Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

AI Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median AI Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 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
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 447 624
Rank change year-on-year +119 +177 -125
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 10 2 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.068% 0.008% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.009% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 2
10th Percentile £401 £553 £583
25th Percentile £463 £556 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -8.00% +42.05%
75th Percentile £625 £606 £644
90th Percentile £643 £618 £648
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +19.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,818 22,730 41,957
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.23% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,119 30,513
10th Percentile £325 £359 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £636
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £525
% change year-on-year -2.64% +2.71% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 528 560
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £13.99
25th Percentile £22.58 £25.00 £19.90
Median hourly rate £43.00 £51.57 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.61% +29.72% +70.47%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.33 £59.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.80 £68.88
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 10 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (90.00%) Python
2 9 (90.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (50.00%) LLM
4 4 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) PyTorch
4 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) TensorFlow
4 4 (40.00%) Big Data
5 3 (30.00%) Kafka
5 3 (30.00%) Fintech
5 3 (30.00%) PySpark
5 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (30.00%) Degree
5 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (30.00%) Scala
5 3 (30.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (20.00%) Vertex AI
6 2 (20.00%) Generative AI
6 2 (20.00%) Predictive Modelling
6 2 (20.00%) Use Case
6 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
6 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
6 2 (20.00%) MLOps
6 2 (20.00%) R

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Vertex AI
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Big Data
2 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) Pinecone
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Advertising
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (40.00%) TensorFlow
2 3 (30.00%) Kafka
2 3 (30.00%) PySpark
3 1 (10.00%) Hugging Face
3 1 (10.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) CUDA
3 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (90.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (50.00%) LLM
4 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (30.00%) Fintech
6 2 (20.00%) Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) Generative AI
6 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
6 2 (20.00%) MLOps
6 2 (20.00%) Predictive Modelling
6 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Use Case
7 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 1 (10.00%) Computational Linguistics
7 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
7 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) Scala
4 2 (20.00%) R
5 1 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (10.00%) Clojure
5 1 (10.00%) Haskell
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) IBM