Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

AI Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.70% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 811 428 732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 96.61% 91.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 290 455
10th Percentile £313 £262 £281
25th Percentile £413 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -7.11%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £635 £638 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £460 £485
% change year-on-year +5.98% -5.15% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 14
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.30
25th Percentile - £31.47 £11.88
Median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% +227.21% -71.86%
75th Percentile £46.75 £98.56 £15.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £18.27
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £24.82 £15.17
% change year-on-year -23.45% +63.61% -43.81%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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 Leeds.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 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 Leeds region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AI
2 5 (83.33%) LLM
2 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 5 (83.33%) Observability
3 3 (50.00%) BigQuery
3 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) Vertex AI
4 2 (33.33%) API Development
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (33.33%) Docker
4 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
4 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 2 (33.33%) Google Gemini
4 2 (33.33%) Hugging Face
4 2 (33.33%) LangSmith
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) MLOps
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (33.33%) PyTorch
4 2 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 2 (33.33%) TensorFlow
5 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Google
5 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (50.00%) GCP
1 3 (50.00%) Vertex AI
2 2 (33.33%) Google Gemini
2 2 (33.33%) LangSmith
3 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) BigQuery
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Hugging Face
1 2 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 2 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (16.67%) Quarkus
2 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) AI
2 5 (83.33%) LLM
2 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 5 (83.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) API Development
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) MLOps
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Java
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Google