Image Processing Contract Job Trends in London

Image Processing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Image Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 380 402
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 +162
Contract jobs citing Image Processing 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% 0.020% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.022% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -5.00% -33.33%
England median daily rate £508 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.50% - -2.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Image Processing 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 13,541 16,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.39% 90.10% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,651 8,710 12,087
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £790
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 164 235
10th Percentile £18.17 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £31.00 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.90% +5.88% -11.39%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Image Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Image Processing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Image Processing job vacancy trend in London

Image Processing
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Image Processing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Image Processing

Image Processing
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Image Processing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Image Processing

Image Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 2 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 2 (100.00%) KYC
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (100.00%) OCR
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines