Artificial Intelligence Developer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

AI Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median AI Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £838, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 339 -
Rank change year-on-year +66 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Developer 31 6 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.039% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.042% -
Number of daily rates quoted 26 4 0
10th Percentile £638 - -
25th Percentile £794 £825 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £838 £850 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% - -
75th Percentile £881 £875 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £838 £708 £725
% change year-on-year +18.37% -2.41% -

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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Artificial Intelligence Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Artificial Intelligence Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Artificial Intelligence Developer.

Artificial Intelligence Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Artificial Intelligence Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Artificial Intelligence Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 29 (93.55%) Python
3 26 (83.87%) LLM
4 25 (80.65%) Generative AI
4 25 (80.65%) Machine Learning
5 24 (77.42%) CI/CD
6 23 (74.19%) DevOps
7 22 (70.97%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (70.97%) FastAPI
8 21 (67.74%) C#
8 21 (67.74%) Java
8 21 (67.74%) Agile
9 20 (64.52%) Banking
9 20 (64.52%) SQL
9 20 (64.52%) .NET
9 20 (64.52%) Investment Banking
9 20 (64.52%) Django
9 20 (64.52%) Use Case
9 20 (64.52%) Jenkins
9 20 (64.52%) TypeScript
9 20 (64.52%) Technical Analysis
9 20 (64.52%) Ansible
9 20 (64.52%) Docker
9 20 (64.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (64.52%) Kubernetes
9 20 (64.52%) React
9 20 (64.52%) SDLC
10 18 (58.06%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (16.13%) Azure
12 4 (12.90%) AWS

Artificial Intelligence Developer 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 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) AWS
3 2 (6.45%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (6.45%) Azure Functions
3 2 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (6.45%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (3.23%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (3.23%) Azure AI
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Run
4 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Big Data
1 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.23%) Pinecone
1 1 (3.23%) Redis
1 1 (3.23%) Tableau
1 1 (3.23%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 20 (64.52%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (70.97%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (64.52%) Banking
2 20 (64.52%) Investment Banking
3 18 (58.06%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Finance
5 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.23%) Games
5 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (70.97%) FastAPI
2 20 (64.52%) .NET
2 20 (64.52%) Django
2 20 (64.52%) React
3 4 (12.90%) PyTorch
3 4 (12.90%) TensorFlow
4 3 (9.68%) Hugging Face
4 3 (9.68%) LangChain
5 2 (6.45%) SpaCy
6 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.23%) Matplotlib
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (3.23%) Middleware
6 1 (3.23%) NumPy
6 1 (3.23%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (3.23%) Pandas
6 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.23%) scikit-learn
6 1 (3.23%) Seaborn
6 1 (3.23%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.45%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.23%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 26 (83.87%) LLM
3 25 (80.65%) Generative AI
3 25 (80.65%) Machine Learning
4 24 (77.42%) CI/CD
5 23 (74.19%) DevOps
6 21 (67.74%) Agile
7 20 (64.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (64.52%) SDLC
7 20 (64.52%) Technical Analysis
7 20 (64.52%) Use Case
8 4 (12.90%) Decision-Making
9 3 (9.68%) Natural Language Processing
10 2 (6.45%) Data Privacy
10 2 (6.45%) Data Security
10 2 (6.45%) Performance Optimisation
10 2 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (6.45%) Prototyping
10 2 (6.45%) Validation
10 2 (6.45%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 29 (93.55%) Python
2 21 (67.74%) C#
2 21 (67.74%) Java
3 20 (64.52%) SQL
3 20 (64.52%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.23%) Go
4 1 (3.23%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (64.52%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (64.52%) Ansible
1 20 (64.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
1 3 (9.68%) OpenAI
2 2 (6.45%) Google
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