Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in Warrington

AI Engineer
Cheshire > Warrington

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Warrington is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Warrington 1.20% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Warrington

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Warrington. 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 Warrington with a recognized job title 73 55 83
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.95% 93.22% 92.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 31 50
10th Percentile £213 £203 £165
25th Percentile £355 £281 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £488 £522 £500
90th Percentile £568 £575 £541
Cheshire median daily rate £449 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.58% -5.00% +6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 10
10th Percentile - - £13.68
25th Percentile £15.50 - £16.13
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £26.33
75th Percentile £24.37 - £32.23
90th Percentile £67.25 - £48.00
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.43 £24.00 £26.66
% change year-on-year -6.54% -9.98% +50.96%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington

For the 6 months to 30 January 2026, Artificial Intelligence Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Warrington region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangSmith
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) VMS

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington 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 1 (100.00%) LangSmith
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks