Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the Midlands

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Artificial Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 150 172
Rank change year-on-year +92 +22 -40
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 76 10 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.77% 0.29% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 0.33% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 21
10th Percentile £304 £378 £419
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -16.67% +10.53%
75th Percentile £750 £459 £663
90th Percentile £910 £505 £725
England median daily rate £600 £588 £575
% change year-on-year +2.13% +2.17% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
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 £46.18 £45.25 £42.00
% change year-on-year +2.06% +7.74% +34.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Artificial Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,256 3,016 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.19% 88.42% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,508 2,104 3,280
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £370 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £565
90th Percentile £700 £680 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 120 151
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.98 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.60 £15.07 £13.62
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.04 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% +3.10% +9.38%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.47 £22.18
90th Percentile £55.00 £53.88 £34.50
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

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 3 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 3 May 2024. 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 +69 49 £550 +29.41% 40
East Midlands +43 27 £750 +71.43% 19
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.32%) Confluence
1 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 49 (64.47%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.32%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.32%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.32%) SAP BPC
1 1 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.16%) Power Platform
2 8 (10.53%) Azure
3 6 (7.89%) Serverless
4 5 (6.58%) Azure Functions
4 5 (6.58%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (3.95%) AWS
6 2 (2.63%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.63%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.32%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) 5G
1 2 (2.63%) Internet
1 2 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) Power BI
2 1 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.32%) Big Data
2 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (1.32%) JIRA
General
1 13 (17.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.89%) Finance
3 4 (5.26%) Retail
4 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.32%) Banking
6 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Local Government
6 1 (1.32%) Marketing
6 1 (1.32%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 50 (65.79%) Developer
2 48 (63.16%) Software Developer
3 3 (3.95%) Consultant
3 3 (3.95%) Senior
4 2 (2.63%) Architect
4 2 (2.63%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (2.63%) Lead
4 2 (2.63%) Programme Director
4 2 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (2.63%) Software Engineer
5 1 (1.32%) Analyst
5 1 (1.32%) Data Architect
5 1 (1.32%) Presales Consultant
5 1 (1.32%) Senior Manager
5 1 (1.32%) Support Team Leader
5 1 (1.32%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (1.32%) Team Leader
5 1 (1.32%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (1.32%) Technical Support Team Leader
5 1 (1.32%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (31.58%) HTML
2 1 (1.32%) Dask
2 1 (1.32%) Keras
2 1 (1.32%) NumPy
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.32%) Pandas
2 1 (1.32%) PySpark
2 1 (1.32%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.32%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.32%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.26%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.63%) FMCG
2 2 (2.63%) IoT
3 1 (1.32%) NHS
3 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.89%) Windows
2 2 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (64.47%) Code Quality
1 49 (64.47%) Conversational UI
2 26 (34.21%) Software Engineering
3 11 (14.47%) Analytics
4 7 (9.21%) Computer Science
4 7 (9.21%) Data Science
5 6 (7.89%) ITIL
6 5 (6.58%) Agile
6 5 (6.58%) Generative AI
6 5 (6.58%) Incident Management
6 5 (6.58%) Machine Learning
6 5 (6.58%) Problem Management
6 5 (6.58%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (6.58%) Runbook
6 5 (6.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (5.26%) Data Analysis
7 4 (5.26%) Virtual Environments
8 3 (3.95%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (43.42%) Python
2 28 (36.84%) SQL
3 24 (31.58%) C#
3 24 (31.58%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.89%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.32%) C++
5 1 (1.32%) Java
5 1 (1.32%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (69.74%) Degree
2 5 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.32%) CIPD
3 1 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.63%) SLA
2 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.32%) GDPR
2 1 (1.32%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) SysTrack
2 1 (1.32%) Functional Safety
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 48 (63.16%) PayPal
2 5 (6.58%) Citrix
2 5 (6.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.58%) New Relic
2 5 (6.58%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.63%) NVIDIA
3 2 (2.63%) Sage
4 1 (1.32%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.32%) Hyperion
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle
4 1 (1.32%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (1.32%) SAP
4 1 (1.32%) UiPath