Artificial Intelligence Engineering Contract Job Trends in Central London

AI Engineering
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Artificial Intelligence Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.25% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £549 - -
25th Percentile £566 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £641 - -
90th Percentile £646 - -
London median daily rate £500 £825 £825
% change year-on-year -39.39% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,093 1,871 2,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.71% 92.85% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 1,215 1,570
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £771 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 27
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £19.52
25th Percentile £19.71 £22.75 £22.25
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.97 £36.50
90th Percentile £59.40 £50.75 £56.15
London median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year +2.90% +21.05% -26.92%

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Artificial Intelligence Engineering job vacancy trend in Central London

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Contract 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 Engineering within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2026. 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
City of London - 6 £613 - 8
Artificial Intelligence Engineering
London

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure AI
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (16.67%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) ChatGPT
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (16.67%) IBM Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) Backbone.js
1 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
1 1 (16.67%) Ember.js
1 1 (16.67%) Hugging Face
1 1 (16.67%) jQuery
1 1 (16.67%) Keras
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (16.67%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) AI
2 5 (83.33%) LLM
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (50.00%) Workflow
4 2 (33.33%) CRM
4 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Design Thinking
4 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) AI Transformation
5 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ACCA
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) CFA
1 1 (16.67%) CIMA
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) PhD
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Foundry
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) IBM