Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

AI Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median AI Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £300 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 452 505
Rank change year-on-year +68 +53 -78
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.004% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.005% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £380
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.62%
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +26.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,947 22,165 29,135
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,483 20,411
10th Percentile £213 £225 £202
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,449
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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 - 2 £300 - 2
North of England - 1 - - 2
North East - 1 - -
South East - 1 - - 6
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) LangChain
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (25.00%) ChatGPT
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Computational Linguistics
3 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
3 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Conversational UI

Artificial Intelligence Engineer 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (25.00%) ChatGPT
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Computational Linguistics
3 1 (25.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) R
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree