Deep Learning Contracts in the South East

Deep Learning
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Deep Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Deep Learning over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 174 211
Rank change year-on-year +18 +37 +61
Contract jobs citing Deep Learning 4 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.11% 0.19% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.22% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £423 £228 £310
25th Percentile £438 £463 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £323
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +86.05% -24.12%
75th Percentile £513 £625 £328
90th Percentile £528 £670 £329
England median daily rate £575 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -14.81% -3.57% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate - £78.75 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Deep Learning 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,199 4,018 4,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.91% 82.66% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,997 2,464 3,358
10th Percentile £250 £255 £252
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £622
90th Percentile £665 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 319 233
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £21.58 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.38% +14.70% +98.02%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.60 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.02
% change year-on-year -40.82% +3.61% +53.35%

Deep Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Deep Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Deep Learning in the South East

Deep Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deep Learning in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Deep Learning in the South East

Deep Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deep Learning in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Deep Learning in the South East

Deep Learning
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Deep Learning within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
Berkshire +10 3 £525 -25.00%
Thames Valley +4 3 £525 -25.00% 2
Surrey +12 1 £425 -29.17% 1
Deep Learning
England

Deep Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 3 (75.00%) Google JAX
2 3 (75.00%) JAX
2 3 (75.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) LLM
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) DataOps
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (75.00%) MLOps
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Secure Coding
2 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Workflow
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) C
2 3 (75.00%) C++
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) EU AI Act
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Kubeflow