AI Transformation Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

AI Transformation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AI Transformation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 360 -
Rank change year-on-year -31 - -
Contract jobs citing AI Transformation 8 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.012% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.014% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £544 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £844 - -
90th Percentile £913 - -
UK median daily rate £700 £800 -
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

AI Transformation 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,064 14,107 18,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 88.46% 83.88% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,147 8,084 11,988
10th Percentile £220 £250 £250
25th Percentile £368 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £674 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,694 888 1,294
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.15 £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.57 £35.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -35.52% -20.36% +49.97%
75th Percentile £41.94 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £72.50 £77.35
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.03 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.20% -20.21% +25.43%

AI Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI Transformation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

AI Transformation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AI Transformation
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AI Transformation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AI Transformation

AI Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI Transformation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI Transformation in the UK excluding London

AI Transformation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI Transformation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
South East +5 4 £550 - 119
North of England - 3 £850 - 26
East of England - 1 - - 5
North East - 1 £800 - 1
North West - 1 £850 - 21
AI Transformation
UK

AI Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Process Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Director
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) AI
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
5 2 (25.00%) LLM
5 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
6 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Cyber Resilience
6 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
6 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (12.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 1 (12.50%) SOAR
6 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Podman
1 3 (37.50%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Zscaler
2 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
174 AI Transformation jobs in the UK excluding London