Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the Midlands

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 89 58 157
Rank change year-on-year -31 +99 +21
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 22 76 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.15% 2.76% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 3.35% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 7
10th Percentile £308 £304 £378
25th Percentile £372 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +25.71% -16.67%
75th Percentile £713 £750 £459
90th Percentile £725 £910 £505
England median daily rate £600 £600 £588
% change year-on-year - +2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £25.90 -
25th Percentile - £41.50 £92.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £95.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.32% -
75th Percentile - £72.50 £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.00 £46.18 £50.50
% change year-on-year -32.87% -8.55% +20.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands -22 13 £475 -13.64% 308
East Midlands -8 9 £425 -43.33% 308
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Stack
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.55%) SaaS
3 1 (4.55%) Serverless
3 1 (4.55%) SonarCloud
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) 5G
2 1 (4.55%) 3G
2 1 (4.55%) 3GPP
2 1 (4.55%) 4G
2 1 (4.55%) Internet
2 1 (4.55%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (4.55%) LTE
2 1 (4.55%) Modbus
2 1 (4.55%) MQTT
2 1 (4.55%) Network Security
2 1 (4.55%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.55%) GIS
2 1 (4.55%) Metadata
2 1 (4.55%) SAP BW
2 1 (4.55%) Spark SQL
2 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
1 1 (4.55%) Snyk
1 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (27.27%) Games
2 4 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (18.18%) Polish Language
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Designer
3 4 (18.18%) Games Designer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Designer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Games Designer
3 4 (18.18%) Technical Designer
4 2 (9.09%) Animator
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Architect
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Service Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Unreal Engine
2 4 (18.18%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (4.55%) Middleware
3 1 (4.55%) PySpark
3 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Mobile Games
1 4 (18.18%) Virtual Reality
2 2 (9.09%) Animation
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Educational Technology
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (4.55%) IoT
3 1 (4.55%) NB-IoT
3 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.55%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Analytics
1 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
2 6 (27.27%) Generative AI
3 4 (18.18%) Data Governance
3 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (18.18%) User Experience
4 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.64%) Conversational UI
4 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
5 2 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (9.09%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.09%) Data Modelling
5 2 (9.09%) Data Science
5 2 (9.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (9.09%) LLM
5 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) TypeScript
2 4 (18.18%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Argo
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Databricks
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.55%) SAP