Deep Learning Contracts

Deep Learning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Deep Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Deep Learning 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 470 517 670
Rank change year-on-year +47 +153 +106
Contract jobs citing Deep Learning 50 65 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.15% 0.080%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.17% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 49 31
10th Percentile £478 £403 £400
25th Percentile £510 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -10.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £775 £625 £754
90th Percentile £825 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £400
% change year-on-year - +31.25% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £76.63 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £77.19 -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £78.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -67.62% - -
75th Percentile £26.13 £79.69 -
90th Percentile £26.35 £79.88 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Deep Learning 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%

Deep Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Deep Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deep Learning.

Daily rate trend for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deep Learning over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deep Learning.

Hourly rate trend for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Deep Learning 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 +46 47 £525 - 328
London +43 43 £548 +4.29% 258
Work from Home +39 18 £725 -3.33% 108
UK excluding London +48 3 £525 - 115
Wales - 2 £359 -
North of England +10 1 £525 -4.55% 12
North West +8 1 £525 -4.55% 8

Deep Learning
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 20 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.00%) Jupyter
3 2 (4.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.00%) AWS
2 12 (24.00%) Serverless
3 10 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 10 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 10 (20.00%) AWS CodeCommit
3 10 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (20.00%) Cloud9 IDE
3 10 (20.00%) Textract
4 8 (16.00%) Azure
4 8 (16.00%) GCP
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.00%) GitHub
6 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.00%) Vertex AI
7 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (20.00%) Big Data
3 9 (18.00%) Data Mining
3 9 (18.00%) Oracle Database
4 5 (10.00%) Hadoop
5 4 (8.00%) Apache Hive
6 3 (6.00%) MySQL
7 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.00%) KDB
8 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (2.00%) Power BI
8 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.00%) Tableau
8 1 (2.00%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) MLflow
2 1 (2.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) GitLab
General
1 10 (20.00%) Finance
2 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.00%) Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Military
5 3 (6.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (42.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 17 (34.00%) Data Scientist
3 6 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Big Data Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Gen AI Specialist
6 2 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 1 (2.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Audio Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Computer Vision Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Data Science Developer
7 1 (2.00%) Data Science Leader
7 1 (2.00%) Lead
7 1 (2.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
7 1 (2.00%) Machine Learning Scientist
7 1 (2.00%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Quantitative Strategist
7 1 (2.00%) Research Scientist
7 1 (2.00%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (36.00%) PyTorch
1 18 (36.00%) scikit-learn
1 18 (36.00%) TensorFlow
2 13 (26.00%) Pandas
3 12 (24.00%) NumPy
4 11 (22.00%) OpenCV
4 11 (22.00%) SciPy
5 10 (20.00%) pydantic
6 7 (14.00%) PySpark
6 7 (14.00%) Ray
7 3 (6.00%) XGBoost
8 2 (4.00%) Matplotlib
9 1 (2.00%) FastAPI
9 1 (2.00%) Keras
9 1 (2.00%) ONNX
9 1 (2.00%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 16 (32.00%) Distributed Computing
2 8 (16.00%) Algorithms
3 4 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 4 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.00%) Tandem
4 3 (6.00%) Credit Risk
4 3 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.00%) Life Science
5 1 (2.00%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (86.00%) Machine Learning
2 35 (70.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 29 (58.00%) Data Science
4 21 (42.00%) Computer Science
4 21 (42.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 14 (28.00%) Computer Vision
6 13 (26.00%) Visualisation
7 12 (24.00%) LLM
8 11 (22.00%) Data Visualisation
9 10 (20.00%) Data Munging
9 10 (20.00%) Generative AI
9 10 (20.00%) Parallel Computing
9 10 (20.00%) Statistical Inference
10 9 (18.00%) Low Latency
11 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
12 7 (14.00%) Mathematics
12 7 (14.00%) Software Engineering
12 7 (14.00%) Statistics
12 7 (14.00%) Technical Debt
12 7 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 44 (88.00%) Python
2 18 (36.00%) SQL
3 17 (34.00%) C++
3 17 (34.00%) Java
4 14 (28.00%) C
4 14 (28.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.00%) Bash
5 1 (2.00%) R
5 1 (2.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (38.00%) Degree
2 17 (34.00%) Master's Degree
2 17 (34.00%) PhD
3 12 (24.00%) Security Cleared
4 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
5 8 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Oracle
2 4 (8.00%) Google
3 3 (6.00%) Databricks
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft