Generative AI Contracts in the North of England

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 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 150 176 -
Rank change year-on-year +26 - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 16 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.49% 0.19% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 0
10th Percentile £356 £550 -
25th Percentile £453 £603 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £671 £647 -
90th Percentile £680 £663 -
England median daily rate £700 £600 -
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.13 - -
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
England median hourly rate £50.25 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +43.57% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 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%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in the North of England

Generative AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Generative AI in the North of England

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in the North of England

Generative AI
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 Generative AI 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 +22 13 £661 +5.68% 151
Yorkshire - 3 £356 - 150
Generative AI
England

Generative AI
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 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
3 7 (43.75%) GCP
4 4 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (25.00%) Azure AI
4 4 (25.00%) Google Gemini
5 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Neo4j
2 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 4 (25.00%) Legal
4 4 (25.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) IT Manager
3 4 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
3 4 (25.00%) Project Manager
4 3 (18.75%) Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Security Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Security Solutions Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Designer
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) IT Technical Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Solutions Designer
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (25.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 2 (12.50%) CSS
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
2 2 (12.50%) React
3 1 (6.25%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (81.25%) Machine Learning
3 12 (75.00%) LLM
4 10 (62.50%) Agile
5 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (43.75%) SDLC
7 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
7 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
7 6 (37.50%) Natural Language Processing
7 6 (37.50%) Project Management
8 5 (31.25%) Data Cleansing
9 4 (25.00%) Business Analysis
9 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
9 4 (25.00%) Kanban
9 4 (25.00%) Mathematics
9 4 (25.00%) Multi-Agent System
9 4 (25.00%) Pattern Recognition
9 4 (25.00%) RDF
9 4 (25.00%) Scrum
9 4 (25.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Scala
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) PHP
3 2 (12.50%) Ruby
4 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Ariba
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) SAP