Pattern Recognition Contract Job Trends in England

Pattern Recognition
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Pattern Recognition skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 521 598
Rank change year-on-year +31 +77 +160
Contract jobs citing Pattern Recognition 11 12 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.037% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.043% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 2
10th Percentile £453 £773 £558
25th Percentile £493 £778 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £825 £588
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +40.43% -1.05%
75th Percentile £688 £928 £606
90th Percentile £785 £950 £618
UK median daily rate £613 £825 £588
% change year-on-year -25.76% +40.43% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £34.57 - -
25th Percentile £39.02 - -
Median hourly rate £47.48 - -
75th Percentile £56.14 - -
90th Percentile £60.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.48 - -

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 25,234 28,138 37,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.88% 86.06% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,038 17,541 26,048
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £423 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,497 1,306 1,424
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%
75th Percentile £49.75 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.01%

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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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Pattern Recognition.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Pattern Recognition

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pattern Recognition in England over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pattern Recognition in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Pattern Recognition.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Pattern Recognition

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Pattern Recognition in England over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Pattern Recognition in England

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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 17 September 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 +21 7 £625 -24.24% 4
North West - 4 £520 -
North of England - 4 £520 - 2
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 2 (18.18%) SAS
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
3 4 (36.36%) Anthropic Claude
3 4 (36.36%) Azure AI
3 4 (36.36%) Google Gemini
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Benchling
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Data Mining
1 4 (36.36%) Neo4j
2 2 (18.18%) Big Data
3 1 (9.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) MLflow
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
1 5 (45.45%) Legal
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Manufacturing
2 4 (36.36%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Data Scientist
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) PyTorch
2 5 (45.45%) TensorFlow
3 4 (36.36%) Streamlit
4 1 (9.09%) Hugging Face
4 1 (9.09%) OLE
4 1 (9.09%) PySpark
4 1 (9.09%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Genomics
2 1 (9.09%) Life Science
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Machine Learning
2 8 (72.73%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (54.55%) LLM
3 6 (54.55%) Mathematics
4 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
4 5 (45.45%) Generative AI
4 5 (45.45%) Statistics
5 4 (36.36%) Agile
5 4 (36.36%) Business Analysis
5 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 4 (36.36%) Computer Vision
5 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
5 4 (36.36%) Data Science
5 4 (36.36%) Linear Algebra
5 4 (36.36%) Multi-Agent System
5 4 (36.36%) Natural Language Processing
5 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (36.36%) RDF
5 4 (36.36%) SDLC
6 3 (27.27%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) R
3 3 (27.27%) Scala
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) MATLAB
5 1 (9.09%) Bash
5 1 (9.09%) C
5 1 (9.09%) C++
5 1 (9.09%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GxP
1 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Ariba
1 1 (9.09%) SAP