Image Processing Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Image Processing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Image Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 123 133
Rank change year-on-year -39 +10 -
Contract jobs citing Image Processing 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.031% 0.046% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.053% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
England median daily rate £516 £500 -
% change year-on-year +3.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £56.00
England median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,777 1,880 2,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.47% 87.28% 84.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,734 1,165 1,462
10th Percentile £239 £226 £252
25th Percentile £388 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £687
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 68 124
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.20
25th Percentile £16.28 £17.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.25 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% -3.26% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.13 £32.21 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

Image Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Image Processing job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Image Processing
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Image Processing

Image Processing
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Image Processing

Image Processing
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 Image Processing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 January 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 -34 1 £500 +25.00% 3
Image Processing
England

Image Processing
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) OCR
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes