Artificial Intelligence Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

AI Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median AI Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £91,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 586 670
Rank change year-on-year +213 +84 +178
Permanent jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Engineer 24 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.018% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.018% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 12 6 3
10th Percentile £47,925 £45,625 £60,500
25th Percentile £64,500 £46,250 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £55,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +65.91% -31.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £63,438 £89,375
90th Percentile - £92,500 £89,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £73,125
% change year-on-year -5.56% +23.08% +17.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Artificial Intelligence Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Artificial Intelligence Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 22 (91.67%) Python
3 17 (70.83%) Machine Learning
3 17 (70.83%) Generative AI
4 13 (54.17%) LLM
5 12 (50.00%) MLOps
5 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 12 (50.00%) Software Engineering
6 11 (45.83%) Law
6 11 (45.83%) Accessibility
7 10 (41.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 10 (41.67%) Kubernetes
7 10 (41.67%) Degree
8 8 (33.33%) Finance
9 7 (29.17%) Algorithms
9 7 (29.17%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (29.17%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (29.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (25.00%) Rust
10 6 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (25.00%) SDLC
10 6 (25.00%) Public Cloud
10 6 (25.00%) Elixir
10 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
10 6 (25.00%) Robotics
10 6 (25.00%) Use Case
10 6 (25.00%) Scala
10 6 (25.00%) Clojure
10 6 (25.00%) REST
10 6 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) Azure
1 3 (12.50%) Serverless
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (8.33%) Azure AI
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Couchbase
2 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (45.83%) Law
2 8 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Games
4 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Electronics
5 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (8.33%) PyTorch
2 2 (8.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.17%) OpenCV
3 1 (4.17%) OpenVINO
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) RESTful
3 1 (4.17%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Algorithms
1 7 (29.17%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 6 (25.00%) Robotics
3 2 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.17%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) IoT
4 1 (4.17%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 17 (70.83%) Generative AI
2 17 (70.83%) Machine Learning
3 13 (54.17%) LLM
4 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (50.00%) MLOps
4 12 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 10 (41.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 7 (29.17%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (29.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 6 (25.00%) SDLC
7 6 (25.00%) Use Case
8 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.83%) User Experience
9 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
9 4 (16.67%) ETL Development
9 4 (16.67%) Open Source
9 4 (16.67%) Pair Programming
9 4 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) Clojure
2 6 (25.00%) Elixir
2 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (25.00%) Rust
2 6 (25.00%) Scala
3 4 (16.67%) Go
4 2 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) C++
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Numerate Degree
2 2 (8.33%) PhD
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (45.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (4.17%) SAP