Artificial Intelligence Contracts in Manchester

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 58 55 98
Rank change year-on-year -3 +43 +30
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 21 41 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.27% 2.70% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 3.10% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 14
10th Percentile £419 £413 £375
25th Percentile £440 £425 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.61% +2.47%
75th Percentile £725 £628 £594
90th Percentile £781 £638 -
North West median daily rate £550 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% -10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £20.00
75th Percentile £78.13 - -
90th Percentile £78.50 - £27.50
North West median hourly rate £28.75 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -42.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Manchester

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Manchester

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Manchester

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Manchester

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bolton -6 3 - - 21
Artificial Intelligence
North West

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (9.52%) Apache
2 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) Akamai
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.76%) Boomi
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Data Mining
1 2 (9.52%) Delta Lake
1 2 (9.52%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Git
3 1 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Data Scientist
2 3 (14.29%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 3 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
2 3 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Governance Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Principal Data Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Principal Technologist
3 2 (9.52%) Technologist
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Finance Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Lead
4 1 (4.76%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 3 (14.29%) TensorFlow
2 2 (9.52%) LangChain
2 2 (9.52%) Regular Expression
3 1 (4.76%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.76%) OpenCV
3 1 (4.76%) React
3 1 (4.76%) SailPoint
3 1 (4.76%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.76%) Blog
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.76%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Machine Learning
2 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (28.57%) Data Science
4 5 (23.81%) Agile
4 5 (23.81%) Analytics
4 5 (23.81%) Data Privacy
4 5 (23.81%) LLM
5 4 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
5 4 (19.05%) Natural Language Processing
6 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 3 (14.29%) Data Strategy
6 3 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (14.29%) Kanban
6 3 (14.29%) Microservices
6 3 (14.29%) Project Management
6 3 (14.29%) Scrum
6 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.76%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Databricks
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) F5
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Hitachi
2 1 (4.76%) Intapp
2 1 (4.76%) Pega
2 1 (4.76%) SAP