Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

AI Engineer
Suffolk > Ipswich

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Ipswich is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
31 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 3.77% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Ipswich

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Ipswich. 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 Ipswich with a recognized job title 49 40 66
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 81.63% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 38
10th Percentile £360 £350 £272
25th Percentile £450 £363 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £688 £528 £581
90th Percentile £740 £701 £665
Suffolk median daily rate £400 £419 £475
% change year-on-year -4.48% -11.84% -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £16.18 - £16.23
25th Percentile £17.21 - £20.31
Median hourly rate £18.92 £70.00 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -72.97% +152.25% +70.77%
75th Percentile £20.96 - £35.31
90th Percentile £22.18 - £39.48
Suffolk median hourly rate £21.00 £52.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year -60.00% +275.00% -17.65%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich

For the 6 months to 31 January 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 Ipswich region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) OCR
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) OCR
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI
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