Artificial Intelligence Contracts in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 247 345
Rank change year-on-year +96 +98 -55
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 301 189 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.41% 0.83% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 0.94% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 129 90
10th Percentile £314 £400 £400
25th Percentile £403 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% -3.23% +20.56%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £621
90th Percentile £700 £760 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £580
% change year-on-year - -0.86% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 8
10th Percentile £15.50 £23.00 £31.28
25th Percentile £24.09 £35.00 £39.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £46.18 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.34% +9.95% +64.71%
75th Percentile £70.94 £73.75 £46.88
90th Percentile £73.25 £92.75 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £54.34 £46.18 £42.00
% change year-on-year +17.67% +9.95% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
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 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +76 103 £475 -19.15% 126
Midlands +54 50 £613 +40.00% 50
North West +37 48 £475 -19.15% 77
Scotland +76 47 £460 -2.02% 23
South East -3 45 £600 +10.60% 151
West Midlands +47 36 £550 +15.79% 36
Yorkshire +41 34 £600 +4.35% 37
South West -9 32 £550 - 63
North East +25 24 - - 13
East of England +21 21 £375 -38.78% 54
East Midlands +15 14 £750 +71.43% 14
Northern Ireland -6 3 - - 12
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 4 (1.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.66%) Apache
3 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.33%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.33%) Mendix
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 116 (38.54%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Simulink
3 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
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 57 (18.94%) AWS
2 49 (16.28%) Azure
3 23 (7.64%) GCP
4 18 (5.98%) Serverless
5 16 (5.32%) 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
10 7 (2.33%) Azure Functions
11 6 (1.99%) Textract
12 5 (1.66%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (1.66%) Azure AI
12 5 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.66%) OCI
12 5 (1.66%) PaaS
12 5 (1.66%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.66%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.66%) VPN
2 2 (0.66%) MQTT
2 2 (0.66%) Wireless
3 1 (0.33%) 5G
3 1 (0.33%) DHCP
3 1 (0.33%) DNS
3 1 (0.33%) LTE
3 1 (0.33%) Network Security
3 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.65%) Power BI
2 13 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.99%) Big Data
3 12 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.33%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.66%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.33%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.33%) Tableau
7 3 (1.00%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.00%) Bigtable
7 3 (1.00%) Cloud Spanner
7 3 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.66%) GIS
8 2 (0.66%) MySQL
8 2 (0.66%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 23 (7.64%) 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%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.33%) Mercurial
6 2 (0.66%) Appium
6 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.66%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.33%) CMake
7 1 (0.33%) Gradle
7 1 (0.33%) MLflow
7 1 (0.33%) Postman
7 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 24 (7.97%) Finance
3 17 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.99%) Multimedia
8 6 (1.99%) Retail
9 5 (1.66%) Banking
9 5 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.66%) Legal
9 5 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.33%) Urdu Language
11 3 (1.00%) Marketing
11 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.66%) Automotive
12 2 (0.66%) Electronics
12 2 (0.66%) Law
12 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 153 (50.83%) Developer
2 113 (37.54%) Software Developer
3 28 (9.30%) Architect
4 15 (4.98%) Data Engineer
5 13 (4.32%) Analyst
6 11 (3.65%) Lead
7 9 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 8 (2.66%) Full Stack Engineer
8 8 (2.66%) Java Developer
8 8 (2.66%) Senior
8 8 (2.66%) Software Engineer
9 7 (2.33%) Business Analyst
9 7 (2.33%) Consultant
9 7 (2.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 7 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.99%) Automation Developer
10 6 (1.99%) Python Engineer
11 5 (1.66%) Automation Tester
11 5 (1.66%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 5 (1.66%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (39.53%) HTML
2 23 (7.64%) PyTorch
3 19 (6.31%) TensorFlow
4 16 (5.32%) Spring
5 15 (4.98%) AngularJS
6 12 (3.99%) REST
7 11 (3.65%) AWS CDK
7 11 (3.65%) CSS
7 11 (3.65%) React
8 9 (2.99%) JPA
8 9 (2.99%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.99%) .NET
9 6 (1.99%) NumPy
9 6 (1.99%) Pandas
10 5 (1.66%) Kafka
10 5 (1.66%) Node.js
10 5 (1.66%) OpenID
10 5 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (1.33%) scikit-learn
11 4 (1.33%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.31%) Robotics
2 17 (5.65%) Algorithms
3 13 (4.32%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.65%) IoT
5 7 (2.33%) Blockchain
5 7 (2.33%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.66%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.66%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (1.66%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.66%) Social Media
8 4 (1.33%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.33%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.33%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.33%) PKI
9 3 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.00%) FMCG
9 3 (1.00%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.65%) Windows
2 10 (3.32%) Linux
3 5 (1.66%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (50.50%) Software Engineering
2 119 (39.53%) Code Quality
3 118 (39.20%) Conversational UI
4 100 (33.22%) Machine Learning
5 59 (19.60%) Agile
6 54 (17.94%) DevOps
7 36 (11.96%) Analytics
7 36 (11.96%) CI/CD
8 31 (10.30%) Computer Science
9 28 (9.30%) Data Science
9 28 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (7.64%) Decision-Making
11 22 (7.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (6.98%) Visualisation
13 19 (6.31%) Roadmaps
14 18 (5.98%) Generative AI
14 18 (5.98%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (5.98%) Microservices
14 18 (5.98%) SDLC
14 18 (5.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 194 (64.45%) Python
2 147 (48.84%) SQL
3 121 (40.20%) C#
4 119 (39.53%) JavaScript
5 38 (12.62%) Java
6 21 (6.98%) TypeScript
7 14 (4.65%) C++
7 14 (4.65%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.32%) R
9 5 (1.66%) Scala
10 4 (1.33%) Bash
10 4 (1.33%) C
11 2 (0.66%) Go
11 2 (0.66%) Groovy
12 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.33%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 141 (46.84%) Degree
2 20 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 20 (6.64%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.31%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.32%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.33%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.00%) PhD
7 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.33%) CIPD
7 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.66%) GDPR
2 7 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.66%) QA
4 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.00%) NIST
5 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.66%) SLA
6 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.33%) GxP
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (5.65%) 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 31 (10.30%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.99%) Grafana
3 8 (2.66%) Terraform
4 6 (1.99%) Ansible
5 5 (1.66%) SysTrack
6 4 (1.33%) OPNET
6 4 (1.33%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.33%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.33%) Kibana
7 1 (0.33%) logstash
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.33%) Nagios
7 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.33%) Puppet
7 1 (0.33%) Rancher
7 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 108 (35.88%) PayPal
2 26 (8.64%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.32%) Google
4 9 (2.99%) 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%) Databricks
8 2 (0.66%) Hyperion
8 2 (0.66%) NVIDIA
8 2 (0.66%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (0.66%) Sage
8 2 (0.66%) UiPath
9 1 (0.33%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.33%) OutSystems