Artificial Intelligence Contracts with Work from Home Options

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Artificial Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 251 255
Rank change year-on-year +176 +4 -31
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 403 221 446
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.74% 0.89% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% 0.99% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 146 323
10th Percentile £378 £413 £436
25th Percentile £463 £452 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £561 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% -2.39% +9.52%
75th Percentile £725 £650 £647
90th Percentile £788 £841 £719
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £591
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.75% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 6
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £22.38
25th Percentile £27.19 £30.00 £33.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +10.17% +88.20%
75th Percentile £73.75 £69.38 £69.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £81.00 £75.63
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £40.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year +14.02% -3.57% +33.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Artificial Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,944 22,223 40,220
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.86% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,720 15,728 29,204
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 510 531
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Artificial Intelligence
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Artificial Intelligence trend for jobs with a WFH option

Artificial Intelligence
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 Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Artificial Intelligence daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Artificial Intelligence
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Artificial Intelligence over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Artificial Intelligence hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Artificial Intelligence
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 4 (0.99%) Apache Spark
1 4 (0.99%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.74%) Apache
2 3 (0.74%) Confluence
2 3 (0.74%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
4 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 165 (40.94%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.25%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.99%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.50%) Magento
5 2 (0.50%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.50%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.25%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 71 (17.62%) AWS
2 70 (17.37%) Azure
3 21 (5.21%) GCP
4 20 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (4.47%) Cloud Computing
6 17 (4.22%) Serverless
7 16 (3.97%) Power Platform
8 14 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.23%) Amazon S3
10 10 (2.48%) GitHub
11 8 (1.99%) Amazon SageMaker
11 8 (1.99%) AWS Step Functions
11 8 (1.99%) SaaS
12 6 (1.49%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.49%) Textract
13 5 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (1.24%) Twilio
14 4 (0.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.24%) CTI
1 5 (1.24%) Firewall
1 5 (1.24%) VoIP
2 3 (0.74%) Network Security
3 1 (0.25%) 5G
3 1 (0.25%) DHCP
3 1 (0.25%) DNS
3 1 (0.25%) LTE
3 1 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.25%) VPN
3 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.46%) Big Data
2 11 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.23%) Power BI
4 8 (1.99%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (1.49%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.24%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.74%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.50%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.50%) InterSystems Cache
10 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.50%) Redis
10 2 (0.50%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.50%) Tableau
11 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.23%) JIRA
2 8 (1.99%) Git
3 6 (1.49%) Selenium
4 5 (1.24%) CircleCI
4 5 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.24%) WebDriver
5 4 (0.99%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.50%) GitLab
7 1 (0.25%) Appium
7 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.25%) CMake
7 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.25%) Gradle
General
1 63 (15.63%) Finance
2 50 (12.41%) Social Skills
3 32 (7.94%) Public Sector
4 23 (5.71%) Front Office
5 19 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.47%) Telecoms
7 12 (2.98%) Retail
8 10 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.23%) Marketing
10 8 (1.99%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.74%) Electronics
12 6 (1.49%) Banking
12 6 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.24%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.24%) Law
13 5 (1.24%) Legal
14 4 (0.99%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 201 (49.88%) Developer
2 154 (38.21%) Software Developer
3 33 (8.19%) Architect
4 29 (7.20%) Senior
5 19 (4.71%) Analyst
5 19 (4.71%) Business Analyst
5 19 (4.71%) Consultant
6 17 (4.22%) Lead
7 15 (3.72%) Product Manager
8 14 (3.47%) Product Owner
9 13 (3.23%) Business Manager
9 13 (3.23%) Finance Business Analyst
9 13 (3.23%) Finance Manager
9 13 (3.23%) Financial Analyst
9 13 (3.23%) Product Analyst
9 13 (3.23%) Product Business Analyst
10 12 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (2.98%) Data Scientist
10 12 (2.98%) Java Developer
10 12 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (31.27%) HTML
2 19 (4.71%) PyTorch
2 19 (4.71%) TensorFlow
3 12 (2.98%) Node.js
3 12 (2.98%) scikit-learn
4 11 (2.73%) RESTful
5 9 (2.23%) React
6 7 (1.74%) Kafka
7 6 (1.49%) AWS CDK
7 6 (1.49%) CSS
7 6 (1.49%) Middleware
7 6 (1.49%) Spring
7 6 (1.49%) Web Services
8 5 (1.24%) .NET
8 5 (1.24%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.24%) NumPy
8 5 (1.24%) Pandas
8 5 (1.24%) XGBoost
9 4 (0.99%) Flask
9 4 (0.99%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.20%) Algorithms
2 17 (4.22%) Equities
3 15 (3.72%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.23%) Derivative
4 13 (3.23%) Fixed Income
4 13 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (3.23%) Hedge funds
5 10 (2.48%) IVR
6 8 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.24%) FMCG
8 5 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.24%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.99%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.99%) Genomics
10 3 (0.74%) Digital Media
10 3 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.74%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.24%) Linux
2 3 (0.74%) Android
3 2 (0.50%) Windows
4 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (41.19%) Conversational UI
2 159 (39.45%) Code Quality
3 144 (35.73%) Software Engineering
4 142 (35.24%) Machine Learning
5 86 (21.34%) Agile
6 60 (14.89%) Analytics
7 46 (11.41%) DevOps
7 46 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (10.17%) Data Science
9 37 (9.18%) Computer Science
10 35 (8.68%) CI/CD
11 29 (7.20%) Generative AI
12 28 (6.95%) Decision-Making
12 28 (6.95%) Natural Language Processing
13 24 (5.96%) Product Management
14 22 (5.46%) LLM
14 22 (5.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (4.96%) CRM
15 20 (4.96%) Roadmaps
16 19 (4.71%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 216 (53.60%) Python
2 180 (44.67%) SQL
3 136 (33.75%) JavaScript
4 130 (32.26%) C#
5 27 (6.70%) Java
6 11 (2.73%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.48%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.74%) Scala
9 6 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.99%) C++
10 4 (0.99%) R
11 3 (0.74%) Go
12 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.25%) C
13 1 (0.25%) Clojure
13 1 (0.25%) Haskell
13 1 (0.25%) PHP
13 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 190 (47.15%) Degree
2 21 (5.21%) Master's Degree
3 12 (2.98%) Azure Certification
3 12 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.98%) PhD
3 12 (2.98%) SC Cleared
3 12 (2.98%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.74%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.74%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.74%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.74%) PMP
8 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.25%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.25%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.73%) GDPR
1 11 (2.73%) QA
2 6 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.24%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.99%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.99%) HIPAA
4 4 (0.99%) MiFID
4 4 (0.99%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.74%) NCSC
6 1 (0.25%) NIST
6 1 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (4.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.49%) Grafana
2 6 (1.49%) Terraform
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 151 (37.47%) PayPal
2 34 (8.44%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.72%) Google
4 14 (3.47%) SAP
5 10 (2.48%) Databricks
5 10 (2.48%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.99%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.74%) Genesys
8 6 (1.49%) Avaya
8 6 (1.49%) Oracle
9 5 (1.24%) Cisco
10 4 (0.99%) Adobe
10 4 (0.99%) UiPath
11 3 (0.74%) IBM
11 3 (0.74%) Phenom
11 3 (0.74%) Sparx
12 2 (0.50%) Blue Prism
12 2 (0.50%) Hyperion
12 2 (0.50%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.50%) PeopleSoft