Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

AI Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.35% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £530 - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 778 494 705
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 91.14% 92.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 352 487
10th Percentile £263 £190 £237
25th Percentile £400 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £571
90th Percentile £686 £700 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 35
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.90 £12.35
25th Percentile £17.09 £14.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £22.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -21.05% +73.97%
75th Percentile £26.10 £30.68 £51.88
90th Percentile £30.00 £48.14 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.12 £19.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +32.21% -15.56% +26.98%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Artificial Intelligence Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 1 March 2026, 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 Birmingham region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
3 1 (33.33%) Image Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) KYC
3 1 (33.33%) OCR
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) OpenCV
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Regular Expression
3 1 (33.33%) SpaCy
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
2 1 (33.33%) OpenCV
2 1 (33.33%) Regular Expression
2 1 (33.33%) SpaCy
2 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Image Processing
3 1 (33.33%) KYC
3 1 (33.33%) OCR
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes