Artificial Intelligence Engineering Contracts in the North West

AI Engineering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Artificial Intelligence Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.046% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £576 £913 £575
% change year-on-year -36.85% +58.70% -2.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Artificial Intelligence Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,890 2,277 2,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.78% 84.36% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,239 1,400 1,923
10th Percentile £280 £300 £305
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +1.01%
75th Percentile £564 £582 £588
90th Percentile £671 £672 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 254 159
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.50 £18.13
Median hourly rate £29.27 £27.00 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +8.41% -7.85% +19.20%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.23 £56.62
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineering in the North West

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Merseyside - 1 £325 -
Artificial Intelligence Engineering
England

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CrewAI
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Autonomous Agent
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google