Artificial Intelligence Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 9 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.02% 2.35% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 2.60% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £188 - -
25th Percentile £238 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £555 - -
90th Percentile £584 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 196 154 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 87.50% 90.59% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 66 96
10th Percentile £255 £320 £350
25th Percentile £410 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -5.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £579 £600
90th Percentile £646 £698 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 7
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -5.13% +22.95%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +4.05% -5.13% +30.61%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Artificial Intelligence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Artificial Intelligence job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Artificial Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 6 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Newcastle upon Tyne

Artificial Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (11.11%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (22.22%) Big Data
1 2 (22.22%) Data Hub
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Operations Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) GatsbyJS
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) Next.js
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
1 1 (11.11%) Playwright
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) Swagger
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (22.22%) AI Agents
3 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Data Protection
1 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (22.22%) AIOps
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) DataOps
3 2 (22.22%) Fintech
3 2 (22.22%) LLM
3 2 (22.22%) Product Management
3 2 (22.22%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Data Munging
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (11.11%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) SFIA
4 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) MCP
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Sage
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft