Artificial Intelligence Contracts

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 287 309
Rank change year-on-year +184 +22 -59
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 942 552 795
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.18% 0.92% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 1.03% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 360 556
10th Percentile £407 £406 £432
25th Percentile £490 £460 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +13.42%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £839 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £508 £548
% change year-on-year -1.57% -7.21% +15.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 18
10th Percentile £18.50 £20.00 £19.03
25th Percentile £27.19 £27.50 £29.81
Median hourly rate £46.18 £50.50 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% +27.04% +27.51%
75th Percentile £69.63 £69.38 £46.13
90th Percentile £75.75 £75.50 £64.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £48.75 £42.00
% change year-on-year +28.21% +16.07% +64.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +193 837 £600 +2.13% 1,296
Work from Home +187 476 £575 +4.55% 663
London +179 470 £600 - 661
UK excluding London +146 400 £500 -1.57% 656
North of England +111 161 £500 -4.76% 137
North West +48 78 £500 -2.44% 89
Midlands +86 74 £613 +40.00% 66
Scotland +69 60 £463 -2.63% 45
Yorkshire +62 51 £650 +4.42% 40
West Midlands +73 48 £550 +29.41% 46
South West +15 43 £588 -2.08% 89
South East 0 40 £650 +26.83% 213
North East +45 34 - - 8
East of England +39 28 £465 -24.08% 99
East Midlands +39 26 £750 +71.43% 20

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 53 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (4.88%) Apache
3 11 (1.17%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.06%) Confluence
5 6 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.32%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.21%) CMS
8 2 (0.21%) SAS
9 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 270 (28.66%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.21%) Simulink
4 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 19 (2.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 16 (1.70%) Aladdin
3 13 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.64%) SAP BPC
5 5 (0.53%) SimCorp Dimension
6 4 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.21%) Magento
9 1 (0.11%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP CX
9 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 185 (19.64%) AWS
2 184 (19.53%) Azure
3 112 (11.89%) GCP
4 49 (5.20%) Power Platform
5 33 (3.50%) Vertex AI
6 31 (3.29%) Cloud Computing
7 25 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (2.65%) Serverless
8 17 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (1.70%) OCI
10 15 (1.59%) SaaS
10 15 (1.59%) Snowflake
11 14 (1.49%) Amazon S3
11 14 (1.49%) ChatGPT
12 13 (1.38%) GitHub
13 11 (1.17%) Amazon SageMaker
13 11 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (1.17%) Google Compute Engine
14 9 (0.96%) Azure Cognitive Services
15 8 (0.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.53%) Firewall
1 5 (0.53%) Network Security
2 4 (0.42%) Wireless
3 3 (0.32%) 5G
3 3 (0.32%) Internet
4 2 (0.21%) MQTT
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) Junos
5 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (4.46%) Apache Ignite
3 39 (4.14%) Power BI
4 31 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (3.18%) Big Data
6 23 (2.44%) BigQuery
6 23 (2.44%) Tableau
7 11 (1.17%) Data Lake
7 11 (1.17%) NoSQL
8 9 (0.96%) SQL Server
9 8 (0.85%) Data Mining
9 8 (0.85%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.53%) Crystal Reports
11 5 (0.53%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.53%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.53%) MySQL
11 5 (0.53%) SAP HANA
12 4 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.42%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (3.50%) Cypress.io
2 31 (3.29%) Git
3 29 (3.08%) JIRA
4 14 (1.49%) ER Studio
4 14 (1.49%) ERwin
5 13 (1.38%) Jenkins
6 11 (1.17%) Selenium
7 8 (0.85%) MLflow
8 7 (0.74%) GitLab
8 7 (0.74%) Mercurial
9 6 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.53%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.53%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.42%) Appium
11 4 (0.42%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.42%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.32%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.11%) CMake
13 1 (0.11%) GoCD
13 1 (0.11%) Gradle
General
1 168 (17.83%) Finance
2 132 (14.01%) Social Skills
3 83 (8.81%) Front Office
4 74 (7.86%) Banking
5 63 (6.69%) Public Sector
6 47 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (2.76%) Telecoms
8 24 (2.55%) Law
8 24 (2.55%) Legal
9 21 (2.23%) Manufacturing
10 20 (2.12%) Marketing
10 20 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
12 17 (1.80%) Retail
13 14 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.49%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.17%) Electronics
15 10 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.06%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.96%) German Language
Job Titles
1 375 (39.81%) Developer
2 244 (25.90%) Software Developer
3 87 (9.24%) Architect
4 67 (7.11%) Python Engineer
5 64 (6.79%) Software Engineer
6 60 (6.37%) Lead
6 60 (6.37%) Senior
7 57 (6.05%) Python Developer
8 54 (5.73%) Analyst
9 49 (5.20%) Python Software Engineer
10 48 (5.10%) Business Analyst
11 41 (4.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 41 (4.35%) React Developer
12 39 (4.14%) Consultant
13 35 (3.72%) Data Engineer
14 33 (3.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 32 (3.40%) Full Stack Engineer
16 28 (2.97%) Full Stack Developer
17 27 (2.87%) Data Scientist
18 23 (2.44%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (14.97%) HTML
2 67 (7.11%) React
3 57 (6.05%) TensorFlow
4 44 (4.67%) PyTorch
5 41 (4.35%) gRPC
5 41 (4.35%) Material-UI
5 41 (4.35%) Protocol Buffers
5 41 (4.35%) Redux
6 34 (3.61%) Pandas
7 27 (2.87%) NumPy
8 26 (2.76%) CSS
9 24 (2.55%) RESTful
9 24 (2.55%) scikit-learn
10 20 (2.12%) REST
11 18 (1.91%) SciPy
12 17 (1.80%) Spring
13 15 (1.59%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.38%) Kafka
14 13 (1.38%) Node.js
15 12 (1.27%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 74 (7.86%) Hedge funds
2 68 (7.22%) Fixed Income
3 59 (6.26%) Algorithms
4 44 (4.67%) Equities
5 41 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 27 (2.87%) Derivative
6 27 (2.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 25 (2.65%) Robotics
8 19 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (1.91%) Public Cloud
10 16 (1.70%) IoT
11 14 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 13 (1.38%) IVR
13 12 (1.27%) Cloud Native
13 12 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.17%) Management Information System
15 10 (1.06%) Data Structures
16 8 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
17 7 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.49%) Windows
2 11 (1.17%) Linux
3 8 (0.85%) Android
4 6 (0.64%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (40.55%) Machine Learning
2 274 (29.09%) Conversational UI
3 255 (27.07%) Code Quality
4 233 (24.73%) Software Engineering
5 219 (23.25%) Agile
6 126 (13.38%) Data Science
7 112 (11.89%) DevOps
8 109 (11.57%) Analytics
9 91 (9.66%) Generative AI
10 90 (9.55%) Computer Science
11 88 (9.34%) Problem-Solving
12 82 (8.70%) Roadmaps
13 76 (8.07%) CI/CD
14 73 (7.75%) Asset Management
15 68 (7.22%) Investment Management
16 67 (7.11%) Full Stack Development
17 59 (6.26%) Natural Language Processing
18 57 (6.05%) LLM
19 51 (5.41%) Data Modelling
19 51 (5.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 417 (44.27%) Python
2 249 (26.43%) SQL
3 156 (16.56%) JavaScript
4 152 (16.14%) C#
5 75 (7.96%) Java
6 71 (7.54%) TypeScript
7 25 (2.65%) PowerShell
8 19 (2.02%) C++
9 13 (1.38%) Bash
10 11 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
11 10 (1.06%) R
11 10 (1.06%) Scala
12 6 (0.64%) Clojure
12 6 (0.64%) Go
12 6 (0.64%) Haskell
12 6 (0.64%) Rust
12 6 (0.64%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.42%) C
14 3 (0.32%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.21%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 352 (37.37%) Degree
2 48 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (4.46%) Security Cleared
4 39 (4.14%) Master's Degree
5 37 (3.93%) SC Cleared
6 23 (2.44%) PhD
7 9 (0.96%) PMI Certification
7 9 (0.96%) PMP
8 8 (0.85%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.74%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.42%) CISM
10 4 (0.42%) CISSP
11 3 (0.32%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.21%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.21%) CCNA
13 1 (0.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.18%) QA
2 11 (1.17%) GDPR
3 8 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.74%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
5 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.42%) MiFID
5 4 (0.42%) PMO
6 3 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.32%) GxP
6 3 (0.32%) NCSC
6 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.32%) SLA
7 2 (0.21%) Basel III
8 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.11%) GRC
8 1 (0.11%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 26 (2.76%) Docker
2 5 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.11%) KVM
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (4.56%) Kubernetes
2 29 (3.08%) Terraform
3 9 (0.96%) Grafana
4 7 (0.74%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.53%) Ansible
5 5 (0.53%) SysTrack
6 4 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.11%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.11%) Nagios
8 1 (0.11%) OPNET
8 1 (0.11%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 241 (25.58%) PayPal
2 68 (7.22%) Microsoft
3 64 (6.79%) Google
4 29 (3.08%) Oracle
4 29 (3.08%) SAP
5 23 (2.44%) OpenAI
6 19 (2.02%) Sparx
7 14 (1.49%) Databricks
7 14 (1.49%) Genesys
8 12 (1.27%) Bloomberg
9 11 (1.17%) BISAM
10 8 (0.85%) Adobe
10 8 (0.85%) Ariba
10 8 (0.85%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.74%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.64%) Citrix
12 6 (0.64%) Hyperion
13 5 (0.53%) New Relic
13 5 (0.53%) SimCorp
13 5 (0.53%) UiPath