Artificial Intelligence Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 96 126
Rank change year-on-year +24 +30 +55
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 72 32 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.78% 1.19% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 1.45% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 21 16
10th Percentile £357 £313 £344
25th Percentile £423 £356 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +7.69% -9.30%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £550
90th Percentile £725 £741 £758
England median daily rate £554 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.75% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate £30.29 - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £51.44 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +11.39% - -0.75%

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 2,256 2,204 2,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.24% 81.69% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,461 1,446 1,763
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
25th Percentile £361 £376 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £705
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 77 95
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.75 £13.38
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £21.72 £21.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.43% -23.64% +52.78%
75th Percentile £27.45 £39.68 £51.50
90th Percentile £49.40 £53.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Artificial Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Artificial Intelligence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Artificial Intelligence

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 7 September 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 +21 52 £600 +4.35% 78
East Midlands +5 18 £420 +1.82% 51
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 2 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) PowerFactory
2 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (8.33%) SAP PM
2 3 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.39%) SAP GRC
3 1 (1.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.94%) Azure
2 12 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 10 (13.89%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (12.50%) AWS
4 9 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 8 (11.11%) GitHub
6 7 (9.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (8.33%) Collibra
7 6 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (8.33%) SaaS
7 6 (8.33%) Serverless
8 4 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.17%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.78%) Azure Stack
10 2 (2.78%) GCP
10 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Firewall
1 2 (2.78%) Internet
2 1 (1.39%) 5G
2 1 (1.39%) Intranet
2 1 (1.39%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (1.39%) Modbus
2 1 (1.39%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.67%) Power BI
2 10 (13.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (9.72%) Delta Lake
4 6 (8.33%) GIS
5 5 (6.94%) Oracle Database
6 4 (5.56%) Metadata
6 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.56%) Tableau
7 3 (4.17%) Big Data
7 3 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.17%) DynamoDB
7 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.78%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.78%) SAP BW
8 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.39%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.39%) MySQL
9 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) JMeter
2 1 (1.39%) Postman
2 1 (1.39%) Selenium
2 1 (1.39%) Snyk
2 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 23 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.50%) Finance
4 6 (8.33%) Games
5 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.56%) Law
6 4 (5.56%) Polish Language
7 3 (4.17%) Legal
8 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.39%) Banking
9 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Retail
9 1 (1.39%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 13 (18.06%) Architect
2 12 (16.67%) Analyst
3 8 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 8 (11.11%) Senior
4 7 (9.72%) Developer
5 6 (8.33%) Lead
6 5 (6.94%) Business Analyst
6 5 (6.94%) Consultant
6 5 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.56%) Designer
7 4 (5.56%) Games Designer
7 4 (5.56%) Product Manager
7 4 (5.56%) Senior Designer
7 4 (5.56%) Senior Games Designer
7 4 (5.56%) Technical Designer
8 3 (4.17%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Data Migration Specialist
8 3 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) Kafka
2 6 (8.33%) .NET
2 6 (8.33%) Unreal Engine
3 4 (5.56%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 3 (4.17%) CSS
4 3 (4.17%) HTML
4 3 (4.17%) REST
5 2 (2.78%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (2.78%) YAML
6 1 (1.39%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.39%) CrewAI
6 1 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.39%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.39%) Flask
6 1 (1.39%) HTML5
6 1 (1.39%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.39%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.39%) SAP Basis
6 1 (1.39%) SAPUI5
6 1 (1.39%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (11.11%) IoT
3 7 (9.72%) SCADA
4 4 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.56%) Mobile Games
4 4 (5.56%) Virtual Reality
5 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.78%) Animation
6 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.39%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.39%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.39%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.39%) IVR
7 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Unix
2 1 (1.39%) VMS
2 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.33%) Analytics
2 20 (27.78%) Machine Learning
3 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (19.44%) Data Governance
4 14 (19.44%) DevOps
5 13 (18.06%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (15.28%) Agile
6 11 (15.28%) Generative AI
6 11 (15.28%) Migration
6 11 (15.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 9 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 9 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (11.11%) Data Engineering
8 8 (11.11%) Data Modelling
8 8 (11.11%) Data Science
8 8 (11.11%) ETL
8 8 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 8 (11.11%) Use Case
9 7 (9.72%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.78%) SQL
2 18 (25.00%) Python
3 6 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (6.94%) C#
5 4 (5.56%) Bicep
5 4 (5.56%) Java
5 4 (5.56%) PHP
5 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.17%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.78%) C++
7 2 (2.78%) Perl
7 2 (2.78%) R
7 2 (2.78%) Scala
7 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.39%) ABAP
8 1 (1.39%) C
8 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (6.94%) Degree
2 4 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.78%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.39%) CISA
5 1 (1.39%) CISM
5 1 (1.39%) CISSP
5 1 (1.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.39%) MCP
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.39%) PhD
5 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.94%) GDPR
3 4 (5.56%) QA
4 3 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.39%) COBIT
5 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.39%) NCSC
5 1 (1.39%) NIST
5 1 (1.39%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.39%) PMO
5 1 (1.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (9.72%) Kubernetes
1 7 (9.72%) Terraform
2 2 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (1.39%) Argo
3 1 (1.39%) Consul
3 1 (1.39%) RSA Archer
3 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (26.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.89%) Databricks
2 10 (13.89%) SAP
3 9 (12.50%) Oracle
4 6 (8.33%) Informatica
5 5 (6.94%) OpenAI
6 4 (5.56%) ServiceNow
7 3 (4.17%) Splunk
8 2 (2.78%) Google
8 2 (2.78%) iManage
8 2 (2.78%) Workday
9 1 (1.39%) Adobe
9 1 (1.39%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (1.39%) Citrix
9 1 (1.39%) Concur
9 1 (1.39%) DIgSILENT
9 1 (1.39%) PayPal
9 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.39%) Siemens
9 1 (1.39%) UiPath