Computer Vision Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Computer Vision
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Computer Vision skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 346 395
Rank change year-on-year -29 +49 +95
Contract jobs citing Computer Vision 24 9 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.061% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.070% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 8
10th Percentile - £330 £563
25th Percentile £335 £378 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £413 £660
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -37.50% +46.67%
75th Percentile £523 £480 £830
90th Percentile £551 £516 £950
UK median daily rate £508 £520 £620
% change year-on-year -2.40% -16.13% +7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63.98 - £22.75
Median hourly rate £67.35 - £23.50
75th Percentile £70.71 - £24.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 - £23.50
% change year-on-year - - -55.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Computer Vision 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,719 12,887 17,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.91% 87.25% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,606 7,574 11,088
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,768 743 1,193
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £31.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -30.00% +40.63%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.03 £71.77 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%

Computer Vision
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Computer Vision relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Computer Vision job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Computer Vision
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Computer Vision.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Computer Vision

Computer Vision
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Vision in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Vision in the UK excluding London

Computer Vision
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Computer Vision.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Computer Vision

Computer Vision
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Vision within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
East of England -15 9 £345 +18.97% 39
Scotland - 7 £525 - 10
North of England -43 4 £508 +4.42% 49
Yorkshire - 4 £508 - 20
South East -13 3 £425 - 65
South West - 1 - - 37
Computer Vision
UK

Computer Vision
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) Apache
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (16.67%) GitHub
2 4 (16.67%) Serverless
3 2 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Dagster
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) HTTP
1 3 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) MySQL
1 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (16.67%) PyCharm
2 2 (8.33%) MLflow
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 9 (37.50%) Robotics Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) NumPy
1 10 (41.67%) Pandas
2 7 (29.17%) Hugging Face
2 7 (29.17%) PyTorch
3 6 (25.00%) OpenCV
3 6 (25.00%) SQLAlchemy
4 5 (20.83%) boto
4 5 (20.83%) TensorFlow
5 4 (16.67%) AWS CDK
5 4 (16.67%) FastAPI
6 3 (12.50%) JWT
6 3 (12.50%) OAuth
6 3 (12.50%) REST
7 1 (4.17%) ONNX
7 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (79.17%) Algorithms
2 9 (37.50%) Robotics
3 6 (25.00%) Data Structures
4 4 (16.67%) Clustering
5 3 (12.50%) Online Banking
6 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
7 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 14 (58.33%) AI
3 13 (54.17%) LLM
4 11 (45.83%) Agile
4 11 (45.83%) Deep Learning
5 8 (33.33%) OCR
6 7 (29.17%) Natural Language Processing
7 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (25.00%) Data Science
7 6 (25.00%) DevOps
7 6 (25.00%) ETL
7 6 (25.00%) Prototyping
8 5 (20.83%) API Development
8 5 (20.83%) Async-Await
8 5 (20.83%) Data Cleansing
8 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
8 5 (20.83%) OO
8 5 (20.83%) OOP
8 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
8 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) Java
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.17%) OCP
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Cilium
3 1 (4.17%) Kubeflow
3 1 (4.17%) Rsyslog
3 1 (4.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) NVIDIA