Artificial Intelligence Software Developer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

AI Software Developer
England > East of England

The median AI Software Developer daily rate in the East of England is £570, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Software Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.075% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £560 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 - -
75th Percentile £580 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £570 £400 -
% change year-on-year +42.50% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,131 1,339 1,669
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.53% 89.33% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 551 982
10th Percentile £196 £213 £195
25th Percentile £373 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £625 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 309 275
10th Percentile £14.31 £14.84 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £21.37 £17.72
Median hourly rate £31.20 £43.90 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.93% +33.03% +66.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.15 £82.62
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.71% -4.32% +74.00%

Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Artificial Intelligence Software Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Artificial Intelligence Software Developer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
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 Software Developer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 £570 -
Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 2025, Artificial Intelligence Software Developer 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering

Artificial Intelligence Software Developer 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) EU AI Act
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft