Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the West Midlands

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 65 124
Rank change year-on-year -14 +59 +26
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 23 41 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.65% 2.17% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 2.60% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 2
10th Percentile £358 £300 £338
25th Percentile £403 £409 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +29.41% -19.05%
75th Percentile £575 £750 £506
90th Percentile £725 £950 £533
England median daily rate £575 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £25.90 -
25th Percentile - £41.50 £92.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £95.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.32% -
75th Percentile - £72.50 £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.00 £46.18 £49.00
% change year-on-year -32.87% -5.76% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,238 1,579 2,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.68% 83.68% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 1,054 1,364
10th Percentile £195 £272 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.59%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 114 51
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.03 £13.51
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.30% +24.64%
75th Percentile £24.22 £40.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £47.50
England median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the West Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the West Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the West Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the West Midlands

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Coventry +20 15 £500 -9.09% 29
Warwickshire -4 4 £563 +66.67% 35
Birmingham -16 4 £475 -30.91% 111
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (26.09%) SAP PM
2 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 7 (30.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (26.09%) Collibra
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (21.74%) GitHub
4 5 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (21.74%) Power Platform
5 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (8.70%) Serverless
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.35%) AWS
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Stack
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.35%) SaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) 5G
2 1 (4.35%) Internet
2 1 (4.35%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (4.35%) Modbus
2 1 (4.35%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (30.43%) Delta Lake
2 6 (26.09%) GIS
3 5 (21.74%) Oracle Database
3 5 (21.74%) Power BI
4 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.35%) Metadata
5 1 (4.35%) SAP BW
5 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) Snyk
1 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (17.39%) Games
1 4 (17.39%) Polish Language
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.35%) Law
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Senior
3 5 (21.74%) Data Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Designer
4 4 (17.39%) Games Designer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Designer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Games Designer
4 4 (17.39%) Technical Designer
5 3 (13.04%) Data Migration Specialist
5 3 (13.04%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Data Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Presales Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Product Manager
6 1 (4.35%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Kafka
2 4 (17.39%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 4 (17.39%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (4.35%) PySpark
3 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) IoT
1 7 (30.43%) SCADA
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 4 (17.39%) Mobile Games
2 4 (17.39%) Virtual Reality
3 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
4 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.35%) Educational Technology
5 1 (4.35%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (4.35%) IVR
5 1 (4.35%) NB-IoT
5 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Analytics
2 9 (39.13%) Data Governance
2 9 (39.13%) Machine Learning
3 6 (26.09%) Data Mapping
3 6 (26.09%) ETL
4 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
4 5 (21.74%) DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) Generative AI
4 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (17.39%) Agile
5 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
5 4 (17.39%) Data Architecture
5 4 (17.39%) Data Integration
5 4 (17.39%) Data Migration
5 4 (17.39%) Migration
5 4 (17.39%) User Experience
5 4 (17.39%) Zero Trust
6 3 (13.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
1 8 (34.78%) SQL
2 6 (26.09%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (21.74%) TypeScript
4 4 (17.39%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) Data Quality
2 5 (21.74%) GDPR
3 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.70%) QA
4 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (4.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Argo
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (39.13%) Databricks
3 7 (30.43%) SAP
4 6 (26.09%) Informatica
5 5 (21.74%) Oracle
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (4.35%) Blue Prism
6 1 (4.35%) Citrix
6 1 (4.35%) IBM
6 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.35%) UiPath