JAX Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

JAX
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JAX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 366 -
Rank change year-on-year -26 - -
Contract jobs citing JAX 4 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.024% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £519 - -
25th Percentile £528 £550 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £566 £650 -
90th Percentile £571 - -
UK median daily rate £463 £800 -
% change year-on-year -42.19% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

JAX 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,189 2,894 3,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.41% 17.25% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,105 1,765 2,680
10th Percentile £318 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -7.00% -1.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 105 148
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £45.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.25 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £66.38 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.90 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -16.92% +16.99% -14.52%

JAX
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

JAX job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JAX
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 JAX within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
South East +3 4 £550 - 38
JAX
UK

JAX
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:

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