Gen AI Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Generative AI Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Generative AI Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 August 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
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Gen AI Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.039% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
England median daily rate £588 £850 -
% change year-on-year -30.88% - -

All DemandTrendContract 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 2,301 2,471 2,812
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.53% 92.55% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,507 1,630 1,955
10th Percentile £220 £249 £221
25th Percentile £358 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.20% +2.00%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 125 107
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.63 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.91 £14.27 £16.58
Median hourly rate £24.58 £20.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.90% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £31.72 £37.50 £38.66
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.26 £69.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.60% +68.69%

Gen AI 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 Gen AI Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 August 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 - 1 £375 -
Gen AI Engineer
England

Gen AI Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 30 August 2025, Gen AI 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 Midlands region featuring Gen AI Engineer in the job title.

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

Gen AI Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google