LightGBM Contract Job Trends in England

LightGBM
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring LightGBM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 - 554
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LightGBM 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.009% - 0.005%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.043% - 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £676
25th Percentile £1,050 - £680
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,100 - £699
75th Percentile £1,150 - £716
90th Percentile - - £719
UK median daily rate £1,100 - £699

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

LightGBM 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 7,025 6,271 7,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.22% 21.89% 21.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,692 4,004 5,810
10th Percentile £350 £358 £363
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.80%
75th Percentile £633 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 77 165
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.20
25th Percentile £43.84 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.18 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.73 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -6.04% +16.82% -17.69%

LightGBM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

LightGBM job vacancy trend in England

LightGBM
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing LightGBM

LightGBM
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 LightGBM within the England region over the 6 months to 23 December 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 - 3 £1,100 - 7
LightGBM
UK

LightGBM
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 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Dask
1 3 (100.00%) Google JAX
1 3 (100.00%) JAX
1 3 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 3 (100.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (100.00%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 3 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Pattern Recognition
1 3 (100.00%) Reinforcement Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL