Deep Learning Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Deep Learning
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Deep Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Deep Learning 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £544 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -5.43% +6.98% -20.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,530 1,759 2,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.98% 87.95% 82.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,201 1,152 1,486
10th Percentile £300 £200 £238
25th Percentile £400 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £558 £600
90th Percentile £663 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 93 169
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.70 £13.91
Median hourly rate £23.83 £18.77 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.97% +4.25% -13.06%
75th Percentile £53.75 £25.15 £33.25
90th Percentile £70.23 £48.39 £55.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +1.39%

Deep Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Deep Learning job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Deep Learning
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Deep Learning

Deep Learning
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Deep Learning within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
West Midlands - 6 £495 - 3
Deep Learning
England

Deep Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Azure Machine Learning
2 5 (83.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) MLflow
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Scientist
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Hugging Face
1 1 (16.67%) OpenCV
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) Regular Expression
1 1 (16.67%) SpaCy
1 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) AI
1 6 (100.00%) Data Science
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 6 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) CRISP-DM
2 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 5 (83.33%) MLOps
2 5 (83.33%) Service Management
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Statistical Modelling
2 5 (83.33%) Time Series Forecasting
3 4 (66.67%) A/B Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (66.67%) Mathematics
3 4 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (66.67%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Master's Degree
1 4 (66.67%) PhD
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Databricks
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft