AI Contract Job Trends in Telford

AI
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 2.21% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £477 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £531 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £496 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 262 78 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 96.68% 83.87% 87.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 64 17
10th Percentile £399 £309 £361
25th Percentile £449 £360 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £481 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% +0.10% -10.28%
75th Percentile £538 £520 £538
90th Percentile £559 £567 £588
Shropshire median daily rate £515 £477 £478
% change year-on-year +7.97% -0.10% -9.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £31.31 £12.18 -
% change year-on-year +157.02% - -

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

AI job vacancy trend in Telford

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing AI

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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:

Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Engagement Manager
2 4 (66.67%) SAP Engagement Manager
2 4 (66.67%) SAP Manager
2 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Engagement Manager
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Budget Management
2 5 (83.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 5 (83.33%) Change Management
2 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (83.33%) Data Management
2 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 5 (83.33%) Performance Management
2 5 (83.33%) Project Management
2 5 (83.33%) Project Planning
2 5 (83.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 5 (83.33%) Resource Allocation
2 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Consul
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) SAP
1 5 (83.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) OpenAI
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk