AI Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

AI
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 14 29
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 -1
Contract jobs citing AI 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 3.55% 1.04% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 1.15% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £500 - -
25th Percentile £575 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £520 £431 £713
% change year-on-year +20.58% -39.47% +16.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 129 87 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 76.33% 90.63% 84.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 67 108
10th Percentile £131 £203 £157
25th Percentile £250 £278 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £449 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% -0.22% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £575
90th Percentile £638 £690 £707
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £17.05 - £12.80
25th Percentile £20.51 £23.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £23.15 £24.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +14.29% -55.79%
75th Percentile £29.31 £24.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £30.25 - £57.80
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.19 £23.25 £22.28
% change year-on-year -17.48% +4.38% +32.35%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

AI job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing AI

AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI in Leicestershire

AI
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
Leicester +2 6 £600 -7.69% 9
AI
East Midlands

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 5 (83.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 5 (83.33%) CMS
1 5 (83.33%) Headless CMS
1 5 (83.33%) Sitecore CMS
1 5 (83.33%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Contentful
1 5 (83.33%) Kontent
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Publishing
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) C# Developer
1 5 (83.33%) CMS Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Full-Stack C# Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 5 (83.33%) React Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
1 5 (83.33%) .NET Framework
1 5 (83.33%) AngularJS
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (83.33%) CSS
1 5 (83.33%) HTML
1 5 (83.33%) React
1 5 (83.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Full-Stack Development
1 5 (83.33%) MVC
1 5 (83.33%) User Experience
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile First
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Adobe
1 5 (83.33%) Sitecore
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks