Artificial Intelligence Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 61 251
Rank change year-on-year -6 +190 +6
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 347 480 242
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.50% 3.13% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 3.56% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 160 156
10th Percentile £374 £396 £413
25th Percentile £430 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.78%
75th Percentile £725 £713 £650
90th Percentile £881 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £575 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -0.86% +0.87% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 11
10th Percentile £20.67 £19.26 -
25th Percentile £22.55 £31.09 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 £38.65 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.03% -3.37% -32.20%
75th Percentile £27.98 £73.13 £68.13
90th Percentile £34.88 £78.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £46.18 £50.50
% change year-on-year -16.63% -8.55% +27.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Artificial Intelligence 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 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Artificial Intelligence
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Artificial Intelligence
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.

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

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

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 16 (4.61%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.73%) Confluence
3 5 (1.44%) Apache
3 5 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.86%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.58%) Camunda
6 2 (0.58%) CMS
6 2 (0.58%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.58%) SAS
7 1 (0.29%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (3.17%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.58%) Camtasia
3 2 (0.58%) Weka
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.29%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.29%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.29%) Revit
4 1 (0.29%) Sketch
4 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) Primavera
2 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.29%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.29%) UltiPro
2 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 94 (27.09%) Azure
2 83 (23.92%) AWS
3 44 (12.68%) GCP
4 30 (8.65%) Power Platform
5 22 (6.34%) GitHub
6 19 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
8 17 (4.90%) Serverless
9 13 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (3.17%) SaaS
11 10 (2.88%) Amazon SageMaker
12 9 (2.59%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.59%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (2.59%) Entra ID
12 9 (2.59%) Snowflake
13 8 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (2.31%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (1.73%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.44%) Firewall
2 4 (1.15%) HTTP
3 2 (0.58%) InfiniBand
3 2 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.58%) LTE
3 2 (0.58%) Network Security
4 1 (0.29%) DNS
4 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.29%) MQTT
4 1 (0.29%) NAS
4 1 (0.29%) SMTP
4 1 (0.29%) SNMP
4 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.92%) Power BI
2 22 (6.34%) Big Data
3 13 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.46%) BigQuery
5 11 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.17%) Tableau
6 9 (2.59%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.73%) DynamoDB
7 6 (1.73%) MySQL
7 6 (1.73%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.44%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.44%) Data Mining
8 5 (1.44%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.44%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.15%) Metadata
10 3 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.86%) Looker
10 3 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (8.65%) Jenkins
2 17 (4.90%) Git
3 15 (4.32%) JIRA
4 9 (2.59%) GitLab
5 8 (2.31%) MLflow
6 5 (1.44%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.44%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.86%) Mocha
7 3 (0.86%) Postman
7 3 (0.86%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.58%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.58%) Subversion
9 1 (0.29%) CMake
9 1 (0.29%) ERwin
9 1 (0.29%) Hudson
9 1 (0.29%) JUnit
9 1 (0.29%) Mockito
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.29%) PVCS
General
1 87 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 65 (18.73%) Finance
3 64 (18.44%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (14.41%) Banking
5 37 (10.66%) Investment Banking
6 26 (7.49%) Public Sector
7 18 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (4.32%) Marketing
9 14 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (3.17%) Legal
10 11 (3.17%) Retail
11 10 (2.88%) Front Office
12 7 (2.02%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.73%) Games
13 6 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.15%) Advertising
14 4 (1.15%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.15%) Law
14 4 (1.15%) Military
14 4 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (26.51%) Developer
2 42 (12.10%) Python Developer
3 38 (10.95%) Senior
4 31 (8.93%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 25 (7.20%) Architect
6 24 (6.92%) Gen AI Developer
7 22 (6.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 22 (6.34%) Data Engineer
8 20 (5.76%) Consultant
9 19 (5.48%) Data Scientist
10 17 (4.90%) Lead
11 16 (4.61%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (3.46%) Python Engineer
12 12 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (3.17%) Project Manager
14 10 (2.88%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (2.88%) JavaScript Engineer
14 10 (2.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 10 (2.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (13.26%) React
2 41 (11.82%) FastAPI
3 27 (7.78%) .NET
3 27 (7.78%) Django
4 24 (6.92%) TensorFlow
5 22 (6.34%) HTML
5 22 (6.34%) PyTorch
6 17 (4.90%) CSS
7 15 (4.32%) Node.js
8 10 (2.88%) Kafka
8 10 (2.88%) scikit-learn
9 9 (2.59%) AngularJS
9 9 (2.59%) LangChain
10 8 (2.31%) Flask
10 8 (2.31%) NumPy
10 8 (2.31%) Pandas
11 7 (2.02%) RESTful
12 6 (1.73%) JSON
12 6 (1.73%) Play Framework
12 6 (1.73%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.51%) Algorithms
2 19 (5.48%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.03%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.17%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.02%) IoT
6 7 (2.02%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.44%) Animation
8 5 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.44%) Device Driver
8 5 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (1.44%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.15%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.15%) FMCG
9 4 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.15%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.32%) Linux
2 11 (3.17%) Windows
3 5 (1.44%) Android
4 4 (1.15%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) Unix
6 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (49.86%) Machine Learning
2 90 (25.94%) Generative AI
2 90 (25.94%) Problem-Solving
3 83 (23.92%) Agile
3 83 (23.92%) Data Science
4 80 (23.05%) LLM
5 78 (22.48%) CI/CD
6 76 (21.90%) DevOps
7 57 (16.43%) Analytics
8 39 (11.24%) Decision-Making
8 39 (11.24%) Software Engineering
9 38 (10.95%) SDLC
10 37 (10.66%) Business Intelligence
11 35 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (9.51%) Data Engineering
13 32 (9.22%) Data Pipeline
13 32 (9.22%) Use Case
14 28 (8.07%) Natural Language Processing
15 27 (7.78%) Data Modelling
15 27 (7.78%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 171 (49.28%) Python
2 90 (25.94%) SQL
3 50 (14.41%) Java
4 42 (12.10%) JavaScript
5 40 (11.53%) TypeScript
6 30 (8.65%) C#
7 12 (3.46%) C++
8 10 (2.88%) C
9 9 (2.59%) R
10 8 (2.31%) Scala
11 6 (1.73%) Bash
12 5 (1.44%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.44%) Rust
13 4 (1.15%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.86%) Go
15 2 (0.58%) Perl
15 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.58%) Ruby
15 2 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (13.26%) Degree
2 37 (10.66%) Security Cleared
3 33 (9.51%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.44%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.44%) CISSP
7 5 (1.44%) PhD
8 3 (0.86%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.86%) PMP
9 2 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.58%) GIAC
9 2 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.32%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.31%) GDPR
4 6 (1.73%) QA
5 5 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.86%) NIST
7 2 (0.58%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.58%) NCSC
7 2 (0.58%) PMO
8 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (16.71%) Docker
2 7 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.44%) Firmware
4 2 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (17.00%) Kubernetes
2 27 (7.78%) Terraform
3 26 (7.49%) Ansible
4 6 (1.73%) Grafana
5 5 (1.44%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.15%) Kubeflow
6 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.58%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.58%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.58%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.58%) QRadar
8 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 36 (10.37%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.05%) Google
3 20 (5.76%) Databricks
4 15 (4.32%) Oracle
5 9 (2.59%) SAP
6 8 (2.31%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.02%) PayPal
7 7 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.44%) Splunk
9 4 (1.15%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.86%) BMC
10 3 (0.86%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.86%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.86%) VMware
10 3 (0.86%) Workday
11 2 (0.58%) IBM
11 2 (0.58%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.58%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.58%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.58%) Remedy