Artificial Intelligence Engineering Contract Job Trends in the City of London

AI Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 122 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.26% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - -
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 - -
Central London median daily rate £613 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,949 1,644 1,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.22% 92.93% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,329 1,046 1,406
10th Percentile £362 £363 £359
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 13
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Artificial Intelligence Engineering job vacancy trend in the City of London

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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