Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts in Surrey

AI Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Surrey is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 56 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.32% 0.69% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.75% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £575 - £750
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 307 535 704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.15% 92.56% 96.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 386 561
10th Percentile £204 £203 £200
25th Percentile £301 £314 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% -9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £650
90th Percentile £618 £684 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 44 27
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.96 £17.65
25th Percentile £24.50 £25.36 £35.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.67 £61.63
90th Percentile £67.86 £76.86 £62.55
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +138.10%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Surrey

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Staines +7 1 £425 -
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
South East

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 2 August 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 Surrey region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes