Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the North of England

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 52 163
Rank change year-on-year -53 +111 +42
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 62 160 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.88% 3.36% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 3.91% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 20 39
10th Percentile £253 £413 £375
25th Percentile £427 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £671 £638 £607
90th Percentile £713 £655 £682
England median daily rate £600 £600 £588
% change year-on-year - +2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile £22.65 - -
25th Percentile £22.72 - -
Median hourly rate £28.75 £46.18 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.74% +130.90% -42.03%
75th Percentile £75.63 - £27.50
90th Percentile £77.88 - £37.00
England median hourly rate £31.00 £46.18 £50.50
% change year-on-year -32.87% -8.55% +20.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the North of England

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the North of England

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the North of England

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the North of England

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the North of England

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West -15 44 £550 +10.00% 425
Yorkshire -30 13 £525 -19.23% 282
North East -24 5 £200 - 80
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (6.45%) Confluence
2 3 (4.84%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.23%) Apache
4 1 (1.61%) CICS
4 1 (1.61%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.61%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.61%) Elite 3E
1 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.19%) Azure
2 12 (19.35%) AWS
3 9 (14.52%) GCP
4 4 (6.45%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (6.45%) Azure AI
4 4 (6.45%) Google Gemini
5 3 (4.84%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.23%) Serverless
7 1 (1.61%) Akamai
7 1 (1.61%) Boomi
7 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.61%) Figma
7 1 (1.61%) Google Ads
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.61%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) Firewall
2 1 (1.61%) GPRS
2 1 (1.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) Tableau
2 5 (8.06%) Metadata
3 4 (6.45%) Neo4j
4 3 (4.84%) Power BI
5 2 (3.23%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.23%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.61%) Big Data
6 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.61%) DB2
6 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.61%) MySQL
6 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.61%) Power Query
6 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Git
2 4 (6.45%) JIRA
3 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.61%) GitLab
General
1 18 (29.03%) Finance
1 18 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Banking
4 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 7 (11.29%) Legal
6 6 (9.68%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (6.45%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.23%) Aviation
8 2 (3.23%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (3.23%) Marketing
8 2 (3.23%) Police
8 2 (3.23%) Swedish Language
9 1 (1.61%) Advertising
9 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (16.13%) Architect
2 8 (12.90%) Senior
3 7 (11.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Analyst
4 5 (8.06%) Developer
5 4 (6.45%) Data Scientist
5 4 (6.45%) IT Manager
5 4 (6.45%) IT Project Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Security Architect
5 4 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.45%) User Experience Researcher
6 3 (4.84%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Lead
6 3 (4.84%) Product Manager
6 3 (4.84%) Security Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Designer
7 2 (3.23%) Lead Product Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Principal Data Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.90%) PyTorch
1 8 (12.90%) TensorFlow
2 3 (4.84%) OpenCV
3 2 (3.23%) .NET
3 2 (3.23%) AVFoundation
3 2 (3.23%) iOS SDK
3 2 (3.23%) LangChain
3 2 (3.23%) React
3 2 (3.23%) Regular Expression
3 2 (3.23%) UIKit
4 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.61%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.61%) Kafka
4 1 (1.61%) Node.js
4 1 (1.61%) OLE
4 1 (1.61%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.61%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.61%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.42%) Algorithms
2 6 (9.68%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.84%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.23%) Robotics
5 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.61%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.61%) Blog
5 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Windows
2 2 (3.23%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.23%) Linux
2 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.94%) Machine Learning
2 23 (37.10%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (27.42%) CI/CD
4 14 (22.58%) Data Science
4 14 (22.58%) Decision-Making
4 14 (22.58%) Generative AI
5 13 (20.97%) Agile
5 13 (20.97%) LLM
5 13 (20.97%) Natural Language Processing
6 11 (17.74%) Analytics
6 11 (17.74%) Mathematics
7 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (16.13%) Statistics
8 9 (14.52%) Data Privacy
8 9 (14.52%) Microservices
8 9 (14.52%) Pattern Recognition
8 9 (14.52%) SDLC
8 9 (14.52%) Visualisation
9 8 (12.90%) Data Management
9 8 (12.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.42%) Python
2 5 (8.06%) SQL
3 3 (4.84%) R
3 3 (4.84%) Scala
4 2 (3.23%) Swift
5 1 (1.61%) C#
5 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.61%) Java
5 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (17.74%) Degree
2 5 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) GDPR
2 4 (6.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.61%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (11.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.84%) Grafana
3 2 (3.23%) FortiGate
3 2 (3.23%) Terraform
4 1 (1.61%) Ansible
4 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.45%) Databricks
3 2 (3.23%) Google
3 2 (3.23%) Ribbon
3 2 (3.23%) SAP
3 2 (3.23%) Tenable
4 1 (1.61%) Apple
4 1 (1.61%) Ariba
4 1 (1.61%) Criteo
4 1 (1.61%) F5
4 1 (1.61%) Hitachi
4 1 (1.61%) Intapp
4 1 (1.61%) Pega
4 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.61%) Sage
4 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.61%) VMware
4 1 (1.61%) Workday