Computer Vision Contracts

Computer Vision
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Computer Vision skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computer Vision over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 555 679
Rank change year-on-year +72 +124 +126
Contract jobs citing Computer Vision 37 27 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.062% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.072% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 14 23
10th Percentile £439 £396 £350
25th Percentile £500 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £616 £625
90th Percentile £676 £695 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £48.88 -
25th Percentile - £52.81 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +28.57% +150.00%
75th Percentile - £76.25 £53.75
90th Percentile - £78.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +33.33% +150.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Computer Vision 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Computer Vision
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Computer Vision as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Vision in the UK

Computer Vision
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Vision.

Daily rate trend for Computer Vision in the UK

Computer Vision
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Vision over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Vision in the UK

Computer Vision
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Vision.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Vision in the UK

Computer Vision
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Vision within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +62 32 £523 -0.48% 291
London +48 23 £520 -9.57% 161
Work from Home +48 15 £520 +4.00% 109
UK excluding London +59 7 £525 - 168
North of England +23 5 £525 - 27
North West +21 5 £525 - 12
South West +43 1 £875 +75.00% 19
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 11
Midlands - 1 £500 - 21

Computer Vision
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.70%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Siemens NX
1 1 (2.70%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (62.16%) AWS
2 12 (32.43%) Azure
3 10 (27.03%) Amazon S3
3 10 (27.03%) Amazon SageMaker
3 10 (27.03%) AWS CodeCommit
3 10 (27.03%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (27.03%) Cloud9 IDE
3 10 (27.03%) Serverless
3 10 (27.03%) Textract
4 9 (24.32%) GCP
5 4 (10.81%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (10.81%) Azure AI
5 4 (10.81%) Google Gemini
5 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
6 3 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (5.41%) Firebase
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (2.70%) ChatGPT
8 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Modbus
1 1 (2.70%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (24.32%) Oracle Database
3 4 (10.81%) Neo4j
3 4 (10.81%) Power BI
4 3 (8.11%) Big Data
5 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.70%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) MLflow
2 1 (2.70%) Qt Creator
General
1 6 (16.22%) Finance
1 6 (16.22%) Pharmaceutical
1 6 (16.22%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.51%) Manufacturing
3 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Legal
3 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Military
5 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
5 1 (2.70%) Social Housing
5 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Data Scientist
2 5 (13.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Senior
3 4 (10.81%) Computer Vision Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Angular Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Computer Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (5.41%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) HTML CSS Developer
5 2 (5.41%) HTML Developer
5 2 (5.41%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Python Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 1 (2.70%) Computer Vision Scientist
6 1 (2.70%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) DataOps Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (59.46%) PyTorch
2 21 (56.76%) TensorFlow
3 13 (35.14%) scikit-learn
4 12 (32.43%) OpenCV
5 11 (29.73%) NumPy
5 11 (29.73%) Pandas
6 10 (27.03%) pydantic
6 10 (27.03%) SciPy
7 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
7 2 (5.41%) CSS
7 2 (5.41%) HTML
7 2 (5.41%) JSON
7 2 (5.41%) Plotly
7 2 (5.41%) PySpark
7 2 (5.41%) React
7 2 (5.41%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (2.70%) DirectX
8 1 (2.70%) OLE
8 1 (2.70%) OpenGL
8 1 (2.70%) Qt Quick
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Algorithms
2 3 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.70%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (2.70%) Acoustics
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.70%) FMCG
4 1 (2.70%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.70%) Life Science
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (91.89%) Artificial Intelligence
2 25 (67.57%) Machine Learning
3 22 (59.46%) Data Science
4 21 (56.76%) Natural Language Processing
5 14 (37.84%) Deep Learning
6 13 (35.14%) Visualisation
7 11 (29.73%) Data Visualisation
7 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (27.03%) Data Munging
8 10 (27.03%) LLM
8 10 (27.03%) Statistical Inference
9 9 (24.32%) Generative AI
10 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
10 8 (21.62%) Decision-Making
11 7 (18.92%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (18.92%) Mathematics
11 7 (18.92%) Software Engineering
12 6 (16.22%) Agile
12 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
12 6 (16.22%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 33 (89.19%) Python
2 14 (37.84%) SQL
3 3 (8.11%) Scala
4 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.41%) R
5 1 (2.70%) C#
5 1 (2.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (32.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) Degree
4 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Oracle
2 4 (10.81%) Google
3 2 (5.41%) Databricks
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.70%) Ariba
4 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.70%) SAP