Artificial Intelligence Engineering Contracts in England

AI Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Artificial Intelligence Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 536 625
Rank change year-on-year +68 +89 +148
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering 3 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.003% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.003% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £564 - £523
25th Percentile £572 £813 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £825 £575
Median % change year-on-year -29.09% +43.48% -2.54%
75th Percentile - £838 £606
90th Percentile - - £618
UK median daily rate £585 £825 £575
% change year-on-year -29.09% +43.48% -2.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Artificial Intelligence Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,908 31,369 43,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.13% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,318 20,561 30,212
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 931 2,271 1,523
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.97 £16.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% -2.14% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% - +40.19%

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineering in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineering in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
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 Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 24 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 +63 3 £585 -29.09% 77
Artificial Intelligence Engineering
UK

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
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 3 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AI
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Ethical Hacking
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (66.67%) SOC 2
3 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft