Deep Learning Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Deep Learning
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Deep Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 79 98
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 +32
Contract jobs citing Deep Learning 1 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.093% 0.086% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.099% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £324
25th Percentile £425 £510 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £460
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £475 £530 £530
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £450 £356 £460
% change year-on-year +26.40% -22.61% +2.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Deep Learning 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 955 1,010 1,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.75% 87.14% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 580 1,040
10th Percentile £300 £313 £270
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £678 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 35 55
10th Percentile £17.14 £16.34 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £26.93 £16.27
Median hourly rate £22.63 £33.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.42% +69.23% -31.58%
75th Percentile £33.00 £61.25 £45.31
90th Percentile £64.63 £73.30 £70.75
North West median hourly rate £29.27 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.41% +15.21% +49.64%

Deep Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Deep Learning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Deep Learning job vacancy trend in Manchester

Deep Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Deep Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Deep Learning

Deep Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Transfer Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality