Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in Durham

AI Engineer
North East > Durham

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 Durham.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Durham 3.23% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North East median daily rate £450 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Durham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Durham. 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 Durham with a recognized job title 26 55 46
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.87% 93.22% 97.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 37
10th Percentile £173 £320 -
25th Percentile £263 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +10.59% -1.16%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £525
90th Percentile £690 £725 £588
North East median daily rate £442 £450 £448
% change year-on-year -1.78% +0.56% -18.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £28.91 £28.14 £15.46
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% +81.99% -76.58%
North East median hourly rate £32.46 £46.18 £32.25
% change year-on-year -29.72% +43.19% +61.25%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer within the Durham region over the 6 months to 2 December 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
Darlington - 1 - - 1
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
North East

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

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 Durham 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 Durham 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