Image Processing Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Image Processing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Image Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 163 -
Rank change year-on-year -34 - -
Contract jobs citing Image Processing 11 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.24% 0.079% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.092% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £414 £505 -
25th Percentile £444 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% - -
75th Percentile £538 £575 -
90th Percentile £539 - -
England median daily rate £508 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.50% - -2.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,146 3,270 4,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.89% 85.67% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,775 1,814 2,747
10th Percentile £213 £273 £281
25th Percentile £360 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £665 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 175 188
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.00 £15.93
25th Percentile £19.07 £17.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £28.37
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +2.22% +31.95%
75th Percentile £46.29 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.16 £66.80 £61.99
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.90%

Image Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Image Processing job vacancy trend in the North of England

Image Processing
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Image Processing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Image Processing

Image Processing
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Image Processing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Image Processing

Image Processing
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 Image Processing within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 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 - 11 £500 - 2
Image Processing
England

Image Processing
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 4 (36.36%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
1 7 (63.64%) Azure AKS
1 7 (63.64%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (36.36%) MySQL
2 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
2 4 (36.36%) RDBMS
2 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
3 3 (27.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
1 4 (36.36%) PyCharm
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 7 (63.64%) Hugging Face
2 7 (63.64%) OpenCV
2 7 (63.64%) PyTorch
2 7 (63.64%) Regular Expression
2 7 (63.64%) SpaCy
3 4 (36.36%) NumPy
3 4 (36.36%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Onboarding
2 4 (36.36%) Algorithms
2 4 (36.36%) Clustering
3 3 (27.27%) Online Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) AI
1 11 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 11 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 10 (90.91%) Agile
3 7 (63.64%) Data Science
3 7 (63.64%) Generative AI
3 7 (63.64%) OCR
3 7 (63.64%) Open Source
4 6 (54.55%) KYC
4 6 (54.55%) LLM
5 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
5 4 (36.36%) Computer Vision
5 4 (36.36%) Conversational UI
5 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (36.36%) Data Munging
5 4 (36.36%) Microservices
5 4 (36.36%) Prototyping
5 4 (36.36%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft