Image Processing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Image Processing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Image Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Image Processing over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 374 436
Rank change year-on-year +24 +62 +76
Contract jobs citing Image Processing 5 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.035% 0.057% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.068% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £432 £465 £436
25th Percentile £450 £506 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £490
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +22.45% -2.00%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £516
90th Percentile £573 - £525
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - - £57.13
25th Percentile - £13.50 £58.44
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year - -10.20% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £63.44
90th Percentile - - £64.38
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year - -10.20% +19.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Image Processing 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 12,728 17,532 20,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.95% 82.76% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,757 10,323 13,884
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £366 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,079 2,149 1,285
10th Percentile £13.89 £12.50 £12.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £15.64
Median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Image Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Image Processing in the UK excluding London

Image Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Image Processing in the UK excluding London

Image Processing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Image Processing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Image Processing in the UK excluding London

Image Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Image Processing in the UK excluding London

Image Processing
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 Image Processing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 July 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 +21 2 £500 - 9
North of England +6 2 £479 - 6
Yorkshire +4 2 £479 - 3
South West +32 1 £575 - 8
Image Processing
UK

Image Processing
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 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Hugging Face
2 2 (40.00%) OpenCV
2 2 (40.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (40.00%) Regular Expression
2 2 (40.00%) SpaCy
2 2 (40.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (60.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (60.00%) OCR
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Deep Learning
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) KYC
2 2 (40.00%) LLM
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Mathematical Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (40.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Intelligent Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
1 2 (40.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft