Computer Vision Contracts

Computer Vision
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Computer Vision skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Vision over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 652 809
Rank change year-on-year +106 +157 -147
Contract jobs citing Computer Vision 30 36 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.064% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.082% 0.071% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 30
10th Percentile £396 £350 £459
25th Percentile £475 £413 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +29.73%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £625
90th Percentile £835 £769 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £438 £350
% change year-on-year +20.00% +25.00% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £48.88 - -
25th Percentile £52.81 £51.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +162.50% -3.19%
75th Percentile £76.25 £53.75 £30.56
90th Percentile £78.50 - £44.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% +150.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Computer Vision is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,593 50,587 79,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.80% 89.68% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,580 35,017 55,732
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,483 1,675 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 25 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Vision over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 25 May 2024. 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 +89 30 £575 +2.22% 99
London +89 16 £650 +18.18% 58
UK excluding London +54 11 £525 +20.00% 60
Work from Home +104 9 £500 +11.11% 41
South West +16 4 £500 +11.11% 11
South East +11 3 £600 +41.18% 30
East of England +7 3 £525 -32.26% 2
North of England +32 1 - - 9
North West +23 1 - - 8

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 (3.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.33%) ArcGIS
1 1 (3.33%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) GCP
3 5 (16.67%) AWS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (6.67%) Vertex AI
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.33%) ChatGPT
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Ethernet
1 2 (6.67%) Internet
1 2 (6.67%) RTSP
2 1 (3.33%) DVB
2 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) GIS
2 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.33%) Flink
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) QGIS
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Games
3 2 (6.67%) Automotive
3 2 (6.67%) Electronics
3 2 (6.67%) Legal
3 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Computer Engineer
1 8 (26.67%) Computer Vision Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Data Scientist
3 4 (13.33%) Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (6.67%) C++ Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Designer
5 2 (6.67%) Games Designer
5 2 (6.67%) Junior
5 2 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Designer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Games Designer
6 1 (3.33%) Lead
6 1 (3.33%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) TensorFlow
2 10 (33.33%) PyTorch
3 4 (13.33%) OpenGL
4 3 (10.00%) OpenCV
4 3 (10.00%) Unreal Engine
5 2 (6.67%) Blazor
5 2 (6.67%) DirectX
5 2 (6.67%) Google JAX
5 2 (6.67%) OpenGL ES
5 2 (6.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 2 (6.67%) Vulkan
5 2 (6.67%) WebRTC
6 1 (3.33%) Apache Beam
6 1 (3.33%) CSS
6 1 (3.33%) GStreamer
6 1 (3.33%) HTML
6 1 (3.33%) Kafka
6 1 (3.33%) OpenLayers
6 1 (3.33%) PostGIS
6 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Algorithms
2 4 (13.33%) Augmented Reality
2 4 (13.33%) Virtual Reality
3 3 (10.00%) CUDA
3 3 (10.00%) Photography
4 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.67%) Social Media
5 1 (3.33%) Digital Media
5 1 (3.33%) Digital TV
5 1 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.33%) FMCG
5 1 (3.33%) Robotics
5 1 (3.33%) Smartphone
5 1 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Android
2 1 (3.33%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 12 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (40.00%) Deep Learning
3 11 (36.67%) Natural Language Processing
4 10 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (23.33%) Data Science
7 6 (20.00%) Generative AI
7 6 (20.00%) Prototyping
7 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 5 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (13.33%) Customer Service
9 4 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (13.33%) SDLC
9 4 (13.33%) Systems Analysis
10 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
10 3 (10.00%) LLM
10 3 (10.00%) MLOps
10 3 (10.00%) Roadmaps
10 3 (10.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) Python
2 11 (36.67%) C++
3 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.67%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) Embedded C++
4 2 (6.67%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) Julia
5 1 (3.33%) C
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Degree
2 6 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (13.33%) PhD
5 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) NVIDIA
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) Google