2 29 (3.22%) Windows
3 24 (2.66%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.89%) Android
6 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (0.33%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (48.89%) Machine Learning
2 213 (23.61%) Agile
3 198 (21.95%) Generative AI
4 191 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
5 190 (21.06%) Analytics
5 190 (21.06%) Data Science
6 183 (20.29%) LLM
7 157 (17.41%) CI/CD
8 146 (16.19%) DevOps
9 105 (11.64%) Decision-Making
10 80 (8.87%) Software Engineering
10 80 (8.87%) Stakeholder Management
11 78 (8.65%) Roadmaps
12 77 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
13 74 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 74 (8.20%) Data Analysis
13 74 (8.20%) Visualisation
14 73 (8.09%) Computer Science
15 72 (7.98%) Data Engineering
15 72 (7.98%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 378 (41.91%) Python
2 167 (18.51%) SQL
3 71 (7.87%) Java
4 68 (7.54%) JavaScript
5 64 (7.10%) TypeScript
6 51 (5.65%) C#
7 40 (4.43%) R
8 25 (2.77%) Scala
9 23 (2.55%) C++
10 21 (2.33%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.66%) C
12 14 (1.55%) Bash
13 13 (1.44%) Rust
14 11 (1.22%) T-SQL
15 10 (1.11%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.89%) Clojure
17 7 (0.78%) Elixir
17 7 (0.78%) SystemVerilog
17 7 (0.78%) Tcl
18 6 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 145 (16.08%) Degree
2 99 (10.98%) Security Cleared
3 77 (8.54%) SC Cleared
4 39 (4.32%) Master's Degree
5 29 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.77%) PhD
7 20 (2.22%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.22%) CISSP
10 9 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.89%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.89%) PMP
12 7 (0.78%) CISM
12 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.67%) CCA
14 5 (0.55%) ISEB
15 3 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.33%) HNC
15 3 (0.33%) HND
15 3 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.43%) Data Quality
2 34 (3.77%) GDPR
3 33 (3.66%) QA
4 19 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (1.00%) EU AI Act
6 9 (1.00%) NIST
7 8 (0.89%) PMO
8 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.33%) DO-254
8 3 (0.33%) GRC
8 3 (0.33%) NCSC
9 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.22%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.22%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 103 (11.42%) Docker
2 18 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
3 11 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.00%) BitLocker
4 9 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (1.00%) Terminal Services
5 8 (0.89%) Firmware
6 2 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.22%) vSphere
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.11%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.11%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 116 (12.86%) Kubernetes
2 52 (5.76%) Terraform
3 44 (4.88%) Ansible
4 10 (1.11%) Nagios
4 10 (1.11%) Puppet
5 9 (1.00%) Grafana
5 9 (1.00%) vCenter Server
5 9 (1.00%) vMotion
6 7 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.55%) Kubeflow
8 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.22%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.22%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.11%) Argo
10 1 (0.11%) QRadar
10 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 113 (12.53%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.43%) Google
3 54 (5.99%) Databricks
4 38 (4.21%) SAP
5 37 (4.10%) OpenAI
6 26 (2.88%) ServiceNow
7 25 (2.77%) Oracle
8 21 (2.33%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.55%) VMware
10 11 (1.22%) Adobe
11 10 (1.11%) Foundry
11 10 (1.11%) Palantir
11 10 (1.11%) Splunk
12 9 (1.00%) Citrix
12 9 (1.00%) HP
12 9 (1.00%) Symantec
13 8 (0.89%) Dataiku
14 7 (0.78%) Intel
14 7 (0.78%) Xilinx
15 6 (0.67%) IBM