Artificial Intelligence Specialist Contracts

AI Specialist
UK

The median AI Specialist daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 - 846
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Specialist 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% - 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% - 0.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £445 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £676 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,897 53,039 83,562
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 94.59% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,852 37,038 58,857
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,824 1,465 1,978
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.15 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%

Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Specialist in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Specialist in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Specialist over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Specialist in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 - 5 £550 -
South West - 3 £625 -
UK excluding London - 3 £625 -
Work from Home - 2 - -
London - 2 £450 -

Artificial Intelligence Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Artificial Intelligence Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Artificial Intelligence Specialist in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Data Science
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (50.00%) Degree
3 3 (50.00%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) Algorithms
4 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (33.33%) LLM
5 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Git
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) Bash
5 1 (16.67%) Confluence
5 1 (16.67%) Node.js
5 1 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (16.67%) Big Data
5 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (16.67%) Deep Learning
5 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (16.67%) Lucidchart

Artificial Intelligence Specialist Skill Set
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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) Lucidchart
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (50.00%) Data Science
4 2 (33.33%) LLM
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (16.67%) Data Security
5 1 (16.67%) Deep Learning
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Fraud Detection
5 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 1 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (16.67%) Predictive Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Probability Theory
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) logstash
1 1 (16.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 1 (16.67%) Genesys