Image Processing Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Image Processing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Image Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Image Processing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £400 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Image Processing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 671 561 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.03% 89.05% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 374 378
10th Percentile £245 £200 £275
25th Percentile £400 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% -2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £588
90th Percentile £645 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 15 26
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £13.69
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.25 £27.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% -36.84% +242.34%
75th Percentile £23.50 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.45 £69.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £21.59 £28.34
% change year-on-year -6.21% -23.80% +63.62%

Image Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Image Processing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Image Processing job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Image Processing
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Image Processing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Image Processing

Image Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) OCR
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes