Remote part-time AI jobs in the UK

Many people looking for remote part-time jobs in the UK also want online or side-hustle work they can do around another job or studies. On this site, that usually means remote contract or freelance AI training work — helping to train or evaluate a model — not a salaried, contracted-hours employment job.

We only include a role in the table below if the official posting we read uses the words part-time, freelance, flexible, or no minimum hours. That is 22 of the 48 roles currently listed. Other remote contracts on the site may also be flexible in practice, but they do not say so in the text we checked, so we do not label them as part-time here.

What the hour commitments actually say

Flexible does not mean the same thing on every listing. Outlier’s public pages we have read, and some Handshake AI listings, describe freelance or part-time work with no minimum hours, or no set schedule, once you are accepted and a project is available. Several Mercor postings are described as part-time and remote. Others, still remote, ask for a set commitment: for example at least 10 hours a week, about 15–20 hours a week, or at least 20 hours a week on weekdays. One listing is advertised as full-time, 40 hours a week (MLOps Engineer, LLM Performance (Kernels, Profiling, Serving) on Mercor), so it is not in the part-time table.

Task volume is not guaranteed after you apply. A part-time or flexible label is not a promise of steady weekly hours.

Pay on these part-time and flexible listings

Hourly roles listed on this site, in US dollars, range from $14 to $170 an hour on the posting, depending on the field and the expertise asked for. Some roles pay per task instead, and a few TELUS Digital UK listings give the platform’s own estimated hourly equivalent next to a per-task rate. “Up to” figures are ceilings. We never convert US dollar rates into a sterling salary.

UK eligibility

We only list postings that name the UK or are written as remote without excluding the UK in the text we read. Some still add extra rules, such as years of UK residency, a named accent, or a degree. Handshake AI’s wider Fellowship pages say the programme is US-based, with international participation invite-only, but we include the public Handshake listings that specifically recruit in the UK or the EU. Always confirm eligibility on the platform.

You apply on the platform, not here. Typical steps are a profile, a CV, an identity check and an assessment. Read how to get into AI training work in the UK for that path, and how to get paid to train AI for pay and tax.

Tax if you work as a contractor in the UK

These platforms generally engage people as contractors or freelancers, not as employees. If that is how you are engaged while living in the UK, you are usually treated as self-employed. That typically means registering for Self Assessment with HMRC and paying your own Income Tax and National Insurance. This site cannot give tax advice. Official guidance is on GOV.UK:

• Working for yourself
• Set up as self-employed
• Self Assessment tax returns
• National Insurance