Generative AI Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Generative AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 2.68% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £356 -
% change year-on-year +26.40% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 124 75 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 83.22% 87.21% 84.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 48 104
10th Percentile £131 £219 £180
25th Percentile £360 £275 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £443 £390
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% +13.53% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £575
90th Percentile £638 £715 £657
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £436 £445
% change year-on-year -2.41% -2.13% -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 6
10th Percentile £17.58 £22.13 £11.88
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.44 £12.50
Median hourly rate £23.71 £26.25 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +43.84% -10.80%
75th Percentile £29.50 £28.44 £47.94
90th Percentile £30.52 £29.38 £60.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.95 £23.34 £17.50
% change year-on-year -23.11% +33.37% +3.98%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Generative AI job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Generative AI
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Generative 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 Generative AI within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 6 February 2026. 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 - 1 £550 -
Generative AI
East Midlands

Generative 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) IT Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Entry
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Energy Management
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Logistics
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Product Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Server Building
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Intel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft