Artificial Intelligence Engineering Contract Job Trends in London

AI Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Artificial Intelligence Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 388 442
Rank change year-on-year +26 +54 +156
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering 10 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.074% 0.012% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.080% 0.014% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £536 £900 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £1,000 £525
Median % change year-on-year -41.50% +90.48% -11.02%
75th Percentile £636 £1,100 £538
90th Percentile £688 - -
England median daily rate £525 £1,000 £575
% change year-on-year -47.50% +73.91% -2.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Artificial Intelligence Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,498 14,491 20,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.56% 89.07% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,258 9,767 14,537
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £699
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 182 221
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.16
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.29 £22.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -12.50% +7.07%
75th Percentile £49.50 £55.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +45.65%

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineering in London

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering in London over the 6 months to 11 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineering in London

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
East London - 2 £585 -
Central London - 1 - - 3
Artificial Intelligence Engineering
England

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
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:

Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) Azure AI
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (30.00%) Serverless
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (20.00%) Copilot Studio
4 2 (20.00%) Google Gemini
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Science Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LangChain
1 2 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (20.00%) Semantic Kernel
2 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (10.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (10.00%) Pandas
2 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) AI Agents
2 3 (30.00%) PKI
3 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (10.00%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (80.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 5 (50.00%) Generative AI
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 4 (40.00%) Data Science
5 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) Conversational UI
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (30.00%) MLOps
5 3 (30.00%) Secure Coding
5 3 (30.00%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (20.00%) Key Management
6 2 (20.00%) LLM
6 2 (20.00%) Risk Register
6 2 (20.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) NIST
2 3 (30.00%) GDPR
3 2 (20.00%) EU AI Act
3 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (20.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (10.00%) Foundry
3 1 (10.00%) Google