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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 295 321
Rank change year-on-year +200 +26 -63
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 857 449 595
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.31% 0.90% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 0.99% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 297 413
10th Percentile £410 £409 £425
25th Percentile £500 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +2.17% +6.48%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £875 £755
UK median daily rate £585 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +1.74% -4.17% +13.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 16
10th Percentile £18.50 £20.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £27.19 £23.75 £32.44
Median hourly rate £46.18 £45.25 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.06% +7.74% +34.72%
75th Percentile £69.63 £68.44 £51.00
90th Percentile £75.75 £89.25 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £45.25 £39.75
% change year-on-year +2.06% +13.84% +27.51%

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 32,086 45,187 64,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.18% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,040 31,727 45,864
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,256 1,594 1,765
10th Percentile £12.96 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.69
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +187 488 £600 -0.83% 676
North of England +111 161 £500 -9.09% 113
North West +51 77 £500 -3.61% 76
Midlands +92 76 £550 +25.71% 59
Yorkshire +64 52 £650 +4.42% 30
West Midlands +69 49 £550 +29.41% 40
South West +14 43 £588 - 96
South East -6 42 £650 +23.81% 215
North East +43 34 - - 8
East Midlands +43 27 £750 +71.43% 19
East of England +37 26 £450 -26.53% 104
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 (7.00%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (6.07%) Apache
3 11 (1.28%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.05%) Confluence
5 4 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.23%) CMS
6 2 (0.23%) SAS
7 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.12%) nginx
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 241 (28.12%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.35%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.23%) Simulink
4 1 (0.12%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 17 (1.98%) Aladdin
2 15 (1.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 13 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.58%) SAP BPC
5 5 (0.58%) SimCorp Dimension
6 4 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.23%) Magento
7 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.12%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP CX
8 1 (0.12%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 171 (19.95%) Azure
2 160 (18.67%) AWS
3 109 (12.72%) GCP
4 47 (5.48%) Power Platform
5 33 (3.85%) Vertex AI
6 29 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
7 18 (2.10%) Serverless
8 17 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (1.87%) SaaS
10 15 (1.75%) OCI
11 13 (1.52%) Snowflake
12 12 (1.40%) ChatGPT
12 12 (1.40%) GitHub
13 11 (1.28%) Google Compute Engine
14 10 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (0.93%) PowerApps
16 7 (0.82%) Azure Cognitive Services
16 7 (0.82%) Azure Functions
16 7 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
17 6 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.58%) Firewall
2 4 (0.47%) Wireless
3 3 (0.35%) 5G
3 3 (0.35%) Internet
4 2 (0.23%) MQTT
4 2 (0.23%) Network Security
5 1 (0.12%) Broadband
5 1 (0.12%) CTI
5 1 (0.12%) Junos
5 1 (0.12%) VoIP
5 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (5.83%) Apache Ignite
3 40 (4.67%) Power BI
4 25 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (2.68%) BigQuery
6 22 (2.57%) Tableau
7 16 (1.87%) Big Data
8 12 (1.40%) NoSQL
9 11 (1.28%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.93%) Data Mining
10 8 (0.93%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.70%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.70%) MySQL
11 6 (0.70%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.58%) Crystal Reports
12 5 (0.58%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.58%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.47%) Bigtable
13 4 (0.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 37 (4.32%) Cypress.io
2 29 (3.38%) Git
3 27 (3.15%) JIRA
4 13 (1.52%) ER Studio
4 13 (1.52%) ERwin
5 11 (1.28%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.93%) MLflow
7 7 (0.82%) Mercurial
8 5 (0.58%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.58%) Selenium
9 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.47%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.47%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.47%) NeoLoad
10 3 (0.35%) Appium
10 3 (0.35%) GitLab
11 1 (0.12%) CMake
11 1 (0.12%) GoCD
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 163 (19.02%) Finance
2 117 (13.65%) Social Skills
3 93 (10.85%) Front Office
4 85 (9.92%) Banking
5 47 (5.48%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (2.80%) Legal
8 22 (2.57%) Law
9 21 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (2.22%) Retail
10 19 (2.22%) Telecoms
11 18 (2.10%) Marketing
11 18 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
12 17 (1.98%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.75%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.17%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.17%) German Language
15 9 (1.05%) Electronics
16 8 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.93%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 346 (40.37%) Developer
2 219 (25.55%) Software Developer
3 75 (8.75%) Architect
3 75 (8.75%) Python Engineer
4 72 (8.40%) Software Engineer
5 64 (7.47%) Python Developer
6 59 (6.88%) Analyst
6 59 (6.88%) Lead
7 58 (6.77%) Senior
8 57 (6.65%) Python Software Engineer
9 51 (5.95%) Business Analyst
10 49 (5.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 49 (5.72%) React Developer
11 31 (3.62%) Consultant
11 31 (3.62%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 29 (3.38%) Full Stack Developer
13 28 (3.27%) Data Engineer
13 28 (3.27%) Full Stack Engineer
14 26 (3.03%) Data Scientist
14 26 (3.03%) Full Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (14.00%) HTML
2 76 (8.87%) React
3 50 (5.83%) TensorFlow
4 49 (5.72%) gRPC
4 49 (5.72%) Material-UI
4 49 (5.72%) Protocol Buffers
4 49 (5.72%) Redux
5 37 (4.32%) PyTorch
6 34 (3.97%) Pandas
7 26 (3.03%) NumPy
8 22 (2.57%) scikit-learn
9 19 (2.22%) CSS
10 17 (1.98%) SciPy
11 16 (1.87%) RESTful
12 14 (1.63%) .NET
13 13 (1.52%) Node.js
14 9 (1.05%) LangChain
15 8 (0.93%) .NET Core
15 8 (0.93%) Hugging Face
16 7 (0.82%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 84 (9.80%) Hedge funds
2 78 (9.10%) Fixed Income
3 53 (6.18%) Algorithms
4 52 (6.07%) Equities
5 42 (4.90%) Product Ownership
6 29 (3.38%) Derivative
6 29 (3.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 25 (2.92%) Robotics
8 16 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (1.87%) IoT
9 11 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 10 (1.17%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.05%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.05%) Public Cloud
12 8 (0.93%) IVR
13 7 (0.82%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.63%) Windows
2 10 (1.17%) Linux
3 8 (0.93%) Android
4 6 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (40.49%) Machine Learning
2 244 (28.47%) Conversational UI
3 227 (26.49%) Code Quality
4 215 (25.09%) Software Engineering
5 199 (23.22%) Agile
6 118 (13.77%) Data Science
7 108 (12.60%) Analytics
8 93 (10.85%) DevOps
9 87 (10.15%) Generative AI
10 83 (9.68%) Asset Management
10 83 (9.68%) Computer Science
11 78 (9.10%) Investment Management
12 76 (8.87%) Roadmaps
13 74 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
14 65 (7.58%) Full Stack Development
15 52 (6.07%) CI/CD
15 52 (6.07%) Natural Language Processing
16 51 (5.95%) LLM
17 49 (5.72%) Automated Trading
18 48 (5.60%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 391 (45.62%) Python
2 223 (26.02%) SQL
3 149 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 140 (16.34%) C#
5 63 (7.35%) TypeScript
6 54 (6.30%) Java
7 24 (2.80%) PowerShell
8 19 (2.22%) C++
9 13 (1.52%) Bash
10 11 (1.28%) R
11 9 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.70%) Clojure
12 6 (0.70%) Go
12 6 (0.70%) Haskell
12 6 (0.70%) Rust
12 6 (0.70%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.58%) Scala
14 4 (0.47%) C
15 2 (0.23%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 317 (36.99%) Degree
2 51 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (4.67%) Security Cleared
4 35 (4.08%) Master's Degree
4 35 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 22 (2.57%) PhD
6 9 (1.05%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.05%) PMP
7 7 (0.82%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.47%) CISM
8 4 (0.47%) CISSP
8 4 (0.47%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.35%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.35%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.23%) CCNA
10 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.15%) QA
2 15 (1.75%) GDPR
3 6 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.47%) MiFID
4 4 (0.47%) PMO
5 3 (0.35%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (0.35%) GxP
5 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.35%) SLA
6 2 (0.23%) Basel III
6 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.12%) GRC
7 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.12%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (1.87%) Docker
2 5 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.15%) Terraform
3 7 (0.82%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.58%) SysTrack
5 4 (0.47%) Ansible
5 4 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.12%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.12%) Grafana
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.12%) OPNET
7 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 218 (25.44%) PayPal
2 71 (8.28%) Google
3 59 (6.88%) Microsoft
4 23 (2.68%) SAP
5 22 (2.57%) OpenAI
5 22 (2.57%) Oracle
6 15 (1.75%) Sparx
7 13 (1.52%) Bloomberg
8 12 (1.40%) BISAM
8 12 (1.40%) Databricks
9 9 (1.05%) Genesys
10 8 (0.93%) Adobe
10 8 (0.93%) Ariba
10 8 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.82%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.70%) Citrix
13 5 (0.58%) Hyperion
13 5 (0.58%) New Relic
13 5 (0.58%) SimCorp
14 4 (0.47%) iManage