Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts in England

AI Engineer
UK > England

The median AI Engineer daily rate in England is £505 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 631 760
Rank change year-on-year +111 +129 -130
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 17 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.046% 0.013% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.013% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 2
10th Percentile £336 £490 -
25th Percentile £416 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £569 £863 £625
90th Percentile £853 £930 -
UK median daily rate £510 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,105 44,948 67,278
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.59% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,534 31,954 48,043
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.91%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,538 1,319 1,809
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +91.49% +9.30%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +6.90%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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
London +93 13 £510 -15.00% 16
South East - 2 - - 3
East of England - 1 £300 -
North of England - 1 - - 4
North East - 1 - -
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
UK

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, Artificial Intelligence Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (94.12%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (76.47%) Machine Learning
3 12 (70.59%) Python
4 8 (47.06%) Java
4 8 (47.06%) LLM
5 6 (35.29%) Algorithms
5 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
5 6 (35.29%) Degree
5 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
6 5 (29.41%) Master's Degree
6 5 (29.41%) Generative AI
7 4 (23.53%) AWS
7 4 (23.53%) Use Case
7 4 (23.53%) Analytics
7 4 (23.53%) Banking
7 4 (23.53%) C#
8 3 (17.65%) Finance
8 3 (17.65%) Deep Learning
8 3 (17.65%) Azure
8 3 (17.65%) Clojure
8 3 (17.65%) Structured Programming
8 3 (17.65%) Natural Language Processing
8 3 (17.65%) Haskell
8 3 (17.65%) LangChain
8 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (17.65%) Data Science
8 3 (17.65%) Conversational UI
8 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) Rust
8 3 (17.65%) Chatbot

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Chatbot
2 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.76%) Lucidchart
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
3 2 (11.76%) Vertex AI
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (5.88%) ChatGPT
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.88%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) Big Data
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
1 2 (11.76%) Selenium
General
1 4 (23.53%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Advertising
4 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) LangChain
2 2 (11.76%) Hugging Face
2 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) PyTorch
2 2 (11.76%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) CUDA
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) GPGPU
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (76.47%) Machine Learning
3 8 (47.06%) LLM
4 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
4 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Generative AI
6 4 (23.53%) Analytics
6 4 (23.53%) Use Case
7 3 (17.65%) Conversational UI
7 3 (17.65%) Data Science
7 3 (17.65%) Deep Learning
7 3 (17.65%) Natural Language Processing
7 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Structured Programming
8 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
8 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) Mathematics
8 2 (11.76%) MLOps
8 2 (11.76%) SDLC
8 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Python
2 8 (47.06%) Java
3 4 (23.53%) C#
4 3 (17.65%) Clojure
4 3 (17.65%) Haskell
4 3 (17.65%) Rust
5 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.88%) C++
6 1 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (5.88%) PHP
6 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.88%) R
6 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
2 5 (29.41%) Master's Degree
3 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Genesys
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) IBM
2 1 (5.88%) OpenAI