Artificial Intelligence Consultant Contract Job Trends in the East of England

AI Consultant
England > East of England

The median AI Consultant daily rate in the East of England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Consultant 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £625 £675 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +35.00% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 1,412 985 1,533
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.59% 89.30% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 440 855
10th Percentile £193 £220 £200
25th Percentile £340 £320 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% -4.42% -1.81%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 155 309
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.23 £13.90
25th Percentile £16.45 £21.46 £16.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £40.28
Median % change year-on-year -48.21% +20.57% +96.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.15 £85.00 £80.21
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £44.78
% change year-on-year -21.43% -21.83% +33.66%

Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Consultant within the East of England region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. 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
Bedfordshire - 2 £625 -
Artificial Intelligence Consultant
England

Artificial Intelligence Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 4 January 2026, Artificial Intelligence Consultant 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 East of England region featuring Artificial Intelligence Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) B2B
1 2 (100.00%) B2C
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform

Artificial Intelligence Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) B2B
1 2 (100.00%) B2C
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI