SpaCy Contract Job Trends in the North of England

SpaCy
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SpaCy 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 201 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SpaCy 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.15% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £412 - -
25th Percentile £436 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
England median daily rate £525 £625 £690
% change year-on-year -16.00% -9.42% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

SpaCy 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 1,039 653 1,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 22.11% 18.16% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 745 417 768
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £400 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -6.98%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £656 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 37
10th Percentile £48.55 £28.40 £42.55
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +24.51% - -1.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £87.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £100.93 £69.25
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

SpaCy
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SpaCy job vacancy trend in the North of England

SpaCy
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

SpaCy
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 SpaCy 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 - 7 £493 - 1
SpaCy
England

SpaCy
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 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (42.86%) Metadata
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 7 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 7 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 7 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 7 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) AI
1 7 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 7 (100.00%) Image Processing
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 7 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 7 (100.00%) OCR
1 7 (100.00%) Open Source
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) KYC
3 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (57.14%) Storage Management
4 3 (42.86%) Client Onboarding
4 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
4 3 (42.86%) Data Science
4 3 (42.86%) Intelligent Automation
4 3 (42.86%) LLM
4 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft