Artificial Intelligence Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

AI Engineering
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Artificial Intelligence Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.28% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Artificial Intelligence Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 313 353 477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.17% 81.15% 91.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 118 192
10th Percentile £250 £225 £225
25th Percentile £405 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £559 £550
90th Percentile £700 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £446 £500
% change year-on-year +12.11% -10.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 137 193
10th Percentile £14.03 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.84 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £20.38 £16.85 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £41.70 £27.40
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -37.13% +101.92% -3.37%

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineering in Cambridgeshire

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
Cambridge - 1 - - 2
Artificial Intelligence Engineering
East of England

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft