Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 146 252 365
Rank change year-on-year +106 +113 -73
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 301 195 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.45% 0.86% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 0.96% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 136 89
10th Percentile £339 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -4.82% +21.11%
75th Percentile £634 £621 £638
90th Percentile £700 £758 £717
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £589
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.34% +7.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 8
10th Percentile £15.50 £23.00 £31.28
25th Percentile £19.25 £35.00 £39.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £46.18 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.34% +9.95% +23.53%
75th Percentile £69.38 £73.75 £46.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £92.75 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £42.00
% change year-on-year - +9.95% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +80 105 £500 -14.89% 129
Midlands +61 51 £613 +40.00% 52
North West +45 51 £500 -14.89% 82
Scotland +59 47 £460 -3.16% 33
South East -5 46 £625 +11.61% 178
West Midlands +44 37 £550 +15.79% 37
South West -1 36 £588 +6.82% 71
Yorkshire +42 33 £600 -3.61% 38
North East +28 23 - - 10
East of England +20 20 £388 -36.73% 69
East Midlands +20 14 £750 +71.43% 15
Northern Ireland -2 1 - - 7
Artificial Intelligence
UK

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (2.66%) Confluence
2 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.33%) Apache
3 1 (0.33%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.33%) SAS
3 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 116 (38.54%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.66%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.33%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (17.61%) AWS
2 46 (15.28%) Azure
3 20 (6.64%) GCP
4 17 (5.65%) Serverless
5 15 (4.98%) Power Platform
6 14 (4.65%) OpenShift
7 12 (3.99%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (3.32%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.99%) Azure Functions
11 6 (1.99%) Textract
12 5 (1.66%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.66%) OCI
12 5 (1.66%) PaaS
13 4 (1.33%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.33%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.66%) VPN
2 3 (1.00%) Wireless
3 2 (0.66%) 5G
3 2 (0.66%) MQTT
4 1 (0.33%) DHCP
4 1 (0.33%) DNS
4 1 (0.33%) Internet
4 1 (0.33%) LTE
4 1 (0.33%) Network Security
4 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (4.32%) Power BI
2 12 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.32%) Big Data
4 7 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.33%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.66%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.00%) Bigtable
6 3 (1.00%) Cloud Spanner
6 3 (1.00%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.00%) Tableau
7 2 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.66%) GIS
7 2 (0.66%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.33%) DB2
8 1 (0.33%) MySQL
8 1 (0.33%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 19 (6.31%) Git
2 10 (3.32%) JIRA
3 7 (2.33%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.33%) Selenium
4 5 (1.66%) GitLab
4 5 (1.66%) WebDriver
5 4 (1.33%) Mercurial
6 3 (1.00%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.66%) Appium
7 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.66%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.33%) CMake
8 1 (0.33%) Gradle
8 1 (0.33%) MLflow
8 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (13.62%) Social Skills
2 26 (8.64%) Finance
3 16 (5.32%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (2.99%) Legal
6 8 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.33%) Law
7 7 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.99%) Retail
9 5 (1.66%) Banking
9 5 (1.66%) Marketing
9 5 (1.66%) Multimedia
9 5 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.66%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.33%) Urdu Language
11 2 (0.66%) Electronics
11 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 152 (50.50%) Developer
2 113 (37.54%) Software Developer
3 26 (8.64%) Architect
4 15 (4.98%) Data Engineer
4 15 (4.98%) Lead
5 13 (4.32%) Analyst
6 9 (2.99%) Full Stack Engineer
7 8 (2.66%) Senior
7 8 (2.66%) Software Engineer
7 8 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 7 (2.33%) Business Analyst
8 7 (2.33%) Java Developer
8 7 (2.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 6 (1.99%) Automation Developer
9 6 (1.99%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (1.99%) Consultant
9 6 (1.99%) Java Engineer
9 6 (1.99%) Python Engineer
10 5 (1.66%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (39.87%) HTML
2 20 (6.64%) PyTorch
3 16 (5.32%) Spring
3 16 (5.32%) TensorFlow
4 15 (4.98%) AngularJS
5 13 (4.32%) REST
6 12 (3.99%) CSS
7 11 (3.65%) AWS CDK
8 10 (3.32%) JPA
8 10 (3.32%) React
8 10 (3.32%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.33%) .NET
10 6 (1.99%) NumPy
10 6 (1.99%) Pandas
11 5 (1.66%) Node.js
11 5 (1.66%) OpenID
11 5 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
12 4 (1.33%) .NET Framework
12 4 (1.33%) RESTful
12 4 (1.33%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.31%) Robotics
2 14 (4.65%) Algorithms
2 14 (4.65%) Public Cloud
3 12 (3.99%) IoT
4 7 (2.33%) Social Media
5 6 (1.99%) Blockchain
6 5 (1.66%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.66%) Industry 4.0
6 5 (1.66%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.66%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.33%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.33%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.33%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.33%) PKI
8 3 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.00%) FMCG
8 3 (1.00%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.65%) Windows
2 10 (3.32%) Linux
3 5 (1.66%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (49.17%) Software Engineering
2 119 (39.53%) Code Quality
3 118 (39.20%) Conversational UI
4 94 (31.23%) Machine Learning
5 63 (20.93%) Agile
6 52 (17.28%) DevOps
7 34 (11.30%) Analytics
8 32 (10.63%) CI/CD
9 30 (9.97%) Computer Science
10 26 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (8.31%) Data Science
12 21 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (6.98%) Decision-Making
13 20 (6.64%) Generative AI
14 19 (6.31%) Visualisation
15 18 (5.98%) Microservices
15 18 (5.98%) Roadmaps
16 17 (5.65%) Full Stack Development
16 17 (5.65%) Test Automation
16 17 (5.65%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 185 (61.46%) Python
2 145 (48.17%) SQL
3 119 (39.53%) C#
4 117 (38.87%) JavaScript
5 33 (10.96%) Java
6 21 (6.98%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.65%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.99%) C++
9 7 (2.33%) R
10 2 (0.66%) Bash
10 2 (0.66%) C
10 2 (0.66%) Scala
11 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.33%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 139 (46.18%) Degree
2 19 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
2 19 (6.31%) Security Cleared
3 18 (5.98%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.99%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.33%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.00%) PhD
7 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.33%) CIPD
8 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.32%) GDPR
2 7 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.99%) QA
4 2 (0.66%) SLA
5 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.33%) GxP
5 1 (0.33%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.33%) NIST
5 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (5.32%) Docker
2 5 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.33%) KVM
4 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (8.31%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.99%) Grafana
3 6 (1.99%) Ansible
3 6 (1.99%) Terraform
4 5 (1.66%) SysTrack
5 4 (1.33%) OPNET
5 4 (1.33%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.33%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
6 1 (0.33%) logstash
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.33%) Nagios
6 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.33%) Puppet
6 1 (0.33%) Rancher
6 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 108 (35.88%) PayPal
2 25 (8.31%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.65%) Google
4 8 (2.66%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.33%) Oracle
6 5 (1.66%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.66%) Citrix
6 5 (1.66%) New Relic
6 5 (1.66%) SAP
6 5 (1.66%) VMware
7 4 (1.33%) Cisco
8 2 (0.66%) Ariba
8 2 (0.66%) Hyperion
8 2 (0.66%) NVIDIA
8 2 (0.66%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (0.66%) Sage
9 1 (0.33%) Adobe
9 1 (0.33%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.33%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.33%) UiPath