Generative AI Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Generative AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 32 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.10% 0.53% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.70% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £1,050 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,100 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +144.44% - -
75th Percentile £1,150 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £838 £450 -
% change year-on-year +86.11% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 157 142 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 86.74% 75.94% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 94 103
10th Percentile £160 £200 £158
25th Percentile £225 £298 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -5.13% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £598
90th Percentile £649 £718 £698
South West median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 26
10th Percentile £20.50 £12.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £47.00 £13.25 £46.71
Median hourly rate £62.50 £20.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +204.88% -60.49% +3.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.88 £62.22
90th Percentile £64.28 £57.50 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Generative AI job vacancy trend in Somerset

Generative AI
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Generative AI
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Generative AI within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Taunton - 2 £1,100 - 3
Generative AI
South West

Generative AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Head of AI
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Data Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Applied Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Decision Tree
1 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Line Management
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Random Forest
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Statistics
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform