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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 289 327
Rank change year-on-year +195 +38 -66
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 873 430 579
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.39% 0.88% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 0.97% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 289 400
10th Percentile £410 £412 £425
25th Percentile £500 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +2.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £875 £755
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +11.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 16
10th Percentile £18.50 £20.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £27.19 £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 £69.63 £69.06 £51.00
90th Percentile £75.75 £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 31,661 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.54% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,752 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +191 500 £600 - 707
North of England +110 161 £500 -13.04% 123
Midlands +99 77 £550 +25.71% 92
North West +59 76 £500 -4.76% 86
Yorkshire +69 53 £600 -3.61% 30
West Midlands +71 51 £550 +29.41% 47
South West +15 44 £588 +2.17% 91
South East -1 42 £650 +19.82% 257
North East +39 34 - - 8
East Midlands +41 26 £750 +71.43% 45
East of England +25 26 £458 -25.31% 106
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 68 (7.79%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (6.87%) Apache
3 11 (1.26%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.15%) Confluence
5 5 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.23%) CMS
7 2 (0.23%) SAS
8 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.11%) nginx
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 247 (28.29%) 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 (2.06%) Aladdin
2 14 (1.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 13 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.69%) SimCorp Dimension
6 5 (0.57%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.23%) Magento
8 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
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
1 183 (20.96%) Azure
2 175 (20.05%) AWS
3 121 (13.86%) GCP
4 47 (5.38%) Power Platform
5 33 (3.78%) Vertex AI
6 29 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
7 18 (2.06%) Serverless
8 17 (1.95%) SaaS
9 16 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (1.60%) OCI
11 13 (1.49%) GitHub
12 12 (1.37%) Snowflake
13 11 (1.26%) Google Compute Engine
14 10 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (1.15%) ChatGPT
15 8 (0.92%) PowerApps
16 7 (0.80%) Azure Cognitive Services
16 7 (0.80%) Azure Functions
16 7 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
17 6 (0.69%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.69%) Firewall
2 4 (0.46%) Wireless
3 3 (0.34%) 5G
3 3 (0.34%) CTI
3 3 (0.34%) Internet
3 3 (0.34%) VoIP
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 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (6.64%) Apache Ignite
3 40 (4.58%) Power BI
4 25 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (2.63%) BigQuery
6 22 (2.52%) Tableau
7 17 (1.95%) Big Data
8 12 (1.37%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.37%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.03%) Data Mining
10 8 (0.92%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.80%) SQL Server
12 6 (0.69%) Crystal Reports
12 6 (0.69%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.69%) MySQL
13 5 (0.57%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.57%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.46%) Bigtable
14 4 (0.46%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 43 (4.93%) Cypress.io
2 29 (3.32%) JIRA
3 28 (3.21%) Git
4 12 (1.37%) ER Studio
4 12 (1.37%) ERwin
4 12 (1.37%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.92%) MLflow
6 6 (0.69%) Mercurial
7 5 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.57%) Selenium
8 4 (0.46%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.46%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.46%) NeoLoad
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
1 174 (19.93%) Finance
2 118 (13.52%) Social Skills
3 102 (11.68%) Front Office
4 93 (10.65%) Banking
5 46 (5.27%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (2.86%) Legal
8 21 (2.41%) Law
8 21 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (2.41%) Retail
9 20 (2.29%) Telecoms
10 19 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
11 18 (2.06%) Marketing
12 16 (1.83%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.72%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.15%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.15%) German Language
15 8 (0.92%) Electronics
15 8 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.80%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 356 (40.78%) Developer
2 219 (25.09%) Software Developer
3 83 (9.51%) Python Engineer
4 79 (9.05%) Architect
4 79 (9.05%) Software Engineer
5 71 (8.13%) Python Developer
6 65 (7.45%) Python Software Engineer
7 59 (6.76%) Analyst
7 59 (6.76%) Lead
8 58 (6.64%) Senior
9 57 (6.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 57 (6.53%) React Developer
10 51 (5.84%) Business Analyst
11 33 (3.78%) Full Stack Developer
12 32 (3.67%) Consultant
12 32 (3.67%) Full Stack Engineer
13 31 (3.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 30 (3.44%) Full Stack Python Developer
15 29 (3.32%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 27 (3.09%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (13.75%) HTML
2 83 (9.51%) React
3 57 (6.53%) gRPC
3 57 (6.53%) Material-UI
3 57 (6.53%) Protocol Buffers
3 57 (6.53%) Redux
4 48 (5.50%) TensorFlow
5 35 (4.01%) PyTorch
6 33 (3.78%) Pandas
7 25 (2.86%) NumPy
8 22 (2.52%) scikit-learn
9 19 (2.18%) CSS
10 16 (1.83%) SciPy
11 15 (1.72%) .NET
11 15 (1.72%) RESTful
12 13 (1.49%) Node.js
13 8 (0.92%) .NET Core
14 7 (0.80%) Flask
14 7 (0.80%) Kafka
14 7 (0.80%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 93 (10.65%) Hedge funds
2 86 (9.85%) Fixed Income
3 58 (6.64%) Equities
4 54 (6.19%) Algorithms
5 42 (4.81%) Product Ownership
6 29 (3.32%) Derivative
6 29 (3.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 25 (2.86%) Robotics
8 17 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.60%) IoT
10 11 (1.26%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.26%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 10 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.15%) IVR
11 10 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.80%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.49%) Windows
2 11 (1.26%) Linux
3 8 (0.92%) Android
4 6 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (40.89%) Machine Learning
2 250 (28.64%) Conversational UI
3 226 (25.89%) Code Quality
4 222 (25.43%) Software Engineering
5 211 (24.17%) Agile
6 118 (13.52%) Data Science
7 114 (13.06%) Analytics
8 97 (11.11%) DevOps
9 92 (10.54%) Asset Management
10 87 (9.97%) Generative AI
11 86 (9.85%) Computer Science
11 86 (9.85%) Investment Management
12 79 (9.05%) Roadmaps
13 75 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
14 72 (8.25%) Full Stack Development
15 57 (6.53%) Automated Trading
16 54 (6.19%) CI/CD
17 52 (5.96%) LLM
17 52 (5.96%) Natural Language Processing
18 48 (5.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 400 (45.82%) Python
2 223 (25.54%) SQL
3 148 (16.95%) JavaScript
4 139 (15.92%) C#
5 71 (8.13%) TypeScript
6 55 (6.30%) Java
7 25 (2.86%) PowerShell
8 20 (2.29%) C++
9 13 (1.49%) Bash
10 11 (1.26%) R
11 7 (0.80%) Go
11 7 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (0.80%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.69%) Clojure
12 6 (0.69%) Haskell
12 6 (0.69%) Rust
12 6 (0.69%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.57%) C
13 5 (0.57%) Scala
14 2 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 320 (36.66%) Degree
2 53 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (4.58%) Security Cleared
4 38 (4.35%) Master's Degree
5 35 (4.01%) SC Cleared
6 22 (2.52%) PhD
7 9 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.92%) PMI Certification
8 8 (0.92%) PMP
9 5 (0.57%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.46%) CISM
10 4 (0.46%) CISSP
10 4 (0.46%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.34%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.23%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.09%) QA
2 19 (2.18%) GDPR
3 6 (0.69%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.46%) MiFID
4 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.46%) PMO
5 3 (0.34%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (0.34%) GxP
5 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.34%) SLA
5 3 (0.34%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.23%) Basel III
6 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.11%) GRC
7 1 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 18 (2.06%) 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 32 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 29 (3.32%) Terraform
3 7 (0.80%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.57%) Ansible
4 5 (0.57%) SysTrack
5 4 (0.46%) 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 (24.97%) PayPal
2 82 (9.39%) Google
3 59 (6.76%) Microsoft
4 22 (2.52%) OpenAI
4 22 (2.52%) Oracle
4 22 (2.52%) SAP
5 14 (1.60%) Sparx
6 13 (1.49%) Bloomberg
7 12 (1.37%) BISAM
7 12 (1.37%) Databricks
8 11 (1.26%) Genesys
9 10 (1.15%) Salesforce
10 8 (0.92%) Adobe
10 8 (0.92%) Ariba
10 8 (0.92%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.69%) Cisco
11 6 (0.69%) Citrix
11 6 (0.69%) SimCorp
12 5 (0.57%) Hyperion
12 5 (0.57%) New Relic