Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

AI Engineer
Hampshire > Farnborough

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Farnborough is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 1.01% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £531 - -
25th Percentile £566 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Farnborough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Farnborough. 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 Farnborough with a recognized job title 275 74 134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 92.50% 68.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 46 102
10th Percentile £463 £347 £425
25th Percentile £496 £425 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £495 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -17.50% +26.32%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £675
90th Percentile £744 £638 £750
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £534 £575
% change year-on-year +3.09% -7.22% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 3
10th Percentile £25.00 £69.75 £37.00
25th Percentile £33.14 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £45.59 £75.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.22% - +25.52%
75th Percentile £51.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -20.00% -12.82% +9.24%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Artificial Intelligence Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in Farnborough.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in Farnborough

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Farnborough over the 6 months to 29 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Farnborough

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough

For the 6 months to 29 June 2026, Artificial Intelligence Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Farnborough region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (66.67%) Metadata
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement Process
3 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
3 1 (33.33%) Faiss
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Model Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (33.33%) Pinecone
3 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Validation

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Pinecone
2 1 (33.33%) Weaviate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (33.33%) Faiss
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement Process
3 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Model Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft