Generative AI Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Generative AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Generative AI over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 414 -
Rank change year-on-year +125 - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 42 8 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.039% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.044% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 0
10th Percentile £261 £395 -
25th Percentile £466 £423 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% - -
75th Percentile £697 £628 -
90th Percentile £747 £715 -
UK median daily rate £613 £582 -
% change year-on-year +5.31% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 - -

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 11,137 18,164 37,730
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.94% 89.42% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,115 12,806 27,368
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £432 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £748 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 437 488
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.75 £14.96
25th Percentile £30.36 £26.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +5.00% +131.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.90 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £42.50 £28.90
% change year-on-year +1.18% +47.06% +34.42%

Generative AI
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

Generative AI
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

Generative AI
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 20 September 2024.

Generative AI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Generative AI
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 2 (4.76%) Apache
1 2 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (2.38%) Drupal
2 1 (2.38%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (7.14%) NetSuite
1 3 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (7.14%) SAP BPC
1 3 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (33.33%) Azure
2 12 (28.57%) AWS
3 7 (16.67%) GCP
4 3 (7.14%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (7.14%) ChatGPT
4 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub
5 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.38%) Alation
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.38%) Google Gemini
6 1 (2.38%) OCI
6 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.38%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.38%) Big Data
2 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.38%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.38%) GIS
2 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.38%) Metadata
2 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.38%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Git
General
1 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Retail
5 1 (2.38%) Electronics
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Legal
5 1 (2.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 6 (14.29%) Data Scientist
1 6 (14.29%) Senior
2 5 (11.90%) Developer
3 4 (9.52%) Architect
3 4 (9.52%) Consultant
3 4 (9.52%) Head of AI
3 4 (9.52%) Lead
3 4 (9.52%) Senior Data Scientist
3 4 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.14%) Lead Data Scientist
4 3 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Product Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Transformation Consultant
5 2 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Development Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Senior Development Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Technical Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) LangChain
1 4 (9.52%) PyTorch
1 4 (9.52%) TensorFlow
2 3 (7.14%) FastAPI
2 3 (7.14%) Hugging Face
2 3 (7.14%) Node.js
2 3 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (4.76%) HTML
3 2 (4.76%) React
4 1 (2.38%) CSS
4 1 (2.38%) D3.js
4 1 (2.38%) Google JAX
4 1 (2.38%) HTML5
4 1 (2.38%) NumPy
4 1 (2.38%) OpenLayers
4 1 (2.38%) PySpark
4 1 (2.38%) SAPUI5
4 1 (2.38%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.38%) Shiny
4 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.76%) Blockchain
3 2 (4.76%) FMCG
3 2 (4.76%) Tandem
4 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.38%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.38%) IVR
4 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.38%) Photography
4 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (97.62%) Artificial Intelligence
2 25 (59.52%) Machine Learning
3 17 (40.48%) LLM
4 12 (28.57%) Data Science
5 7 (16.67%) Analytics
5 7 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
5 7 (16.67%) Use Case
6 6 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 6 (14.29%) Deep Learning
6 6 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 6 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 5 (11.90%) Software Engineering
8 4 (9.52%) Prompt Engineering
8 4 (9.52%) Visualisation
9 3 (7.14%) Customer Experience
9 3 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (7.14%) Performance Monitoring
9 3 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (7.14%) Roadmaps
9 3 (7.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 23 (54.76%) Python
2 5 (11.90%) SQL
3 3 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (4.76%) C++
4 2 (4.76%) R
5 1 (2.38%) Bash
5 1 (2.38%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (9.52%) Master's Degree
3 3 (7.14%) PhD
4 2 (4.76%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) Google
2 5 (11.90%) SAP
3 4 (9.52%) OpenAI
3 4 (9.52%) Oracle
4 3 (7.14%) Blue Prism
4 3 (7.14%) Hyperion
4 3 (7.14%) PeopleSoft
4 3 (7.14%) UiPath
5 2 (4.76%) Databricks
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.38%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.38%) IBM