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 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 85 127
Rank change year-on-year +8 +42 +28
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 48 51 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.44% 1.86% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 2.20% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 18
10th Percentile £363 £418 £473
25th Percentile £427 £425 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -14.89% +6.82%
75th Percentile £653 £638 £635
90th Percentile £691 £645 £690
England median daily rate £553 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -7.92% +2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile £22.63 - £26.00
25th Percentile £24.48 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £76.25 - £43.25
90th Percentile £78.00 - £45.01
England median hourly rate £46.75 £46.18 £51.84
% change year-on-year +1.23% -10.92% +23.43%

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 1,766 2,323 2,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.69% 84.78% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 1,437 1,890
10th Percentile £301 £308 £313
25th Percentile £388 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £555 £588 £588
90th Percentile £661 £675 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 270 140
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.73 £14.03 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.00 £32.88
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -17.88% +40.56%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £46.39
90th Percentile £84.06 £66.61 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -24.85% +2.63% +46.16%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +12 23 £525 +5.00% 428
Cheshire -2 13 £550 +22.22% 86
Merseyside -6 6 £430 - 44
Cumbria - 4 - - 3
Lancashire -2 2 - - 23
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 5 (10.42%) Confluence
2 3 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.17%) Apache
4 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.08%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.08%) Elite 3E
1 1 (2.08%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) Azure
2 12 (25.00%) AWS
3 9 (18.75%) GCP
4 4 (8.33%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (8.33%) Azure AI
4 4 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
4 4 (8.33%) Google Gemini
4 4 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (6.25%) GitHub
5 3 (6.25%) Serverless
6 1 (2.08%) Akamai
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.08%) Boomi
6 1 (2.08%) Figma
6 1 (2.08%) Google Ads
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Firewall
1 1 (2.08%) GPRS
1 1 (2.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Tableau
2 4 (8.33%) Metadata
2 4 (8.33%) Neo4j
2 4 (8.33%) Power BI
3 2 (4.17%) Delta Lake
3 2 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.08%) Big Data
4 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.08%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.08%) DB2
4 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.08%) Power Query
4 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Git
1 5 (10.42%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) GitLab
3 1 (2.08%) MLflow
General
1 15 (31.25%) Finance
2 11 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 8 (16.67%) Legal
5 6 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (10.42%) Banking
7 4 (8.33%) Manufacturing
7 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
8 2 (4.17%) Marketing
9 1 (2.08%) Advertising
9 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
9 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (14.58%) Architect
2 6 (12.50%) Analyst
2 6 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Senior
2 6 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (10.42%) Developer
4 4 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Data Scientist
4 4 (8.33%) IT Manager
4 4 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
4 4 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 4 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Security Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Governance Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Principal Data Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Snowflake Developer
7 1 (2.08%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) PyTorch
1 7 (14.58%) TensorFlow
2 2 (4.17%) LangChain
2 2 (4.17%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.08%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.08%) Kafka
3 1 (2.08%) OLE
3 1 (2.08%) OpenCV
3 1 (2.08%) React
3 1 (2.08%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.08%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (10.42%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.33%) Virtual Team
4 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (6.25%) IVR
5 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.08%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.08%) Blog
6 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Windows
1 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) Machine Learning
2 19 (39.58%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (29.17%) Agile
3 14 (29.17%) Generative AI
3 14 (29.17%) LLM
4 12 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 11 (22.92%) CI/CD
5 11 (22.92%) Data Science
5 11 (22.92%) Decision-Making
6 9 (18.75%) Mathematics
7 8 (16.67%) Analytics
7 8 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 8 (16.67%) Pattern Recognition
7 8 (16.67%) SDLC
7 8 (16.67%) Statistics
7 8 (16.67%) Visualisation
8 7 (14.58%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (14.58%) Data Management
8 7 (14.58%) Data Privacy
8 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (12.50%) SQL
3 3 (6.25%) R
3 3 (6.25%) Scala
4 1 (2.08%) C#
4 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.08%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) Degree
2 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) GDPR
2 4 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.08%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Ansible
2 1 (2.08%) Grafana
2 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Databricks
3 2 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) Apple
4 1 (2.08%) Ariba
4 1 (2.08%) Cognos
4 1 (2.08%) Criteo
4 1 (2.08%) F5
4 1 (2.08%) Genesys
4 1 (2.08%) Intapp
4 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.08%) SAP
4 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.08%) VMware