Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the South East

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 75 165 157
Rank change year-on-year +90 -8 +63
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 87 40 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.89% 0.72% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 0.85% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 21 32
10th Percentile £409 £438 £209
25th Percentile £500 £513 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +26.83% -10.87%
75th Percentile £641 £688 £681
90th Percentile £700 - £834
England median daily rate £600 £600 £588
% change year-on-year - +2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile £42.50 £19.25 £62.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £20.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +119.51% -69.63% +14.41%
75th Percentile £47.50 £50.88 £70.00
90th Percentile - £68.35 £84.10
England median hourly rate £31.00 £46.18 £50.50
% change year-on-year -32.87% -8.55% +20.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South East

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South East

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the South East

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South East

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +75 59 £575 -14.81% 281
Berkshire +59 52 £600 -11.11% 71
Hampshire +41 18 £575 +9.52% 85
Buckinghamshire +21 7 £500 -28.57% 150
West Sussex - 3 £725 - 23
Surrey +8 2 £321 -46.46% 62
Home Counties - 2 - -
East Sussex - 2 £638 - 157
Kent - 1 £775 - 19
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (11.49%) Apache Spark
2 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.30%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (41.38%) Azure
2 19 (21.84%) AWS
3 11 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (11.49%) GCP
4 10 (11.49%) PaaS
4 10 (11.49%) Power Platform
5 8 (9.20%) IaaS
5 8 (9.20%) OpenShift
6 6 (6.90%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.45%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.45%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.45%) Serverless
9 3 (3.45%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.30%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.30%) Azure AI
10 2 (2.30%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.20%) DHCP
1 8 (9.20%) DNS
1 8 (9.20%) Firewall
1 8 (9.20%) SMTP
1 8 (9.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.69%) Big Data
2 8 (9.20%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (9.20%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (6.90%) Power BI
4 3 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.45%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.30%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.30%) Tableau
6 1 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.15%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.15%) HBase
6 1 (1.15%) HDInsight
6 1 (1.15%) Impala
6 1 (1.15%) Metadata
6 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (13.79%) Git
2 4 (4.60%) Selenium
3 3 (3.45%) GitLab
4 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.15%) CMake
5 1 (1.15%) ERwin
General
1 24 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.64%) Telecoms
3 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.20%) Legal
5 7 (8.05%) Marketing
6 5 (5.75%) Retail
7 4 (4.60%) Finance
8 3 (3.45%) Law
8 3 (3.45%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.45%) Military
9 2 (2.30%) Electronics
9 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (20.69%) Architect
2 10 (11.49%) Developer
3 8 (9.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (9.20%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (9.20%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (9.20%) Consultant
3 8 (9.20%) Senior
3 8 (9.20%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (9.20%) Support Engineer
4 7 (8.05%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (8.05%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (8.05%) Data Engineer
4 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 5 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Data Protection Officer
7 4 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.05%) PySpark
2 6 (6.90%) .NET
2 6 (6.90%) CSS
2 6 (6.90%) HTML
3 3 (3.45%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.30%) Kafka
4 2 (2.30%) Node.js
4 2 (2.30%) Parceljs
4 2 (2.30%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.30%) RESTful
5 1 (1.15%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.15%) CNTK
5 1 (1.15%) FHIR
5 1 (1.15%) Hugging Face
5 1 (1.15%) Middleware
5 1 (1.15%) OpenVINO
5 1 (1.15%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) IoT
2 8 (9.20%) Clustering
2 8 (9.20%) Data Centre
2 8 (9.20%) PKI
3 7 (8.05%) Algorithms
3 7 (8.05%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.75%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.75%) Device Driver
4 5 (5.75%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.15%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.15%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) NHS
7 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.99%) Linux
2 19 (21.84%) Windows
3 8 (9.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.15%) Android
5 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (48.28%) Machine Learning
2 25 (28.74%) DevOps
3 21 (24.14%) Agile
4 16 (18.39%) Analytics
5 15 (17.24%) Decision-Making
5 15 (17.24%) LLM
6 13 (14.94%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (12.64%) CI/CD
8 10 (11.49%) SDLC
9 9 (10.34%) Software Testing
9 9 (10.34%) Unit Testing
10 8 (9.20%) Data Analysis
10 8 (9.20%) Generative AI
10 8 (9.20%) Project Management
10 8 (9.20%) Software Deployment
11 7 (8.05%) Actionable Insight
11 7 (8.05%) Dashboard Development
11 7 (8.05%) Data Science
11 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (36.78%) Python
2 17 (19.54%) SQL
3 12 (13.79%) JavaScript
3 12 (13.79%) PowerShell
4 9 (10.34%) C#
5 5 (5.75%) Embedded C
5 5 (5.75%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.60%) Bash
6 4 (4.60%) C
7 3 (3.45%) R
7 3 (3.45%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.15%) C++
8 1 (1.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (18.39%) Degree
1 16 (18.39%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.34%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.75%) ISEB
5 3 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.30%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.15%) CISA
7 1 (1.15%) CISM
7 1 (1.15%) CISSP
7 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.15%) GCIA
7 1 (1.15%) GCIH
7 1 (1.15%) GIAC
7 1 (1.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.60%) GDPR
2 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.15%) NIST
3 1 (1.15%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (13.79%) Docker
2 8 (9.20%) Active Directory
2 8 (9.20%) BitLocker
2 8 (9.20%) Hyper-V
2 8 (9.20%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (9.20%) Terminal Services
2 8 (9.20%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (9.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.75%) Firmware
4 1 (1.15%) Apache Flume
4 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.20%) Ansible
2 8 (9.20%) Nagios
2 8 (9.20%) Puppet
2 8 (9.20%) vCenter Server
2 8 (9.20%) vMotion
3 2 (2.30%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (1.15%) QRadar
Vendors
1 23 (26.44%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.09%) OpenAI
3 10 (11.49%) Databricks
3 10 (11.49%) Google
4 8 (9.20%) Citrix
4 8 (9.20%) HP
4 8 (9.20%) Symantec
4 8 (9.20%) VMware
5 6 (6.90%) SAP
6 5 (5.75%) Salesforce
7 4 (4.60%) Foundry
7 4 (4.60%) Palantir
8 3 (3.45%) BMC
8 3 (3.45%) Virgin Media
9 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.15%) Alteryx
10 1 (1.15%) Oracle
10 1 (1.15%) Splunk
10 1 (1.15%) StreamSets
10 1 (1.15%) Workday