Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

AI Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £508, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
19 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 12 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.66% - 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £442 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 - £600
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £539 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £508 - £600

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 650 264 351
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 85.71% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 156 227
10th Percentile £316 £220 £375
25th Percentile £400 £414 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% -3.09% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £610 £684 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.79 £15.39
25th Percentile £16.68 £14.35 £18.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -14.85% +11.84%
75th Percentile £22.33 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.02 £21.05 £27.50
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.76% -19.58% +18.42%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Sheffield region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) AI
1 12 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 11 (91.67%) DevOps
3 9 (75.00%) Agile
3 9 (75.00%) Deep Learning
3 9 (75.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 9 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (75.00%) Python
3 9 (75.00%) TensorFlow
4 8 (66.67%) Image Processing
5 7 (58.33%) Azure
5 7 (58.33%) Data Science
5 7 (58.33%) Generative AI
6 6 (50.00%) LLM
6 6 (50.00%) Microservices
6 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
7 5 (41.67%) Azure AKS
7 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
7 5 (41.67%) Degree
7 5 (41.67%) Hugging Face
7 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
7 5 (41.67%) KYC
7 5 (41.67%) OCR
7 5 (41.67%) Open Source
7 5 (41.67%) OpenCV
7 5 (41.67%) PyTorch
7 5 (41.67%) Regular Expression
7 5 (41.67%) SpaCy
8 4 (33.33%) Chatbot

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure AKS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (16.67%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) MySQL
2 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 4 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (25.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 4 (33.33%) PyCharm
General
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) TensorFlow
2 5 (41.67%) Hugging Face
2 5 (41.67%) OpenCV
2 5 (41.67%) PyTorch
2 5 (41.67%) Regular Expression
2 5 (41.67%) SpaCy
3 4 (33.33%) NumPy
3 4 (33.33%) Pandas
4 2 (16.67%) REST
4 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (8.33%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Onboarding
2 4 (33.33%) Algorithms
3 3 (25.00%) Clustering
3 3 (25.00%) Online Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) AI
1 12 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 11 (91.67%) DevOps
3 9 (75.00%) Agile
3 9 (75.00%) Deep Learning
3 9 (75.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 8 (66.67%) Image Processing
5 7 (58.33%) Data Science
5 7 (58.33%) Generative AI
6 6 (50.00%) LLM
6 6 (50.00%) Microservices
7 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
7 5 (41.67%) KYC
7 5 (41.67%) OCR
7 5 (41.67%) Open Source
8 4 (33.33%) Conversational UI
8 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
8 4 (33.33%) Data Munging
8 4 (33.33%) Data Security
9 3 (25.00%) Pattern Matching
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) MCP
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) OpenAI
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