Hybrid/Remote EU AI Act Contract Job Trends

European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring EU AI Act skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 313 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing EU AI Act 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.079% 0.009% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.44% 0.065% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% - -
75th Percentile £638 £425 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £588 £459 -
% change year-on-year +28.04% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

EU AI Act falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,832 1,544 2,541
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 18.01% 13.24% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,223 954 1,766
10th Percentile £325 £252 £325
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £699 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 42 58
10th Percentile £18.85 £15.50 £14.11
25th Percentile £30.75 £21.25 £19.46
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +126.42% -19.70% -5.71%
75th Percentile £65.14 £49.13 £56.63
90th Percentile £70.03 £67.25 £70.57
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.05% -21.43% +55.87%

EU AI Act
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

EU AI Act job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

EU AI Act
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing EU AI Act.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing EU AI Act

EU AI Act
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
1 1 (12.50%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) Risk Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Google JAX
1 1 (12.50%) JAX
1 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
1 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) AI
1 7 (87.50%) LLM
1 7 (87.50%) Regulatory Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) Risk Management
2 6 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 6 (75.00%) Deep Learning
3 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (62.50%) OWASP
3 5 (62.50%) Risk Analysis
3 5 (62.50%) Risk Assessment
3 5 (62.50%) Use Case
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (12.50%) DataOps
5 1 (12.50%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C
1 1 (12.50%) C++
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes