PyTorch Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

PyTorch
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PyTorch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 333 362
Rank change year-on-year +3 +29 +126
Contract jobs citing PyTorch 75 24 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.26% 0.90% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 19 13
10th Percentile £401 £353 £400
25th Percentile £435 £389 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £486 £520
Median % change year-on-year +8.02% -6.54% +24.18%
75th Percentile £550 £656 £588
90th Percentile £635 £675 £628
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 20
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -7.97% - -7.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £37.48 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -18.85% - +8.66%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

PyTorch 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 3,320 2,680 3,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.39% 17.87% 17.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,182 1,673 2,402
10th Percentile £335 £340 £325
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £685 £678
UK median daily rate £505 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -7.68% -0.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 69 138
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.62 £35.66
25th Percentile £45.94 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £64.75 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.09 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

PyTorch
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

PyTorch job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

PyTorch
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

PyTorch
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PyTorch in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PyTorch in the UK excluding London

PyTorch
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

PyTorch
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 PyTorch within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 December 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 -1 26 £550 -13.73% 65
Scotland +21 19 £525 +34.27% 16
South East -4 19 £435 -10.77% 81
North of England -47 11 £489 +7.47% 63
Yorkshire - 9 £493 - 28
North West -23 2 £450 -1.10% 33
PyTorch
UK

PyTorch
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (5.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.67%) Apache
2 2 (2.67%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 45 (60.00%) Azure
2 37 (49.33%) AWS
3 26 (34.67%) Serverless
4 21 (28.00%) Azure AKS
5 19 (25.33%) Amazon S3
5 19 (25.33%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (17.33%) GCP
7 11 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (13.33%) GitHub
8 10 (13.33%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (12.00%) PaaS
10 8 (10.67%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (10.67%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (9.33%) Amazon SageMaker
11 7 (9.33%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (9.33%) Azure Functions
11 7 (9.33%) Power Platform
12 6 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (8.00%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (8.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (10.67%) Big Data
4 7 (9.33%) Power BI
5 5 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (6.67%) Data Lake
6 4 (5.33%) Tableau
7 3 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (4.00%) Delta Lake
7 3 (4.00%) Metadata
7 3 (4.00%) Redis
8 2 (2.67%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) MLflow
2 5 (6.67%) Git
3 4 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.33%) JIRA
4 2 (2.67%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.33%) GitLab
General
1 20 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.00%) Finance
3 10 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.33%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Banking
6 2 (2.67%) Legal
6 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 15 (20.00%) Developer
3 12 (16.00%) Senior
4 10 (13.33%) Architect
4 10 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 10 (13.33%) Data Scientist
5 9 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 7 (9.33%) Python Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Security Architect
8 4 (5.33%) Senior Architect
9 3 (4.00%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Data Science Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Technical Architect
9 3 (4.00%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Technical Architect
10 2 (2.67%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
10 2 (2.67%) Python Data Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) Senior Software Developer
10 2 (2.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (70.67%) TensorFlow
2 36 (48.00%) scikit-learn
3 26 (34.67%) Hugging Face
4 22 (29.33%) Pandas
5 18 (24.00%) NumPy
6 17 (22.67%) OpenCV
7 14 (18.67%) RESTful
8 12 (16.00%) AWS CDK
8 12 (16.00%) FastAPI
8 12 (16.00%) REST
9 11 (14.67%) SpaCy
9 11 (14.67%) SQLAlchemy
10 10 (13.33%) Semantic Kernel
11 9 (12.00%) .NET
12 8 (10.67%) boto
12 8 (10.67%) OAuth
13 7 (9.33%) Regular Expression
14 5 (6.67%) JWT
15 4 (5.33%) Flask
15 4 (5.33%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 26 (34.67%) Algorithms
2 14 (18.67%) Cloud Native
3 8 (10.67%) Data Structures
4 6 (8.00%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.00%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.67%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) Acoustics
7 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.33%) Genomics
7 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (97.33%) Machine Learning
2 62 (82.67%) AI
3 50 (66.67%) LLM
4 38 (50.67%) Agile
5 34 (45.33%) Data Science
6 30 (40.00%) Deep Learning
7 29 (38.67%) CI/CD
8 27 (36.00%) MLOps
9 26 (34.67%) DevOps
10 23 (30.67%) OCR
11 21 (28.00%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (28.00%) Scrum
11 21 (28.00%) Software Engineering
12 20 (26.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 18 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (24.00%) Prompt Engineering
14 17 (22.67%) Containerisation
14 17 (22.67%) Data Privacy
14 17 (22.67%) Generative AI
15 16 (21.33%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 75 (100.00%) Python
2 19 (25.33%) SQL
3 12 (16.00%) R
4 8 (10.67%) Java
5 6 (8.00%) C++
6 5 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.33%) C
8 1 (1.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) MCP
2 8 (10.67%) Degree
3 5 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.00%) EU AI Act
2 12 (16.00%) NIST
3 8 (10.67%) GDPR
4 4 (5.33%) Accessibility
4 4 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (4.00%) QA
6 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (25.33%) Docker
2 4 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (52.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (17.33%) Grafana
3 3 (4.00%) Kustomize
3 3 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.67%) Kubeflow
4 2 (2.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (29.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (21.33%) Foundry
3 8 (10.67%) Google
3 8 (10.67%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.00%) Databricks
4 3 (4.00%) Sage
5 2 (2.67%) SAP