Gen AI Engineer Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Generative AI Engineer
South East > West Sussex

The median Generative AI Engineer daily rate in West Sussex is £283, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Gen AI Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.50% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £268 - -
25th Percentile £273 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 - -
75th Percentile £290 - -
90th Percentile £293 - -
South East median daily rate £283 £575 -
% change year-on-year -50.87% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Sussex. 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 West Sussex with a recognized job title 377 158 184
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 85.41% 94.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 111 141
10th Percentile £223 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £284 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -5.56% -7.12%
75th Percentile £515 £537 £528
90th Percentile £628 £675 £613
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 27 5
10th Percentile £13.13 - £24.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £18.82 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.06% -32.79% +14.47%
75th Percentile £44.73 £20.69 £29.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £47.25 £35.75
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £57.35
% change year-on-year +108.75% -56.15% +14.70%

Gen AI Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gen AI Engineer within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 1 August 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
Burgess Hill - 2 £283 - 1
Gen AI Engineer
South East

Gen AI Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex

For the 6 months to 1 August 2026, Gen AI 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 West Sussex region featuring Gen AI Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
1 2 (100.00%) Python

Gen AI Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft