Artificial Intelligence Consultant Contracts in England

AI Consultant
UK > England

The median AI Consultant daily rate in England is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 538 625
Rank change year-on-year +44 +87 +161
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Consultant 17 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.023% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.024% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 1
10th Percentile £526 £555 -
25th Percentile £553 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +23.81% -6.25%
75th Percentile £606 £675 £538
90th Percentile £653 £870 -
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -11.54% +23.81% -6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 25,034 32,902 44,253
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.82% 92.99% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,263 21,667 31,250
10th Percentile £290 £300 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,248 2,188 1,386
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.13 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.39 £42.50 £44.06
Median % change year-on-year -35.56% -3.53% +75.62%
75th Percentile £56.44 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +67.45%

Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Consultant in England

Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Consultant in England.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Consultant in England

Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Consultant in England over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Consultant in England

Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
London +35 11 £575 -11.54% 26
South East - 2 £400 - 5
Artificial Intelligence Consultant
UK

Artificial Intelligence Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 21 July 2025, Artificial Intelligence Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Artificial Intelligence Consultant in the job title.

1 16 (94.12%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Machine Learning
4 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
4 4 (23.53%) Azure
4 4 (23.53%) Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (23.53%) InfiniBand
4 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
4 4 (23.53%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (23.53%) NVIDIA
5 3 (17.65%) GDPR
5 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
5 3 (17.65%) GCP
5 3 (17.65%) Generative AI
5 3 (17.65%) LLM
5 3 (17.65%) Snowflake
5 3 (17.65%) AWS
5 3 (17.65%) Google
5 3 (17.65%) Use Case
5 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
5 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Data Management
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (17.65%) Finance
5 3 (17.65%) Data Management
5 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
6 2 (11.76%) ERwin
6 2 (11.76%) Change Management
6 2 (11.76%) Data Security

Artificial Intelligence Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) GCP
2 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 3 (17.65%) Snowflake
3 2 (11.76%) ChatGPT
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (5.88%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (5.88%) Azure AI
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
1 2 (11.76%) Tableau
2 1 (5.88%) Big Data
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) ERwin
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) PySpark
2 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Life Science
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (35.29%) Machine Learning
3 4 (23.53%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (23.53%) Analytics
3 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
4 3 (17.65%) Data Management
4 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Data Management
4 3 (17.65%) Generative AI
4 3 (17.65%) LLM
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) Use Case
5 2 (11.76%) Business Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Change Management
5 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
5 2 (11.76%) Data Security
5 2 (11.76%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.76%) NIST
3 1 (5.88%) EU AI Act
3 1 (5.88%) GRC
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) NVIDIA
2 3 (17.65%) Google
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.88%) Palantir
4 1 (5.88%) UiPath