Deep Learning Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Deep Learning
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Deep Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 157 173
Rank change year-on-year -35 +16 +65
Contract jobs citing Deep Learning 16 4 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.34% 0.11% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.13% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 12
10th Percentile £421 - £309
25th Percentile £446 - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £356 £510
Median % change year-on-year +37.36% -30.20% +21.79%
75th Percentile £538 £443 £584
90th Percentile - £495 £584
England median daily rate £525 £688 £584
% change year-on-year -23.64% +17.72% -6.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,173 3,118 4,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.81% 86.73% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,776 1,783 2,721
10th Percentile £215 £260 £288
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 159 188
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.18 £15.65
25th Percentile £19.32 £17.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £28.96 £29.00 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +2.47% +28.64%
75th Percentile £51.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £66.10 £62.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Deep Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Deep Learning job vacancy trend in the North of England

Deep Learning
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Deep Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Deep Learning

Deep Learning
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Yorkshire - 13 £508 - 3
North West -28 3 £475 +33.43% 3
Deep Learning
England

Deep Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (43.75%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
1 7 (43.75%) Azure AKS
1 7 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (81.25%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (37.50%) MySQL
2 6 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 6 (37.50%) RDBMS
2 6 (37.50%) Relational Database
3 3 (18.75%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 6 (37.50%) PyCharm
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Private Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Scientist
5 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (87.50%) TensorFlow
2 8 (50.00%) Hugging Face
2 8 (50.00%) PyTorch
3 7 (43.75%) OpenCV
3 7 (43.75%) Regular Expression
3 7 (43.75%) SpaCy
4 6 (37.50%) NumPy
4 6 (37.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 5 (31.25%) Algorithms
3 4 (25.00%) Clustering
3 4 (25.00%) Online Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) AI
1 16 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 15 (93.75%) Machine Learning
3 12 (75.00%) Data Science
3 12 (75.00%) DevOps
4 11 (68.75%) Agile
4 11 (68.75%) Image Processing
5 9 (56.25%) LLM
6 7 (43.75%) Conversational UI
6 7 (43.75%) Data Munging
6 7 (43.75%) Generative AI
6 7 (43.75%) OCR
6 7 (43.75%) Open Source
7 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
7 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
7 6 (37.50%) KYC
8 5 (31.25%) Data Security
8 5 (31.25%) Microservices
9 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (25.00%) Pattern Matching
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft