Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts in Central London

AI Engineer
London > Central London

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Central London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 121 167
Rank change year-on-year 0 +46 -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 8 10 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.40% 0.43% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.46% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 1
10th Percentile £384 £456 -
25th Percentile £467 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £612
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -14.22% -
75th Percentile £747 £538 -
90th Percentile £854 £735 -
London median daily rate £525 £525 £700
% change year-on-year - -25.00% +21.74%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 1,855 2,182 3,226
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.03% 94.70% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,455 2,230
10th Percentile £323 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +2.22%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 14
10th Percentile £18.69 £19.60 £14.91
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.84 £24.69
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -23.94% -14.46%
75th Percentile £41.81 £65.63 £49.96
90th Percentile £63.93 £137.50 £74.88
London median hourly rate £30.00 £33.29 £37.50
% change year-on-year -9.87% -11.24% +8.48%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Central London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in Central London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Central London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -4 8 £600 +14.29% 15
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 2025, 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 Central London region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (75.00%) LLM
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Python
3 5 (62.50%) AI Agents
4 4 (50.00%) Generative AI
4 4 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 4 (50.00%) Azure
4 4 (50.00%) Finance
4 4 (50.00%) GitHub
4 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (50.00%) Terraform
4 4 (50.00%) GDPR
5 3 (37.50%) NIST
5 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
5 3 (37.50%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (37.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (37.50%) OpenAI
5 3 (37.50%) LangChain
5 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (37.50%) Docker
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
5 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
5 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (37.50%) RBAC
5 3 (37.50%) EU AI Act
6 2 (25.00%) Copilot Studio

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (25.00%) Azure AI
3 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Run
3 2 (25.00%) Copilot Studio
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Google Gemini
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) Vertex AI
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (12.50%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) Firebase
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Pinecone
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Ant
1 1 (12.50%) Snyk
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) LangChain
2 2 (25.00%) Faiss
2 2 (25.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) CSS3
3 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 1 (12.50%) Highcharts JS
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) JWT
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (12.50%) Next.js
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) Redux
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) AI Agents
2 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Low-Code
3 1 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (75.00%) LLM
2 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Generative AI
4 4 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
5 3 (37.50%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
5 3 (37.50%) RBAC
6 2 (25.00%) Data Privacy
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
6 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Use Case
6 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Go
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
2 3 (37.50%) EU AI Act
2 3 (37.50%) NIST
3 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Argo
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) OpenAI
2 2 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft