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Top AI Agencies in the UK
The register lists 45 curated AI agencies in the UK across 4 cities (London, Manchester, Birmingham, Belfast). The top-ranked for 2026 are Datatonic, Satalia, and Faculty. Listed rates in the UK run €65–110/hr across 27 rated agencies.
- Number of agencies
- 45
- Cities covered
- London, Manchester, Birmingham, Belfast
- Listed hourly rates in the UK
- €65–110/hr (27 rated agencies)
- Working language
- English
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AI Consulting Rates in the UK
Listed agency hourly rates in the UK by seniority. The listed range is €65–110/hr; junior-staffed work sits at the lower end and senior- or lead-led work at the top.
25th–75th percentile of 27 listed agency rate ranges in the UK, from the European AI agency rate index.
| Role | Typical hourly rate |
|---|---|
| Junior / mid consultant | €65–80/hr |
| Senior consultant | €80–95/hr |
| Lead / principal | €95–110/hr |
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London (31)
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Datatonic
London
Best for: Enterprises standardizing ML delivery on Google Cloud or AWS, especially where a regulator has to be satisfied.
Satalia
London
Best for: Enterprises with a scheduling, routing or workforce-allocation problem big enough to justify operations-research specialists.
Faculty
London
Best for: Enterprises and public bodies that need AI deployed under regulatory or safety scrutiny.
Fast Data Science
London
Best for: Pharma, research and public-sector buyers with an NLP problem on unstructured documents that has to survive review.
Brainpool
London
Best for: Operators with a measurable production bottleneck AI can remove—from timber design queues to e-commerce pipelines.
Manchester (6)
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Digica
Manchester
Digica is a Manchester AI software company working in computer vision, sensor fusion and embedded machine learning, taking systems from prototype into production.
Fuzzy Labs
Manchester
Best for: Teams with a model that works in a notebook and needs to run, and keep running, in production.
Sputnik Digital
Manchester
Best for: Early-stage software companies adding an AI feature that has to work on day one of the pitch.
Tiksom
Manchester
Best for: Startups needing an agent system designed rather than assembled, from a shop whose wider client list runs to UNICEF and Erasmus MC.
Ortom
Manchester
Best for: SMEs with one well-defined machine-learning problem who want a senior practitioner on it directly.
Birmingham (5)
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Blueberry Consultants
Birmingham
Best for: Businesses hardening an AI prototype into a supportable production application, or embedding an LLM into software they already run.
Wolf Logic
Birmingham
Wolf Logic is a West Midlands software company that rebuilt its delivery around an in-house AI orchestration platform, working on custom systems, legacy modernization and agent workflows for healthcare, industrial and public clients.
B13 AI
Birmingham
Best for: UK founders and small product teams who need a build partner at UK-regional rates, with AI as one component of a wider system.
Catalyst Marketing Agency
Birmingham
Catalyst Marketing Agency is a Birmingham lead-generation agency with London and Dubai offices, running search, content and paid media with a generative engine optimization practice for UK mid-market clients.
Opace
Birmingham
Opace is a Birmingham digital consultancy running an AI practice across chatbots, agents, process automation and AI-driven marketing for UK businesses.
Belfast (3)
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Kainos
Belfast
Best for: UK public bodies and regulated enterprises buying delivery at program scale, with AI as one workstream inside a larger build.
Analytics Engines
Belfast
Best for: Public bodies and research organizations that need messy data unified and throughput measured before any model work starts.
Sonrai Analytics
Belfast
Best for: Diagnostics and pharma teams that need multi-omic and pathology data analyzed by named scientists, with a regulatory path in view.
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What to Know Before Hiring in the UK
Rated agencies in the UK list €65–110/hr — the 25th–75th percentile of 27 listed rate ranges on our rate index. Junior-to-mid consultants sit toward the lower end of that range, senior and lead consultants toward the top. For medians and typical bands by region, country and team size, see the rate index at /rates.
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