Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North East

AI Engineer
England > North East

The median AI Engineer daily rate in the North East is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.53% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £700
% change year-on-year +4.76% -25.00% +21.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 353 276 238
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 89.32% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 140 164
10th Percentile £170 £273 £225
25th Percentile £339 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £450 £448
Median % change year-on-year -1.78% +0.56% -18.64%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £650 £700
England median daily rate £504 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 14
10th Percentile £14.13 £17.55 £15.47
25th Percentile £17.88 £33.87 £16.25
Median hourly rate £32.46 £46.18 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.72% +43.19% +61.25%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £46.18
90th Percentile £54.38 £70.00 £55.85
England median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.08% -16.67% +38.46%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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 North East.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancy trend in the North East

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Durham - 1 - - 1
Tyne and Wear - 1 £450 - 2
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 North East region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AIOps
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational AI
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Information Retrieval
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AIOps
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational AI
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Information Retrieval
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL