Generative AI Contracts in the West Midlands

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Generative AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Generative AI over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 107 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.34% 0.19% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% - -
England median daily rate £625 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Generative AI 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 1,303 1,662 1,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.88% 80.92% 87.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 823 1,101 1,338
10th Percentile £201 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.48% +2.53%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £616
90th Percentile £651 £738 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 118 47
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.34 £22.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -10.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £34.43 £39.69 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £50.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in the West Midlands

Generative AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Generative AI in the West Midlands

Generative AI
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 Generative AI within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 June 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 - 4 - - 5
Birmingham +4 1 £315 -55.00% 24
Generative AI
England

Generative AI
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 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
General
1 4 (80.00%) Games
1 4 (80.00%) Polish Language
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Designer
1 4 (80.00%) Games Designer
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Designer
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Games Designer
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 4 (80.00%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Mobile Games
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (20.00%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Chat Support
3 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (20.00%) OCR
3 1 (20.00%) Robotic Process Automation
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Sentiment Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Anywhere
1 1 (20.00%) Blue Prism
1 1 (20.00%) Citrix
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) UiPath