Gen AI Engineer Contracts in England

Generative AI Engineer
UK > England

The median Generative AI Engineer daily rate in England is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 537 -
Rank change year-on-year +75 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Gen AI Engineer 23 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.013% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.014% -
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 0
10th Percentile £563 £815 -
25th Percentile £606 £819 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £850 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £838 £875 -
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK median daily rate £800 £850 -
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Gen AI Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Gen AI Engineer in England

Gen AI Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Gen AI Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Gen AI Engineer in England

Gen AI Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gen AI Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gen AI Engineer in England

Gen AI 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 Gen AI Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +53 19 £800 -5.88% 27
South East - 3 £575 - 10
Gen AI Engineer
UK

Gen AI Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Gen AI 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 Gen AI Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 22 (95.65%) Python
3 20 (86.96%) Artificial Intelligence
4 14 (60.87%) Kubernetes
5 12 (52.17%) LLM
5 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
6 11 (47.83%) Machine Learning
7 10 (43.48%) LangChain
8 9 (39.13%) Software Engineering
8 9 (39.13%) Finance
9 8 (34.78%) Scala
9 8 (34.78%) Use Case
9 8 (34.78%) REST
10 7 (30.43%) Public Cloud
10 7 (30.43%) Rust
10 7 (30.43%) SDLC
10 7 (30.43%) Clojure
10 7 (30.43%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (30.43%) MLOps
11 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (26.09%) Master's Degree
11 6 (26.09%) Degree
11 6 (26.09%) Elixir
12 5 (21.74%) Pandas
12 5 (21.74%) NumPy
12 5 (21.74%) Banking
12 5 (21.74%) Dask
12 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
13 4 (17.39%) Azure

Gen AI 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 2 (8.70%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) GCP
2 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub
3 1 (4.35%) Google Gemini
3 1 (4.35%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Big Data
1 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Banking
3 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) LangChain
2 8 (34.78%) REST
3 5 (21.74%) Dask
3 5 (21.74%) NumPy
3 5 (21.74%) Pandas
4 3 (13.04%) Kafka
5 2 (8.70%) Spring
5 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.35%) Hugging Face
6 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
6 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.35%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 20 (86.96%) Artificial Intelligence
3 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 12 (52.17%) LLM
4 11 (47.83%) Machine Learning
5 9 (39.13%) Software Engineering
6 8 (34.78%) Use Case
7 7 (30.43%) MLOps
7 7 (30.43%) SDLC
8 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (17.39%) Natural Language Processing
11 3 (13.04%) CQRS
11 3 (13.04%) Data Engineering
11 3 (13.04%) Data Governance
11 3 (13.04%) Data Science
11 3 (13.04%) Design Patterns
11 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
12 2 (8.70%) Fintech
12 2 (8.70%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 22 (95.65%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Scala
3 7 (30.43%) Clojure
3 7 (30.43%) Rust
4 6 (26.09%) Elixir
5 3 (13.04%) Java
6 2 (8.70%) SQL
7 1 (4.35%) C#
7 1 (4.35%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
1 6 (26.09%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (60.87%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Databricks
1 3 (13.04%) Virgin Media
2 2 (8.70%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) Dataiku