Artificial Intelligence Contracts in Macclesfield

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Cheshire > Macclesfield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Macclesfield requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 24 13
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 5 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Macclesfield 10.20% 7.92% 6.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.42% 8.16% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £490 - -
25th Percentile £496 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £505 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% +18.82% -
75th Percentile £663 £595 £438
90th Percentile £685 £658 -
Cheshire median daily rate £600 £505 £485
% change year-on-year +18.81% +4.18% -19.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Macclesfield

Artificial Intelligence 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 Macclesfield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48 98 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Macclesfield 97.96% 97.03% 97.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 67 31
10th Percentile £446 £405 £306
25th Percentile £500 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% +13.89% +20.00%
75th Percentile £585 £550 £488
90th Percentile £700 £585 £500
Cheshire median daily rate £455 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £16.67 £14.30
25th Percentile - £17.02 £14.38
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year - +16.20% -73.48%
75th Percentile - - £16.38
90th Percentile - £17.75 £16.60
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
% change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Macclesfield

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Macclesfield.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Macclesfield

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Macclesfield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Macclesfield.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Macclesfield

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Macclesfield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Macclesfield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Macclesfield

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Macclesfield 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure AI
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
General
1 5 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Legal
2 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (60.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (20.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 5 (100.00%) LLM
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
2 4 (80.00%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (60.00%) Business Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Vision
3 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (60.00%) Linear Algebra
3 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (60.00%) Multi-Agent System
3 3 (60.00%) Pattern Recognition
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) RDF
3 3 (60.00%) Statistics
4 2 (40.00%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
3 1 (20.00%) R
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Ariba
1 1 (20.00%) SAP