AI Engineer
East of England > Essex
The median AI Engineer salary in Essex is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 April 2026.
The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 12 Apr 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 65 | - | - |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in Essex | 0.44% | - | - |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.52% | - | - |
| Number of salaries quoted | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | £43,750 | - | - |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £52,500 | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £61,250 | - | - |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| East of England median annual salary | £43,750 | £64,000 | - |
| % change year-on-year | -31.64% | - | - |
All Permanent IT Job Roles
Essex
For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Essex. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.
| Permanent vacancies in Essex with a recognized job title | 969 | 279 | 818 |
| % of permanent jobs with a recognized job title | 86.13% | 84.04% | 94.35% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 613 | 170 | 673 |
| 10th Percentile | £27,250 | £21,250 | £25,759 |
| 25th Percentile | £31,691 | £27,625 | £30,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £45,000 | £47,500 | £45,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -5.26% | +5.56% | -5.26% |
| 75th Percentile | £65,000 | £60,000 | £62,500 |
| 90th Percentile | £81,200 | £82,625 | £76,250 |
| East of England median annual salary | £50,000 | £53,000 | £47,500 |
| % change year-on-year | -5.66% | +11.58% | -13.64% |
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Locations in Essex
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer within the Essex region over the 6 months to 12 April 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 Permanent IT Job Ads |
Median Salary Past 6 Months |
Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colchester | - | 5 | £52,500 | - | 1 |
| Artificial Intelligence Engineer East of England |
|||||
Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex
For the 6 months to 12 April 2026, Artificial Intelligence Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Essex region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.
|
|
Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||