Hugging Face Contract Job Trends in the North West

Hugging Face
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 146 116 139
Rank change year-on-year -30 +23 -
Contract jobs citing Hugging Face 1 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.040% 0.19% 0.038%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 1.15% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £472 -
25th Percentile £425 £476 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £275
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +77.55% -
75th Percentile £475 £508 £288
90th Percentile - £510 -
England median daily rate £500 £625 £350
% change year-on-year -20.00% +78.57% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 507 349 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.28% 16.33% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 228 449
10th Percentile £325 £350 £368
25th Percentile £381 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £619
90th Percentile £663 £638 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 31
10th Percentile - - £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +41.84% +2.99%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £64.38
90th Percentile - £78.80 £73.75
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 West

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

Hugging Face job vacancy trend in the North West

Hugging Face
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Hugging Face
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester - 1 £450 - 5
Hugging Face
England

Hugging Face
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) unsloth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Transfer Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality