Hybrid/Remote Generative AI Contract Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Generative AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 261 368
Rank change year-on-year +100 +107 -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 167 55 23
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.64% 0.45% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 0.51% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 27 14
10th Percentile £408 £400 £415
25th Percentile £447 £484 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
75th Percentile £700 £856 £844
90th Percentile £800 £881 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £21.65 -
25th Percentile £55.95 £22.25 -
Median hourly rate £57.30 £23.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +143.83% - -
75th Percentile £58.65 £24.75 -
90th Percentile - £25.35 -
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £23.50 -
% change year-on-year +89.36% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Generative AI 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 9,282 10,741 15,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.14% 88.53% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,142 6,773 10,840
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 222 384
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.58 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £41.59 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Generative AI job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Generative AI
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Generative AI over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

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

Generative AI
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Generative AI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Generative AI

Generative AI
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 6 (3.59%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.40%) Confluence
4 2 (1.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.60%) Camunda
5 1 (0.60%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (6.59%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.60%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.60%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (40.12%) AWS
2 55 (32.93%) Azure
3 21 (12.57%) GCP
4 15 (8.98%) GitHub
5 14 (8.38%) Snowflake
6 13 (7.78%) Cloud Computing
6 13 (7.78%) Serverless
7 11 (6.59%) Power Platform
8 9 (5.39%) Vertex AI
9 8 (4.79%) Azure Machine Learning
10 7 (4.19%) Anthropic Claude
11 6 (3.59%) Amazon Bedrock
11 6 (3.59%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.59%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (3.59%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 6 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.59%) Azure AI
11 6 (3.59%) Dialogflow
12 5 (2.99%) dbt
12 5 (2.99%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.40%) VPN
2 3 (1.80%) Intranet
2 3 (1.80%) Skype
3 1 (0.60%) Broadband
3 1 (0.60%) MPLS
3 1 (0.60%) MQTT
3 1 (0.60%) NaaS
3 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.60%) VLAN
3 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.99%) Pinecone
2 8 (4.79%) Power BI
3 7 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.19%) Weaviate
4 6 (3.59%) Tableau
5 3 (1.80%) Data Vault
5 3 (1.80%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.80%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.80%) Redis
5 3 (1.80%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.20%) Big Data
6 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.60%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.60%) Metadata
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (12.57%) Git
2 6 (3.59%) JIRA
3 5 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.40%) MLflow
5 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.60%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.60%) Postman
5 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.60%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (32.34%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.57%) Finance
3 16 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.59%) Banking
4 11 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.39%) Marketing
6 5 (2.99%) Retail
6 5 (2.99%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.40%) Legal
7 4 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.80%) German Language
8 3 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.60%) Automotive
10 1 (0.60%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 57 (34.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 22 (13.17%) Gen AI Engineer
3 19 (11.38%) Developer
4 18 (10.78%) Architect
4 18 (10.78%) Lead
5 15 (8.98%) Senior
6 11 (6.59%) Analyst
7 9 (5.39%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 8 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) Python Engineer
9 7 (4.19%) Data Scientist
10 6 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 6 (3.59%) Project Manager
11 5 (2.99%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.99%) Consultant
11 5 (2.99%) Data Engineer
11 5 (2.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (2.99%) Python Developer
12 4 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.97%) FastAPI
2 22 (13.17%) PyTorch
3 19 (11.38%) TensorFlow
4 18 (10.78%) LangChain
5 13 (7.78%) Node.js
6 10 (5.99%) scikit-learn
7 8 (4.79%) Faiss
7 8 (4.79%) Hugging Face
7 8 (4.79%) React
8 7 (4.19%) Pandas
8 7 (4.19%) SQLAlchemy
9 6 (3.59%) REST
10 5 (2.99%) AWS CDK
10 5 (2.99%) LangGraph
10 5 (2.99%) NumPy
10 5 (2.99%) RESTful
11 4 (2.40%) CrewAI
11 4 (2.40%) Kafka
11 4 (2.40%) Next.js
11 4 (2.40%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.57%) AI Agents
2 16 (9.58%) Algorithms
3 11 (6.59%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.40%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.80%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.20%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.60%) Animation
7 1 (0.60%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.60%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.40%) Windows
2 3 (1.80%) Linux
2 3 (1.80%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.60%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (93.41%) AI
2 76 (45.51%) LLM
3 74 (44.31%) Machine Learning
4 43 (25.75%) Agile
5 42 (25.15%) Prompt Engineering
6 37 (22.16%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 31 (18.56%) CI/CD
7 31 (18.56%) Data Science
7 31 (18.56%) Roadmaps
8 30 (17.96%) Analytics
9 27 (16.17%) Data Engineering
9 27 (16.17%) Use Case
10 25 (14.97%) Conversational UI
11 23 (13.77%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (11.98%) Decision-Making
12 20 (11.98%) Natural Language Processing
12 20 (11.98%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (11.38%) Computer Science
13 19 (11.38%) Conversational AI
13 19 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 84 (50.30%) Python
2 22 (13.17%) SQL
3 11 (6.59%) TypeScript
4 10 (5.99%) Java
5 5 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.40%) Bash
6 4 (2.40%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.80%) R
8 2 (1.20%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.20%) Go
9 1 (0.60%) ABAP
9 1 (0.60%) CLIST
9 1 (0.60%) JCL
9 1 (0.60%) REXX
Qualifications
1 28 (16.77%) Degree
2 16 (9.58%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.19%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.19%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.59%) PhD
6 4 (2.40%) CISSP
7 3 (1.80%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.80%) CISA
7 3 (1.80%) CISM
7 3 (1.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 3 (1.80%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.20%) PMP
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.60%) CBAP
9 1 (0.60%) MBA
9 1 (0.60%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.60%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.39%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.99%) PMO
3 4 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.40%) QA
4 3 (1.80%) COBIT
4 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.80%) NIST
4 3 (1.80%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.60%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.60%) SLA
6 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (15.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) KVM
2 1 (0.60%) RACF
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (8.98%) Terraform
2 10 (5.99%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.20%) Knative
4 1 (0.60%) zSecure
Vendors
1 21 (12.57%) Databricks
2 20 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.98%) OpenAI
3 16 (9.58%) Google
4 5 (2.99%) Adobe
4 5 (2.99%) Cisco
4 5 (2.99%) IBM
5 4 (2.40%) Remedy
5 4 (2.40%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.80%) Citrix
6 3 (1.80%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (1.80%) Rapid7
6 3 (1.80%) SAP
7 2 (1.20%) Cognos
7 2 (1.20%) Foundry
7 2 (1.20%) Sage
7 2 (1.20%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.60%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.60%) UiPath