Edge AI Contract Job Trends

Edge AI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Edge AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 662 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Edge AI 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £673 - -
25th Percentile £688 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £763 - -
90th Percentile £778 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Edge AI 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44,398 28,953 36,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.10% 90.63% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,615 18,257 23,517
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,640 1,439 2,494
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.70 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% +1.65%

Edge AI
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Edge AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Edge AI job vacancy trend in the UK

Edge AI
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Edge AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Edge AI

Edge AI
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Edge AI within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England - 2 £775 - 10
UK excluding London - 1 - - 8
Midlands - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 2

Edge AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) AMQP
1 1 (33.33%) IPsec
1 1 (33.33%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (33.33%) Modbus
1 1 (33.33%) MQTT
1 1 (33.33%) OpenVPN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ONNX
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
1 1 (33.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) CUDA
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (33.33%) Industry 4.0
2 1 (33.33%) IoT
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Robotics
2 1 (33.33%) Smart City
2 1 (33.33%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Twin
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Vision
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) MLOps
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Sensor Fusion
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (33.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) NVIDIA