Pattern Recognition Contracts in England

Pattern Recognition
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Pattern Recognition skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pattern Recognition 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 470 538 651
Rank change year-on-year +68 +113 +121
Contract jobs citing Pattern Recognition 15 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.011% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.012% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £456 £786 £560
25th Percentile £475 £803 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £863 £600
Median % change year-on-year -39.71% +43.75% -
75th Percentile £631 £941 £625
90th Percentile £688 £946 £640
UK median daily rate £520 £863 £600
% change year-on-year -39.71% +43.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £22.59 - -
25th Percentile £22.72 - -
Median hourly rate £25.43 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile £29.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.43 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Pattern Recognition 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%

Pattern Recognition
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Pattern Recognition as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Pattern Recognition in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pattern Recognition in England.

Daily rate trend for Pattern Recognition in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Pattern Recognition in England

Pattern Recognition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pattern Recognition in England.

Hourly rate trend for Pattern Recognition in England

Pattern Recognition
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 Pattern Recognition 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
North West - 9 £520 - 1
North of England - 9 £520 - 1
London +40 6 £556 -35.51% 6
Pattern Recognition
UK

Pattern Recognition
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 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Anthropic Claude
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure AI
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
2 4 (26.67%) Google Gemini
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Big Data
1 5 (33.33%) Data Mining
1 5 (33.33%) Metadata
1 5 (33.33%) Tableau
2 4 (26.67%) Neo4j
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Legal
3 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
3 4 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Big Data Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) PyTorch
1 4 (26.67%) Ray
1 4 (26.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (6.67%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 4 (26.67%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (26.67%) Tandem
4 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 10 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 10 (66.67%) Statistics
3 9 (60.00%) Decision-Making
3 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (46.67%) Data Science
5 6 (40.00%) Data Engineering
5 6 (40.00%) Statistical Modelling
5 6 (40.00%) Visualisation
6 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (33.33%) Data Management
6 5 (33.33%) Information Retrieval
6 5 (33.33%) LLM
7 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
7 4 (26.67%) Computer Vision
7 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
7 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
7 4 (26.67%) SDLC
7 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) C
2 4 (26.67%) C++
2 4 (26.67%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
3 3 (20.00%) R
3 3 (20.00%) Scala
4 1 (6.67%) MATLAB
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Ariba
1 1 (6.67%) SAP
1 1 (6.67%) Spotify