Deep Learning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Deep Learning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 387 420
Rank change year-on-year +61 +33 +75
Contract jobs citing Deep Learning 4 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.040% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.047% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 13
10th Percentile £239 £228 £344
25th Percentile £415 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +31.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £728 £625 £688
90th Percentile £981 - £746
UK median daily rate £575 £513 £563
% change year-on-year +12.20% -8.89% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £78.75 -
% change year-on-year -67.62% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,596 17,041 20,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.69% 84.15% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,235 10,189 14,096
10th Percentile £231 £250 £259
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,063 1,256
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

Deep Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Deep Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Deep Learning in the UK excluding London

Deep Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deep Learning in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Deep Learning in the UK excluding London

Deep Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deep Learning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deep Learning in the UK excluding London

Deep Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deep Learning in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Deep Learning in the UK excluding London

Deep Learning
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 Deep Learning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Wales - 2 £359 - 1
South West +33 1 £1,100 +109.52% 18
North West - 1 £525 - 11
North of England - 1 £525 - 13
Deep Learning
UK

Deep Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Vision Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Head of AI
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Data Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (25.00%) NumPy
2 1 (25.00%) OpenCV
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) A/B Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Applied Mathematics
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Vision
4 1 (25.00%) Decision Tree
4 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Feature Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) Line Management
4 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Random Forest
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft