Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the North West

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 76 61 114
Rank change year-on-year -15 +53 +36
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 44 77 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.24% 2.79% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 3.24% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 18 31
10th Percentile £419 £413 £375
25th Percentile £448 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% -10.87%
75th Percentile £678 £628 £594
90th Percentile £725 £641 £680
England median daily rate £600 £600 £588
% change year-on-year - +2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 7
10th Percentile £22.65 - -
25th Percentile £22.72 - -
Median hourly rate £28.75 - £20.00
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the North West

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the North West

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the North West

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the North West

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the North West

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -3 21 £525 +5.00% 275
Cheshire +4 12 £600 +18.81% 52
Cumbria - 5 - -
Lancashire +3 3 £550 - 102
Merseyside -16 3 £525 - 88
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 3 (6.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.55%) Apache
4 1 (2.27%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (2.27%) Elite 3E
1 1 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) Azure
2 11 (25.00%) AWS
3 9 (20.45%) GCP
4 4 (9.09%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (9.09%) Azure AI
4 4 (9.09%) Google Gemini
5 3 (6.82%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (6.82%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.55%) Serverless
7 1 (2.27%) Akamai
7 1 (2.27%) Boomi
7 1 (2.27%) Google Ads
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Firewall
1 1 (2.27%) GPRS
1 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) Tableau
2 5 (11.36%) Metadata
3 4 (9.09%) Neo4j
4 2 (4.55%) Data Mining
4 2 (4.55%) Delta Lake
4 2 (4.55%) Power BI
5 1 (2.27%) Big Data
5 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.27%) DB2
5 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Git
2 4 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (2.27%) GitLab
3 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (29.55%) Finance
2 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Legal
4 6 (13.64%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (11.36%) Banking
5 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
6 4 (9.09%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.55%) Marketing
8 1 (2.27%) Advertising
8 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (13.64%) Architect
1 6 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 6 (13.64%) Senior
2 4 (9.09%) Analyst
2 4 (9.09%) Data Scientist
2 4 (9.09%) Developer
2 4 (9.09%) IT Manager
2 4 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
2 4 (9.09%) Project Manager
2 4 (9.09%) Security Architect
2 4 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.82%) Security Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.55%) Business Analyst
4 2 (4.55%) Data Analyst
4 2 (4.55%) Data Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (4.55%) iOS Developer
4 2 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Principal Technologist
4 2 (4.55%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) PyTorch
1 7 (15.91%) TensorFlow
2 3 (6.82%) OpenCV
3 2 (4.55%) .NET
3 2 (4.55%) AVFoundation
3 2 (4.55%) iOS SDK
3 2 (4.55%) LangChain
3 2 (4.55%) Regular Expression
3 2 (4.55%) UIKit
4 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.27%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.27%) Kafka
4 1 (2.27%) OLE
4 1 (2.27%) React
4 1 (2.27%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.27%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 16 (36.36%) Algorithms
2 5 (11.36%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.82%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.27%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.27%) Blog
5 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.27%) Windows
2 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) Machine Learning
2 20 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (29.55%) Agile
3 13 (29.55%) Decision-Making
3 13 (29.55%) Generative AI
4 12 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 12 (27.27%) Data Science
4 12 (27.27%) LLM
5 11 (25.00%) Mathematics
5 11 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
6 9 (20.45%) Data Privacy
6 9 (20.45%) Pattern Recognition
6 9 (20.45%) Statistics
7 8 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 8 (18.18%) Data Management
7 8 (18.18%) SDLC
7 8 (18.18%) Visualisation
8 7 (15.91%) Analytics
9 6 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (13.64%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.09%) Python
2 5 (11.36%) SQL
3 3 (6.82%) R
3 3 (6.82%) Scala
4 2 (4.55%) Swift
5 1 (2.27%) C#
5 1 (2.27%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) Degree
2 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) GDPR
2 4 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (6.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.27%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (15.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) Ansible
2 1 (2.27%) Grafana
2 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) Databricks
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Google
2 2 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (2.27%) Apple
3 1 (2.27%) Ariba
3 1 (2.27%) Criteo
3 1 (2.27%) F5
3 1 (2.27%) Hitachi
3 1 (2.27%) Intapp
3 1 (2.27%) Pega
3 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.27%) VMware