Artificial Intelligence Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

AI Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median AI Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 389 434
Rank change year-on-year +45 +45 -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Developer 11 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.081% 0.042% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.045% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 3
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £459 - £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £725
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -44.83% -
75th Percentile £631 - £763
90th Percentile £675 - -
UK median daily rate £819 £450 £725
% change year-on-year +81.94% -37.93% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 12,351 19,848 21,518
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.38% 92.45% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,722 11,791 14,900
10th Percentile £220 £213 £230
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 960 2,571 1,111
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.70 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +102.50%
75th Percentile £58.70 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.37 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Developer in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Developer in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Developer in the UK excluding London

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
East of England - 5 £650 - 9
South East +44 2 £400 - 19
Wales - 2 £525 -
Scotland - 2 £467 - 2
Artificial Intelligence Developer
UK

Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, Artificial Intelligence Developer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Artificial Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (90.91%) Python
3 9 (81.82%) Machine Learning
3 9 (81.82%) Data Science
4 8 (72.73%) LLM
5 7 (63.64%) Generative AI
5 7 (63.64%) Azure
5 7 (63.64%) AWS
6 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (54.55%) TensorFlow
6 6 (54.55%) scikit-learn
6 6 (54.55%) PyTorch
7 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
7 5 (45.45%) Reinforcement Learning
7 5 (45.45%) Seaborn
7 5 (45.45%) Pandas
7 5 (45.45%) Apache Spark
7 5 (45.45%) Algorithms
7 5 (45.45%) Tableau
7 5 (45.45%) Data Quality
7 5 (45.45%) Data Munging
7 5 (45.45%) Hadoop
7 5 (45.45%) Visualisation
7 5 (45.45%) Big Data
7 5 (45.45%) NumPy
7 5 (45.45%) R
7 5 (45.45%) Matplotlib
7 5 (45.45%) Data Analysis
8 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
8 4 (36.36%) TypeScript

Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure App Service
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (9.09%) Twilio
4 1 (9.09%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Big Data
1 5 (45.45%) Hadoop
1 5 (45.45%) Tableau
General
1 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) PyTorch
1 6 (54.55%) scikit-learn
1 6 (54.55%) TensorFlow
2 5 (45.45%) Matplotlib
2 5 (45.45%) NumPy
2 5 (45.45%) Pandas
2 5 (45.45%) Seaborn
3 2 (18.18%) Express.js
4 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
4 1 (9.09%) FHIR
4 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 1 (9.09%) LangChain
4 1 (9.09%) NestJS
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Algorithms
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (81.82%) Data Science
2 9 (81.82%) Machine Learning
3 8 (72.73%) LLM
4 7 (63.64%) Generative AI
5 5 (45.45%) Data Analysis
5 5 (45.45%) Data Munging
5 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
5 5 (45.45%) Reinforcement Learning
5 5 (45.45%) Visualisation
6 3 (27.27%) Analytics
6 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
6 3 (27.27%) Data Analytics
6 3 (27.27%) Feature Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Predictive Analytics
6 3 (27.27%) Statistical Modelling
6 3 (27.27%) Time Series Forecasting
7 2 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (18.18%) Critical Thinking
7 2 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) R
3 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
4 2 (18.18%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Master's Degree
1 3 (27.27%) PhD
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) HL7
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Foundry
1 1 (9.09%) Palantir