Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

AI Engineer
England > Midlands

The median AI Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.097% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £333 - -
25th Percentile £349 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £431 - -
90th Percentile £465 - -
England median daily rate £544 £525 £700
% change year-on-year +3.57% -25.00% +21.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,759 2,333 2,518
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.26% 92.99% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 1,450 1,740
10th Percentile £216 £225 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 98 116
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.00 £14.19
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.38 £16.92
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% +19.10% +13.90%
75th Percentile £27.21 £32.13 £31.59
90th Percentile £40.25 £50.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the Midlands

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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 Midlands - 2 £349 - 6
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 10
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, 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 Midlands region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) FastAPI
2 2 (66.67%) Flask
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) FastAPI
1 2 (66.67%) Flask
1 2 (66.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google