Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

AI Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £600, 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 95 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.29% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £520 - -
25th Percentile £539 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £575 £575 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 1,622 790 1,606
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.87% 91.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 954 554 946
10th Percentile £363 £256 £363
25th Percentile £475 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £534 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £648 £613 £660
90th Percentile £738 £660 £729
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £508
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.57% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 52 185
10th Percentile £13.97 £21.72 £14.47
25th Percentile £21.35 £32.94 £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -12.82% +9.24%
75th Percentile £56.21 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.58 £75.00 £77.24
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £31.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +61.29% -37.37% -1.00%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Hampshire

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
Farnborough - 3 £650 - 1
Basingstoke - 1 £550 - 1
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
South East

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

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 Hampshire region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (40.00%) Metadata
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Azure
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
5 1 (20.00%) ChatGPT
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement Process
5 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
5 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (20.00%) Faiss
5 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
5 1 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (20.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (20.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (40.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) Pinecone
2 1 (20.00%) Weaviate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (20.00%) Faiss
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
3 3 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement Process
5 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
5 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) MLOps
5 1 (20.00%) Model Validation
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft