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 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 117 116 148
Rank change year-on-year -1 +32 -15
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 36 43 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.11% 1.27% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.42% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 35 13
10th Percentile £428 £413 £430
25th Percentile £525 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +2.23% +13.26%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £748 £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 £51.84 £42.00
% change year-on-year -10.92% +23.43% +35.48%

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 2,671 3,026 3,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.16% 89.45% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 2,197 2,337
10th Percentile £226 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.49%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 316 204
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.36 £21.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +24.03% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.91 £69.12
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 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 1 June 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 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
Bristol +24 26 £600 +14.29% 34
Wiltshire -13 4 - - 4
Somerset +1 3 £538 -10.42% 1
Gloucestershire -2 1 £701 -1.68% 7
Dorset - 1 £550 - 8
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 5 (13.89%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) GCP
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) Azure
3 5 (13.89%) OpenShift
4 4 (11.11%) OCI
4 4 (11.11%) PaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) 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%) Big Data
2 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.78%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Bitbucket
1 5 (13.89%) JIRA
2 2 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
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 14 (38.89%) Developer
2 13 (36.11%) Software Developer
3 4 (11.11%) Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Automation Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 3 (8.33%) Office Automation Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Analytics Manager
5 2 (5.56%) IT Manager
5 2 (5.56%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Business Change Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Business Systems Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Change Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Data Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Senior
6 1 (2.78%) Senior IT Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) HTML
2 4 (11.11%) .NET
2 4 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 4 (11.11%) ModSecurity
2 4 (11.11%) OpenID
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.56%) Node.js
3 2 (5.56%) React
4 1 (2.78%) CSS
4 1 (2.78%) Django
4 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.78%) Flask
4 1 (2.78%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Blockchain
1 4 (11.11%) PKI
1 4 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 4 (11.11%) Public Cloud
1 4 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.78%) FMCG
3 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Code Quality
1 12 (33.33%) Conversational UI
1 12 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 12 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 9 (25.00%) Agile
3 6 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 6 (16.67%) Data Strategy
3 6 (16.67%) Generative AI
4 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
4 5 (13.89%) Creative Thinking
4 5 (13.89%) Data Protection
4 5 (13.89%) Project Management
4 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (11.11%) ArchiMate
5 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (11.11%) Domain-Driven Design
5 4 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (11.11%) Microservices
5 4 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 19 (52.78%) Python
2 14 (38.89%) JavaScript
3 13 (36.11%) SQL
4 12 (33.33%) C#
5 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.78%) Bash
7 1 (2.78%) R
7 1 (2.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (50.00%) Degree
2 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
3 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.78%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.11%) Ansible
2 4 (11.11%) OPNET
2 4 (11.11%) PowerCLI
2 4 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Kibana
3 1 (2.78%) logstash
3 1 (2.78%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) PayPal
2 5 (13.89%) Atlassian
2 5 (13.89%) Google
3 4 (11.11%) Cisco
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.11%) Oracle
3 4 (11.11%) VMware