Generative AI Contracts with Work from Home Options

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Generative AI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Generative AI over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 30 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile £453 - -
25th Percentile £600 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £819 - -
90th Percentile £875 - -
UK median daily rate £600 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £46.25 - -
90th Percentile £66.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Generative AI is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,465 23,106 40,645
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.81% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,984 16,334 29,499
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 532 548
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Generative AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Generative AI trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Generative AI.

Generative AI daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Generative AI over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Generative AI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Generative AI over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Generative AI hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.33%) Confluence
1 1 (3.33%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (6.67%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (6.67%) NetSuite
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (6.67%) SAP BPC
2 2 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) GCP
3 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.33%) Firebase
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.33%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) Big Data
2 1 (3.33%) GIS
2 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Pinecone
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (30.00%) Finance
2 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 2 (6.67%) Law
4 2 (6.67%) Legal
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Electronics
5 1 (3.33%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Lead
3 4 (13.33%) Consultant
3 4 (13.33%) Gen AI Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Python Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Data Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Data Scientist
5 2 (6.67%) Junior
5 2 (6.67%) Transformation Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Junior Data Scientist
6 1 (3.33%) Product Owner
6 1 (3.33%) QA Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Scientist
6 1 (3.33%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (6.67%) React
1 2 (6.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.33%) CSS
2 1 (3.33%) D3.js
2 1 (3.33%) Django
2 1 (3.33%) Flask
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
2 1 (3.33%) Hugging Face
2 1 (3.33%) Kafka
2 1 (3.33%) LangChain
2 1 (3.33%) Material-UI
2 1 (3.33%) OpenLayers
2 1 (3.33%) PostGIS
2 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.33%) Redux
2 1 (3.33%) Shiny
2 1 (3.33%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.67%) FMCG
2 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.33%) IVR
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) Photography
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (90.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 7 (23.33%) Analytics
3 7 (23.33%) LLM
4 6 (20.00%) Agile
5 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 5 (16.67%) Data Science
5 5 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
5 5 (16.67%) Use Case
6 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (13.33%) OO
6 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.00%) Data Architecture
7 3 (10.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (10.00%) ETL
7 3 (10.00%) Mathematics
7 3 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (10.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) C#
3 1 (3.33%) C++
3 1 (3.33%) Clojure
3 1 (3.33%) Haskell
3 1 (3.33%) Java
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.33%) R
3 1 (3.33%) Rust
3 1 (3.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
1 2 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Databricks
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (10.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (6.67%) Blue Prism
2 2 (6.67%) Hyperion
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) PeopleSoft
2 2 (6.67%) SAP
2 2 (6.67%) UiPath
3 1 (3.33%) Google