Artificial Intelligence Engineering Contract Job Trends in Telford

AI Engineering
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring Artificial Intelligence Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.31% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £482 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 - -
75th Percentile £509 - -
90th Percentile £513 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £498 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 592 137 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 90.38% 95.80% 68.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 98 56
10th Percentile £358 £311 £229
25th Percentile £413 £400 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £457 £358
Median % change year-on-year +2.66% +27.61% -33.70%
75th Percentile £525 £534 £503
90th Percentile £625 £549 £519
Shropshire median daily rate £469 £453 £358
% change year-on-year +3.45% +26.63% -33.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 7
10th Percentile £20.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% +141.36% -81.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile £61.00 - £11.85
Shropshire median hourly rate £52.50 £31.31 £10.42
% change year-on-year +67.70% +200.43% -81.05%

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 2 (100.00%) OpenROAD
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 2 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) VB
1 2 (100.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Actian