Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the South West

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 67 114 120
Rank change year-on-year +47 +6 +35
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 44 43 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.62% 1.34% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 1.62% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 12 38
10th Percentile £444 £418 £411
25th Percentile £500 £509 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £588 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% - +9.20%
75th Percentile £788 £638 £700
90th Percentile £891 £649 £708
England median daily rate £600 £600 £588
% change year-on-year - +2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 £16.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +368.75% - -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South West

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South West

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the South West

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South West

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Somerset +17 17 £758 +40.93% 17
Bristol -3 15 £575 -6.12% 113
Dorset +10 7 £550 - 13
Devon - 3 £500 - 23
Wiltshire +32 1 £650 - 16
Gloucestershire - 1 £875 - 71
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.27%) Simulink
1 1 (2.27%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) SAP BPC
1 1 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.36%) AWS
2 4 (9.09%) Azure
3 3 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (6.82%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (6.82%) Serverless
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.55%) GitHub
4 2 (4.55%) SaaS
5 1 (2.27%) Akamai
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.27%) Datadog
5 1 (2.27%) Dialogflow
5 1 (2.27%) GCP
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.27%) Google Ads
5 1 (2.27%) IaaS
5 1 (2.27%) PaaS
5 1 (2.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) LTE
2 1 (2.27%) NAS
2 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Metadata
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.27%) Big Data
2 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.27%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.27%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.27%) Power BI
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) GitLab
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.27%) MLflow
General
1 11 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Finance
4 4 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.82%) Marketing
6 2 (4.55%) Electronics
6 2 (4.55%) Legal
6 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.27%) Advertising
7 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.27%) Aviation
7 1 (2.27%) Banking
7 1 (2.27%) Publishing
7 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (22.73%) Senior
2 6 (13.64%) Developer
2 6 (13.64%) Lead
3 5 (11.36%) Head of AI
3 5 (11.36%) Head of Data Science
3 5 (11.36%) Lecturer
4 4 (9.09%) Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Data Scientist
6 2 (4.55%) Backend Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Chief Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Flutter Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Principal Technologist
6 2 (4.55%) Scrum Master
6 2 (4.55%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Technologist
7 1 (2.27%) Algorithm Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (2.27%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) CSS
1 4 (9.09%) HTML
1 4 (9.09%) Node.js
2 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.82%) jQuery
2 3 (6.82%) RESTful
3 2 (4.55%) Flutter
3 2 (4.55%) PyTorch
3 2 (4.55%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.27%) Django
4 1 (2.27%) OpenCV
4 1 (2.27%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Algorithms
1 5 (11.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (68.18%) Machine Learning
2 16 (36.36%) Agile
3 13 (29.55%) Data Science
4 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.91%) Software Engineering
5 7 (15.91%) User Experience
6 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (13.64%) Data Management
6 6 (13.64%) Project Management
6 6 (13.64%) Scrum
7 5 (11.36%) Budget Management
7 5 (11.36%) Computer Science
7 5 (11.36%) Data Governance
7 5 (11.36%) Data Governance Strategy
7 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (11.36%) Supplier Management
7 5 (11.36%) UX Design
8 4 (9.09%) Analytics
8 4 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.09%) Python
2 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.82%) SQL
3 2 (4.55%) Dart
3 2 (4.55%) R
4 1 (2.27%) Bash
4 1 (2.27%) C++
4 1 (2.27%) Fortran
4 1 (2.27%) Java
4 1 (2.27%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.27%) Perl
4 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 13 (29.55%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.36%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) MCITP
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) QA
2 4 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.82%) Terraform
2 2 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.82%) SAP
2 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (2.27%) Apple
4 1 (2.27%) Criteo
4 1 (2.27%) Databricks
4 1 (2.27%) F5
4 1 (2.27%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce