Generative AI Contracts in England

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 640 -
Rank change year-on-year +188 - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 99 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.004% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.005% -
Number of daily rates quoted 73 2 0
10th Percentile £401 £484 -
25th Percentile £481 £534 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £738 £772 -
90th Percentile £848 £826 -
UK median daily rate £585 £650 -
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
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 median hourly rate £35.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,458 42,946 64,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.64% 89.97% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,501 30,170 46,065
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,315 1,518 1,726
10th Percentile £12.83 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in England

Generative AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Generative AI in England

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in England

Generative AI
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Generative AI in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Generative AI in England

Generative AI
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 3 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
London +173 76 £575 -30.30% 124
North of England - 11 £625 - 12
North West - 9 £625 - 10
South West - 6 £613 - 2
Midlands +28 5 £700 +47.37% 2
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 1
South East - 4 £600 - 14
East Midlands +10 1 £750 +57.89% 1
North East - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Generative AI
UK

Generative AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.02%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.01%) Apache
3 1 (1.01%) Confluence
3 1 (1.01%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (2.02%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.02%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.02%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.02%) SAP BPC
2 2 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.01%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 32 (32.32%) Azure
2 16 (16.16%) AWS
2 16 (16.16%) GCP
3 14 (14.14%) Vertex AI
4 11 (11.11%) Google Compute Engine
5 5 (5.05%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.03%) ChatGPT
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.02%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 2 (2.02%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.02%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.01%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.12%) BigQuery
2 4 (4.04%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.02%) Big Data
4 2 (2.02%) MySQL
4 2 (2.02%) Power BI
4 2 (2.02%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.01%) Flink
5 1 (1.01%) GIS
5 1 (1.01%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.01%) Metadata
5 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.01%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.01%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Git
2 3 (3.03%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.02%) GitLab
4 1 (1.01%) JIRA
General
1 28 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.20%) Finance
3 11 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.07%) Law
4 7 (7.07%) Legal
5 6 (6.06%) Financial Institution
6 5 (5.05%) Banking
7 4 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.04%) Retail
8 1 (1.01%) Electronics
8 1 (1.01%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Local Government
8 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.01%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (16.16%) Architect
2 15 (15.15%) Lead
3 9 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
4 8 (8.08%) Cloud Architect
4 8 (8.08%) Developer
4 8 (8.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 7 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (7.07%) Project Manager
5 7 (7.07%) Senior
6 6 (6.06%) GCP Architect
7 5 (5.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) AWS Architect
7 5 (5.05%) Consultant
8 4 (4.04%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 4 (4.04%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Gen AI Developer
8 4 (4.04%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 3 (3.03%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.13%) TensorFlow
2 10 (10.10%) PyTorch
3 5 (5.05%) HTML
3 5 (5.05%) LangChain
4 4 (4.04%) CSS
4 4 (4.04%) FastAPI
4 4 (4.04%) Kafka
4 4 (4.04%) scikit-learn
5 3 (3.03%) React
5 3 (3.03%) REST
6 2 (2.02%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.02%) DirectX
6 2 (2.02%) Flask
6 2 (2.02%) Node.js
6 2 (2.02%) OpenGL
6 2 (2.02%) OpenGL ES
6 2 (2.02%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (2.02%) Torch
6 2 (2.02%) Vulkan
6 2 (2.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 7 (7.07%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.04%) FMCG
4 3 (3.03%) Photography
5 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.02%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.01%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.01%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.01%) IVR
6 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.03%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (89.90%) Artificial Intelligence
2 39 (39.39%) Machine Learning
3 25 (25.25%) Data Science
4 24 (24.24%) Analytics
5 20 (20.20%) Computer Science
6 19 (19.19%) Agile
7 18 (18.18%) LLM
8 16 (16.16%) DevOps
9 13 (13.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (12.12%) Data Protection
10 12 (12.12%) Resource Management
11 11 (11.11%) CI/CD
11 11 (11.11%) Natural Language Processing
11 11 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
12 10 (10.10%) Identity Access Management
12 10 (10.10%) Use Case
13 9 (9.09%) Creative Thinking
13 9 (9.09%) Data Engineering
13 9 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (43.43%) Python
2 11 (11.11%) Bash
3 10 (10.10%) Java
4 9 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.04%) C#
5 4 (4.04%) Clojure
5 4 (4.04%) Haskell
5 4 (4.04%) Rust
6 3 (3.03%) C++
6 3 (3.03%) Go
6 3 (3.03%) SQL
7 2 (2.02%) Julia
8 1 (1.01%) Ruby
8 1 (1.01%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (21.21%) Degree
2 16 (16.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 7 (7.07%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.06%) Master's Degree
6 4 (4.04%) PhD
7 1 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) GDPR
2 4 (4.04%) QA
3 2 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.01%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (4.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (15.15%) Kubernetes
1 15 (15.15%) Terraform
2 2 (2.02%) Grafana
2 2 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.01%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 8 (8.08%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.04%) Google
2 4 (4.04%) OpenAI
3 3 (3.03%) Databricks
3 3 (3.03%) SAP
4 2 (2.02%) Blue Prism
4 2 (2.02%) Hyperion
4 2 (2.02%) Oracle
4 2 (2.02%) PeopleSoft
4 2 (2.02%) Splunk
4 2 (2.02%) UiPath
5 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.01%) Workday