AI Contract Job Trends in Stockport

AI
Manchester > Stockport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stockport requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stockport 8.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median daily rate £513 £490 £475
% change year-on-year +4.59% +3.16% -19.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stockport

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 Stockport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12 20 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stockport 100.00% 90.91% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 7
10th Percentile £147 - £345
25th Percentile £153 - £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £228 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -43.13% -20.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £550 £419 £600
90th Percentile £659 £500 £625
Manchester median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £11.62
25th Percentile - - £12.71
Median hourly rate - - £17.66
Median % change year-on-year - - -62.83%
75th Percentile - - £30.88
90th Percentile - - £46.85
Manchester median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% +130.77% +9.47%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

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

AI job vacancy trend in Stockport

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Head of IT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality