Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts in England

AI Engineer
UK > England

The median AI Engineer daily rate in England is £510 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 668 779
Rank change year-on-year +144 +111 -166
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 17 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.046% 0.010% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.011% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 4
10th Percentile £343 £480 £439
25th Percentile £425 £525 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% -4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £800 £713 £625
90th Percentile £865 £870 -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +26.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,448 47,601 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,861 33,797 48,247
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,402 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.95 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +108 12 £530 -7.83% 25
East of England - 2 £300 - 3
North of England - 1 - - 4
North East - 1 - -
South East - 1 - - 7
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
UK

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Artificial Intelligence Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (94.12%) Artificial Intelligence
2 14 (82.35%) Machine Learning
3 12 (70.59%) Python
4 10 (58.82%) Java
4 10 (58.82%) LLM
5 7 (41.18%) Computer Science
6 6 (35.29%) Degree
6 6 (35.29%) Generative AI
6 6 (35.29%) Algorithms
7 5 (29.41%) Master's Degree
7 5 (29.41%) C#
7 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
7 5 (29.41%) Finance
7 5 (29.41%) AWS
8 4 (23.53%) Haskell
8 4 (23.53%) Use Case
8 4 (23.53%) Azure
8 4 (23.53%) Clojure
8 4 (23.53%) Rust
8 4 (23.53%) Analytics
8 4 (23.53%) LangChain
9 3 (17.65%) Hugging Face
9 3 (17.65%) PyTorch
9 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
9 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (17.65%) Deep Learning
9 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
9 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (17.65%) Data Science

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Chatbot
1 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 2 (11.76%) ChatGPT
4 2 (11.76%) Lucidchart
4 2 (11.76%) Serverless
4 2 (11.76%) Vertex AI
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Big Data
1 1 (5.88%) Pinecone
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
1 2 (11.76%) Selenium
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.88%) Advertising
4 1 (5.88%) Electronics
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) LangChain
2 3 (17.65%) Hugging Face
2 3 (17.65%) PyTorch
2 3 (17.65%) TensorFlow
3 2 (11.76%) .NET
3 2 (11.76%) Kafka
3 2 (11.76%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Artificial Intelligence
2 14 (82.35%) Machine Learning
3 10 (58.82%) LLM
4 7 (41.18%) Computer Science
5 6 (35.29%) Generative AI
6 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
7 4 (23.53%) Analytics
7 4 (23.53%) Use Case
8 3 (17.65%) Data Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) Data Science
8 3 (17.65%) Deep Learning
8 3 (17.65%) Natural Language Processing
8 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) Statistical Analysis
8 3 (17.65%) Structured Programming
9 2 (11.76%) Data Management
9 2 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
9 2 (11.76%) Open Source
9 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
9 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Python
2 10 (58.82%) Java
3 5 (29.41%) C#
4 4 (23.53%) Clojure
4 4 (23.53%) Haskell
4 4 (23.53%) Rust
5 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.76%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.76%) SQL
6 1 (5.88%) Go
6 1 (5.88%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
2 5 (29.41%) Master's Degree
3 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Genesys
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) IBM
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.88%) SAP