Artificial Intelligence Contracts in Sheffield

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 44 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 6 27 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.88% 7.12% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 7.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £391 - -
25th Percentile £517 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £700 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £650 £700 -
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Sheffield

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Sheffield

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Sheffield

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) React Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Chaos Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 4 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) Observability
2 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) OWASP
3 1 (16.67%) People Management
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft