AI Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

AI
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing AI 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 3.65% - 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% - 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £489 - £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 - £620
75th Percentile £533 - £723
90th Percentile £558 - £763
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £660
% change year-on-year +4.76% -20.45% +28.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 122 109 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 89.05% 81.34% 98.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 74 78
10th Percentile £313 £366 £263
25th Percentile £379 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £672 £667
90th Percentile £675 £750 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 14
10th Percentile - £69.75 £17.68
25th Percentile £19.25 - £21.05
Median hourly rate £29.75 £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.33% +66.67% -
75th Percentile £45.56 - £59.69
90th Percentile £55.58 £76.50 £79.25
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £62.50 £51.42
% change year-on-year -66.86% +21.55% +14.27%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

AI job vacancy trend in Farnborough

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing AI

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Ethereum
1 1 (20.00%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (20.00%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Vertex AI
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DMZ
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Pinecone
1 2 (40.00%) Weaviate
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Gen AI Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Scrum Master
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Blockchain Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Faiss
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Use Case
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement Process
3 2 (40.00%) Conversational UI
3 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Model Validation
3 2 (40.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Cryptography
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) GRC
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (20.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft