Artificial Intelligence Engineering Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

AI Engineering
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Artificial Intelligence Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.57% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 900 521 381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 85.96% 94.73% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 349 204
10th Percentile £366 £289 £379
25th Percentile £432 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £469 £514
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -8.75% -14.33%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £649
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £465 £507
% change year-on-year +7.53% -8.28% -15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £15.00 £20.20
25th Percentile - £17.33 £20.50
Median hourly rate £13.69 £18.36 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.43% -12.58% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £18.87 £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.60 £18.36 £12.83
% change year-on-year +12.22% +43.08% -34.21%

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Artificial Intelligence Engineering job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AI
3 1 (16.67%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Metadata
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Gen AI Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Product Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CrewAI
1 1 (16.67%) LangChain
1 1 (16.67%) LangGraph
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) AI
2 4 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 4 (66.67%) LLM
2 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Observability
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Use Case
3 3 (50.00%) Validation
4 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Data Extraction
4 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (33.33%) OCR
4 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Semantic Search
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GRC
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) OpenAI