Hybrid/Remote AI Transformation Contract Job Trends

AI Transformation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring AI Transformation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 319 -
Rank change year-on-year +24 - -
Contract jobs citing AI Transformation 10 5 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.10% 0.040% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.045% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £420 £427 -
25th Percentile £450 £482 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £613 £553 -
90th Percentile £680 £581 -
UK median daily rate £700 £850 -
% change year-on-year -17.65% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

AI Transformation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,919 11,034 17,626
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 92.14% 88.07% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,929 6,969 12,381
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 271 422
10th Percentile £13.00 £20.00 £18.49
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.00 £25.24
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -18.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -2.35% +45.65%

AI Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI Transformation and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AI Transformation job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

AI Transformation
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AI Transformation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AI Transformation

AI Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AI Transformation over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

AI Transformation daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AI Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Pinecone
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Gen AI Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Sales Director
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) LangChain
2 2 (20.00%) LangGraph
3 1 (10.00%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (10.00%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (40.00%) Business Transformation
3 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (30.00%) B2B
4 3 (30.00%) B2B Sales
4 3 (30.00%) Coaching
4 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (30.00%) Generative AI
4 3 (30.00%) LLM
4 3 (30.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Prototyping
4 3 (30.00%) Robotic Process Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Use Case
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Intelligent Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 2 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CISM
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAI