Artificial Intelligence Engineering Contract Job Trends in Surrey

AI Engineering
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Artificial Intelligence Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.51% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £203 - -
25th Percentile £263 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 - -
75th Percentile £483 - -
90th Percentile £546 - -
South East median daily rate £650 £738 -
% change year-on-year -11.86% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 512 279 500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 86.34% 92.08% 85.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 206 363
10th Percentile £204 £200 £203
25th Percentile £356 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £563 £548 £575
90th Percentile £645 £588 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 22 53
10th Percentile £19.80 £13.69 £11.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £24.17 £17.80
Median hourly rate £66.99 £28.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +139.25% -37.78% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £71.90
90th Percentile £76.04 £69.39 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £57.25 £22.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +154.44% -59.09% +10.00%

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Artificial Intelligence Engineering job vacancy trend in Surrey

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering in Surrey over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineering in Surrey

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
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 Engineering within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
Chertsey - 1 £165 - 1
Guildford - 1 - - 2
Staines - 1 £575 -
Artificial Intelligence Engineering
South East

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
1 1 (33.33%) Vertex AI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CrewAI
1 1 (33.33%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Autonomous Agent
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Human-in-the-Loop
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Intelligent Automation
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Multi-Agent System
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Stability
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Foundry
1 1 (33.33%) Google