Artificial Intelligence Engineering Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

AI Engineering
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Artificial Intelligence Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.059% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £482 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 - -
75th Percentile £509 - -
90th Percentile £513 - -
England median daily rate £600 £576 £913
% change year-on-year +4.12% -36.85% +58.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Artificial Intelligence Engineering 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,914 1,424 1,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.96% 88.72% 80.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,903 900 1,101
10th Percentile £313 £210 £263
25th Percentile £405 £368 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £674 £688 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 98 108
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £20.91 £13.96 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £23.36 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.51% +22.95% -24.75%
75th Percentile £59.63 £33.35 £37.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £57.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Artificial Intelligence Engineering job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineering within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
Shropshire - 2 £498 - 1
Artificial Intelligence Engineering
England

Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) OpenROAD
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 2 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) VB
1 2 (100.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Actian