Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts in the City of London

AI Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median AI Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 123 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.18% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.19% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £776 - -
25th Percentile £778 £505 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £655 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.14% - -
75th Percentile £831 £806 -
90th Percentile £835 £818 -
Central London median daily rate £800 £655 -
% change year-on-year +22.14% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

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

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the City of London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the City of London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 City of London region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (60.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (40.00%) LLM
4 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Open Source
4 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (20.00%) RESTful
5 1 (20.00%) Scala
5 1 (20.00%) Azure
5 1 (20.00%) CRM
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (20.00%) Banking
5 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (20.00%) Degree
5 1 (20.00%) Use Case
5 1 (20.00%) Haskell
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (20.00%) Elixir
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (20.00%) API Design
5 1 (20.00%) Terraform

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Dask
1 1 (20.00%) LangChain
1 1 (20.00%) NumPy
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Generative AI
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (20.00%) API Design
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) CRM
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (20.00%) MLOps
4 1 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Clojure
2 1 (20.00%) Elixir
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Haskell
2 1 (20.00%) Rust
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft