Generative AI Contracts

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Generative AI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Generative AI over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 692 -
Rank change year-on-year +192 - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 102 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.005% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.006% -
Number of daily rates quoted 72 3 0
10th Percentile £400 £465 -
25th Percentile £472 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £750 £719 -
90th Percentile £873 £805 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £475 -
% change year-on-year +23.68% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £46.25 - -
90th Percentile £66.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Generative AI 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Generative AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in the UK

Generative AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Generative AI in the UK

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in the UK

Generative AI
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Generative AI over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Generative AI in the UK

Generative AI
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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 +185 93 £575 +4.55% 138
London +156 73 £575 -30.30% 100
Work from Home +144 33 £681 +43.42% 56
UK excluding London +62 20 £588 +23.68% 33
North of England - 8 £500 - 10
North West - 6 £500 - 6
Midlands +26 5 £700 +47.37% 4
South East - 4 £600 - 16
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 3
South West - 2 £563 - 2
East Midlands +12 1 £750 +57.89% 1
North East - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Generative AI
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 5 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.94%) Apache
3 2 (1.96%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.98%) Confluence
4 1 (0.98%) Drupal
4 1 (0.98%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Distributed Ledger
1 3 (2.94%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (2.94%) NetSuite
1 3 (2.94%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.94%) SAP BPC
1 3 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.98%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 36 (35.29%) Azure
2 20 (19.61%) AWS
3 17 (16.67%) GCP
4 14 (13.73%) Vertex AI
5 11 (10.78%) Google Compute Engine
6 5 (4.90%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (3.92%) ChatGPT
7 4 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.94%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.96%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (1.96%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 2 (1.96%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.96%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.96%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.98%) Google Gemini
10 1 (0.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.98%) Supabase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.76%) BigQuery
2 4 (3.92%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.96%) Big Data
4 2 (1.96%) MySQL
4 2 (1.96%) Power BI
4 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.98%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.98%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.98%) Flink
5 1 (0.98%) GIS
5 1 (0.98%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.98%) Metadata
5 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.98%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.98%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 7 (6.86%) Git
2 3 (2.94%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.96%) GitLab
4 1 (0.98%) JIRA
General
1 28 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 24 (23.53%) Finance
3 9 (8.82%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.86%) Financial Institution
5 6 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.88%) Banking
6 4 (3.92%) Retail
7 2 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.98%) Electronics
8 1 (0.98%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Local Government
8 1 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (14.71%) Architect
2 11 (10.78%) Senior
3 10 (9.80%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 9 (8.82%) Developer
4 9 (8.82%) GCP Engineer
5 8 (7.84%) Lead
5 8 (7.84%) Project Manager
6 7 (6.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 7 (6.86%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (6.86%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (5.88%) Consultant
7 6 (5.88%) Data Scientist
7 6 (5.88%) GCP Architect
8 5 (4.90%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.92%) AWS Architect
9 4 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Gen AI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.75%) TensorFlow
2 10 (9.80%) PyTorch
3 6 (5.88%) LangChain
4 5 (4.90%) FastAPI
4 5 (4.90%) HTML
4 5 (4.90%) Kafka
4 5 (4.90%) scikit-learn
5 4 (3.92%) CSS
5 4 (3.92%) REST
6 3 (2.94%) Google JAX
6 3 (2.94%) Hugging Face
6 3 (2.94%) Node.js
6 3 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (2.94%) React
7 2 (1.96%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.96%) Flask
7 2 (1.96%) OpenGL ES
7 2 (1.96%) Torch
7 2 (1.96%) Vulkan
7 2 (1.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.80%) Algorithms
1 10 (9.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 4 (3.92%) FMCG
3 3 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.94%) Photography
3 3 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.96%) Blockchain
4 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.98%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.98%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.98%) IVR
5 1 (0.98%) Life Science
5 1 (0.98%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.94%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (91.18%) Artificial Intelligence
2 45 (44.12%) Machine Learning
3 28 (27.45%) Data Science
4 26 (25.49%) Analytics
5 23 (22.55%) LLM
6 21 (20.59%) Computer Science
7 17 (16.67%) DevOps
8 15 (14.71%) Agile
9 13 (12.75%) CI/CD
9 13 (12.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (12.75%) Use Case
10 12 (11.76%) Resource Management
10 12 (11.76%) Software Engineering
11 11 (10.78%) Natural Language Processing
11 11 (10.78%) Security Monitoring
12 10 (9.80%) Identity Access Management
12 10 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (8.82%) Data Engineering
14 8 (7.84%) Platform Engineering
15 7 (6.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 49 (48.04%) Python
2 14 (13.73%) Java
3 11 (10.78%) Bash
4 9 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.84%) C#
6 6 (5.88%) Clojure
6 6 (5.88%) Haskell
6 6 (5.88%) Rust
6 6 (5.88%) SQL
7 5 (4.90%) C++
8 4 (3.92%) Go
9 3 (2.94%) R
10 2 (1.96%) Julia
10 2 (1.96%) Scala
11 1 (0.98%) Ruby
11 1 (0.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (20.59%) Degree
2 15 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.86%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.90%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.94%) PhD
7 2 (1.96%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.92%) QA
2 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.98%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (18.63%) Kubernetes
2 16 (15.69%) Terraform
3 2 (1.96%) Grafana
3 2 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.98%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 10 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.88%) OpenAI
3 5 (4.90%) Databricks
3 5 (4.90%) SAP
4 4 (3.92%) Google
4 4 (3.92%) Oracle
5 3 (2.94%) Blue Prism
5 3 (2.94%) Hyperion
5 3 (2.94%) PeopleSoft
5 3 (2.94%) UiPath
6 2 (1.96%) Splunk
7 1 (0.98%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.98%) Workday