OpenCV Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Intel OpenCV
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring OpenCV skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 162 -
Rank change year-on-year -59 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenCV 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.075% 0.061% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.33% 0.31% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £475 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £538 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £520 £575
% change year-on-year -3.85% -9.57% +10.58%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

OpenCV 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 1,212 655 957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 22.61% 20.13% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 854 442 684
10th Percentile £356 £356 £363
25th Percentile £404 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% -2.90% -4.76%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 8 39
10th Percentile £52.50 £53.63 £20.77
25th Percentile £55.00 £65.25 £41.75
Median hourly rate £64.75 £77.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -16.45% +67.82% -17.90%
75th Percentile £74.82 £97.98 £65.63
90th Percentile £81.45 £102.00 £74.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

OpenCV
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

OpenCV job vacancy trend in the North of England

OpenCV
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

OpenCV
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 OpenCV within the North of England region over the 6 months to 25 February 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
Yorkshire - 4 £513 - 1
OpenCV
England

OpenCV
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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 4 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 4 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 4 (100.00%) Image Processing
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 4 (100.00%) OCR
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) KYC
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Intelligent Automation
3 2 (50.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft