Artificial Intelligence Contracts with Work from Home Options

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Artificial Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 257 256
Rank change year-on-year +196 -1 -39
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 481 234 460
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.17% 0.92% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 1.02% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 153 344
10th Percentile £393 £413 £427
25th Percentile £466 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.78% +12.38%
75th Percentile £719 £650 £650
90th Percentile £788 £795 £723
UK median daily rate £586 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +1.96% -4.17% +12.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 6
10th Percentile £19.26 - £22.38
25th Percentile £31.09 £20.00 £33.25
Median hourly rate £38.65 £40.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -32.20% +88.20%
75th Percentile £73.13 £68.75 £69.75
90th Percentile £78.38 £75.50 £75.63
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £45.25 £42.00
% change year-on-year +2.06% +7.74% +13.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Artificial Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,319 22,924 40,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 16,193 29,494
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 527 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.67 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Artificial Intelligence
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Artificial Intelligence trend for jobs with a WFH option

Artificial Intelligence
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.

Artificial Intelligence daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Artificial Intelligence daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Artificial Intelligence hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Artificial Intelligence hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Artificial Intelligence
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 5 (1.04%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.83%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.62%) Apache
3 3 (0.62%) Confluence
3 3 (0.62%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.21%) nginx
Applications
1 253 (52.60%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.21%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.42%) Magento
5 2 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.42%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.21%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 63 (13.10%) Azure
2 56 (11.64%) AWS
3 20 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (3.53%) GCP
4 17 (3.53%) Power Platform
5 12 (2.49%) Serverless
6 11 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.08%) GitHub
8 9 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (1.66%) Amazon S3
9 8 (1.66%) SaaS
10 7 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.25%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (1.25%) ChatGPT
12 5 (1.04%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (0.83%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 4 (0.83%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.83%) Rekognition
13 4 (0.83%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.04%) Firewall
2 3 (0.62%) Network Security
3 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.57%) Big Data
2 10 (2.08%) Power BI
3 9 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.25%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (1.04%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.04%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.62%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.42%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.42%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (0.42%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.42%) Redis
8 2 (0.42%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.42%) Tableau
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (1.87%) JIRA
2 6 (1.25%) Selenium
3 5 (1.04%) Git
3 5 (1.04%) WebDriver
4 4 (0.83%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.83%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.42%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.42%) GitLab
6 1 (0.21%) Appium
6 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.21%) CMake
6 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.21%) Gradle
General
1 56 (11.64%) Finance
2 49 (10.19%) Social Skills
3 29 (6.03%) Public Sector
4 21 (4.37%) Front Office
5 18 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.29%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.87%) Marketing
9 8 (1.66%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.46%) Banking
10 7 (1.46%) Electronics
10 7 (1.46%) Retail
11 6 (1.25%) Law
11 6 (1.25%) Legal
11 6 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.04%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.83%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.42%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 287 (59.67%) Developer
2 243 (50.52%) Software Developer
3 27 (5.61%) Architect
4 26 (5.41%) Senior
5 20 (4.16%) Consultant
6 19 (3.95%) Analyst
6 19 (3.95%) Business Analyst
6 19 (3.95%) Lead
7 13 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (2.70%) Product Manager
7 13 (2.70%) Product Owner
8 12 (2.49%) Business Manager
8 12 (2.49%) Finance Business Analyst
8 12 (2.49%) Finance Manager
8 12 (2.49%) Financial Analyst
8 12 (2.49%) Product Analyst
8 12 (2.49%) Product Business Analyst
9 11 (2.29%) Data Scientist
9 11 (2.29%) Java Developer
10 10 (2.08%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (26.20%) HTML
2 16 (3.33%) TensorFlow
3 14 (2.91%) PyTorch
4 10 (2.08%) RESTful
5 9 (1.87%) Node.js
5 9 (1.87%) scikit-learn
6 8 (1.66%) React
7 7 (1.46%) Kafka
8 6 (1.25%) CSS
9 5 (1.04%) Pandas
9 5 (1.04%) Spring
10 4 (0.83%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.83%) LangChain
10 4 (0.83%) XGBoost
11 3 (0.62%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.62%) Flask
11 3 (0.62%) Hugging Face
11 3 (0.62%) Matplotlib
11 3 (0.62%) OpenAPI
11 3 (0.62%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.57%) Algorithms
2 15 (3.12%) Equities
2 15 (3.12%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.49%) Derivative
3 12 (2.49%) Fixed Income
3 12 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (2.49%) Hedge funds
4 7 (1.46%) Data Structures
4 7 (1.46%) IVR
5 5 (1.04%) FMCG
5 5 (1.04%) Onboarding
6 4 (0.83%) Cloud Native
6 4 (0.83%) Genomics
7 3 (0.62%) Digital Media
7 3 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.62%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.62%) Reference Data
7 3 (0.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.42%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.04%) Linux
2 3 (0.62%) Android
3 2 (0.42%) Windows
4 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (52.81%) Conversational UI
2 247 (51.35%) Code Quality
3 139 (28.90%) Software Engineering
4 136 (28.27%) Machine Learning
5 73 (15.18%) Agile
6 54 (11.23%) Analytics
7 44 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (8.73%) Data Science
9 40 (8.32%) DevOps
10 34 (7.07%) Computer Science
11 31 (6.44%) CI/CD
12 27 (5.61%) Decision-Making
12 27 (5.61%) Generative AI
13 25 (5.20%) Natural Language Processing
14 22 (4.57%) Roadmaps
15 21 (4.37%) Product Management
16 19 (3.95%) Data Analysis
16 19 (3.95%) Data Governance
16 19 (3.95%) LLM
17 18 (3.74%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 211 (43.87%) Python
2 178 (37.01%) SQL
3 133 (27.65%) JavaScript
4 129 (26.82%) C#
5 27 (5.61%) Java
6 9 (1.87%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.87%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.66%) Scala
8 6 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.83%) C++
9 4 (0.83%) R
10 2 (0.42%) Go
10 2 (0.42%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.21%) C
11 1 (0.21%) Clojure
11 1 (0.21%) Haskell
11 1 (0.21%) PHP
11 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.21%) Rust
Qualifications
1 277 (57.59%) Degree
2 18 (3.74%) Master's Degree
3 14 (2.91%) PhD
4 12 (2.49%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.49%) Security Cleared
5 7 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.04%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.62%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.62%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.62%) PMP
8 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.21%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.21%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.29%) QA
2 6 (1.25%) GDPR
3 4 (0.83%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.83%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.83%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (0.83%) MiFID
4 3 (0.62%) NCSC
5 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (2.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (2.08%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.83%) Grafana
2 4 (0.83%) Terraform
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 241 (50.10%) PayPal
2 29 (6.03%) Microsoft
3 14 (2.91%) SAP
4 10 (2.08%) Databricks
5 9 (1.87%) Google
5 9 (1.87%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.46%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.25%) Oracle
8 4 (0.83%) Adobe
8 4 (0.83%) Genesys
8 4 (0.83%) UiPath
9 3 (0.62%) Phenom
9 3 (0.62%) Sparx
10 2 (0.42%) Avaya
10 2 (0.42%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.42%) Hyperion
10 2 (0.42%) IBM
10 2 (0.42%) NVIDIA
10 2 (0.42%) PeopleSoft
11 1 (0.21%) Anaplan