Generative AI Contracts in the UK excluding London

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Generative AI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Generative AI over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 21 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile £750 - -
UK median daily rate £600 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Generative AI 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,621 21,550 27,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.74% 89.52% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,547 14,954 19,191
10th Percentile £246 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,041 1,307 1,363
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.10
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Generative AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in the UK excluding London

Generative AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Generative AI in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Generative AI in the UK excluding London

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in the UK excluding London

Generative AI
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 Generative AI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
North of England - 9 £625 - 15
North West - 8 £625 - 10
South West - 6 £613 - 3
South East - 5 £600 - 27
Midlands - 5 £700 - 3
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £750 - 1
North East - 1 - - 2
Generative AI
UK

Generative AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) GeoServer
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (4.76%) NetSuite
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.76%) SAP BPC
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.52%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.76%) Supabase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
2 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) GIS
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Law
2 4 (19.05%) Legal
3 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Electronics
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Local Government
4 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Lead
1 4 (19.05%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 4 (19.05%) Project Manager
2 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Computer Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Computer Vision Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) IT Manager
3 2 (9.52%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Python Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) GIS Developer
4 1 (4.76%) IT Director
4 1 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Product Owner
4 1 (4.76%) Senior IT Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Senior IT Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 3 (14.29%) TensorFlow
2 2 (9.52%) DirectX
2 2 (9.52%) OpenGL
2 2 (9.52%) OpenGL ES
2 2 (9.52%) Vulkan
3 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.76%) CSS
3 1 (4.76%) HTML
3 1 (4.76%) LangChain
3 1 (4.76%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) OpenLayers
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.76%) PostGIS
3 1 (4.76%) React
3 1 (4.76%) Svelte
3 1 (4.76%) SvelteKit
3 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) FMCG
1 3 (14.29%) Photography
2 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Digital Media
3 1 (4.76%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (42.86%) Agile
3 6 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 5 (23.81%) Analytics
4 5 (23.81%) Machine Learning
5 4 (19.05%) Computer Vision
5 4 (19.05%) Creative Thinking
5 4 (19.05%) Data Strategy
5 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Android Development
6 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (14.29%) Deep Learning
7 2 (9.52%) Data Science
7 2 (9.52%) DevOps
7 2 (9.52%) Facilities Management
7 2 (9.52%) Image Processing
7 2 (9.52%) Performance Metrics
7 2 (9.52%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) C++
2 3 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) Scala
4 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
1 3 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 2 (9.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Blue Prism
2 1 (4.76%) Databricks
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Hyperion
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) PeopleSoft
2 1 (4.76%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) UiPath