Hybrid/Remote Gen AI Engineer Contract Job Trends

Generative AI Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Generative AI Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
22 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 316 369
Rank change year-on-year +19 +53 -
Contract jobs requiring a Gen AI Engineer 23 1 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.23% 0.009% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.009% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 1
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £502 £775 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £850
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% -
75th Percentile - £825 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £775 £850
% change year-on-year -29.03% -8.82% -

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 remote/hybrid work 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 9,514 10,727 15,855
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 93.10% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 6,777 10,863
10th Percentile £330 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 194 350
10th Percentile £15.23 £18.65 £17.74
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.50 £27.06
Median hourly rate £45.46 £36.85 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.38% -30.48% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.55
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.48% -26.67% +50.00%

Gen AI Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Gen AI Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Gen AI Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Gen AI Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Gen AI Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Gen AI Engineer job vacancies

Gen AI Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Gen AI Engineer over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Gen AI Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Gen AI Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 22 December 2025, Gen AI Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Gen AI Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) AI
1 23 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 20 (86.96%) Machine Learning
2 20 (86.96%) Prompt Engineering
3 19 (82.61%) LLM
4 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
4 11 (47.83%) Data Engineering
4 11 (47.83%) Docker
4 11 (47.83%) Python
4 11 (47.83%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 10 (43.48%) Azure
5 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
5 10 (43.48%) Git
6 9 (39.13%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (39.13%) Data Governance
6 9 (39.13%) Data Privacy
6 9 (39.13%) Databricks
6 9 (39.13%) PyTorch
6 9 (39.13%) Snowflake
6 9 (39.13%) TensorFlow
6 9 (39.13%) Use Case
7 8 (34.78%) Roadmaps
8 7 (30.43%) AWS
8 7 (30.43%) Computer Science
8 7 (30.43%) Degree
8 7 (30.43%) Statistics
9 6 (26.09%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (26.09%) LangChain
10 5 (21.74%) Agile

Gen AI Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) Cloud Computing
2 9 (39.13%) Snowflake
3 7 (30.43%) AWS
4 4 (17.39%) Vertex AI
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (13.04%) Serverless
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.70%) GCP
7 1 (4.35%) Azure AI
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Run
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub
7 1 (4.35%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Pinecone
1 5 (21.74%) Weaviate
2 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) Redis
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Gemini Tracker
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Banking
2 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) PyTorch
1 9 (39.13%) TensorFlow
2 6 (26.09%) LangChain
3 5 (21.74%) Node.js
4 4 (17.39%) Faiss
4 4 (17.39%) FastAPI
5 3 (13.04%) LangGraph
6 2 (8.70%) Flask
6 2 (8.70%) Hugging Face
6 2 (8.70%) pytest
6 2 (8.70%) React
7 1 (4.35%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Algorithms
2 5 (21.74%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) AI
1 23 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 20 (86.96%) Machine Learning
2 20 (86.96%) Prompt Engineering
3 19 (82.61%) LLM
4 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
4 11 (47.83%) Data Engineering
4 11 (47.83%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
6 9 (39.13%) Data Governance
6 9 (39.13%) Data Privacy
6 9 (39.13%) Use Case
7 8 (34.78%) Roadmaps
8 7 (30.43%) Computer Science
8 7 (30.43%) Statistics
9 6 (26.09%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (21.74%) Agile
10 5 (21.74%) Analytics
10 5 (21.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Databricks
2 2 (8.70%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.35%) Google
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