Practice
AI / ML, Data Science, Ontology and Knowledge Graphs
Applied Machine Learning, GenAI, MLOps, Data Scientists, Ontologists.
What we're seeing in the market
“The European GenAI contract market got serious in 2026 — buyers stopped funding demos and started funding shipped systems. The contractors winning are MLOps-literate engineers who can deploy, monitor and govern an LLM, not prompt-engineers with a Substack.”
AddanEx desk — AI / ML, Data Science, Ontology and Knowledge Graphs
Applied ML engineers, LLM / GenAI specialists, MLOps platform engineers, Data Scientists and Ontologists — placed into European teams that need models, knowledge graphs and insight in production, not in notebooks.
We brief honestly on AI readiness — if your data platform isn't there yet, we'll tell you before opening the search.
2026 European Contract Benchmarks
Rate bands.
Indicative ranges based on contract placements made by AddanEx in 2025–26 across the Nordics, Benelux, DACH and UK & Ireland.
By region — rates.
Sourced 2026
| Role | Nordics | Benelux | DACH | UK & Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied ML Engineer | €720–980/day | €740–1,000/day | €760–1,020/day | €780–1,040/day |
| GenAI / LLM Engineer | €820–1,180/day | €840–1,200/day | €860–1,220/day | €880–1,240/day |
| MLOps Engineer | €720–980/day | €740–1,000/day | €760–1,020/day | €780–1,040/day |
| Head of AI (interim) | €1,120–1,560/day | €1,140–1,580/day | €1,160–1,600/day | €1,180–1,620/day |
Sources: TalentUp Europe 2026, Honeypot.io 2026 European Tech Salary Report, Onsiter EU rate index, Eurostat ICT wage data 2025, cross-checked against AddanEx contract placements 2025–26.
Recent placements
Amsterdam
GenAI Engineering Lead (12-month)
London
MLOps Platform Lead (interim)
Berlin
Applied ML Engineer (6-month)
Common questions
- Do you cover GenAI specifically?
- Yes — LLM engineers, RAG architects, vector-search specialists and AI safety / evaluation contractors.
- Do you place first AI hires?
- Often. We help founders shape the first AI brief properly so the contract delivers something shippable, not a demo.
Other sectors
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS, Azure and GCP architects, platform engineers and SREs across Europe.
Business Intelligence
All BI tools from DWH, ETL to front-end reports and dashboards — or full-stack. New and legacy.
Data Engineering
Snowflake, Databricks, dbt and Microsoft Fabric contract specialists across Europe.
Advanced Analytics
Analytics managers, data scientists and ML engineers — European contract only.
Software Engineering
Front-end, back-end and full-stack contractors — product engineers who ship, across Europe.
Cyber Security & Governance
Security architects, GRC leads and data protection specialists across regulated European industries.
SAP
SAP contractors across every module, function and role — S/4HANA transformations and BAU.
Leadership & Architecture
Interim C-level, Heads of, Enterprise and Solution Architects, Programme Managers across Europe.
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