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Oct 08, 2026
6 Months or more
AI Engineer at Aviva, London/Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy London Area, United Kingdom
AI Engineer Location: London, UK Wide (50% Remote) Inside / Outside IR35: Inside IR35 Duration: 6 Month Contract A bit about the job   We are looking for an experienced AI Engineer to design, build, deploy and operate AI solutions that deliver measurable business value across Aviva.   This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll own the end-to-end AI lifecycle — from understanding and framing a business problem, through solution design and development, to production deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement.   You’ll work across both traditional machine learning and generative AI, making informed decisions about the right approach for each use case. This could include developing ML models, building LLM-powered features, designing retrieval and prompt pipelines, or combining different AI approaches to deliver the best outcome.   Working as part of a multidisciplinary product or AI...
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Oct 08, 2026
6 Months or more
Python AI Engineer at Deloitte, London, 6 Months, £Competitive Day Rate
Contract Spy London, UK
Job Title: Python AI Engineer Location: London Duration: 6 months Contract Start Date: 12 October Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)   Deloitte Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.   The Role Successful candidate will develop modular Python services across question planning, AI workflow orchestration, information retrieval, evidence processing, LLM integration, response generation and validation. You will work collaboratively with engineering, data, platform and evaluation specialists to translate AI concepts and experiments into...
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Oct 05, 2026
6 Months or more
AI Engineer (Platform Engineering Background) at Xoriant, London Canary Wharf, 6-9 Months, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Canary Wharf, London, UK
Job Title: AI Engineer (Platform Engineering Background) Contract : 6 -9 Months (with Possible extension) Location: Canary Wharf, UK Hybrid (2 days a week)   Role Overview We are looking for a hands-on AI Tools Support Engineer with a strong Platform Engineering/DevOps background to support the setup, configuration, integration, administration, and adoption of modern AI-assisted development tools. This is a short-term, high-impact engagement focused on enabling engineering teams to effectively use AI-powered coding and security platforms. The ideal candidate will have experience working with developer platforms, cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub ecosystem tools, and AI-assisted software development solutions.   Key Responsibilities Configure, deploy, and support AI developer productivity tools such as: Cursor Claude Code OpenAI Codex / CodeX Manage onboarding, access provisioning, licensing, and...
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Oct 01, 2026
6 Months or more
Python AI Engineer at Deloitte, London, 6 Months, £Competitive Day Rate
Contract Spy London, UK
Job Type Contract Date published 30-Sep-2026 Req # 25315 Job description Job Title: Python AI Engineer Location: London Duration: 6 months Contract Start Date: 12 October Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)   Deloitte Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.   The Role Successful candidate will develop modular Python services across question planning, AI workflow orchestration, information retrieval, evidence processing, LLM integration, response generation...
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Sep 28, 2026
6 Months or more
Senior AI Engineer at Oxford Dynamics, Harwell/Remote, 6 Months initial, £700-£900 per day (Outside IR35)
£700 - £900 per day
Contract Spy Hybrid (Harwell, Didcot, UK)
Role: Senior Applied AI Engineer (Private Sector Contractor) Rate: £700–£900 per day, dependent on experience Location: Hybrid: 2 days a week on site at Harwell, Oxfordshire; remainder remote (UK-based) Engagement: Contract, outside IR35: initial [6]-month term with strong likelihood of extension Start: Immediate Start   A note from the Founders   Oxford Dynamics is at an inflection point. We build frontier AI for environments where the cost of a wrong decision is high: defence and national security, critical infrastructure, and commercial organisations making high-stakes decisions on complex data. We are growing fast, and the constraint on how fast is no longer ideas or opportunity. It is whether the systems we ship are good enough for the people who stake decisions on them. That is where you come in. We need engineers who can build the systems this mission depends on, and build them to a standard that holds...
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Sep 24, 2026
6 Months or more
AI Engineer (Platform Engineering Background) at Xoriant, London Canary Wharf, 6-9 Months, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Canary Wharf, London, UK
Job Title: AI Engineer (Platform Engineering Background) Contract : 6 -9 Months (with Possible extension) Location: Canary Wharf, UK Hybrid (2 days a week)   Role Overview We are looking for a hands-on AI Tools Support Engineer with a strong Platform Engineering/DevOps background to support the setup, configuration, integration, administration, and adoption of modern AI-assisted development tools. This is a short-term, high-impact engagement focused on enabling engineering teams to effectively use AI-powered coding and security platforms. The ideal candidate will have experience working with developer platforms, cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub ecosystem tools, and AI-assisted software development solutions.   Key Responsibilities Configure, deploy, and support AI developer productivity tools such as: Cursor Claude Code OpenAI Codex / CodeX Manage onboarding, access provisioning, licensing, and...
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Oct 07, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Platform Engineer (AI, AWS & Developer Experience) at UST, London, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy London, UK
Role description Location: London (Hybrid – 3 days onsite, mandatory) Employment Type : Permanent | Fixed-Term Contract | Contract (Inside IR35) Start Date : Immediate/ Short Notice period About the Role We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer (AI, AWS & Developer Experience) to help design and build the platform from the ground up. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on AWS-native application development, internal developer platforms, agentic AI, automation, and engineering governance. You will create the tools, APIs, developer workflows, AI services, and platform capabilities that accelerate software delivery while embedding security, compliance, and operational excellence by default. Key Responsibilities Build cloud-native platform services, APIs, developer tooling, and automation on AWS. Design and develop AI-powered engineering capabilities using AWS Bedrock and agentic AI frameworks. Create reusable platform...
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Oct 05, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Software Engineer - AI Agent Integrations at OB Collective, Greater London, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Greater London, England, United Kingdom
OB Collective develops independent verification technology for organisations operating in government, regulated and high-assurance environments. Our work is concerned with establishing reliable evidence about information and automated actions before organisations rely on them.   We’re building a senior technical team for a six-to-twelve-month engagement on a UK public-sector R&D programme focused on the cybersecurity and operational assurance of AI agents. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer – AI Agent Integrations to develop the integrations connecting agent environments and enterprise systems with our existing verification capability.   As AI agents gain access to organisational data, credentials, tools, APIs and enterprise systems, organisations need stronger ways to understand what agents are permitted to do, what systems they can access and the actions they actually perform. The programme will extend an existing...
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Oct 01, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior AI & Ab Initio Engineer at Vamstar, United Kingdom, £Contractor Rate
Contract Spy United Kingdom
Title: Senior AI & Ab Initio Engineer - Fintech AI Location: UK only | Remote with few days onsite per month Existing Clients: Large FinTech Company Type: Full-time Contractor   Core responsibilities & objectives Design, build, and migrate Ab Initio workflows to AWS Glue/PySpark. Write production-grade, well-tested Python that processes large volumes of data and documents reliably. Must have hands-on experience using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude) to generate PySpark / AWS Glue code and build test harnesses Own pipeline health: if data is stale, broken, or wrong, it's on you. Work autonomously to project deadlines with minimal hand-holding.   Key qualifications & skills (non-negotiable) 7+ years in backend data-heavy development or data engineering Highly proficient in Python Production experience with Ab Initio deployments and cloud migrations Hands-on experience with large datasets and...
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Sep 30, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Platform Engineer (AI, AWS & Developer Experience) at UST, London, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy London, UK
Location: London (Hybrid – 3 days onsite, mandatory) Employment Type : Permanent | Fixed-Term Contract | Contract (Inside IR35) Start Date : Immediate/ Short Notice period About the Role We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer (AI, AWS & Developer Experience) to help design and build the platform from the ground up. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on AWS-native application development, internal developer platforms, agentic AI, automation, and engineering governance. You will create the tools, APIs, developer workflows, AI services, and platform capabilities that accelerate software delivery while embedding security, compliance, and operational excellence by default. Key Responsibilities Build cloud-native platform services, APIs, developer tooling, and automation on AWS. Design and develop AI-powered engineering capabilities using AWS Bedrock and agentic AI frameworks. Create reusable platform patterns, templates, and...
Contract Spy
Sep 23, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Platform Engineer (AI, AWS & Developer Experience) at UST, London, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy London, UK
Role description Location: London (Hybrid – 3 days onsite, mandatory) Employment Type : Permanent | Fixed-Term Contract | Contract (Inside IR35) Start Date : Immediate/ Short Notice period About the Role We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer (AI, AWS & Developer Experience) to help design and build the platform from the ground up. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on AWS-native application development, internal developer platforms, agentic AI, automation, and engineering governance. You will create the tools, APIs, developer workflows, AI services, and platform capabilities that accelerate software delivery while embedding security, compliance, and operational excellence by default. Key Responsibilities Build cloud-native platform services, APIs, developer tooling, and automation on AWS. Design and develop AI-powered engineering capabilities using AWS Bedrock and agentic AI frameworks. Create reusable platform...
Contract Spy
Sep 24, 2026
Hourly/Freelance
AppSec Engineer at The Ai Training Company, Remote, £Hourly Rate
Contract Spy Remote (United Kingdom)
Application Security Specialists, API Developers & Backend Engineers. Remote AI Project   We are seeking experienced Backend Engineers, Software Engineers, API Developers, Distributed Systems Engineers, Platform Engineers, and Security-Focused Developers to create realistic coding tasks used to train and evaluate advanced AI systems.   What You’ll Do   Create realistic software engineering tasks based on production-style backend systems Design feature implementation challenges Create bug-fixing and debugging tasks Develop tasks involving APIs, services, databases, networking, and distributed systems Write deterministic verifiers and automated graders Ensure multiple reasonable correct implementations can pass Ensure incomplete, hardcoded, or incorrect solutions fail Design hidden tests and edge cases Create reference or golden solutions Review AI-generated code for correctness, maintainability,...
Contract Spy
Oct 09, 2026
Duration not stated
Principal Salesforce Engineer at Funding Circle, London, £Contract Rate (Outside IR35)
Contract Spy London, UK
We’re on a mission to back the UK’s small businesses like no one else Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and we’re here to help them win. We’ve built a platform that uses clever data to get them the funding they need in minutes, not weeks.   At Funding Circle, we have the restless energy of a fintech start-up with the stability of a public company. It’s a unique mix that gives Circlers the autonomy to take ownership and the scale to make an impact that truly counts.   We’re a high-performing team that chooses to lift each other up. We challenge, we champion, and we have each other’s backs - because we know that when we stand together, we move faster and build better.   The impact is real: Last year alone, the businesses on our platform generated £7.2bn for the UK economy Come and join a mission that matters! [Read our Impact Report] | [See our Trustpilot]   The...
Contract Spy
Oct 09, 2026
up to 6 Months
Automation Tester at Inspired Thinking Group (ITG), UK, 3 Months, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy United Kingdom
We are looking for a skilled and proactive QA Automation Engineer with at least 3 years of hands-on experience in QA automation testing. The successful candidate will design, develop, maintain, and improve automated test suites for assigned projects, primarily using Selenium WebDriver with Java, JUnit or TestNG, and a Page Object Model framework. This role requires ownership of end-to-end testing activities across Agile or Kanban delivery teams, including test planning, automation development, pipeline execution, defect analysis, and collaboration with development teams and stakeholders. Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain automation test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, Java, JUnit or TestNG, and the Page Object Model framework. Own and manage end-to-end automation testing activities for assigned Agile or Kanban projects. Build, enhance, and maintain reusable automation frameworks, libraries, utilities, and test data solutions. Create, execute, and...
Contract Spy
Oct 09, 2026
Duration not stated
Principal Data Engineer at Sky, Livingston, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Livingston, West Lothian, UK
We don't just believe in better. We make it happen. ? Better content. Better products. And better careers.? Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, Sky Stream to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate. We turn big ideas into the products, content and services millions of people love. And we do it all right here at Sky.? Team overview ?: Our vision is to enable Sky's growth ambitions though Data and AI: deepening customer relationships, optimising commercial performance, and enhancing operational efficiency. Principal Engineers operate within defined domains and provide leadership to our Solution Architects. With deep technical expertise, they act as Technical Leads, shaping future-ready frameworks that support our strategic objectives. They set, evolve, and uphold engineering standards across the team, continually raising the bar for quality, innovation,...
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Oct 08, 2026
6 Months or more
Data Engineer at Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, UK Office/Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Hybrid (UK)
As a  Data Engineer  , your main responsibilities will be:   SC/DV Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.   Key Responsibilities Assess and define requirements for data engineering activities across the MoG programme Design and develop scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines Support the implementation and enhancement of data platform components Deliver and maintain data integrations and APIs Build and optimise AI data feeds and training data pipelines Improve and maintain data quality, validation, and trust frameworks Develop automation scripts to support engineering and operational...
Contract Spy
Oct 08, 2026
up to 6 Months
Senior Product Engineer at Wonderbly, Central London, 4 Months, £Freelance Rate
Contract Spy Brownlow Mews, London WC1N 2LD, UK
3-4 days per week, hybrid work policy in central London office We're looking for a freelance product engineer to join us between June and October 2026, working primarily on wonderbly.com with a focus on driving growth into Q4. This is a hands-on role. The work involves close collaboration with the VP product and other teams to solve deep customer experience challenges around our Kids and Keepsake landing pages and journeys, in order to unlock growth in these key areas for the business. You'll be working within a small, focused team — and at least some of the time, with a fair amount of autonomy. We're not looking for someone to execute a perfect brief. We're looking for someone with the judgment to help us figure out the right thing to build, and then build it well. A few things that are important to us The work you're doing feeds directly into beautifully made, deeply personal books that people treasure. People’s perception of quality has to be...
Contract Spy
Oct 08, 2026
6 Months or more
DevOps and Automation Engineer at Tokio Marine, London, 6 Months, £Contract Rate (Outside IR35)
Contract Spy London, UK
DevOps and Automation Engineer Contract: Outside IR35 Duration: 6 months   Why Tokio Marine HCC? Standing still is not an option in the current world of Insurance. TMHCC are one of the world’s leading Specialty Insurers. With deep expertise in our chosen lines of business, our unparalleled track record and a solid balance sheet, TMHCC evaluates and manages risk like no one else in the industry. Looking beyond profit, empowering our people and delivering on our commitments are at the core of our customer values, and so is a desire to grow and provide creative and innovative solutions to our clients.   This assignment will be to work with the DevOps and Automation Manager to create and deliver the DevOps and Automation roadmap with a heavy focus on “Everything Ephemeral” including Agentic AI and ephemeral environments.   Key responsibilities and deliverables: Liaise closely with IT Delivery Managers, including...
Contract Spy
Oct 08, 2026
6 Months or more
Senior Data Engineer at LTM Limited, Sheffield, 6 Months, £65 per hour
Contract Spy Sheffield, UK
Role description Role Senior Data Engineer Sheffield, UK 6 Months contract Rate: 65 GBP per hour inside IR35   Experience 7 to 11   Responsibilities Design build and maintain largescale data pipelines and ETL workflows across enterprise datasets Ingest provision and manage raw enriched and curated data assets for analytics platforms Improve reliability scalability and realtime data ingestion capabilities Support and enhance cloudbased data ingestion infrastructure and platform services Acquire transport clean transform and integrate data from internal and external sources Perform exploratory data analysis and onboard new data sources Develop automated data engineering workflows and optimize data processing pipelines Manage data modelling data warehousing data integration and data cataloguing activities Support realtime analytics and streaming data platforms Contribute to cloud infrastructure...
Contract Spy
Oct 08, 2026
up to 6 Months
Senior Product Engineer at Yonder, London Brick Lane, 3 Months, £600-£650 per day (Outside IR35)
£600 - £650 per day
Contract Spy Brick Lane, London, UK
What’s Yonder? “It's as if Time Out, Amex and Monzo had a baby” - Will T, Yonder Member Yonder combines credit and debit in one membership that’s fair, flexible and actually enjoyable. No jargon. No dusty points system. Just rewards that actually feel rewarding, from bao to beer to a boarding pass. The engineering team sits at the heart of the company; we work in squads alongside product and design, and closely with risk, compliance, operations and partnerships. Sounds cool. What’s my part in this? We’re looking for an experienced Senior Product Engineer on a 3-month contract to add delivery capacity to our engineering team. The work is primarily Scala backend, but we don’t believe in rigid boundaries; everyone is encouraged to contribute wherever the problem takes them, whether that’s infrastructure, the mobile app (React Native) or the webapp (Next.js). You’ll be working alongside a small engineering...
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