Hybrid/Remote AutoML Contract Job Trends

Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring AutoML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AutoML 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.008% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £800 -
% change year-on-year -31.25% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

AutoML 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 10,816 8,733 12,874
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.53% 91.33% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,974 5,978 8,669
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -3.31%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 519 207 573
10th Percentile £17.23 £13.85 £14.90
25th Percentile £30.88 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £36.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.72% -16.28% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £27.59 £36.05
% change year-on-year +52.71% -23.47% -0.22%

AutoML
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

AutoML job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

AutoML
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

AutoML
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Spark Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks