Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts in London

AI Engineer
England > London

The median AI Engineer daily rate in London is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 379 489
Rank change year-on-year +56 +110 +108
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 30 12 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.067% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.072% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 4
10th Percentile £410 £414 £480
25th Percentile £463 £481 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% -7.83% -
75th Percentile £838 £806 £713
90th Percentile £875 £870 £870
England median daily rate £575 £510 £575
% change year-on-year +12.75% -11.30% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Central London +5 5 £800 +22.14% 3
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Artificial Intelligence Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 23 (76.67%) Machine Learning
3 21 (70.00%) Python
4 20 (66.67%) Generative AI
4 20 (66.67%) LLM
5 10 (33.33%) Finance
5 10 (33.33%) Azure
5 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 8 (26.67%) MLOps
6 8 (26.67%) SDLC
6 8 (26.67%) REST
6 8 (26.67%) Use Case
7 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
7 7 (23.33%) AWS
7 7 (23.33%) Clojure
7 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
7 7 (23.33%) Rust
7 7 (23.33%) Public Cloud
7 7 (23.33%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (23.33%) LangChain
8 6 (20.00%) Elixir
8 6 (20.00%) OpenAI
8 6 (20.00%) Degree
8 6 (20.00%) Scala
9 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (16.67%) Data Science
10 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (13.33%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (13.33%) API Development

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.33%) IBM Domino
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) AWS
3 4 (13.33%) Azure AI
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 2 (6.67%) ChatGPT
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.67%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
5 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
5 2 (6.67%) Vertex AI
6 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Big Data
2 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.33%) MLflow
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (6.67%) Banking
3 2 (6.67%) Billing
3 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.67%) Legal
3 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) REST
2 7 (23.33%) LangChain
3 2 (6.67%) FastAPI
3 2 (6.67%) Hugging Face
4 1 (3.33%) Dask
4 1 (3.33%) Kafka
4 1 (3.33%) NumPy
4 1 (3.33%) Pandas
4 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.33%) RESTful
4 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Public Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) FMCG
3 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.67%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.33%) Educational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 23 (76.67%) Machine Learning
3 20 (66.67%) Generative AI
3 20 (66.67%) LLM
4 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 8 (26.67%) MLOps
5 8 (26.67%) SDLC
5 8 (26.67%) Use Case
6 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
7 5 (16.67%) Data Science
8 4 (13.33%) API Development
8 4 (13.33%) Natural Language Processing
8 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
9 3 (10.00%) Analytics
9 3 (10.00%) DevOps
9 3 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (10.00%) User Experience
10 2 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) Clojure
2 7 (23.33%) Rust
3 6 (20.00%) Elixir
3 6 (20.00%) Scala
4 4 (13.33%) SQL
5 2 (6.67%) Haskell
6 1 (3.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) Go
6 1 (3.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
2 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) OpenAI
3 2 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat