Artificial Intelligence Contracts in England

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 292 333
Rank change year-on-year +188 +41 -86
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 779 417 582
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.11% 0.87% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 0.97% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 288 381
10th Percentile £409 £413 £425
25th Percentile £500 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +2.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £669
90th Percentile £788 £888 £738
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £588
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.13% +8.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 17
10th Percentile £17.75 £35.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.38 £37.06 £32.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £51.84 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.92% +23.43% +35.48%
75th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £49.59
90th Percentile £76.50 £95.13 £65.90
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £42.00
% change year-on-year - +9.95% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
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 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £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 £49.41
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% +9.70%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in England

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in England.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in England

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in England

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in England.

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in England

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artificial Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in England

Artificial Intelligence
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 Artificial Intelligence within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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 +196 497 £600 -4.00% 793
North of England +85 105 £500 -14.89% 129
Midlands +63 51 £613 +40.00% 53
North West +40 51 £500 -14.89% 85
South East -6 46 £625 +11.61% 185
West Midlands +45 37 £550 +15.79% 38
South West +3 36 £588 +6.82% 77
Yorkshire +45 33 £600 -3.61% 35
North East +28 23 - - 10
East of England +23 20 £388 -36.73% 74
East Midlands +18 14 £750 +71.43% 15
Artificial Intelligence
UK

Artificial Intelligence
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 76 (9.76%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (8.73%) Apache
3 11 (1.41%) Confluence
4 10 (1.28%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.51%) SAS
8 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 142 (18.23%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.39%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.26%) Gliffy
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Simulink
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (2.44%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.90%) SimCorp Dimension
5 5 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.39%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.26%) Magento
7 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.13%) SAP CX
8 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.13%) Shopify
8 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 203 (26.06%) Azure
2 198 (25.42%) AWS
3 134 (17.20%) GCP
4 38 (4.88%) Power Platform
5 33 (4.24%) Cloud Computing
5 33 (4.24%) Vertex AI
6 22 (2.82%) Serverless
7 15 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (1.67%) GitHub
9 13 (1.67%) SaaS
10 11 (1.41%) Google Compute Engine
10 11 (1.41%) OCI
11 10 (1.28%) Snowflake
12 9 (1.16%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.16%) AWS Step Functions
12 9 (1.16%) ChatGPT
13 8 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.03%) Azure Machine Learning
13 8 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.64%) Firewall
1 5 (0.64%) VPN
2 4 (0.51%) CTI
2 4 (0.51%) VoIP
2 4 (0.51%) Wireless
3 3 (0.39%) 5G
4 2 (0.26%) Internet
4 2 (0.26%) MQTT
4 2 (0.26%) Network Security
4 2 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.13%) Broadband
5 1 (0.13%) DHCP
5 1 (0.13%) DNS
5 1 (0.13%) Junos
5 1 (0.13%) LTE
5 1 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (8.47%) Apache Ignite
3 31 (3.98%) Power BI
4 24 (3.08%) BigQuery
5 23 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (2.82%) Tableau
7 17 (2.18%) Big Data
8 12 (1.54%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.28%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.16%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.03%) Data Mining
12 7 (0.90%) Crystal Reports
12 7 (0.90%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.90%) SQL Server
13 6 (0.77%) MySQL
14 5 (0.64%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.51%) Bigtable
15 4 (0.51%) Cloud Spanner
15 4 (0.51%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (6.42%) Cypress.io
2 32 (4.11%) Git
3 30 (3.85%) JIRA
4 12 (1.54%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.16%) ER Studio
5 9 (1.16%) ERwin
6 8 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.90%) CircleCI
7 7 (0.90%) MLflow
8 5 (0.64%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.64%) LoadRunner
8 5 (0.64%) NeoLoad
8 5 (0.64%) Selenium
9 4 (0.51%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.39%) Appium
10 3 (0.39%) GitLab
11 1 (0.13%) CMake
11 1 (0.13%) GoCD
11 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 181 (23.23%) Finance
2 126 (16.17%) Social Skills
3 112 (14.38%) Front Office
4 108 (13.86%) Banking
5 41 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (3.21%) Legal
8 24 (3.08%) Retail
9 20 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (2.44%) Law
11 18 (2.31%) Telecoms
12 17 (2.18%) Marketing
12 17 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
13 15 (1.93%) Investment Banking
13 15 (1.93%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.28%) German Language
15 8 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.90%) Electronics
16 7 (0.90%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 262 (33.63%) Developer
2 115 (14.76%) Software Developer
3 92 (11.81%) Architect
4 90 (11.55%) Software Engineer
5 89 (11.42%) Python Engineer
6 77 (9.88%) Python Developer
7 71 (9.11%) Python Software Engineer
8 66 (8.47%) React Developer
9 65 (8.34%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 62 (7.96%) Lead
11 60 (7.70%) Analyst
12 55 (7.06%) Senior
13 51 (6.55%) Business Analyst
14 37 (4.75%) Full Stack Developer
15 36 (4.62%) Full Stack Engineer
16 35 (4.49%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 33 (4.24%) Full Stack Python Developer
18 28 (3.59%) Consultant
19 27 (3.47%) Finance Business Analyst
19 27 (3.47%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (15.53%) HTML
2 91 (11.68%) React
3 65 (8.34%) gRPC
3 65 (8.34%) Material-UI
3 65 (8.34%) Protocol Buffers
3 65 (8.34%) Redux
4 51 (6.55%) TensorFlow
5 38 (4.88%) PyTorch
6 31 (3.98%) Pandas
7 25 (3.21%) scikit-learn
8 23 (2.95%) NumPy
9 22 (2.82%) CSS
10 20 (2.57%) .NET
11 18 (2.31%) Node.js
12 14 (1.80%) SciPy
13 13 (1.67%) RESTful
14 10 (1.28%) .NET Core
15 8 (1.03%) Flask
15 8 (1.03%) Kafka
16 7 (0.90%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 102 (13.09%) Hedge funds
2 94 (12.07%) Fixed Income
3 67 (8.60%) Equities
4 56 (7.19%) Algorithms
5 44 (5.65%) Product Ownership
6 29 (3.72%) Derivative
6 29 (3.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 23 (2.95%) Robotics
8 16 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.80%) IoT
10 11 (1.41%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.41%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 10 (1.28%) FMCG
12 9 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.03%) Blockchain
13 8 (1.03%) Cloud Native
13 8 (1.03%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.54%) Linux
2 11 (1.41%) Windows
3 7 (0.90%) Android
4 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (46.85%) Machine Learning
2 241 (30.94%) Software Engineering
3 225 (28.88%) Agile
4 145 (18.61%) Conversational UI
5 116 (14.89%) Code Quality
6 115 (14.76%) Analytics
7 113 (14.51%) Data Science
8 105 (13.48%) DevOps
9 102 (13.09%) Asset Management
10 94 (12.07%) Investment Management
11 89 (11.42%) Generative AI
12 87 (11.17%) Computer Science
13 84 (10.78%) Full Stack Development
14 80 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
15 75 (9.63%) Roadmaps
16 65 (8.34%) Automated Trading
17 62 (7.96%) CI/CD
18 61 (7.83%) LLM
19 58 (7.45%) Natural Language Processing
20 44 (5.65%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 413 (53.02%) Python
2 227 (29.14%) SQL
3 152 (19.51%) JavaScript
4 140 (17.97%) C#
5 81 (10.40%) TypeScript
6 53 (6.80%) Java
7 29 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 22 (2.82%) C++
9 14 (1.80%) Bash
9 14 (1.80%) R
10 8 (1.03%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.90%) C
11 7 (0.90%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.77%) Go
12 6 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.51%) Clojure
13 4 (0.51%) Haskell
13 4 (0.51%) Rust
14 3 (0.39%) PHP
14 3 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 218 (27.98%) Degree
2 56 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (5.65%) Security Cleared
4 40 (5.13%) Master's Degree
5 37 (4.75%) SC Cleared
6 20 (2.57%) PhD
7 11 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.03%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.03%) PMP
9 7 (0.90%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.64%) CISSP
10 5 (0.64%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.51%) CISM
11 4 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.39%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.26%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.21%) QA
2 22 (2.82%) GDPR
3 9 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.51%) Dodd-Frank
5 4 (0.51%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.51%) MiFID
5 4 (0.51%) PMO
5 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.39%) SLA
7 2 (0.26%) Basel III
7 2 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.26%) NIST
8 1 (0.13%) GRC
8 1 (0.13%) GxP
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (3.47%) Docker
2 5 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.51%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.26%) HDFS
5 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (5.52%) Kubernetes
2 33 (4.24%) Terraform
3 7 (0.90%) Ansible
4 6 (0.77%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.64%) SysTrack
6 4 (0.51%) OPNET
6 4 (0.51%) PowerCLI
6 4 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.13%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.13%) Grafana
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) logstash
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.13%) Rancher
8 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 110 (14.12%) PayPal
2 94 (12.07%) Google
3 62 (7.96%) Microsoft
4 23 (2.95%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.44%) SAP
6 18 (2.31%) Oracle
7 13 (1.67%) Bloomberg
7 13 (1.67%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.54%) BISAM
9 10 (1.28%) Sparx
10 9 (1.16%) Adobe
10 9 (1.16%) Cisco
10 9 (1.16%) Databricks
10 9 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.03%) Ariba
11 8 (1.03%) Genesys
12 7 (0.90%) SimCorp
13 6 (0.77%) Citrix
14 5 (0.64%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.64%) New Relic