Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bolton

AI Engineer
Manchester > Bolton

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Bolton is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
30 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bolton 7.14% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 8.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Manchester median daily rate £525 - £700

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bolton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bolton. 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 Bolton with a recognized job title 24 24 33
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.71% 96.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 18
10th Percentile £438 £156 £400
25th Percentile £550 £168 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £612 £188 £492
Median % change year-on-year +226.13% -61.85% +3.47%
75th Percentile £631 £213 £500
90th Percentile £650 £250 £508
Manchester median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £32.33 -
25th Percentile £25.88 £33.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £45.75 £48.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% -1.02% -24.62%
75th Percentile £64.06 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.25 - £56.00
Manchester median hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £21.25
% change year-on-year -5.38% +52.94% -48.17%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton

For the 6 months to 30 January 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 Bolton region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) OCR
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) OCR
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI
Artificial Intelligence Engineer jobs