Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

AI Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median AI Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £600, 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 282 336 475
Rank change year-on-year +54 +139 +152
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 22 9 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.059% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.063% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 2
10th Percentile £513 £379 £553
25th Percentile £544 £478 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £809 £625 £606
90th Percentile £838 £678 £618
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%

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 Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
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 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 remote working options citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025, 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 22 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 19 (86.36%) Machine Learning
3 16 (72.73%) Python
4 15 (68.18%) Data Science
5 13 (59.09%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (59.09%) Finance
6 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
7 10 (45.45%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (40.91%) Banking
8 9 (40.91%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (36.36%) Critical Thinking
9 8 (36.36%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 8 (36.36%) Community of Practice
9 8 (36.36%) Decision-Making
9 8 (36.36%) Task Automation
9 8 (36.36%) Experimental Design
9 8 (36.36%) Natural Language Processing
9 8 (36.36%) TypeScript
9 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
9 8 (36.36%) Statistical Analysis
9 8 (36.36%) Investment Banking
9 8 (36.36%) Data Security
9 8 (36.36%) Management Information System
9 8 (36.36%) Risk Management
9 8 (36.36%) Java
9 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
10 6 (27.27%) Docker
10 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
11 5 (22.73%) Generative AI
12 4 (18.18%) LLM

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 2 (9.09%) IBM Domino
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) Azure AI
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Neo4j
2 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) MLflow
General
1 13 (59.09%) Finance
2 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 9 (40.91%) Banking
4 8 (36.36%) Investment Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
5 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.55%) Legal
6 1 (4.55%) Marketing
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) NumPy
1 2 (9.09%) Pandas
1 2 (9.09%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.55%) Dask
2 1 (4.55%) LangChain
2 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (36.36%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 19 (86.36%) Machine Learning
3 15 (68.18%) Data Science
4 13 (59.09%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (36.36%) Community of Practice
5 8 (36.36%) Critical Thinking
5 8 (36.36%) Data Security
5 8 (36.36%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 8 (36.36%) Decision-Making
5 8 (36.36%) Experimental Design
5 8 (36.36%) Natural Language Processing
5 8 (36.36%) Risk Management
5 8 (36.36%) Statistical Analysis
5 8 (36.36%) Task Automation
6 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
7 5 (22.73%) Generative AI
8 4 (18.18%) LLM
8 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
9 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
9 3 (13.64%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) Java
2 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 8 (36.36%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.55%) Clojure
3 1 (4.55%) Elixir
3 1 (4.55%) Go
3 1 (4.55%) Haskell
3 1 (4.55%) Rust
3 1 (4.55%) Scala
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) NVIDIA
2 1 (4.55%) OpenAI