LSTM Contract Job Trends in England

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring LSTM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 494 534
Rank change year-on-year -40 +40 +199
Contract jobs citing LSTM 8 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.025% 0.025% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.028% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 6
10th Percentile £624 £690 -
25th Percentile £713 £725 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £738 £775 £775
90th Percentile - £790 -
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

LSTM 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 28,064 24,952 32,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.52% 88.77% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,908 15,353 21,703
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,766 818 1,417
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.39
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%
75th Percentile £56.69 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%

LSTM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

LSTM job vacancy trend in England

LSTM
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing LSTM

LSTM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LSTM in England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LSTM in England

LSTM
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 LSTM within the England region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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 -14 8 £725 -3.33% 3
LSTM
UK

LSTM
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 6 (75.00%) Jupyter
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Vertex AI
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (25.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
General
1 5 (62.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 8 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 8 (100.00%) XGBoost
2 4 (50.00%) Pandas
3 2 (25.00%) CrewAI
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) Keras
3 2 (25.00%) LangChain
3 2 (25.00%) LangGraph
3 2 (25.00%) NLTK
3 2 (25.00%) Node.js
3 2 (25.00%) NumPy
3 2 (25.00%) Plotly
3 2 (25.00%) PySpark
3 2 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 2 (25.00%) SciPy
3 2 (25.00%) Seaborn
3 2 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (62.50%) Data Structures
3 2 (25.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 8 (100.00%) Logistic Regression
1 8 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 8 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 8 (100.00%) Random Forest
2 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 6 (75.00%) Data Science
2 6 (75.00%) Time Series Forecasting
2 6 (75.00%) Transfer Learning
3 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
3 5 (62.50%) Software Architecture
4 4 (50.00%) AI
5 2 (25.00%) Convolutional Neural Network
5 2 (25.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Linear Regression
5 2 (25.00%) MapReduce
5 2 (25.00%) Multivariate Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Ada
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) MCP
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks
1 2 (25.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (12.50%) Google