Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts in London

AI Engineer
England > London

The median AI Engineer daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 366 472
Rank change year-on-year +40 +106 +134
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 43 31 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.32% 0.18% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.19% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 27 2
10th Percentile £363 £400 £709
25th Percentile £411 £450 £722
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £763
Median % change year-on-year - -31.15% +32.61%
75th Percentile £678 £606 £822
90th Percentile £831 £845 £846
England median daily rate £544 £525 £763
% change year-on-year +3.57% -31.15% +32.61%

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 12,644 16,154 23,926
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 94.09% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,560 11,522 17,491
10th Percentile £331 £330 £360
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 275 272
10th Percentile £17.98 £16.49 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.79 £20.98 £23.27
Median hourly rate £30.90 £30.16 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -19.40% +6.91%
75th Percentile £50.38 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £69.20 £82.50
England median hourly rate £27.59 £40.33 £43.00
% change year-on-year -31.59% -6.22% +70.01%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 2 £358 -31.90% 8
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 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 43 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 32 (74.42%) Python
3 31 (72.09%) Machine Learning
4 25 (58.14%) LLM
5 21 (48.84%) Generative AI
6 12 (27.91%) LangChain
6 12 (27.91%) MLOps
6 12 (27.91%) CI/CD
6 12 (27.91%) AWS
7 11 (25.58%) Azure
7 11 (25.58%) OpenAI
8 10 (23.26%) Computer Science
9 9 (20.93%) Finance
9 9 (20.93%) DevOps
10 7 (16.28%) Data Science
10 7 (16.28%) Legal
10 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
10 7 (16.28%) Use Case
10 7 (16.28%) Scala
10 7 (16.28%) REST
10 7 (16.28%) Natural Language Processing
11 6 (13.95%) PyTorch
11 6 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (13.95%) Software Engineering
11 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
11 6 (13.95%) Data Engineering
12 5 (11.63%) Public Cloud
12 5 (11.63%) Elixir
12 5 (11.63%) SDLC
12 5 (11.63%) Rust

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 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.91%) AWS
2 11 (25.58%) Azure
3 5 (11.63%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (9.30%) Azure AI
4 4 (9.30%) Azure Machine Learning
4 4 (9.30%) Vertex AI
5 3 (6.98%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (4.65%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (4.65%) GCP
6 2 (4.65%) GitHub
6 2 (4.65%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Big Data
2 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.33%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.33%) GitLab
General
1 9 (20.93%) Finance
2 7 (16.28%) Legal
3 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Banking
4 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.33%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.91%) LangChain
2 7 (16.28%) REST
3 6 (13.95%) PyTorch
4 5 (11.63%) Hugging Face
4 5 (11.63%) TensorFlow
5 3 (6.98%) FastAPI
5 3 (6.98%) PySpark
6 2 (4.65%) Gradio
6 2 (4.65%) LangGraph
6 2 (4.65%) Node.js
6 2 (4.65%) OpenCV
6 2 (4.65%) Regular Expression
6 2 (4.65%) scikit-learn
6 2 (4.65%) SpaCy
6 2 (4.65%) Streamlit
7 1 (2.33%) ADO
7 1 (2.33%) JSON
7 1 (2.33%) React
7 1 (2.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 1 (2.33%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.63%) Public Cloud
3 4 (9.30%) AI Agents
4 3 (6.98%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.98%) FMCG
5 2 (4.65%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.33%) Animation
6 1 (2.33%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.33%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 31 (72.09%) Machine Learning
3 25 (58.14%) LLM
4 21 (48.84%) Generative AI
5 12 (27.91%) CI/CD
5 12 (27.91%) MLOps
6 10 (23.26%) Computer Science
7 9 (20.93%) DevOps
8 7 (16.28%) Data Science
8 7 (16.28%) Natural Language Processing
8 7 (16.28%) Use Case
9 6 (13.95%) Data Engineering
9 6 (13.95%) Software Engineering
10 5 (11.63%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (11.63%) SDLC
11 4 (9.30%) API Development
11 4 (9.30%) Due Diligence
11 4 (9.30%) Prompt Engineering
11 4 (9.30%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 4 (9.30%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 32 (74.42%) Python
2 7 (16.28%) Scala
3 5 (11.63%) Clojure
3 5 (11.63%) Elixir
3 5 (11.63%) Rust
3 5 (11.63%) SQL
4 1 (2.33%) Go
4 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (11.63%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.65%) Terraform
3 1 (2.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) OpenAI
2 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.63%) Google
4 2 (4.65%) Databricks
4 2 (4.65%) Foundry
5 1 (2.33%) NVIDIA
5 1 (2.33%) Palantir