Generative AI Contracts

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
UK

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

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 481 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 105 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 77 0 0
10th Percentile £404 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile £860 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £46.25 - -
90th Percentile £66.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,645 50,890 79,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.73% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,625 35,239 56,102
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,484 1,674 1,897
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +41.73% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Generative AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in the UK

Generative AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Generative AI.

Daily rate trend for Generative AI in the UK

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in the UK

Generative AI
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Generative AI over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Generative AI in the UK

Generative AI
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 May 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 - 99 £600 - 189
London - 77 £575 - 152
Work from Home - 29 £700 - 63
UK excluding London - 21 £600 - 90
North of England - 10 £625 - 12
North West - 9 £625 - 7
South West - 6 £613 - 2
Midlands - 5 £700 - 1
South East - 4 £600 - 71
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 1
North East - 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £750 -

Generative AI
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 3 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.90%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.95%) Apache
3 1 (0.95%) Confluence
3 1 (0.95%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (2.86%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (2.86%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.86%) SAP BPC
2 3 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.95%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 34 (32.38%) Azure
2 18 (17.14%) AWS
3 16 (15.24%) GCP
4 13 (12.38%) Vertex AI
5 11 (10.48%) Google Compute Engine
6 5 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (3.81%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.86%) ChatGPT
9 2 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.90%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.90%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 2 (1.90%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 2 (1.90%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.95%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.95%) SaaS
10 1 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.48%) BigQuery
2 4 (3.81%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.86%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.90%) Big Data
4 2 (1.90%) MySQL
4 2 (1.90%) Power BI
4 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.95%) Flink
5 1 (0.95%) GIS
5 1 (0.95%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.95%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.95%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 6 (5.71%) Git
2 3 (2.86%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.90%) GitLab
4 1 (0.95%) JIRA
General
1 29 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 23 (21.90%) Finance
3 11 (10.48%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.62%) Financial Institution
5 7 (6.67%) Law
5 7 (6.67%) Legal
6 5 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.76%) Banking
7 3 (2.86%) Retail
8 2 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.95%) Electronics
9 1 (0.95%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Local Government
9 1 (0.95%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (15.24%) Architect
2 15 (14.29%) Lead
3 9 (8.57%) GCP Engineer
3 9 (8.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 9 (8.57%) Senior
4 8 (7.62%) Cloud Architect
4 8 (7.62%) Developer
5 7 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 6 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Consultant
6 6 (5.71%) GCP Architect
7 5 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 5 (4.76%) AWS Architect
8 4 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Data Scientist
8 4 (3.81%) Gen AI Developer
8 4 (3.81%) Python Developer
8 4 (3.81%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.29%) TensorFlow
2 12 (11.43%) PyTorch
3 5 (4.76%) HTML
3 5 (4.76%) scikit-learn
4 4 (3.81%) CSS
4 4 (3.81%) FastAPI
4 4 (3.81%) Kafka
4 4 (3.81%) LangChain
5 3 (2.86%) Google JAX
5 3 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.86%) React
5 3 (2.86%) REST
6 2 (1.90%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.90%) DirectX
6 2 (1.90%) Flask
6 2 (1.90%) Node.js
6 2 (1.90%) OpenGL
6 2 (1.90%) OpenGL ES
6 2 (1.90%) Torch
6 2 (1.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 9 (8.57%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.86%) FMCG
3 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.86%) Photography
4 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.95%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.95%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.95%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.95%) IVR
5 1 (0.95%) Life Science
5 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.86%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (90.48%) Artificial Intelligence
2 43 (40.95%) Machine Learning
3 26 (24.76%) Data Science
4 25 (23.81%) Analytics
5 23 (21.90%) Computer Science
6 21 (20.00%) Agile
7 20 (19.05%) LLM
8 18 (17.14%) DevOps
9 15 (14.29%) CI/CD
10 13 (12.38%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (11.43%) Data Protection
11 12 (11.43%) Resource Management
11 12 (11.43%) Use Case
12 11 (10.48%) Natural Language Processing
12 11 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (10.48%) Security Monitoring
12 11 (10.48%) Software Engineering
13 10 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
14 9 (8.57%) Data Engineering
14 9 (8.57%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 47 (44.76%) Python
2 11 (10.48%) Bash
2 11 (10.48%) Java
3 9 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.76%) C#
4 5 (4.76%) Clojure
4 5 (4.76%) Haskell
4 5 (4.76%) Rust
5 4 (3.81%) Go
6 3 (2.86%) C++
6 3 (2.86%) SQL
7 2 (1.90%) Julia
8 1 (0.95%) R
8 1 (0.95%) Ruby
8 1 (0.95%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (21.90%) Degree
2 17 (16.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (8.57%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 7 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.76%) PhD
6 2 (1.90%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.67%) GDPR
2 4 (3.81%) QA
3 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.95%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (18.10%) Kubernetes
2 16 (15.24%) Terraform
3 2 (1.90%) Grafana
3 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.95%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 10 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.76%) SAP
3 4 (3.81%) OpenAI
3 4 (3.81%) Oracle
4 3 (2.86%) Blue Prism
4 3 (2.86%) Databricks
4 3 (2.86%) Google
4 3 (2.86%) Hyperion
4 3 (2.86%) PeopleSoft
4 3 (2.86%) UiPath
5 2 (1.90%) Splunk
6 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.95%) Workday