Generative AI Contracts in the Midlands

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Generative AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Generative AI over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 131 160
Rank change year-on-year +13 +29 -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 9 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.41% 0.17% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.21% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile - £590 -
25th Percentile - £650 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £700 £475
Median % change year-on-year -77.14% +47.37% -
75th Percentile £238 £750 £500
90th Percentile £284 £870 -
England median daily rate £625 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Generative 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,944 2,360 2,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.81% 79.95% 87.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,558 2,004
10th Percentile £206 £247 £260
25th Percentile £356 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 183 96
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.38 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.61
Median hourly rate £21.35 £19.00 £25.13
Median % change year-on-year +12.34% -24.38% +28.85%
75th Percentile £28.47 £35.00 £48.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Generative AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Generative AI in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Generative AI in the Midlands

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in the Midlands

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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 Generative AI within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 June 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 +6 5 £315 -55.00% 159
East Midlands +7 3 £160 -78.67% 113
Generative AI
England

Generative AI
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 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Serverless
1 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
General
1 4 (44.44%) Games
1 4 (44.44%) Polish Language
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Designer
1 4 (44.44%) Games Designer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
1 4 (44.44%) Senior Designer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior Games Designer
1 4 (44.44%) Technical Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Service Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 4 (44.44%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Mobile Games
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (11.11%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) User Experience
3 3 (33.33%) Conversational UI
4 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 2 (22.22%) Data Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
4 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
4 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 2 (22.22%) Ontologies
4 2 (22.22%) Use Case
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Data Management
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 1 (11.11%) LLM
5 1 (11.11%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Workflow
5 1 (11.11%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) TypeScript
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Automation Anywhere
1 1 (11.11%) Blue Prism
1 1 (11.11%) Citrix
1 1 (11.11%) IBM
1 1 (11.11%) UiPath