AI Contract Job Trends in Middlesex

AI
South East > Middlesex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Middlesex requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Middlesex 13.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% +20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Middlesex

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 Middlesex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13 4 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Middlesex 86.67% 80.00% 96.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 13
10th Percentile £463 £430 £263
25th Percentile £521 £475 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.96% +22.17% -43.75%
75th Percentile £738 £637 -
90th Percentile £740 £705 £556
South East median daily rate £500 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -0.60% +0.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £19.73
25th Percentile - - £28.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £43.25
75th Percentile - - £58.81
90th Percentile - - £67.78
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £43.94 £47.19
% change year-on-year -42.76% -6.88% +4.86%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Middlesex

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

AI job vacancy trend in Middlesex

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Middlesex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Middlesex citing AI

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Middlesex 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Keras
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes