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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 253 270
Rank change year-on-year +170 +17 -46
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 371 210 425
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.53% 0.88% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 0.98% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 144 299
10th Percentile £363 £413 £446
25th Percentile £450 £457 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% +15.00%
75th Percentile £725 £675 £630
90th Percentile £788 £888 £704
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £588
% change year-on-year - -2.13% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 6
10th Percentile £19.25 £30.00 £22.38
25th Percentile £27.19 £45.63 £33.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.15% +14.41% +12.92%
75th Percentile £73.75 £72.81 £69.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £85.63 £75.63
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £42.00
% change year-on-year - +9.95% +14.29%

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 12,810 21,394 40,150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.31% 89.63% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,622 15,186 29,240
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 497 521
10th Percentile £14.90 £18.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.75 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +68.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £74.40 £78.30 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 5 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.81%) Apache
2 3 (0.81%) Jupyter
2 3 (0.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.54%) CMS
3 2 (0.54%) Drupal
4 1 (0.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.27%) nginx
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 137 (36.93%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.54%) Gliffy
3 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.81%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.54%) Magento
4 2 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.54%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.27%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 74 (19.95%) AWS
2 72 (19.41%) Azure
3 21 (5.66%) GCP
4 19 (5.12%) Cloud Computing
5 18 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (4.31%) Serverless
7 14 (3.77%) Azure AI
8 12 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (2.96%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.96%) GitHub
9 11 (2.96%) Power Platform
10 8 (2.16%) AWS Step Functions
10 8 (2.16%) SaaS
11 6 (1.62%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.35%) ChatGPT
12 5 (1.35%) Twilio
12 5 (1.35%) Vertex AI
13 4 (1.08%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.35%) CTI
1 5 (1.35%) Firewall
1 5 (1.35%) VoIP
2 3 (0.81%) Network Security
3 2 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.54%) Wireless
4 1 (0.27%) 5G
4 1 (0.27%) DHCP
4 1 (0.27%) DNS
4 1 (0.27%) LTE
4 1 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.58%) Big Data
2 9 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.16%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.35%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.08%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.08%) Power BI
7 3 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.54%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.54%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.54%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (0.54%) Metadata
8 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.54%) Redis
8 2 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (2.43%) Git
2 6 (1.62%) JIRA
2 6 (1.62%) Selenium
3 5 (1.35%) CircleCI
3 5 (1.35%) Cypress.io
3 5 (1.35%) WebDriver
4 4 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.54%) GitLab
6 1 (0.27%) Appium
6 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.27%) CMake
6 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.27%) Gradle
6 1 (0.27%) MLflow
General
1 65 (17.52%) Finance
2 57 (15.36%) Social Skills
3 25 (6.74%) Front Office
4 21 (5.66%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.50%) Retail
6 13 (3.50%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.16%) Banking
9 7 (1.89%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.89%) Marketing
10 6 (1.62%) Electronics
10 6 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.08%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.08%) Legal
12 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.81%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 174 (46.90%) Developer
2 126 (33.96%) Software Developer
3 31 (8.36%) Architect
4 30 (8.09%) Senior
5 21 (5.66%) Analyst
5 21 (5.66%) Business Analyst
6 19 (5.12%) Consultant
7 18 (4.85%) Product Manager
8 16 (4.31%) Product Owner
9 15 (4.04%) Business Manager
9 15 (4.04%) Finance Business Analyst
9 15 (4.04%) Finance Manager
9 15 (4.04%) Financial Analyst
9 15 (4.04%) Product Analyst
9 15 (4.04%) Product Business Analyst
10 13 (3.50%) Data Scientist
10 13 (3.50%) Java Developer
10 13 (3.50%) Lead
11 12 (3.23%) Software Engineer
11 12 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (34.50%) HTML
2 21 (5.66%) PyTorch
3 20 (5.39%) TensorFlow
4 14 (3.77%) Node.js
5 12 (3.23%) scikit-learn
6 10 (2.70%) React
6 10 (2.70%) RESTful
7 8 (2.16%) CSS
8 7 (1.89%) AngularJS
8 7 (1.89%) Spring
9 6 (1.62%) Middleware
9 6 (1.62%) Web Services
10 5 (1.35%) .NET
10 5 (1.35%) Flask
10 5 (1.35%) Hugging Face
10 5 (1.35%) Kafka
10 5 (1.35%) LangChain
10 5 (1.35%) NumPy
10 5 (1.35%) Pandas
10 5 (1.35%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.82%) Algorithms
2 19 (5.12%) Equities
3 17 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.04%) Derivative
4 15 (4.04%) Fixed Income
4 15 (4.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (4.04%) Hedge funds
5 13 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.43%) IVR
7 8 (2.16%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.89%) FMCG
9 5 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.08%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.81%) Digital Media
11 3 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.81%) Genomics
11 3 (0.81%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.08%) Linux
2 3 (0.81%) Android
3 2 (0.54%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (39.62%) Software Engineering
2 141 (38.01%) Machine Learning
3 138 (37.20%) Conversational UI
4 126 (33.96%) Code Quality
5 83 (22.37%) Agile
6 61 (16.44%) Analytics
7 50 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (11.59%) DevOps
9 40 (10.78%) Data Science
10 38 (10.24%) Computer Science
11 36 (9.70%) CI/CD
12 33 (8.89%) Natural Language Processing
13 32 (8.63%) Generative AI
14 30 (8.09%) Decision-Making
15 24 (6.47%) Product Management
16 21 (5.66%) LLM
16 21 (5.66%) Roadmaps
16 21 (5.66%) Stakeholder Management
17 20 (5.39%) Deep Learning
18 19 (5.12%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 222 (59.84%) Python
2 183 (49.33%) SQL
3 138 (37.20%) JavaScript
4 132 (35.58%) C#
5 28 (7.55%) Java
6 11 (2.96%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.16%) R
7 8 (2.16%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.62%) C++
8 6 (1.62%) Scala
9 5 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.81%) Go
11 2 (0.54%) Bash
11 2 (0.54%) C
11 2 (0.54%) PHP
11 2 (0.54%) Rust
11 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.27%) Clojure
12 1 (0.27%) Haskell
12 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 161 (43.40%) Degree
2 22 (5.93%) Master's Degree
3 15 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 11 (2.96%) PhD
5 11 (2.96%) Security Cleared
6 10 (2.70%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.89%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.81%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.81%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.81%) PMP
12 2 (0.54%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.27%) CISSP
13 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.16%) QA
2 7 (1.89%) GDPR
3 6 (1.62%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.35%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.08%) Dodd-Frank
5 4 (1.08%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.08%) MiFID
5 4 (1.08%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.81%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (4.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.62%) Terraform
3 4 (1.08%) Grafana
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 121 (32.61%) PayPal
2 35 (9.43%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.77%) Google
4 12 (3.23%) SAP
5 10 (2.70%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.16%) Databricks
7 6 (1.62%) Genesys
7 6 (1.62%) Oracle
8 5 (1.35%) Avaya
8 5 (1.35%) Cisco
9 4 (1.08%) Adobe
9 4 (1.08%) UiPath
10 3 (0.81%) IBM
10 3 (0.81%) Phenom
10 3 (0.81%) Sparx
11 2 (0.54%) Blue Prism
11 2 (0.54%) Hyperion
11 2 (0.54%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.54%) PeopleSoft