Artificial Intelligence Consultant Contracts

AI Consultant
UK

The median AI Consultant daily rate in the UK is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 574 -
Rank change year-on-year +75 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Consultant 21 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.018% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.020% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 0
10th Percentile £450 £553 -
25th Percentile £561 £556 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% - -
75th Percentile £674 £875 -
90th Percentile £713 £1,010 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £1,000 -
% change year-on-year -60.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Consultant in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Consultant.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Consultant in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Consultant over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Consultant in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +69 19 £588 -2.08% 39
London +44 12 £575 -2.13% 16
Work from Home +39 5 £400 -50.00% 33
UK excluding London +64 2 £400 -60.00% 25
South East - 2 £400 - 9

Artificial Intelligence Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Artificial Intelligence Consultant 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 featuring Artificial Intelligence Consultant in the job title.

1 20 (95.24%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
3 7 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (23.81%) Generative AI
4 5 (23.81%) LLM
4 5 (23.81%) Data Analysis
4 5 (23.81%) Google
4 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (23.81%) Azure
4 5 (23.81%) Machine Learning
4 5 (23.81%) Analytics
4 5 (23.81%) GCP
5 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
5 4 (19.05%) Power BI
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (19.05%) Data Governance
5 4 (19.05%) Tableau
5 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
5 4 (19.05%) GDPR
5 4 (19.05%) NVIDIA
5 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
5 4 (19.05%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (19.05%) InfiniBand
6 3 (14.29%) OpenAI
6 3 (14.29%) Snowflake
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) ChatGPT
6 3 (14.29%) Microsoft

Artificial Intelligence Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
1 5 (23.81%) GCP
2 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
3 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) ChatGPT
3 3 (14.29%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Power BI
1 4 (19.05%) Tableau
2 1 (4.76%) Big Data
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) ERwin
1 2 (9.52%) Git
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Legal
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Law
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.76%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Kafka
1 2 (9.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Life Science
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (23.81%) Analytics
3 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (23.81%) Data Analysis
3 5 (23.81%) Generative AI
3 5 (23.81%) LLM
3 5 (23.81%) Machine Learning
3 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (19.05%) Data Governance
4 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
4 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 3 (14.29%) Data Management
5 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Data Management
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.52%) Business Case
6 2 (9.52%) Data Science
6 2 (9.52%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) EU AI Act
3 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Google
2 4 (19.05%) NVIDIA
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.76%) Palantir