Pattern Recognition Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Pattern Recognition
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Pattern Recognition skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Pattern Recognition 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £488 - -
25th Percentile £493 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile £680 - -
UK median daily rate £613 £825 £588
% change year-on-year -25.76% +40.43% -2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Pattern Recognition 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 13,680 14,701 19,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.21% 82.94% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,222 8,462 12,594
10th Percentile £235 £246 £260
25th Percentile £368 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,425 1,215 1,261
10th Percentile £14.03 £14.52 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.08 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £43.00 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +5.94% +75.90%
75th Percentile £42.50 £65.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

Pattern Recognition
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Pattern Recognition in the UK excluding London

Pattern Recognition
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pattern Recognition.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pattern Recognition in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pattern Recognition in the UK excluding London

Pattern Recognition
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pattern Recognition.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition
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 Pattern Recognition within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 September 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 West - 4 £520 -
North of England - 4 £520 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £700 -
Pattern Recognition
UK

Pattern Recognition
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure AI
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
1 4 (80.00%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (20.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
General
1 5 (100.00%) Legal
2 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (80.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (80.00%) Streamlit
1 4 (80.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (20.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Business Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Vision
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (80.00%) Generative AI
2 4 (80.00%) Linear Algebra
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
2 4 (80.00%) Mathematics
2 4 (80.00%) Multi-Agent System
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) RDF
2 4 (80.00%) SDLC
2 4 (80.00%) Statistics
3 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (60.00%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Scala
3 1 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Ariba
1 1 (20.00%) SAP