Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bedford

AI Engineer
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Bedford is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedford 5.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £625 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bedford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bedford. 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 Bedford with a recognized job title 19 11 25
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 84.62% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 13
10th Percentile £136 - £112
25th Percentile £277 - £154
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £180 £188
Median % change year-on-year +191.67% -4.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile £588 £253 £300
90th Percentile £618 £296 £398
Bedfordshire median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.50 - -
Median hourly rate £40.73 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.75% - -
75th Percentile £46.25 - -
90th Percentile £53.00 - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £82.25 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +26.54% +18.18% -6.38%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford

For the 6 months to 4 October 2025, Artificial Intelligence Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bedford region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI