Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts in the North of England

AI Engineer
England > North of England

The median AI Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £514, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 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
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 182 -
Rank change year-on-year +18 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 14 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 0.022% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.024% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £409 - -
25th Percentile £432 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 - -
75th Percentile £597 - -
90th Percentile £655 - -
England median daily rate £544 £525 £763
% change year-on-year +3.57% -31.15% +32.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,561 4,249 5,180
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 92.41% 95.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,314 2,626 3,541
10th Percentile £253 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £385 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.98% -3.15% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £641 £655 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 382 194
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.45 £14.58
25th Percentile £17.25 £14.03 £17.22
Median hourly rate £22.32 £24.87 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% +10.53% +9.76%
75th Percentile £47.12 £47.88 £43.35
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.63 £52.73
England median hourly rate £27.45 £40.33 £44.00
% change year-on-year -31.93% -8.35% +76.00%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the North of England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the North of England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the North of England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
North West - 8 £550 - 22
Yorkshire - 4 £485 -
North East +1 2 £513 - 4
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 19 July 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 North of England region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (78.57%) Machine Learning
3 10 (71.43%) Natural Language Processing
3 10 (71.43%) Python
3 10 (71.43%) LLM
4 9 (64.29%) Generative AI
4 9 (64.29%) Agile
4 9 (64.29%) Azure
4 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
5 8 (57.14%) Finance
6 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (50.00%) TensorFlow
6 7 (50.00%) PyTorch
7 6 (42.86%) Multi-Agent System
7 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (42.86%) Algorithms
7 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
7 6 (42.86%) Azure AI
7 6 (42.86%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (42.86%) SDLC
7 6 (42.86%) Docker
7 6 (42.86%) AWS
8 5 (35.71%) Git
8 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (35.71%) Data Cleansing
8 5 (35.71%) Streamlit
8 5 (35.71%) GCP
9 4 (28.57%) Linear Algebra
9 4 (28.57%) Computer Vision
9 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Working

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure AI
3 5 (35.71%) GCP
4 4 (28.57%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (28.57%) Google Gemini
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon Bedrock
5 3 (21.43%) Azure AKS
5 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Vertex AI
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Neo4j
1 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Pinecone
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) DataStage
3 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Metadata
3 1 (7.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (28.57%) Legal
4 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
5 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 7 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 5 (35.71%) Streamlit
3 3 (21.43%) Hugging Face
3 3 (21.43%) OpenCV
3 3 (21.43%) Regular Expression
3 3 (21.43%) SpaCy
4 2 (14.29%) CrewAI
4 2 (14.29%) LangChain
5 1 (7.14%) Faiss
5 1 (7.14%) Gradio
5 1 (7.14%) LangGraph
5 1 (7.14%) OLE
5 1 (7.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Algorithms
2 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
3 2 (14.29%) AI Agents
3 2 (14.29%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (78.57%) Machine Learning
3 10 (71.43%) LLM
3 10 (71.43%) Natural Language Processing
4 9 (64.29%) Agile
4 9 (64.29%) Generative AI
5 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
6 6 (42.86%) Multi-Agent System
6 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (42.86%) SDLC
7 5 (35.71%) Data Cleansing
8 4 (28.57%) Business Analysis
8 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
8 4 (28.57%) Linear Algebra
8 4 (28.57%) Mathematics
8 4 (28.57%) Pattern Recognition
8 4 (28.57%) RDF
8 4 (28.57%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Scala
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) MCP
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Ariba
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Informatica
3 1 (7.14%) Sage
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Talend