Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Artificial Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 114 158
Rank change year-on-year +12 +44 -45
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 31 31 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.18% 1.09% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.20% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 11
10th Percentile £481 £200 £400
25th Percentile £622 £413 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -13.04% +27.78%
75th Percentile £697 £588 £634
90th Percentile £750 £653 £715
South East median daily rate £613 £560 £575
% change year-on-year +9.38% -2.61% +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Artificial Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,256 2,579 3,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.65% 90.71% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,232 1,748 2,191
10th Percentile £213 £313 £238
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +3.90% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £509 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +0.69% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 69 90
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.50 £12.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.10 £17.21
Median % change year-on-year -13.63% +202.73% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.27 £73.59 £24.25
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £62.76
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.97
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.96% -13.84%

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 5 June 2024.

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 5 June 2024. 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 0 27 £675 +24.42% 22
Buckinghamshire +24 2 £700 +40.00% 14
Oxfordshire +4 2 £500 +150.00% 29
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 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.23%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) Azure
1 3 (9.68%) ChatGPT
2 2 (6.45%) GCP
3 1 (3.23%) AWS
3 1 (3.23%) Azure AI
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.23%) Figma
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (3.23%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Big Data
1 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.23%) Looker
1 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.23%) Power BI
1 1 (3.23%) Power Query
1 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) CMake
2 1 (3.23%) MLflow
General
1 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Marketing
2 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.68%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.45%) Legal
3 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Advertising
4 1 (3.23%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Developer
2 5 (16.13%) Architect
2 5 (16.13%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (9.68%) Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Chief Technology Officer
4 2 (6.45%) Communications Specialist
4 2 (6.45%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Data Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Data Science Manager
5 1 (3.23%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Full Stack Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) IoT Software Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Senior
5 1 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) TensorFlow
2 4 (12.90%) PyTorch
3 2 (6.45%) Google JAX
3 2 (6.45%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.23%) CNTK
4 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.23%) Hugging Face
4 1 (3.23%) Kafka
4 1 (3.23%) LangChain
4 1 (3.23%) NestJS
4 1 (3.23%) Next.js
4 1 (3.23%) Node.js
4 1 (3.23%) NumPy
4 1 (3.23%) OpenVINO
4 1 (3.23%) Pandas
4 1 (3.23%) PySpark
4 1 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (45.16%) Robotics
2 3 (9.68%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.68%) Social Media
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.45%) Operational Technology
3 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.23%) Blog
4 1 (3.23%) IoT
4 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Android
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) DevOps
2 13 (41.94%) Agile
3 12 (38.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (29.03%) Machine Learning
5 7 (22.58%) Data Science
6 6 (19.35%) Analytics
6 6 (19.35%) Data Protection
6 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.13%) Prototyping
7 5 (16.13%) User Experience
8 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
8 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Workflow
9 3 (9.68%) Data Management
9 3 (9.68%) Deep Learning
9 3 (9.68%) LLM
9 3 (9.68%) Project Management
9 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
9 3 (9.68%) Service Delivery
9 3 (9.68%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) Python
2 4 (12.90%) C++
2 4 (12.90%) SQL
3 3 (9.68%) C
3 3 (9.68%) R
4 2 (6.45%) Java
5 1 (3.23%) Bash
5 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) GDPR
2 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.45%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) Adobe