Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

AI Engineer
East of England > Suffolk

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Suffolk is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 2.15% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
East of England median daily rate £625 - £300

All Contract IT Job Roles
Suffolk

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Suffolk. 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 Suffolk with a recognized job title 86 91 96
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 90.10% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 40 64
10th Percentile £193 £205 £150
25th Percentile £220 £225 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £419 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -11.84% -17.39%
75th Percentile £575 £524 £541
90th Percentile £705 £677 £658
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 5
10th Percentile £14.34 £45.22 -
25th Percentile £17.21 £45.73 £11.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £52.50 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +275.00% -17.65%
75th Percentile £24.38 £70.00 £42.25
90th Percentile £24.69 - £64.40
East of England median hourly rate £23.83 £51.25 £40.31
% change year-on-year -53.51% +27.14% +91.95%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. 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
Ipswich - 2 £550 - 1
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
East of England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk

For the 6 months to 31 January 2026, 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 Suffolk region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) OCR
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) OCR
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI