Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the South East

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 150 217
Rank change year-on-year -5 +67 -58
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 46 62 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.82% 1.10% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.23% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 35 25
10th Percentile £400 £200 £438
25th Percentile £475 £413 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.61% -2.61% +21.05%
75th Percentile £688 £758 £600
90th Percentile £730 £823 £678
England median daily rate £600 £588 £575
% change year-on-year +2.13% +2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - £57.50 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £59.38 £56.50
Median hourly rate £20.50 £65.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.46% +10.17% +73.53%
75th Percentile £50.88 £86.38 £61.50
90th Percentile £68.35 £97.70 -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £51.84 £42.00
% change year-on-year -10.92% +23.43% +35.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,022 6,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.99% 89.03% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,708 3,452 4,710
10th Percentile £260 £250 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 220 272
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.21 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.47 £15.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.77
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £63.15
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South East

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South East

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the South East

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the South East

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the South East

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley +18 31 £675 +35.00% 72
Berkshire -4 26 £675 +24.42% 29
Surrey +12 9 £550 +86.44% 13
Oxfordshire +5 3 £588 +193.75% 31
Hampshire -5 3 £525 -25.00% 31
East Sussex - 3 £400 - 21
Buckinghamshire +29 2 £700 +40.00% 12
Artificial Intelligence
England

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.17%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.39%) Azure
2 5 (10.87%) AWS
3 3 (6.52%) ChatGPT
4 2 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.17%) Figma
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Network Security
1 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Tableau
2 2 (4.35%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (2.17%) Big Data
3 1 (2.17%) Data Hub
3 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.17%) Looker
3 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.17%) Power BI
3 1 (2.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Git
2 1 (2.17%) CMake
2 1 (2.17%) MLflow
General
1 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Finance
3 4 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Marketing
4 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Electronics
5 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Advertising
6 1 (2.17%) German Language
6 1 (2.17%) Military
6 1 (2.17%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) Developer
2 6 (13.04%) Architect
3 4 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 4 (8.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Software Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Chief Technology Officer
5 2 (4.35%) Communications Specialist
5 2 (4.35%) Computer Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Computer Vision Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Data Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Python Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) SAP Architect
5 2 (4.35%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Security Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Data Science Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) TensorFlow
2 7 (15.22%) PyTorch
3 2 (4.35%) DirectX
3 2 (4.35%) OpenGL
3 2 (4.35%) OpenGL ES
3 2 (4.35%) Vulkan
4 1 (2.17%) .NET
4 1 (2.17%) CNTK
4 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.17%) Kafka
4 1 (2.17%) NestJS
4 1 (2.17%) Next.js
4 1 (2.17%) Node.js
4 1 (2.17%) NumPy
4 1 (2.17%) OpenVINO
4 1 (2.17%) Pandas
4 1 (2.17%) PySpark
4 1 (2.17%) RESTful
4 1 (2.17%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Robotics
2 4 (8.70%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.52%) IoT
3 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.52%) Photography
3 3 (6.52%) Social Media
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.17%) Blog
5 1 (2.17%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.17%) GNSS
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Android
2 2 (4.35%) Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (41.30%) Machine Learning
2 16 (34.78%) Agile
2 16 (34.78%) DevOps
3 12 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (17.39%) Analytics
6 7 (15.22%) Data Science
6 7 (15.22%) User Experience
7 6 (13.04%) Computer Science
7 6 (13.04%) Deep Learning
8 5 (10.87%) Data Protection
8 5 (10.87%) Natural Language Processing
8 5 (10.87%) Prototyping
8 5 (10.87%) Service Delivery
8 5 (10.87%) Visualisation
9 4 (8.70%) Customer Service
9 4 (8.70%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (8.70%) Generative AI
10 3 (6.52%) Android Development
10 3 (6.52%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) Python
2 7 (15.22%) C++
3 5 (10.87%) SQL
4 4 (8.70%) Java
5 2 (4.35%) C
5 2 (4.35%) R
6 1 (2.17%) Bash
6 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.17%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) Degree
2 6 (13.04%) Master's Degree
3 4 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.35%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) QA
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Ansible
2 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
1 3 (6.52%) OpenAI
2 2 (4.35%) Ariba
2 2 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (2.17%) Adobe