Artificial Intelligence Contracts in Wales

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 15 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 5.12% - 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% - 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £258 - -
25th Percentile £463 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.36%
75th Percentile £588 - £375
90th Percentile £663 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -0.86% +0.87% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £46.18 £50.50
% change year-on-year -16.63% -8.55% +27.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Artificial Intelligence 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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 311 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.03% 78.73% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 212 421
10th Percentile £185 £168 £183
25th Percentile £285 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
75th Percentile £525 £571 £573
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in Wales

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in Wales

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in Wales

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 Wales - 13 £575 - 80
Dyfed - 1 £675 -
West Wales - 1 £475 - 2
Artificial Intelligence
UK

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (6.67%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
General
1 4 (26.67%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Marketing
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Senior
2 6 (40.00%) Research Scientist
3 3 (20.00%) Data Scientist
4 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Gen AI Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Security Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) scikit-learn
2 2 (13.33%) Pandas
2 2 (13.33%) PyTorch
2 2 (13.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (6.67%) Express.js
3 1 (6.67%) LangChain
3 1 (6.67%) NestJS
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) NumPy
3 1 (6.67%) PySpark
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 3 (20.00%) Blog
3 2 (13.33%) Cyberattack
3 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Machine Learning
2 10 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (53.33%) Roadmaps
4 6 (40.00%) Data Science
4 6 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (26.67%) Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) Data Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
6 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 2 (13.33%) Deep Learning
6 2 (13.33%) Generative AI
6 2 (13.33%) LLM
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) SDLC
6 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
7 1 (6.67%) Customer Experience
7 1 (6.67%) Feature Engineering
7 1 (6.67%) MLOps
7 1 (6.67%) Probabilistic Modelling
7 1 (6.67%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Rust
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 5 (33.33%) PhD
3 4 (26.67%) Postgraduate
4 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (13.33%) CCNA
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
6 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Foundry
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft