Artificial Intelligence Contracts

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 294 309
Rank change year-on-year +192 +15 -49
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 933 498 767
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.19% 0.87% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 0.97% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 333 512
10th Percentile £410 £412 £431
25th Percentile £500 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -3.16% +8.45%
75th Percentile £735 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £850 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 19
10th Percentile £17.75 £20.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.38 £35.00 £27.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £40.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% -3.57% +33.97%
75th Percentile £72.50 £69.38 £48.55
90th Percentile £76.50 £86.50 £63.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £40.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year +54.32% -3.57% +23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Artificial Intelligence
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 May 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
England +189 821 £600 +2.13% 1,464
London +203 500 £600 -4.00% 860
Work from Home +182 433 £575 +2.45% 707
UK excluding London +131 349 £500 -2.44% 776
North of England +102 131 £500 -13.04% 120
Midlands +76 64 £613 +40.00% 60
North West +50 64 £500 -10.11% 78
Scotland +76 57 £463 -2.63% 30
West Midlands +61 44 £550 +29.41% 52
South East +10 42 £650 +10.17% 357
Yorkshire +47 41 £600 -3.61% 34
South West +5 39 £575 +4.55% 91
North East +33 28 - - 9
East of England +21 22 £425 -30.61% 98
East Midlands +29 20 £750 +71.43% 8

Artificial Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 74 (7.93%) Apache Airflow
2 66 (7.07%) Apache
3 11 (1.18%) Confluence
3 11 (1.18%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.32%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.21%) CMS
7 2 (0.21%) SAS
8 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.11%) nginx
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 218 (23.37%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.32%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.21%) Simulink
5 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 18 (1.93%) Aladdin
2 16 (1.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 13 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.64%) SAP BPC
4 6 (0.64%) SimCorp Dimension
5 5 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.21%) Magento
9 1 (0.11%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 1 (0.11%) SAP CX
9 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.11%) Shopify
9 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 234 (25.08%) AWS
2 222 (23.79%) Azure
3 139 (14.90%) GCP
4 49 (5.25%) Power Platform
5 42 (4.50%) Cloud Computing
6 35 (3.75%) Serverless
7 34 (3.64%) Vertex AI
8 27 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (2.47%) Amazon S3
11 22 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (1.50%) Amazon SageMaker
12 14 (1.50%) SaaS
13 13 (1.39%) GitHub
13 13 (1.39%) OCI
13 13 (1.39%) OpenShift
13 13 (1.39%) Snowflake
14 12 (1.29%) ChatGPT
15 11 (1.18%) Google Compute Engine
16 9 (0.96%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.96%) CTI
1 9 (0.96%) VoIP
2 5 (0.54%) Firewall
2 5 (0.54%) Network Security
3 4 (0.43%) 5G
3 4 (0.43%) Wireless
4 3 (0.32%) Internet
4 3 (0.32%) VPN
5 2 (0.21%) MQTT
6 1 (0.11%) Broadband
6 1 (0.11%) DHCP
6 1 (0.11%) DNS
6 1 (0.11%) Junos
6 1 (0.11%) LTE
6 1 (0.11%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.65%) Apache Ignite
3 39 (4.18%) Power BI
4 31 (3.32%) Big Data
4 31 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (2.57%) BigQuery
6 22 (2.36%) Tableau
7 12 (1.29%) Data Lake
7 12 (1.29%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.29%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (0.96%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.75%) Data Mining
10 7 (0.75%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.64%) Crystal Reports
11 6 (0.64%) MySQL
12 5 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.54%) SAP HANA
13 4 (0.43%) Bigtable
13 4 (0.43%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 49 (5.25%) Cypress.io
2 32 (3.43%) JIRA
3 31 (3.32%) Git
4 14 (1.50%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.18%) ER Studio
5 11 (1.18%) ERwin
5 11 (1.18%) Selenium
6 8 (0.86%) MLflow
7 7 (0.75%) CircleCI
7 7 (0.75%) GitLab
8 6 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.64%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.54%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.54%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.54%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.43%) Appium
10 4 (0.43%) Mercurial
11 1 (0.11%) CMake
11 1 (0.11%) GoCD
11 1 (0.11%) Gradle
General
1 204 (21.86%) Finance
2 134 (14.36%) Social Skills
3 108 (11.58%) Front Office
4 97 (10.40%) Banking
5 66 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 50 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (3.22%) Telecoms
8 27 (2.89%) Legal
8 27 (2.89%) Retail
9 23 (2.47%) Marketing
10 21 (2.25%) Law
10 21 (2.25%) Manufacturing
10 21 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
12 15 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (1.61%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.18%) Electronics
14 10 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.07%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.07%) German Language
Job Titles
1 346 (37.08%) Developer
2 185 (19.83%) Software Developer
3 103 (11.04%) Architect
4 86 (9.22%) Software Engineer
5 84 (9.00%) Python Engineer
6 76 (8.15%) Python Developer
7 67 (7.18%) Python Software Engineer
8 66 (7.07%) Lead
9 64 (6.86%) Senior
10 61 (6.54%) Analyst
10 61 (6.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 61 (6.54%) React Developer
11 52 (5.57%) Business Analyst
12 40 (4.29%) Full Stack Engineer
13 38 (4.07%) Full Stack Developer
14 35 (3.75%) Data Engineer
15 33 (3.54%) Consultant
15 33 (3.54%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 32 (3.43%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 31 (3.32%) Full Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (15.01%) HTML
2 90 (9.65%) React
3 61 (6.54%) gRPC
3 61 (6.54%) Material-UI
3 61 (6.54%) Protocol Buffers
3 61 (6.54%) Redux
4 59 (6.32%) TensorFlow
5 50 (5.36%) PyTorch
6 33 (3.54%) Pandas
7 30 (3.22%) scikit-learn
8 29 (3.11%) CSS
9 27 (2.89%) NumPy
10 20 (2.14%) REST
11 19 (2.04%) RESTful
12 18 (1.93%) .NET
12 18 (1.93%) AngularJS
12 18 (1.93%) Spring
13 16 (1.71%) Node.js
14 15 (1.61%) SciPy
15 14 (1.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 98 (10.50%) Hedge funds
2 91 (9.75%) Fixed Income
3 64 (6.86%) Equities
4 61 (6.54%) Algorithms
5 44 (4.72%) Product Ownership
6 30 (3.22%) Derivative
6 30 (3.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 25 (2.68%) Robotics
8 21 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (2.14%) Public Cloud
10 19 (2.04%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.50%) IoT
11 14 (1.50%) IVR
11 14 (1.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 11 (1.18%) Cloud Native
12 11 (1.18%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.18%) Linux
1 11 (1.18%) Windows
2 7 (0.75%) Android
3 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (45.23%) Machine Learning
2 261 (27.97%) Software Engineering
3 260 (27.87%) Agile
4 222 (23.79%) Conversational UI
5 196 (21.01%) Code Quality
6 129 (13.83%) DevOps
7 127 (13.61%) Analytics
8 123 (13.18%) Data Science
9 97 (10.40%) Asset Management
10 96 (10.29%) Generative AI
11 94 (10.08%) Computer Science
12 92 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
13 91 (9.75%) Investment Management
14 88 (9.43%) Full Stack Development
15 81 (8.68%) Roadmaps
16 79 (8.47%) CI/CD
17 67 (7.18%) LLM
18 63 (6.75%) Natural Language Processing
19 61 (6.54%) Automated Trading
20 55 (5.89%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 447 (47.91%) Python
2 264 (28.30%) SQL
3 160 (17.15%) JavaScript
4 156 (16.72%) C#
5 97 (10.40%) TypeScript
6 78 (8.36%) Java
7 29 (3.11%) PowerShell
8 20 (2.14%) C++
9 13 (1.39%) Bash
10 12 (1.29%) R
11 9 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (0.96%) Scala
12 7 (0.75%) Go
12 7 (0.75%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.75%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.64%) Clojure
13 6 (0.64%) Haskell
13 6 (0.64%) Rust
14 5 (0.54%) C
15 2 (0.21%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 294 (31.51%) Degree
2 58 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 46 (4.93%) Security Cleared
4 43 (4.61%) Master's Degree
5 41 (4.39%) SC Cleared
6 21 (2.25%) PhD
7 19 (2.04%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.29%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.86%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.86%) PMP
11 7 (0.75%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.54%) CISSP
13 4 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.43%) CISM
14 3 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.32%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.11%) QA
2 25 (2.68%) GDPR
3 11 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 9 (0.96%) PCI DSS
5 8 (0.86%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.86%) HIPAA
5 8 (0.86%) SOC 2
6 4 (0.43%) Dodd-Frank
6 4 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.43%) MiFID
6 4 (0.43%) PMO
7 3 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.32%) GxP
7 3 (0.32%) NCSC
7 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.32%) SLA
8 2 (0.21%) Basel III
8 2 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 36 (3.86%) Docker
2 5 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.11%) KVM
5 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 54 (5.79%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.64%) Terraform
3 13 (1.39%) Grafana
4 7 (0.75%) Kubeflow
5 6 (0.64%) Ansible
6 5 (0.54%) SysTrack
7 4 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.21%) Kibana
8 2 (0.21%) OPNET
8 2 (0.21%) PowerCLI
8 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.11%) Nagios
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 181 (19.40%) PayPal
2 95 (10.18%) Google
3 77 (8.25%) Microsoft
4 29 (3.11%) SAP
5 27 (2.89%) Oracle
6 24 (2.57%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.71%) Sparx
8 15 (1.61%) Genesys
9 13 (1.39%) Bloomberg
9 13 (1.39%) Databricks
10 12 (1.29%) BISAM
10 12 (1.29%) Cisco
11 11 (1.18%) Avaya
12 9 (0.96%) Adobe
13 8 (0.86%) Ariba
13 8 (0.86%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.75%) UiPath
15 6 (0.64%) Hyperion
15 6 (0.64%) SimCorp