Artificial Intelligence Specialist Contract Job Trends in the Home Counties

AI Specialist
South East > Home Counties

As of 31 January 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median AI Specialist daily rate in the Home Counties.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Home Counties 12.50% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 12.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - £450 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Home Counties

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Home Counties. 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 the Home Counties with a recognized job title 8 5 16
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 83.33% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £690 £252 £327
25th Percentile £750 £291 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £370 £528
Median % change year-on-year +143.24% -29.86% +0.48%
75th Percentile £1,050 £436 £550
90th Percentile £1,110 £469 £565
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500

Artificial Intelligence Specialist Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties

For the 6 months to 31 January 2026, Artificial Intelligence Specialist 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 Home Counties region featuring Artificial Intelligence Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Artificial Intelligence Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft