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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 59 163
Rank change year-on-year -40 +104 +54
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 69 146 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.08% 3.14% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 3.68% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 20 34
10th Percentile £200 £424 £413
25th Percentile £406 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -13.04% +6.98%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £620
90th Percentile £700 £655 £685
England median daily rate £575 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile £22.65 - -
25th Percentile £22.72 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £46.18 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.74% +31.94% +1.45%
75th Percentile £75.63 - £40.00
90th Percentile £77.88 - £41.95
England median hourly rate £31.00 £46.18 £49.00
% change year-on-year -32.87% -5.76% +16.67%

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 2,980 3,971 5,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.62% 85.53% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,918 2,420 3,499
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £557 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 365 201
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.72
Median hourly rate £26.28 £17.72 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -36.67% +46.32%
75th Percentile £57.17 £45.00 £44.50
90th Percentile £82.01 £59.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.23% +1.39% +44.00%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -4 46 £550 +10.00% 351
Yorkshire -17 16 £500 -16.67% 177
North East -23 7 £200 - 81
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 5 (7.25%) Confluence
2 3 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.90%) Apache
3 2 (2.90%) CMS
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.45%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.90%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.45%) Elite 3E
1 1 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (26.09%) Azure
2 15 (21.74%) AWS
3 11 (15.94%) GCP
4 4 (5.80%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (5.80%) Azure AI
4 4 (5.80%) Azure Machine Learning
4 4 (5.80%) Google Gemini
4 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.80%) Serverless
5 3 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (4.35%) GitHub
5 3 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.90%) Figma
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) Firewall
2 2 (2.90%) Network Security
3 1 (1.45%) DNS
3 1 (1.45%) GPRS
3 1 (1.45%) SSL
3 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) Tableau
2 5 (7.25%) Metadata
3 4 (5.80%) Neo4j
3 4 (5.80%) Power BI
4 2 (2.90%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.45%) Big Data
5 1 (1.45%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.45%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.45%) DB2
5 1 (1.45%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.45%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.45%) MySQL
5 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.45%) Power Query
5 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) Git
2 5 (7.25%) JIRA
3 4 (5.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.90%) GitLab
5 1 (1.45%) MLflow
General
1 21 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 20 (28.99%) Finance
3 13 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (15.94%) Banking
5 8 (11.59%) Legal
6 7 (10.14%) Public Sector
7 6 (8.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (5.80%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.90%) Aviation
9 2 (2.90%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (2.90%) Marketing
9 2 (2.90%) Police
9 2 (2.90%) Swedish Language
10 1 (1.45%) Advertising
10 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (18.84%) Architect
2 8 (11.59%) Senior
3 7 (10.14%) Analyst
3 7 (10.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.80%) Business Analyst
5 4 (5.80%) Data Scientist
5 4 (5.80%) Developer
5 4 (5.80%) IT Manager
5 4 (5.80%) IT Project Manager
5 4 (5.80%) Lead
5 4 (5.80%) Product Manager
5 4 (5.80%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.80%) Security Architect
5 4 (5.80%) User Experience Researcher
6 3 (4.35%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.35%) Data Architect
6 3 (4.35%) Designer
6 3 (4.35%) Security Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.90%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.59%) PyTorch
1 8 (11.59%) TensorFlow
2 3 (4.35%) Kafka
2 3 (4.35%) React
3 2 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.90%) LangChain
3 2 (2.90%) Node.js
3 2 (2.90%) OpenCV
3 2 (2.90%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.45%) .NET
4 1 (1.45%) GatsbyJS
4 1 (1.45%) HTML
4 1 (1.45%) iOS SDK
4 1 (1.45%) JSON
4 1 (1.45%) Next.js
4 1 (1.45%) OLE
4 1 (1.45%) Playwright
4 1 (1.45%) REST
4 1 (1.45%) XGBoost
4 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.74%) Algorithms
2 7 (10.14%) Management Information System
3 6 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.80%) Virtual Team
5 3 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.90%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.90%) IVR
6 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.90%) Robotics
7 1 (1.45%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.45%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.45%) Blog
7 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.45%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.35%) Windows
2 2 (2.90%) Linux
2 2 (2.90%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.13%) Machine Learning
2 25 (36.23%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (30.43%) CI/CD
4 16 (23.19%) Generative AI
4 16 (23.19%) LLM
5 14 (20.29%) Agile
5 14 (20.29%) Analytics
5 14 (20.29%) Data Science
5 14 (20.29%) Decision-Making
6 13 (18.84%) Natural Language Processing
7 12 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (14.49%) Mathematics
8 10 (14.49%) Statistics
9 9 (13.04%) Data Protection
9 9 (13.04%) DevOps
9 9 (13.04%) Microservices
9 9 (13.04%) Pattern Recognition
9 9 (13.04%) SDLC
9 9 (13.04%) User Experience
9 9 (13.04%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.54%) Python
2 5 (7.25%) SQL
3 3 (4.35%) R
3 3 (4.35%) Scala
4 1 (1.45%) C#
4 1 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.45%) Java
4 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.45%) Swift
4 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (17.39%) Degree
2 6 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.45%) MCP
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) GDPR
2 4 (5.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.45%) GRC
4 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.45%) NIST
4 1 (1.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.49%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.80%) Grafana
3 3 (4.35%) Terraform
4 2 (2.90%) Ansible
4 2 (2.90%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.90%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.45%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.25%) Google
3 4 (5.80%) Databricks
4 2 (2.90%) Ribbon
4 2 (2.90%) SAP
4 2 (2.90%) Tenable
5 1 (1.45%) Apple
5 1 (1.45%) Ariba
5 1 (1.45%) Criteo
5 1 (1.45%) F5
5 1 (1.45%) Genesys
5 1 (1.45%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.45%) Intapp
5 1 (1.45%) Pega
5 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.45%) Sage
5 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.45%) Splunk
5 1 (1.45%) VMware
5 1 (1.45%) Workday