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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 68 90
Rank change year-on-year +19 +22 +39
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 23 28 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.57% 1.95% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 2.25% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 10
10th Percentile £200 £415 £488
25th Percentile £419 £438 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -14.89% +17.50%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £594
90th Percentile £725 - -
North West median daily rate £508 £500 £588
% change year-on-year +1.50% -14.89% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £20.00
75th Percentile £78.13 - £27.50
90th Percentile £78.50 - £32.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 - £37.50
% change year-on-year - - +8.70%

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 797 1,246 1,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.95% 86.59% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 846 1,190
10th Percentile £312 £313 £318
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £589
90th Percentile £668 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 77 52
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.70 £13.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £27.60
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -5.80% +50.76%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.25 £42.81
90th Percentile £86.20 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.92% -25.71% +51.99%

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 30 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 30 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 -4 3 - - 267
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 (13.04%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) Apache
2 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (13.04%) AWS
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.70%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) Akamai
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.35%) Boomi
5 1 (4.35%) Figma
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Delta Lake
1 2 (8.70%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Data Mining
2 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) MLflow
General
1 6 (26.09%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Legal
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Analyst
1 4 (17.39%) Data Scientist
2 3 (13.04%) IT Manager
2 3 (13.04%) IT Project Manager
2 3 (13.04%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Governance Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Principal Data Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Analytics Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Vision Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Lead
4 1 (4.35%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) PyTorch
1 3 (13.04%) TensorFlow
2 2 (8.70%) LangChain
2 2 (8.70%) Regular Expression
3 1 (4.35%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.35%) OpenCV
3 1 (4.35%) React
3 1 (4.35%) SailPoint
3 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Virtual Team
2 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.70%) IVR
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Blog
3 1 (4.35%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Machine Learning
2 7 (30.43%) LLM
3 6 (26.09%) Agile
3 6 (26.09%) Data Science
3 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Analytics
4 5 (21.74%) Natural Language Processing
4 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
5 4 (17.39%) Conversational UI
5 4 (17.39%) Generative AI
5 4 (17.39%) Project Management
6 3 (13.04%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (13.04%) Data Privacy
6 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
6 3 (13.04%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
6 3 (13.04%) Kanban
6 3 (13.04%) Scrum
6 3 (13.04%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.35%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Databricks
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) F5
2 1 (4.35%) Genesys
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) Intapp