Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts in England

AI Engineer
UK > England

The median AI Engineer daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 May 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 519 646
Rank change year-on-year +87 +127 +124
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 43 18 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.049% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.053% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 14 4
10th Percentile £425 £336 £480
25th Percentile £496 £416 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £510 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -11.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £825 £744 £713
90th Percentile £871 £860 £870
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%

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 22,607 33,747 45,591
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.75% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,047 22,371 32,416
10th Percentile £296 £283 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 913 2,431 1,343
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +93.72%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £28.15 £36.58 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.03% -18.72% +87.50%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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 +52 29 £713 +39.71% 107
North of England +25 7 £575 - 12
South East +50 6 £575 - 8
North West - 6 £600 - 6
North East -3 1 £575 - 5
South West - 1 - - 5
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Artificial Intelligence Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 35 (81.40%) Python
3 31 (72.09%) Machine Learning
3 31 (72.09%) Generative AI
4 27 (62.79%) LLM
5 20 (46.51%) CI/CD
6 16 (37.21%) Azure
7 15 (34.88%) Kubernetes
8 13 (30.23%) Finance
9 12 (27.91%) AWS
9 12 (27.91%) SDLC
10 11 (25.58%) Natural Language Processing
11 9 (20.93%) Computer Science
11 9 (20.93%) Scala
11 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (20.93%) MLOps
12 8 (18.60%) LangChain
12 8 (18.60%) Azure AI
12 8 (18.60%) Algorithms
13 7 (16.28%) GCP
13 7 (16.28%) Docker
13 7 (16.28%) Degree
13 7 (16.28%) REST
13 7 (16.28%) Legal
13 7 (16.28%) Agile
13 7 (16.28%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (16.28%) OpenAI
14 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
14 6 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (13.95%) Software Engineering

Artificial Intelligence Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.98%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) IBM Domino
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (37.21%) Azure
2 12 (27.91%) AWS
3 8 (18.60%) Azure AI
4 7 (16.28%) GCP
5 4 (9.30%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (9.30%) Google Gemini
6 3 (6.98%) GitHub
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.65%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.65%) Vertex AI
8 1 (2.33%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Neo4j
2 3 (6.98%) Big Data
3 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.33%) Code Climate
3 1 (2.33%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) MLflow
3 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (30.23%) Finance
2 7 (16.28%) Legal
2 7 (16.28%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.98%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.98%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.33%) Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) LangChain
2 7 (16.28%) REST
3 6 (13.95%) PyTorch
4 5 (11.63%) TensorFlow
5 3 (6.98%) Hugging Face
5 3 (6.98%) PySpark
6 2 (4.65%) FastAPI
6 2 (4.65%) RESTful
7 1 (2.33%) Dask
7 1 (2.33%) NumPy
7 1 (2.33%) OLE
7 1 (2.33%) Pandas
7 1 (2.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Algorithms
2 6 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (13.95%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.98%) FMCG
4 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.33%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 31 (72.09%) Generative AI
2 31 (72.09%) Machine Learning
3 27 (62.79%) LLM
4 20 (46.51%) CI/CD
5 12 (27.91%) SDLC
6 11 (25.58%) Natural Language Processing
7 9 (20.93%) Computer Science
7 9 (20.93%) MLOps
7 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (16.28%) Agile
9 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
9 6 (13.95%) Data Science
9 6 (13.95%) Software Engineering
10 5 (11.63%) Data Cleansing
10 5 (11.63%) Data Engineering
10 5 (11.63%) Multi-Agent System
10 5 (11.63%) Use Case
11 4 (9.30%) Business Analysis
11 4 (9.30%) Pattern Recognition
Programming Languages
1 35 (81.40%) Python
2 9 (20.93%) Scala
3 6 (13.95%) Clojure
3 6 (13.95%) Elixir
3 6 (13.95%) Rust
4 4 (9.30%) SQL
5 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.33%) Go
6 1 (2.33%) Haskell
6 1 (2.33%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Degree
2 6 (13.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.98%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (34.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) OpenAI
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.30%) Databricks
4 3 (6.98%) Foundry
4 3 (6.98%) Palantir
4 3 (6.98%) Virgin Media
5 2 (4.65%) Google
6 1 (2.33%) Ariba
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.33%) Sage
6 1 (2.33%) SAP