Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the South West

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 117 155
Rank change year-on-year +5 +38 -31
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 36 43 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.14% 1.24% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.38% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 35 13
10th Percentile £423 £409 £430
25th Percentile £525 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.23% +13.26%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £575
90th Percentile £648 £705 £715
England median daily rate £600 £588 £575
% change year-on-year +2.13% +2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £42.00
75th Percentile £16.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £49.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -5.76% +16.67% +33.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,621 3,118 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.97% 89.73% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,675 2,277 2,299
10th Percentile £222 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.43%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £724 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 318 206
10th Percentile £13.88 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.61 £20.56
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.43% +14.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.49
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.75% +48.60% +8.70%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South West

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South West

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the South West over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the South West

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South West

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Bristol +36 29 £600 +14.29% 41
Somerset +5 3 £538 -10.42% 6
Wiltshire -10 2 - - 6
Dorset - 1 £550 - 10
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (41.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) GCP
2 4 (11.11%) AWS
2 4 (11.11%) OCI
3 3 (8.33%) Azure
4 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (2.78%) 5G
2 1 (2.78%) DHCP
2 1 (2.78%) DNS
2 1 (2.78%) LTE
2 1 (2.78%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.78%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Git
General
1 6 (16.67%) Law
2 5 (13.89%) Legal
3 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Marketing
4 1 (2.78%) Retail
4 1 (2.78%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) Developer
2 16 (44.44%) Software Developer
3 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (5.56%) Analytics Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 2 (5.56%) Automation Architect
4 2 (5.56%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.56%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Office Automation Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Administrator
5 1 (2.78%) Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Business Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Business Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Business Systems Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Data Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Senior IT Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) HTML
2 4 (11.11%) OpenID
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (5.56%) .NET
3 2 (5.56%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.56%) ModSecurity
4 1 (2.78%) CSS
4 1 (2.78%) Django
4 1 (2.78%) Flask
4 1 (2.78%) Node.js
4 1 (2.78%) React
4 1 (2.78%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Blockchain
2 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.56%) PKI
2 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.78%) FMCG
3 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Code Quality
1 15 (41.67%) Conversational UI
2 12 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 10 (27.78%) Machine Learning
4 6 (16.67%) Agile
4 6 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 6 (16.67%) Generative AI
5 5 (13.89%) Creative Thinking
5 5 (13.89%) Data Protection
6 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (11.11%) Domain-Driven Design
6 4 (11.11%) Event-Driven
6 4 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (11.11%) Microservices
6 4 (11.11%) Zero Trust
7 3 (8.33%) Analytics
7 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) Python
2 13 (36.11%) JavaScript
2 13 (36.11%) SQL
3 12 (33.33%) C#
4 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.78%) R
5 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (52.78%) Degree
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) OPNET
2 2 (5.56%) PowerCLI
2 2 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (41.67%) PayPal
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (8.33%) Google
4 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.56%) VMware