Artificial Intelligence Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

AI Engineering
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Artificial Intelligence Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.16% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £413 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 575 444 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 91.71% 86.38% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 280 194
10th Percentile £305 £328 £275
25th Percentile £358 £390 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £476 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% -4.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £642
North West median daily rate £450 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -9.82% -0.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 30
10th Percentile - £16.00 £16.93
25th Percentile £12.82 £30.31 £22.44
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% +14.60% +45.43%
75th Percentile £34.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £36.18
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.63% +15.21% +55.56%

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 10 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
Knutsford - 1 £375 -
Artificial Intelligence Engineering
North West

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Streamlit
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft