Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts in London

AI Engineer
England > London

The median AI Engineer daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 479 -
Rank change year-on-year +97 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 18 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.012% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.013% -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 0
10th Percentile £393 £555 -
25th Percentile £450 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £800 £744 -
90th Percentile £875 £815 -
England median daily rate £518 £600 -
% change year-on-year -13.75% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Engineer in London

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Central London - 5 £525 -
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 London region featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 15 (83.33%) Machine Learning
3 13 (72.22%) Python
4 11 (61.11%) LLM
5 9 (50.00%) Java
6 7 (38.89%) C#
6 7 (38.89%) Degree
6 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
7 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 6 (33.33%) Algorithms
7 6 (33.33%) Generative AI
8 5 (27.78%) Master's Degree
8 5 (27.78%) Rust
8 5 (27.78%) Clojure
8 5 (27.78%) Banking
8 5 (27.78%) Use Case
8 5 (27.78%) Haskell
8 5 (27.78%) Finance
9 4 (22.22%) Structured Programming
9 4 (22.22%) Analytics
9 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
9 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
10 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (16.67%) Kafka
10 3 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
10 3 (16.67%) SDLC
10 3 (16.67%) Deep Learning
10 3 (16.67%) REST

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Chatbot
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (11.11%) Lucidchart
2 2 (11.11%) Serverless
2 2 (11.11%) Vertex AI
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (5.56%) Azure AI
3 1 (5.56%) ChatGPT
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.56%) IBM Watson
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 2 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 5 (27.78%) Banking
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Advertising
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Kafka
1 3 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) Hugging Face
3 1 (5.56%) LangChain
3 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) CUDA
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 15 (83.33%) Machine Learning
3 11 (61.11%) LLM
4 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
5 6 (33.33%) Generative AI
5 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 5 (27.78%) Use Case
7 4 (22.22%) Analytics
7 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (22.22%) Structured Programming
8 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 3 (16.67%) Deep Learning
8 3 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
8 3 (16.67%) SDLC
9 2 (11.11%) Conversational UI
9 2 (11.11%) Data Science
9 2 (11.11%) MLOps
9 2 (11.11%) OOP
9 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
9 2 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) Java
3 7 (38.89%) C#
4 5 (27.78%) Clojure
4 5 (27.78%) Haskell
4 5 (27.78%) Rust
5 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) Go
6 1 (5.56%) PHP
6 1 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
2 5 (27.78%) Master's Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Genesys
1 2 (11.11%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) IBM
21 Artificial Intelligence Engineer jobs in England