Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in Darlington

AI Engineer
Durham > Darlington

As of 2 December 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median AI Engineer daily rate in Darlington.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Darlington 14.29% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Durham median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Darlington

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Darlington. 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 Darlington with a recognized job title 6 17 19
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.71% 80.95% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 13
10th Percentile - £250 -
25th Percentile £508 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £460 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% +15.00% +3.23%
75th Percentile £523 £470 £425
90th Percentile - - £588
Durham median daily rate £438 £470 £425
% change year-on-year -6.91% +10.59% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £26.50 £15.46
Median % change year-on-year - +71.41% -
Durham median hourly rate £28.91 £28.14 £15.46
% change year-on-year +2.75% +81.99% -76.58%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Darlington

For the 6 months to 2 December 2025, Artificial Intelligence Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Darlington region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Darlington 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python