Hugging Face Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Hugging Face
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Hugging Face skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 158 184
Rank change year-on-year -38 +26 -
Contract jobs citing Hugging Face 8 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.11% 0.022%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 0.63% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile £414 £472 -
25th Percentile £424 £476 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £488 £275
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% +77.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £508 £288
90th Percentile £539 £510 -
England median daily rate £500 £625 £350
% change year-on-year -20.00% +78.57% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

Hugging Face falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,025 637 985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 21.67% 18.00% 21.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 733 403 754
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £656 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 11 37
10th Percentile £49.90 £26.50 £42.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% +41.84% -6.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £92.07 £62.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £102.00 £69.25
England median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%

Hugging Face
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Hugging Face job vacancy trend in the North of England

Hugging Face
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Hugging Face.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Hugging Face

Hugging Face
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 Hugging Face within the North of England region over the 6 months to 22 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 - 7 £493 -
North West -30 1 £450 -7.83% 7
Hugging Face
England

Hugging Face
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
1 7 (87.50%) Azure AKS
1 7 (87.50%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (37.50%) Metadata
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Private Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 8 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 7 (87.50%) OpenCV
2 7 (87.50%) Regular Expression
2 7 (87.50%) SpaCy
3 1 (12.50%) unsloth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) AI
1 8 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 8 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Generative AI
2 7 (87.50%) Image Processing
2 7 (87.50%) Machine Learning
2 7 (87.50%) OCR
2 7 (87.50%) Open Source
3 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) KYC
4 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (50.00%) Data Science
4 4 (50.00%) LLM
4 4 (50.00%) Storage Management
5 3 (37.50%) Client Onboarding
5 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
5 3 (37.50%) Intelligent Automation
5 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft