Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

AI Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median AI Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 474 617
Rank change year-on-year +135 +143 -134
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 9 2 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.008% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.008% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £379 £553 £458
25th Percentile £478 £556 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +36.36%
75th Percentile £625 £606 £625
90th Percentile £678 £618 £640
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +26.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,165 24,342 42,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,495 17,179 30,870
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.68 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 8 (88.89%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Machine Learning
2 7 (77.78%) Python
3 6 (66.67%) Java
3 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
4 5 (55.56%) LLM
5 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (44.44%) PyTorch
5 4 (44.44%) Big Data
5 4 (44.44%) Data Engineering
5 4 (44.44%) TensorFlow
5 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
6 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (33.33%) Degree
6 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 3 (33.33%) Scala
6 3 (33.33%) Kafka
6 3 (33.33%) Fintech
6 3 (33.33%) PySpark
6 3 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (22.22%) Vertex AI
7 2 (22.22%) Generative AI
7 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
7 2 (22.22%) MLOps
7 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (22.22%) Algorithms
7 2 (22.22%) Analytics
7 2 (22.22%) Use Case
7 2 (22.22%) Mathematics
7 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering

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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Vertex AI
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Big Data
2 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Pinecone
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Advertising
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) PyTorch
1 4 (44.44%) TensorFlow
2 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (33.33%) PySpark
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) Hugging Face
3 1 (11.11%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (22.22%) Algorithms
3 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Machine Learning
2 5 (55.56%) LLM
3 4 (44.44%) Data Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
3 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 3 (33.33%) Fintech
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Generative AI
5 2 (22.22%) Mathematics
5 2 (22.22%) MLOps
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Use Case
6 1 (11.11%) Agile
6 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) Scala
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Clojure
4 1 (11.11%) Haskell
4 1 (11.11%) R
4 1 (11.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) IBM