Edge AI Contract Job Trends in England

Edge AI
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Edge AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Edge AI 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.004% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £763 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - -
75th Percentile £788 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £725 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Edge AI 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 37,991 24,251 31,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.90% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,934 15,590 20,626
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,364 1,224 2,273
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.88 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

Edge AI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Edge AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Edge AI job vacancy trend in England

Edge AI
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Edge AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Edge AI

Edge AI
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 Edge AI within the England region over the 6 months to 8 July 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
Midlands - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
Edge AI
UK

Edge AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) AMQP
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (50.00%) Modbus
1 1 (50.00%) MQTT
1 1 (50.00%) OpenVPN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (50.00%) Industry 4.0
2 1 (50.00%) IoT
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (50.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Twin
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) NVIDIA