Deep Learning Contracts in England

Deep Learning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Deep Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Deep Learning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 484 617
Rank change year-on-year +46 +133 +101
Contract jobs citing Deep Learning 47 58 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.16% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.18% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 45 25
10th Percentile £506 £383 £425
25th Percentile £510 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £775 £625 £775
90th Percentile £831 £775 -
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +2.44% -10.87% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £76.63 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £77.19 -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £78.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -67.62% - -
75th Percentile £26.13 £79.69 -
90th Percentile £26.35 £79.88 -
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £78.75 -
% change year-on-year -67.62% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Deep Learning 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Deep Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Deep Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Deep Learning in England

Deep Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deep Learning in England.

Daily rate trend for Deep Learning in England

Deep Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deep Learning in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deep Learning in England

Deep Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deep Learning in England.

Hourly rate trend for Deep Learning in England

Deep Learning
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Deep Learning within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +43 43 £548 +4.29% 260
North of England +10 1 £525 -4.55% 13
North West +8 1 £525 -4.55% 9
Deep Learning
UK

Deep Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 20 (42.55%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.38%) Jupyter
3 2 (4.26%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 20 (42.55%) AWS
2 11 (23.40%) Serverless
3 9 (19.15%) Amazon S3
3 9 (19.15%) Amazon SageMaker
3 9 (19.15%) AWS CodeCommit
3 9 (19.15%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (19.15%) Cloud9 IDE
3 9 (19.15%) Textract
4 7 (14.89%) Azure
4 7 (14.89%) GCP
5 3 (6.38%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.26%) GitHub
6 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.26%) Vertex AI
7 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.13%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.28%) Big Data
1 10 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (19.15%) Data Mining
3 8 (17.02%) Oracle Database
4 5 (10.64%) Hadoop
5 4 (8.51%) Apache Hive
6 3 (6.38%) MySQL
7 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.13%) KDB
8 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (2.13%) Power BI
8 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.13%) Tableau
8 1 (2.13%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) MLflow
2 1 (2.13%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) GitLab
General
1 10 (21.28%) Finance
2 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.77%) Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Military
6 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.26%) Retail
6 2 (4.26%) Social Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Marketing
7 1 (2.13%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (44.68%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 15 (31.91%) Data Scientist
3 6 (12.77%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Big Data Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Java Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Python Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Gen AI Specialist
7 2 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 1 (2.13%) Audio Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) Computer Vision Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) Data Science Developer
8 1 (2.13%) Data Science Leader
8 1 (2.13%) Lead
8 1 (2.13%) Lead Architect
8 1 (2.13%) Lead Enterprise Architect
8 1 (2.13%) Machine Learning Scientist
8 1 (2.13%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) Quantitative Strategist
8 1 (2.13%) Research Scientist
8 1 (2.13%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.04%) PyTorch
1 16 (34.04%) scikit-learn
1 16 (34.04%) TensorFlow
2 11 (23.40%) Pandas
3 10 (21.28%) NumPy
3 10 (21.28%) OpenCV
4 9 (19.15%) pydantic
4 9 (19.15%) SciPy
5 7 (14.89%) PySpark
5 7 (14.89%) Ray
6 3 (6.38%) XGBoost
7 2 (4.26%) Matplotlib
8 1 (2.13%) FastAPI
8 1 (2.13%) Keras
8 1 (2.13%) ONNX
8 1 (2.13%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.04%) Distributed Computing
2 7 (14.89%) Algorithms
3 4 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.51%) Tandem
4 3 (6.38%) Credit Risk
4 3 (6.38%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Life Science
5 1 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (87.23%) Machine Learning
2 32 (68.09%) Artificial Intelligence
3 26 (55.32%) Data Science
4 21 (44.68%) Computer Science
5 19 (40.43%) Natural Language Processing
6 13 (27.66%) Computer Vision
7 12 (25.53%) LLM
7 12 (25.53%) Visualisation
8 10 (21.28%) Data Visualisation
8 10 (21.28%) Generative AI
8 10 (21.28%) Parallel Computing
9 9 (19.15%) Data Munging
9 9 (19.15%) Low Latency
9 9 (19.15%) Statistical Inference
10 8 (17.02%) Roadmaps
11 7 (14.89%) Mathematics
11 7 (14.89%) Statistics
11 7 (14.89%) Technical Debt
11 7 (14.89%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (12.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (87.23%) Python
2 17 (36.17%) C++
2 17 (36.17%) Java
2 17 (36.17%) SQL
3 14 (29.79%) C
3 14 (29.79%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.13%) Bash
4 1 (2.13%) R
4 1 (2.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (40.43%) Degree
2 17 (36.17%) Master's Degree
2 17 (36.17%) PhD
3 10 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 10 (21.28%) Security Cleared
4 8 (17.02%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.38%) Terraform
3 1 (2.13%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Oracle
2 3 (6.38%) Databricks
2 3 (6.38%) Google
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft