Computer Vision Contract Job Trends

Computer Vision
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Computer Vision skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 500 576
Rank change year-on-year -48 +76 +182
Contract jobs citing Computer Vision 43 41 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.12% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.14% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 28 15
10th Percentile - £377 £518
25th Percentile £335 £474 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £520 £620
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% -16.13% +12.22%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £758
90th Percentile £700 £775 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £385 £413 £660
% change year-on-year -6.67% -37.50% +46.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £26.30 - -
25th Percentile £26.38 - £22.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £23.50
75th Percentile £50.11 - £24.25
90th Percentile £62.47 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.35 - £23.50
% change year-on-year - - -55.24%

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 32,565 30,055 38,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.34% 88.19% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,467 18,359 26,012
10th Percentile £300 £306 £307
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £742 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,103 978 1,503
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.02 £31.52 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.98% -29.17% +42.58%

Computer Vision
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Computer Vision relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Computer Vision job vacancy trend in the UK

Computer Vision
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Computer Vision.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Computer Vision

Computer Vision
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Vision over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Vision in the UK

Computer Vision
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Computer Vision.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Computer Vision

Computer Vision
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Vision over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Vision in the UK

Computer Vision
Top 10 Contract Job 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 20 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
England -48 32 £413 -20.67% 32
UK excluding London -20 24 £385 -6.67% 28
London -13 11 £525 +0.96% 14
Work from Home -10 9 £513 -1.44% 25
East of England -15 9 £345 +18.97% 3
Scotland - 7 £525 - 2
North of England -46 4 £508 +4.42% 4
Yorkshire - 4 £508 - 1
South East -19 3 £425 - 9
South West - 1 - - 6

Computer Vision
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (4.65%) Apache
1 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) AWS
2 6 (13.95%) GCP
3 5 (11.63%) Amazon S3
3 5 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (11.63%) Azure
3 5 (11.63%) GitHub
3 5 (11.63%) Serverless
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (4.65%) Dagster
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) HTTP
1 3 (6.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) Big Data
2 4 (9.30%) MySQL
2 4 (9.30%) NoSQL
2 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.30%) RDBMS
2 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.98%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Git
1 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
1 4 (9.30%) PyCharm
2 3 (6.98%) MLflow
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.98%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Legal
5 2 (4.65%) Finance
5 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.65%) Marketing
6 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 9 (20.93%) Data Scientist
2 9 (20.93%) Robotics Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Python Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Senior
5 3 (6.98%) Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Automation Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Data Scientist
7 1 (2.33%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 1 (2.33%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 1 (2.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Consultant
7 1 (2.33%) Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Product Manager
7 1 (2.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.88%) Pandas
2 12 (27.91%) NumPy
2 12 (27.91%) TensorFlow
3 11 (25.58%) PyTorch
4 9 (20.93%) Hugging Face
5 6 (13.95%) OpenCV
5 6 (13.95%) SQLAlchemy
6 5 (11.63%) boto
7 4 (9.30%) AWS CDK
7 4 (9.30%) FastAPI
7 4 (9.30%) scikit-learn
8 3 (6.98%) JWT
8 3 (6.98%) LangChain
8 3 (6.98%) OAuth
8 3 (6.98%) REST
9 2 (4.65%) ONNX
10 1 (2.33%) LangGraph
10 1 (2.33%) SOAP
10 1 (2.33%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 23 (53.49%) Algorithms
2 9 (20.93%) Robotics
3 6 (13.95%) Data Structures
4 4 (9.30%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (9.30%) Clustering
5 3 (6.98%) Online Banking
6 2 (4.65%) CUDA
6 2 (4.65%) FMCG
6 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.33%) Animation
7 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.33%) Educational Technology
7 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (2.33%) Smart City
7 1 (2.33%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Unix
2 1 (2.33%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (86.05%) Machine Learning
2 32 (74.42%) AI
3 19 (44.19%) LLM
4 17 (39.53%) Natural Language Processing
5 16 (37.21%) Data Science
6 13 (30.23%) Agile
6 13 (30.23%) Deep Learning
7 9 (20.93%) OCR
8 8 (18.60%) Data Modelling
8 8 (18.60%) Prototyping
9 7 (16.28%) Analytics
9 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
9 7 (16.28%) DevOps
9 7 (16.28%) ETL
10 6 (13.95%) Computer Science
10 6 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (13.95%) Image Processing
10 6 (13.95%) Software Engineering
10 6 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (11.63%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 27 (62.79%) Python
2 7 (16.28%) SQL
3 1 (2.33%) C++
3 1 (2.33%) Java
3 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.33%) OCP
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.65%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.30%) Grafana
3 1 (2.33%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) Cilium
3 1 (2.33%) Kubeflow
3 1 (2.33%) Rsyslog
3 1 (2.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) NVIDIA
2 3 (6.98%) Google
3 1 (2.33%) OpenAI