unsloth Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring unsloth skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing unsloth 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.030% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £450 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

unsloth 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 3,309 2,660 3,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.24% 17.91% 17.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,174 1,657 2,386
10th Percentile £333 £340 £325
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £686 £677
UK median daily rate £508 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 65 136
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £38.77
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.25 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.26 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -7.20% +19.05% -19.23%

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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 unsloth within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
North West - 1 £450 -
North of England - 1 £450 -
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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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Transfer Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality