Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 44 119 122
Rank change year-on-year +75 +3 +30
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 59 26 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.90% 0.97% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 1.11% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 12 15
10th Percentile £403 £507 £320
25th Percentile £500 £641 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +28.57% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £596
90th Percentile £695 £744 £634
South East median daily rate £575 £650 £513
% change year-on-year -11.54% +26.83% -10.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +59 52 £600 -11.11% 93
Buckinghamshire +21 7 £500 -28.57% 159
Artificial Intelligence
South East

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (16.95%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (52.54%) Azure
2 11 (18.64%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (10.17%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (6.78%) AWS
5 4 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (6.78%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (5.08%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.39%) Azure AI
7 2 (3.39%) GCP
7 2 (3.39%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (1.69%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.86%) Big Data
2 4 (6.78%) Power BI
3 2 (3.39%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.39%) Tableau
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.69%) HBase
4 1 (1.69%) HDInsight
4 1 (1.69%) Impala
4 1 (1.69%) Metadata
4 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Git
2 4 (6.78%) Selenium
3 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.69%) CMake
4 1 (1.69%) ERwin
4 1 (1.69%) GitLab
General
1 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.64%) Telecoms
3 8 (13.56%) Legal
4 7 (11.86%) Marketing
5 4 (6.78%) Finance
5 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.78%) Retail
6 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Military
7 2 (3.39%) Electronics
7 2 (3.39%) Law
7 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (20.34%) Architect
2 10 (16.95%) Developer
3 7 (11.86%) Data Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Consultant
5 5 (8.47%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 5 (8.47%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Data Protection Officer
5 5 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Software Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) C# Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Gen AI Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Gen AI Software Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior
7 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) PySpark
2 6 (10.17%) .NET
2 6 (10.17%) CSS
2 6 (10.17%) HTML
3 2 (3.39%) Kafka
3 2 (3.39%) Node.js
3 2 (3.39%) Parceljs
3 2 (3.39%) PyTorch
3 2 (3.39%) RESTful
3 2 (3.39%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.69%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.69%) CNTK
4 1 (1.69%) FHIR
4 1 (1.69%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.69%) Middleware
4 1 (1.69%) OpenVINO
4 1 (1.69%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (8.47%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.39%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.39%) IoT
2 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.69%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.69%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.69%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.69%) NHS
3 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.56%) Windows
2 4 (6.78%) Linux
3 1 (1.69%) Android
3 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.68%) Machine Learning
2 15 (25.42%) LLM
3 12 (20.34%) DevOps
4 11 (18.64%) Agile
4 11 (18.64%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (16.95%) Analytics
6 9 (15.25%) CI/CD
7 7 (11.86%) Decision-Making
7 7 (11.86%) Generative AI
7 7 (11.86%) Integration Testing
7 7 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (11.86%) Visualisation
8 6 (10.17%) B2C
8 6 (10.17%) Data Analysis
8 6 (10.17%) Data Governance
8 6 (10.17%) Data Protection
8 6 (10.17%) Software Testing
8 6 (10.17%) System Testing
8 6 (10.17%) Unit Testing
8 6 (10.17%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.07%) Python
2 12 (20.34%) JavaScript
2 12 (20.34%) SQL
3 9 (15.25%) C#
4 4 (6.78%) Bash
4 4 (6.78%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.78%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.08%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.69%) C++
6 1 (1.69%) Perl
6 1 (1.69%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) Degree
2 5 (8.47%) ISEB
3 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.69%) CISA
6 1 (1.69%) CISM
6 1 (1.69%) CISSP
6 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.69%) GCIA
6 1 (1.69%) GCIH
6 1 (1.69%) GIAC
6 1 (1.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) GDPR
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.69%) NIST
3 1 (1.69%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.69%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Apache Flume
1 1 (1.69%) Docker
1 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) QRadar
Vendors
1 14 (23.73%) OpenAI
2 12 (20.34%) Microsoft
3 8 (13.56%) Databricks
4 5 (8.47%) Salesforce
4 5 (8.47%) SAP
5 4 (6.78%) Foundry
5 4 (6.78%) Palantir
6 3 (5.08%) BMC
6 3 (5.08%) Virgin Media
7 2 (3.39%) Google
8 1 (1.69%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.69%) Splunk
8 1 (1.69%) StreamSets