Generative AI Contracts in England

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Generative AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Generative AI over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 456 633 -
Rank change year-on-year +177 - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 94 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.006% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.007% -
Number of daily rates quoted 69 3 0
10th Percentile £400 £465 -
25th Percentile £475 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £750 £719 -
90th Percentile £875 £805 -
UK median daily rate £575 £550 -
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £46.25 - -
90th Percentile £66.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Generative AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in England

Generative AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Generative AI in England.

Daily rate trend for Generative AI in England

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in England

Generative AI
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Generative AI in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Generative AI in England

Generative AI
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 Generative AI within the England region over the 6 months to 25 June 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 +155 74 £575 -30.30% 76
North of England - 8 £500 - 5
North West - 6 £500 - 3
Midlands +21 5 £700 +47.37% 4
South East - 4 £600 - 8
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 3
South West - 2 £563 - 5
East Midlands +7 1 £750 +57.89% 1
North East - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Generative AI
UK

Generative AI
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 3 (3.19%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.13%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.06%) Apache
3 1 (1.06%) Confluence
3 1 (1.06%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (2.13%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.13%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.13%) SAP BPC
2 2 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.06%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 33 (35.11%) Azure
2 17 (18.09%) GCP
3 16 (17.02%) AWS
4 14 (14.89%) Vertex AI
5 11 (11.70%) Google Compute Engine
6 5 (5.32%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (3.19%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.19%) ChatGPT
7 3 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (2.13%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 2 (2.13%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.13%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.06%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.77%) BigQuery
2 4 (4.26%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.13%) Big Data
4 2 (2.13%) MySQL
4 2 (2.13%) Power BI
4 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.06%) Flink
5 1 (1.06%) GIS
5 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.06%) Metadata
5 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.06%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.06%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Git
2 3 (3.19%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.13%) GitLab
4 1 (1.06%) JIRA
General
1 28 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.40%) Finance
3 9 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.45%) Financial Institution
5 6 (6.38%) Banking
6 5 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.26%) Retail
8 1 (1.06%) Electronics
8 1 (1.06%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Local Government
8 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.06%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (17.02%) Architect
2 9 (9.57%) GCP Engineer
2 9 (9.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 9 (9.57%) Senior
3 8 (8.51%) Developer
3 8 (8.51%) Lead
4 7 (7.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 7 (7.45%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (7.45%) Cloud Architect
4 7 (7.45%) Project Manager
5 6 (6.38%) GCP Architect
6 5 (5.32%) Consultant
6 5 (5.32%) Python Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 4 (4.26%) AWS Architect
7 4 (4.26%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Gen AI Developer
8 3 (3.19%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 3 (3.19%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.77%) TensorFlow
2 9 (9.57%) PyTorch
3 5 (5.32%) HTML
3 5 (5.32%) Kafka
3 5 (5.32%) LangChain
4 4 (4.26%) CSS
4 4 (4.26%) FastAPI
4 4 (4.26%) REST
4 4 (4.26%) scikit-learn
5 3 (3.19%) Hugging Face
5 3 (3.19%) React
6 2 (2.13%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.13%) DirectX
6 2 (2.13%) Flask
6 2 (2.13%) Node.js
6 2 (2.13%) OpenGL
6 2 (2.13%) OpenGL ES
6 2 (2.13%) Torch
6 2 (2.13%) Vulkan
6 2 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 8 (8.51%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.26%) FMCG
4 3 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.19%) Photography
4 3 (3.19%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.06%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.06%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.06%) IVR
6 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.19%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (90.43%) Artificial Intelligence
2 42 (44.68%) Machine Learning
3 26 (27.66%) Data Science
4 25 (26.60%) Analytics
5 22 (23.40%) LLM
6 21 (22.34%) Computer Science
7 16 (17.02%) DevOps
8 14 (14.89%) Agile
9 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (12.77%) Resource Management
11 11 (11.70%) CI/CD
11 11 (11.70%) Natural Language Processing
11 11 (11.70%) Security Monitoring
11 11 (11.70%) Software Engineering
11 11 (11.70%) Use Case
12 10 (10.64%) Identity Access Management
12 10 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (9.57%) Data Engineering
14 7 (7.45%) Data Modelling
14 7 (7.45%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 44 (46.81%) Python
2 12 (12.77%) Java
3 11 (11.70%) Bash
4 9 (9.57%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.38%) C#
5 6 (6.38%) Clojure
5 6 (6.38%) Haskell
5 6 (6.38%) Rust
6 4 (4.26%) Go
7 3 (3.19%) C++
7 3 (3.19%) SQL
8 2 (2.13%) Julia
9 1 (1.06%) Ruby
9 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (22.34%) Degree
2 16 (17.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (9.57%) Security Cleared
4 7 (7.45%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.38%) Master's Degree
6 4 (4.26%) PhD
7 1 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) QA
2 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.06%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (17.02%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.89%) Terraform
3 2 (2.13%) Grafana
3 2 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.06%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 8 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.32%) Google
3 4 (4.26%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.19%) Databricks
4 3 (3.19%) SAP
5 2 (2.13%) Blue Prism
5 2 (2.13%) Hyperion
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle
5 2 (2.13%) PeopleSoft
5 2 (2.13%) Splunk
5 2 (2.13%) UiPath
6 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.06%) Workday