Gen AI Engineer Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Generative AI Engineer
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Generative AI Engineer daily rate in Knutsford is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Gen AI Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.39% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. 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 Knutsford with a recognized job title 236 99 110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 92.52% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 87 85
10th Percentile £313 £328 £401
25th Percentile £358 £356 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £378 £540
Median % change year-on-year +15.08% -30.00% +2.86%
75th Percentile £535 £506 £582
90th Percentile £621 £604 £614
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £473 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £30.90 £22.50
% change year-on-year -26.05% +37.33% +12.50%

Gen AI Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 25 February 2026, Gen AI 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 Knutsford region featuring Gen AI Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Watson
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation

Gen AI Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Watson
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM