AI Contract Job Trends in Norfolk

AI
East of England > Norfolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Norfolk requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Norfolk 2.31% - 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% - 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £525
75th Percentile £581 - £538
90th Percentile £668 - -
East of England median daily rate £600 £600 £475
% change year-on-year - +26.32% +5.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 30 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk 70.37% 85.71% 78.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 14 28
10th Percentile £140 £200 £168
25th Percentile £186 £255 £292
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £278 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year -28.39% -3.13% +73.91%
75th Percentile £469 £450 £538
90th Percentile £573 £639 £549
East of England median daily rate £475 £497 £475
% change year-on-year -4.47% +4.68% -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 5 12
10th Percentile £11.59 £14.01 £12.93
25th Percentile £13.66 £14.03 £13.60
Median hourly rate £15.79 £15.33 £15.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -1.92% -25.60%
75th Percentile £20.84 £15.80 £20.06
90th Percentile £22.81 £15.91 £26.25
East of England median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -60.00% +44.28% +46.56%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk.

AI job vacancy trend in Norfolk

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing AI

AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Norfolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI in Norfolk over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AI in Norfolk

AI
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Norfolk region over the 6 months to 2 April 2026. 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
Norwich - 5 £425 - 15
AI
East of England

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Collibra
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Gen AI Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Test Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Generative AI
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Benchmarking
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (20.00%) Data Security
4 1 (20.00%) Data Stewardship
4 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Metadata Management
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001