Artificial Intelligence Contracts in Reading

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 30 86 80
Rank change year-on-year +56 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 31 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.19% 0.42% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.59% 0.47% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 2 5
10th Percentile £353 £373 £490
25th Percentile £534 £393 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £432 £600
Median % change year-on-year +34.63% -28.04% +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £466 £631
90th Percentile £700 £483 £658
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £675 £543
% change year-on-year -11.11% +24.42% -19.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Reading

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Reading

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Reading

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (58.06%) Azure
2 8 (25.81%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.90%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (9.68%) AWS
4 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.45%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (3.23%) Azure AI
6 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.23%) GCP
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (3.23%) Serverless
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.23%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Big Data
2 2 (6.45%) Power BI
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.23%) HBase
3 1 (3.23%) HDInsight
3 1 (3.23%) Impala
3 1 (3.23%) Metadata
3 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Git
2 4 (12.90%) Selenium
3 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.23%) CMake
4 1 (3.23%) ERwin
4 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 11 (35.48%) Telecoms
2 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
3 7 (22.58%) Legal
3 7 (22.58%) Marketing
4 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Electronics
5 2 (6.45%) Law
5 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Data Protection Officer
4 4 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) C# Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Gen AI Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Gen AI Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Python Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Python Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Automation Developer
6 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior
6 2 (6.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) .NET
1 6 (19.35%) CSS
1 6 (19.35%) HTML
2 2 (6.45%) Kafka
2 2 (6.45%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.45%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.23%) CNTK
3 1 (3.23%) FHIR
3 1 (3.23%) Hugging Face
3 1 (3.23%) Middleware
3 1 (3.23%) OpenVINO
3 1 (3.23%) PySpark
3 1 (3.23%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.45%) IoT
2 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.23%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) NHS
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Android
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Machine Learning
2 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
2 9 (29.03%) DevOps
2 9 (29.03%) LLM
3 8 (25.81%) Agile
4 6 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (19.35%) Data Protection
4 6 (19.35%) Integration Testing
4 6 (19.35%) Software Testing
4 6 (19.35%) System Testing
4 6 (19.35%) Unit Testing
5 5 (16.13%) B2C
5 5 (16.13%) Data Governance
5 5 (16.13%) Data Loss Prevention
5 5 (16.13%) Data Privacy
5 5 (16.13%) Impact Assessments
5 5 (16.13%) SDLC
5 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
6 4 (12.90%) Channel Management
6 4 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Python
2 9 (29.03%) C#
3 7 (22.58%) SQL
4 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
5 4 (12.90%) Bash
5 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.23%) C++
6 1 (3.23%) Perl
6 1 (3.23%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
1 5 (16.13%) ISEB
2 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.23%) GDPR
1 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Flume
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
1 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) OpenAI
2 4 (12.90%) Databricks
3 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) SAP
3 3 (9.68%) Virgin Media
4 2 (6.45%) Google
4 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.23%) StreamSets