AI Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

AI
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing AI 11 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 4.26% 3.73% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 4.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 0
10th Percentile £375 £319 -
25th Percentile £476 £344 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.49% - -
75th Percentile - £633 -
90th Percentile £613 £725 -
East Midlands median daily rate £520 £450 £950
% change year-on-year +15.56% -52.63% +55.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 237 150 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.86% 93.17% 95.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 117 112
10th Percentile £323 £307 £224
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £403 £481
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -16.23% +9.20%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £534
90th Percentile £550 £615 £586
East Midlands median daily rate £421 £436 £475
% change year-on-year -3.33% -8.32% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 14
10th Percentile - - £13.16
25th Percentile - £23.10 £18.01
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.55% +177.55%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £22.05 £21.52
% change year-on-year -9.28% +2.46% +27.84%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

AI job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing AI

AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI in Northamptonshire

AI
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Daventry - 7 £550 -
Northampton -19 4 £403 +13.06% 60
AI
East Midlands

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon Bedrock
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
2 2 (18.18%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Neptune
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Google Gemini
3 1 (9.09%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) QlikView
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (9.09%) Tableau
General
1 5 (45.45%) Automotive
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Project Manager
2 6 (54.55%) Senior
2 6 (54.55%) Senior Manager
2 6 (54.55%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Hadoop Developer
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) FastAPI
1 2 (18.18%) Flask
1 2 (18.18%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) CrewAI
2 1 (9.09%) LangGraph
2 1 (9.09%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Robotics
2 4 (36.36%) Operational Technology
3 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Logistics
2 5 (45.45%) Project Governance
3 3 (27.27%) LLM
3 3 (27.27%) Prompt Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) API Development
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
4 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Generative AI
4 2 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
4 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) Use Case
4 2 (18.18%) Workflow
5 1 (9.09%) Data Science
5 1 (9.09%) Observability
5 1 (9.09%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Scala
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) MCP
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google