Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts in Merseyside

AI Engineer
North West > Merseyside

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Merseyside is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 June 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
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.24% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 152 223 286
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.41% 96.96% 95.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 118 204
10th Percentile £133 £152 £235
25th Percentile £213 £213 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £388 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.10% -18.42% +11.76%
75th Percentile £547 £492 £532
90th Percentile £641 £588 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 31 10
10th Percentile - - £10.09
25th Percentile £12.21 £15.50 £15.48
Median hourly rate £17.44 £21.43 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.62% +22.46% +16.67%
75th Percentile £19.36 £36.13 £25.16
90th Percentile £21.52 £43.75 £32.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £32.90 £29.30
% change year-on-year -12.60% +12.27% +17.20%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
Liverpool - 2 £325 - 6
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 29 June 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 Merseyside region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 2 (100.00%) Vertex AI
1 2 (100.00%) Pinecone
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) LangChain
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Autonomous Agent
1 2 (100.00%) Chatbot
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Search
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (50.00%) Gradio
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 2 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Vertex AI
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Pinecone
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LangChain
2 1 (50.00%) Gradio
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Autonomous Agent
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 2 (100.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Search
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google