Generative AI Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Generative AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 41 45
Rank change year-on-year -38 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 12 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.70% 0.32% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 0.35% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 4
10th Percentile £420 - £581
25th Percentile £449 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 - £591
75th Percentile £538 - £603
90th Percentile £544 - £608
South Yorkshire median daily rate £492 - £591

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Generative 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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 676 288 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.89% 92.31% 95.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 163 234
10th Percentile £316 £220 £385
25th Percentile £401 £422 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £623 £675 £724
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £515 £545
% change year-on-year -6.80% -5.50% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.79 £19.10
25th Percentile - £14.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.10% -19.58% +36.36%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £16.19 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% -28.04% +60.71%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Generative AI job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Generative AI
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Generative AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Generative AI

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in Sheffield over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in Sheffield

Generative AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Azure AKS
2 7 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) ChatGPT
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (25.00%) Metadata
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Private Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Security Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Hugging Face
1 7 (58.33%) OpenCV
1 7 (58.33%) PyTorch
1 7 (58.33%) Regular Expression
1 7 (58.33%) SpaCy
1 7 (58.33%) TensorFlow
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) AI
2 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) Machine Learning
3 7 (58.33%) Deep Learning
3 7 (58.33%) Image Processing
3 7 (58.33%) KYC
3 7 (58.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 7 (58.33%) OCR
3 7 (58.33%) Open Source
4 6 (50.00%) Agile
5 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
6 4 (33.33%) LLM
6 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (33.33%) Storage Management
7 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
7 3 (25.00%) Data Science
7 3 (25.00%) Intelligent Automation
7 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) OpenAI