JAX Contract Job Trends in England

JAX
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring JAX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 501 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing JAX 11 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.038% 0.022% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.17% 0.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £409 £560 -
25th Percentile £418 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £800 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.19% - -
75th Percentile £547 £925 -
90th Percentile £748 £970 -
UK median daily rate £463 £800 -
% change year-on-year -42.19% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

JAX falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,581 6,855 8,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.87% 22.00% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,432 4,370 6,561
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -7.00% -1.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 119 181
10th Percentile £31.05 £27.00 £37.75
25th Percentile £42.75 £44.84 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +17.12% -14.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.56 £73.80 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -16.92% +16.99% -14.52%

JAX
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JAX relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

JAX job vacancy trend in England

JAX
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JAX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JAX

JAX
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JAX in England over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JAX in England

JAX
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 JAX within the England region over the 6 months to 28 October 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 +24 7 £423 -47.19% 50
South East +3 4 £550 - 38
JAX
UK

JAX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Dialogflow
2 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (9.09%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Big Data
1 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) TensorBoard
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) GCP Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) Google JAX
1 11 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 11 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 5 (45.45%) scikit-learn
3 1 (9.09%) Dask
3 1 (9.09%) Faiss
3 1 (9.09%) Hugging Face
3 1 (9.09%) LangChain
3 1 (9.09%) LightGBM
3 1 (9.09%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Algorithms
2 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
3 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 10 (90.91%) AI
3 8 (72.73%) Deep Learning
4 6 (54.55%) LLM
5 5 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
6 4 (36.36%) Data Science
6 4 (36.36%) DevOps
6 4 (36.36%) Privacy Engineering
6 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
6 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
6 4 (36.36%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (27.27%) Analytics
7 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
7 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
7 3 (27.27%) MLOps
7 3 (27.27%) SDLC
7 3 (27.27%) Secure Coding
7 3 (27.27%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) C++
3 4 (36.36%) C
3 4 (36.36%) Java
3 4 (36.36%) R
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) GDPR
2 4 (36.36%) EU AI Act
2 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (18.18%) NIST
4 1 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Google