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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 293 408
Rank change year-on-year +104 +115 -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 118 42 8
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.20% 0.33% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.38% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 15 7
10th Percentile £400 £261 £395
25th Percentile £420 £466 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% -5.34% -
75th Percentile £638 £697 £628
90th Percentile £767 £747 £715
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £591
% change year-on-year -8.33% +1.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £48.25 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -39.69% - -

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 9,040 11,178 18,207
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 92.28% 87.92% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,003 7,141 12,829
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 296 436
10th Percentile £12.62 £17.88 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £29.63 £26.18
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -18.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.14 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £82.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +53.66%

Generative AI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Generative AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Generative AI trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Generative AI
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

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

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Generative AI over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Generative AI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Generative AI
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

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

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 6 (5.08%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.39%) Confluence
3 2 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.85%) Apache
4 1 (0.85%) IIS
4 1 (0.85%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (42.37%) AWS
2 46 (38.98%) Azure
3 21 (17.80%) GCP
4 12 (10.17%) GitHub
5 10 (8.47%) Serverless
6 8 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.93%) Power Platform
8 6 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.24%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.24%) Dialogflow
10 4 (3.39%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (3.39%) Figma
11 3 (2.54%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (2.54%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (2.54%) Apigee
11 3 (2.54%) Azure API Management
11 3 (2.54%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (2.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) Intranet
2 1 (0.85%) DNS
2 1 (0.85%) HTTP
2 1 (0.85%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.85%) SMTP
2 1 (0.85%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.08%) Tableau
2 4 (3.39%) Big Data
2 4 (3.39%) Hadoop
2 4 (3.39%) Pinecone
2 4 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.39%) Power BI
3 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.69%) Data Vault
4 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.85%) Flink
5 1 (0.85%) Looker
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.85%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Git
2 6 (5.08%) JIRA
3 5 (4.24%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.54%) MLflow
5 2 (1.69%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.69%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.85%) Hudson
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.85%) Postman
6 1 (0.85%) Subversion
General
1 41 (34.75%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.49%) Finance
3 19 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.56%) Banking
5 9 (7.63%) Marketing
6 8 (6.78%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.08%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.08%) Retail
8 5 (4.24%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (3.39%) Retail Banking
9 4 (3.39%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.54%) Front Office
10 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.54%) Legal
11 2 (1.69%) German Language
11 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.69%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.85%) Automotive
12 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (21.19%) Developer
2 15 (12.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 14 (11.86%) Senior
4 10 (8.47%) Analyst
4 10 (8.47%) Architect
4 10 (8.47%) Lead
5 9 (7.63%) Python Developer
6 8 (6.78%) Consultant
7 7 (5.93%) Data Scientist
7 7 (5.93%) Gen AI Developer
7 7 (5.93%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 6 (5.08%) Business Analyst
8 6 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.24%) React Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Security Consultant
10 4 (3.39%) Data Science Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.56%) PyTorch
2 15 (12.71%) TensorFlow
3 12 (10.17%) LangChain
4 11 (9.32%) FastAPI
5 10 (8.47%) scikit-learn
6 8 (6.78%) React
7 7 (5.93%) Pandas
8 6 (5.08%) Hugging Face
8 6 (5.08%) NumPy
9 5 (4.24%) AWS CDK
9 5 (4.24%) JSON
9 5 (4.24%) Node.js
9 5 (4.24%) REST
10 4 (3.39%) HTML
10 4 (3.39%) Matplotlib
10 4 (3.39%) Seaborn
10 4 (3.39%) SQLAlchemy
11 3 (2.54%) Flask
11 3 (2.54%) GraphQL
11 3 (2.54%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.32%) AI Agents
2 10 (8.47%) Algorithms
3 6 (5.08%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.08%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.54%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.85%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) SCADA
7 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.85%) Linux
1 1 (0.85%) Windows
1 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (90.68%) Artificial Intelligence
2 54 (45.76%) Machine Learning
3 45 (38.14%) LLM
4 32 (27.12%) Data Science
5 31 (26.27%) Agile
6 23 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (18.64%) Analytics
7 22 (18.64%) DevOps
8 21 (17.80%) CI/CD
9 15 (12.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (12.71%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 14 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (11.02%) MLOps
11 13 (11.02%) Natural Language Processing
11 13 (11.02%) Use Case
12 12 (10.17%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (10.17%) SDLC
12 12 (10.17%) Software Engineering
13 11 (9.32%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (9.32%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 63 (53.39%) Python
2 26 (22.03%) SQL
3 9 (7.63%) TypeScript
4 8 (6.78%) Java
5 6 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.08%) R
6 3 (2.54%) Scala
7 2 (1.69%) Go
8 1 (0.85%) Bash
8 1 (0.85%) C#
8 1 (0.85%) C++
8 1 (0.85%) Perl
8 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (13.56%) Degree
2 8 (6.78%) AWS Certification
2 8 (6.78%) CISSP
2 8 (6.78%) Master's Degree
3 7 (5.93%) PhD
4 4 (3.39%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.54%) CISA
5 3 (2.54%) CISM
5 3 (2.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 3 (2.54%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.69%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) CBAP
7 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) MBA
7 1 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.47%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.08%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.54%) COBIT
3 3 (2.54%) GDPR
3 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (2.54%) NIST
3 3 (2.54%) NIST 800
3 3 (2.54%) PMO
4 2 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.69%) GRC
4 2 (1.69%) QA
5 1 (0.85%) HIPAA
System Software
1 15 (12.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (10.17%) Terraform
2 11 (9.32%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.69%) Ansible
4 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (11.86%) OpenAI
2 13 (11.02%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.47%) Google
4 8 (6.78%) Databricks
5 5 (4.24%) Oracle
6 3 (2.54%) Adobe
6 3 (2.54%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.69%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.69%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.85%) Foundry
8 1 (0.85%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.85%) IBM
8 1 (0.85%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.85%) Remedy
8 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.85%) SAP
8 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.85%) Splunk