Neural Network Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Neural Networks
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Neural Network skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 366 415
Rank change year-on-year -19 +49 +89
Contract jobs citing Neural Network 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.018% 0.012% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% 0.014% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £243 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £245 -
Median % change year-on-year +73.47% - -
75th Percentile £438 £248 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £619 £663
% change year-on-year -19.19% -6.60% +10.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Neural Network 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 14,524 14,185 18,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.06% 83.86% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 8,060 12,258
10th Percentile £225 £245 £250
25th Percentile £370 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £673 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,615 929 1,302
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.40 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.27 £37.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.82% -12.94% +53.26%
75th Percentile £39.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £42.75
% change year-on-year -32.95% -12.28% +22.14%

Neural Network
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Neural Network job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Neural Network
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Neural Network.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Neural Network

Neural Network
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Neural Network.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Neural Network

Neural Network
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 Neural Network within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 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
North of England - 3 £425 - 7
Yorkshire - 2 £425 -
North West - 1 £425 - 6
Neural Network
UK

Neural Network
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (66.67%) Pandas
2 2 (66.67%) pytest
2 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
2 2 (66.67%) XGBoost
3 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) Electronic Design Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) MLOps
2 2 (66.67%) Physics
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Statistics
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) SAP