Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts

AI Engineer
UK

The median AI Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 679 843
Rank change year-on-year +124 +164 -177
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 21 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.009% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.009% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 5
10th Percentile £348 £480 £458
25th Percentile £425 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £625 £713 £625
90th Percentile £845 £870 £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 - £380
% change year-on-year - - -27.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the UK

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +127 18 £510 -11.30% 30
London +112 13 £510 -11.30% 19
Work from Home +128 9 £575 - 16
UK excluding London +58 4 £300 - 10
East of England - 2 £300 - 1
North of England - 1 - - 2
North East - 1 - -
South East - 1 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (95.24%) Artificial Intelligence
2 18 (85.71%) Machine Learning
3 16 (76.19%) Python
4 13 (61.90%) Java
4 13 (61.90%) LLM
5 7 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 6 (28.57%) Degree
6 6 (28.57%) Generative AI
6 6 (28.57%) PyTorch
6 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
6 6 (28.57%) Algorithms
6 6 (28.57%) Data Engineering
6 6 (28.57%) TensorFlow
7 5 (23.81%) Master's Degree
7 5 (23.81%) Kafka
7 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (23.81%) C#
7 5 (23.81%) Azure
7 5 (23.81%) AWS
7 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
7 5 (23.81%) Finance
8 4 (19.05%) Banking
8 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
8 4 (19.05%) Clojure
8 4 (19.05%) Big Data
8 4 (19.05%) Use Case
8 4 (19.05%) Haskell
8 4 (19.05%) LangChain
8 4 (19.05%) Analytics
8 4 (19.05%) Rust

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (14.29%) Chatbot
2 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 2 (9.52%) ChatGPT
3 2 (9.52%) Lucidchart
3 2 (9.52%) Serverless
3 2 (9.52%) Vertex AI
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Big Data
2 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.76%) MySQL
4 1 (4.76%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Cucumber
1 2 (9.52%) Selenium
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 2 (9.52%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.76%) Advertising
6 1 (4.76%) Electronics
6 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.76%) Marketing
6 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) PyTorch
1 6 (28.57%) TensorFlow
2 5 (23.81%) Kafka
3 4 (19.05%) LangChain
4 3 (14.29%) Hugging Face
4 3 (14.29%) PySpark
5 2 (9.52%) .NET
5 2 (9.52%) REST
6 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
6 1 (4.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 3 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Artificial Intelligence
2 18 (85.71%) Machine Learning
3 13 (61.90%) LLM
4 7 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 6 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 6 (28.57%) Generative AI
6 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Analytics
7 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
7 4 (19.05%) Use Case
8 3 (14.29%) Conversational UI
8 3 (14.29%) Data Science
8 3 (14.29%) Deep Learning
8 3 (14.29%) Fintech
8 3 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
8 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (14.29%) Statistical Analysis
8 3 (14.29%) Structured Programming
9 2 (9.52%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) Python
2 13 (61.90%) Java
3 5 (23.81%) C#
4 4 (19.05%) Clojure
4 4 (19.05%) Haskell
4 4 (19.05%) Rust
5 3 (14.29%) Scala
6 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 2 (9.52%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 2 (9.52%) SQL
7 1 (4.76%) Go
7 1 (4.76%) PHP
7 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 5 (23.81%) Master's Degree
3 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Genesys
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) IBM
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) OpenAI
2 1 (4.76%) SAP
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