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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 307 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Ray 2 6 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.018% 0.056% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.068% 0.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £683 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £727 - -
75th Percentile £770 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £663 £850 -
% change year-on-year -21.97% - -

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 2,941 2,723 3,901
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.44% 25.43% 23.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,931 1,876 2,754
10th Percentile £360 £356 £338
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 25 63
10th Percentile £34.35 £25.65 £26.57
25th Percentile £55.95 £35.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +11.61% -13.85%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £70.94
90th Percentile £76.00 £91.25 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% -19.23%

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%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (50.00%) Vertex AI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
1 1 (50.00%) Model Context Protocol
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%) CUDA
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Agent System
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) RDF
2 1 (50.00%) Reinforcement Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) SPARQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL