Hybrid/Remote Ray Contract Job Trends

Ray
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Ray 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 316 312 390
Rank change year-on-year -4 +78 +180
Contract jobs citing Ray 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% 0.033% 0.006%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.075% 0.13% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.82%
75th Percentile - - £388
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 £850 £375
% change year-on-year -29.41% +126.67% -40.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Ray falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,671 2,983 4,341
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.23% 24.59% 24.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 1,962 3,140
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 28 48
10th Percentile £31.00 £21.78 £40.22
25th Percentile £40.56 £32.88 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.25 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -7.55% +1.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £77.50
90th Percentile - £89.38 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

Ray
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Ray job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Ray
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Ray
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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) ClickHouse
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Autonomous Agent
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Reinforcement Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) HiveQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCP