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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 260 266
Rank change year-on-year +176 +6 -54
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 367 215 435
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.51% 0.89% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 1.00% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 145 308
10th Percentile £363 £413 £450
25th Percentile £456 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +12.20%
75th Percentile £725 £670 £632
90th Percentile £788 £873 £706
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £589
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.34% +7.29%
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% +41.74%
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 12,820 21,608 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,645 15,332 29,227
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 516
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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 1 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 1 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 3 (0.82%) Apache Spark
1 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
1 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.54%) Apache
2 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.27%) Confluence
3 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.27%) nginx
3 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 137 (37.33%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.54%) Gliffy
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.36%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.82%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.82%) 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 71 (19.35%) AWS
2 69 (18.80%) Azure
3 21 (5.72%) GCP
4 19 (5.18%) Cloud Computing
5 18 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (4.09%) Serverless
7 12 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.00%) Amazon S3
8 11 (3.00%) GitHub
8 11 (3.00%) Power Platform
9 8 (2.18%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (2.18%) SaaS
10 6 (1.63%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.36%) Twilio
11 5 (1.36%) Vertex AI
12 4 (1.09%) ChatGPT
12 4 (1.09%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.09%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.36%) CTI
1 5 (1.36%) Firewall
1 5 (1.36%) VoIP
2 3 (0.82%) 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 (4.63%) Big Data
2 9 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.18%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.63%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.09%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.09%) Power BI
7 3 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.54%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
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
9 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.18%) Git
2 7 (1.91%) JIRA
3 6 (1.63%) Selenium
4 5 (1.36%) CircleCI
4 5 (1.36%) WebDriver
5 4 (1.09%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.09%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.54%) GitLab
7 1 (0.27%) Appium
7 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.27%) CMake
7 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.27%) Gradle
General
1 65 (17.71%) Finance
2 55 (14.99%) Social Skills
3 24 (6.54%) Front Office
4 23 (6.27%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.54%) Retail
6 13 (3.54%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.18%) Banking
9 7 (1.91%) Legal
9 7 (1.91%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.91%) Marketing
10 6 (1.63%) Electronics
10 6 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.36%) Law
12 4 (1.09%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.09%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.82%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 172 (46.87%) Developer
2 126 (34.33%) Software Developer
3 33 (8.99%) Architect
4 28 (7.63%) Senior
5 20 (5.45%) Analyst
5 20 (5.45%) Business Analyst
6 19 (5.18%) Consultant
7 18 (4.90%) Lead
8 16 (4.36%) Product Manager
9 15 (4.09%) Product Owner
10 14 (3.81%) Business Manager
10 14 (3.81%) Finance Business Analyst
10 14 (3.81%) Finance Manager
10 14 (3.81%) Financial Analyst
10 14 (3.81%) Product Analyst
10 14 (3.81%) Product Business Analyst
11 13 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.27%) Java Developer
13 11 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (3.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (34.88%) HTML
2 21 (5.72%) PyTorch
3 20 (5.45%) TensorFlow
4 13 (3.54%) Node.js
5 12 (3.27%) scikit-learn
6 10 (2.72%) RESTful
7 9 (2.45%) React
8 8 (2.18%) CSS
9 6 (1.63%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.63%) Middleware
9 6 (1.63%) Spring
9 6 (1.63%) Web Services
10 5 (1.36%) .NET
10 5 (1.36%) Kafka
10 5 (1.36%) NumPy
10 5 (1.36%) Pandas
10 5 (1.36%) XGBoost
11 4 (1.09%) AWS CDK
11 4 (1.09%) Hugging Face
11 4 (1.09%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.36%) Algorithms
2 18 (4.90%) Equities
3 16 (4.36%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.81%) Derivative
4 14 (3.81%) Fixed Income
4 14 (3.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (3.81%) Hedge funds
5 12 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.45%) IVR
7 8 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.91%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.91%) FMCG
9 5 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.82%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.82%) Digital Media
10 3 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.82%) Genomics
10 3 (0.82%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.09%) Linux
2 3 (0.82%) Android
3 2 (0.54%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (39.24%) Software Engineering
2 138 (37.60%) Conversational UI
3 135 (36.78%) Machine Learning
4 126 (34.33%) Code Quality
5 83 (22.62%) Agile
6 58 (15.80%) Analytics
7 51 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (11.44%) DevOps
9 40 (10.90%) Data Science
10 38 (10.35%) Computer Science
11 35 (9.54%) CI/CD
12 33 (8.99%) Natural Language Processing
13 30 (8.17%) Generative AI
14 28 (7.63%) Decision-Making
15 23 (6.27%) Product Management
16 22 (5.99%) Stakeholder Management
17 21 (5.72%) Roadmaps
18 20 (5.45%) Deep Learning
18 20 (5.45%) LLM
19 19 (5.18%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 214 (58.31%) Python
2 179 (48.77%) SQL
3 137 (37.33%) JavaScript
4 130 (35.42%) C#
5 26 (7.08%) Java
6 11 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.18%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.36%) C++
8 5 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (1.36%) R
8 5 (1.36%) Scala
9 3 (0.82%) Go
10 2 (0.54%) Bash
10 2 (0.54%) C
10 2 (0.54%) PHP
10 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.27%) Clojure
11 1 (0.27%) Haskell
11 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 162 (44.14%) Degree
2 22 (5.99%) Master's Degree
3 15 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.27%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.27%) Security Cleared
5 11 (3.00%) PhD
5 11 (3.00%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.91%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.82%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.82%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.82%) PMP
11 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.54%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.27%) CISSP
12 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.00%) GDPR
2 9 (2.45%) QA
3 6 (1.63%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.36%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.09%) Dodd-Frank
5 4 (1.09%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.09%) MiFID
5 4 (1.09%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.82%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (4.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (2.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.36%) Terraform
3 4 (1.09%) Grafana
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 121 (32.97%) PayPal
2 33 (8.99%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.81%) Google
4 12 (3.27%) SAP
5 10 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.45%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.91%) Databricks
8 6 (1.63%) Genesys
8 6 (1.63%) Oracle
9 5 (1.36%) Avaya
9 5 (1.36%) Cisco
10 4 (1.09%) Adobe
10 4 (1.09%) UiPath
11 3 (0.82%) IBM
11 3 (0.82%) Phenom
11 3 (0.82%) Sparx
12 2 (0.54%) Blue Prism
12 2 (0.54%) Hyperion
12 2 (0.54%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.54%) PeopleSoft