Deep Learning Contract Job Trends

Deep Learning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Deep Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 464 544
Rank change year-on-year -9 +80 +138
Contract jobs citing Deep Learning 111 80 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.23% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.27% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 45 49
10th Percentile £420 £356 £400
25th Percentile £492 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.55% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £725
90th Percentile £1,000 £833 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £356 £450
% change year-on-year +47.47% -20.89% -16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £45.86 £25.38 -
25th Percentile £48.88 £25.56 £22.75
Median hourly rate £56.12 £26.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +115.85% +10.64% -55.24%
75th Percentile £64.52 £26.31 £24.25
90th Percentile £68.24 £26.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.35 - £23.50
% change year-on-year - - -55.24%

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 32,537 30,122 39,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.36% 88.11% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,461 18,405 26,081
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
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 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,095 985 1,517
10th Percentile £14.57 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.52 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%

Deep Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Deep Learning job vacancy trend in the UK

Deep Learning
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Deep Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Deep Learning

Deep Learning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deep Learning over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Deep Learning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Deep Learning

Deep Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Deep Learning over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 13 Contract Job 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 19 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 -8 96 £525 -16.00% 170
London -11 63 £713 +1.79% 36
UK excluding London -6 41 £525 +47.47% 158
Work from Home +7 34 £613 -9.26% 112
North of England -36 16 £489 +37.36% 27
Yorkshire - 13 £508 - 11
East of England - 10 £550 - 27
Scotland +10 8 £543 +38.91% 12
South East -19 5 £475 +11.76% 39
North West -25 3 £475 +33.43% 12
West Midlands -32 1 - - 14
Midlands -45 1 - - 28
South West - 1 - - 21

Deep Learning
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 14 (12.61%) Apache Spark
2 8 (7.21%) Jupyter
3 4 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.80%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.90%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 41 (36.94%) Azure
2 28 (25.23%) AWS
3 24 (21.62%) GitHub
4 23 (20.72%) Azure AKS
5 18 (16.22%) Serverless
6 14 (12.61%) Azure Functions
7 13 (11.71%) GCP
7 13 (11.71%) Vertex AI
8 12 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (10.81%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (9.01%) PaaS
10 8 (7.21%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (5.41%) Amazon Bedrock
11 6 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (5.41%) Azure AI
11 6 (5.41%) Dialogflow
12 5 (4.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 5 (4.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (4.50%) Entra ID
12 5 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) Network Security
2 4 (3.60%) Internet
3 3 (2.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.71%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (9.91%) NoSQL
3 10 (9.01%) Big Data
4 6 (5.41%) MySQL
4 6 (5.41%) RDBMS
4 6 (5.41%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.50%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.70%) Metadata
6 3 (2.70%) Power BI
6 3 (2.70%) Redis
7 2 (1.80%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.80%) Tableau
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.90%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.90%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.90%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.90%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.90%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (10.81%) Git
2 9 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.41%) PyCharm
4 4 (3.60%) MLflow
5 2 (1.80%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.90%) JIRA
6 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (26.13%) Finance
2 26 (23.42%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.41%) Banking
4 11 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.31%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.41%) Financial Institution
6 6 (5.41%) Front Office
6 6 (5.41%) Retail
7 1 (0.90%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.90%) Aviation
7 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Legal
7 1 (0.90%) Marketing
7 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (36.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 26 (23.42%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 14 (12.61%) Developer
3 14 (12.61%) Senior
4 12 (10.81%) Data Scientist
5 10 (9.01%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 7 (6.31%) Lead
7 6 (5.41%) Analyst
7 6 (5.41%) Architect
7 6 (5.41%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Risk Analyst
8 5 (4.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 4 (3.60%) Python Engineer
10 3 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (2.70%) Security Architect
10 3 (2.70%) Senior Developer
11 2 (1.80%) Azure Developer
11 2 (1.80%) Azure Engineer
11 2 (1.80%) Senior Data Scientist
11 2 (1.80%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (56.76%) TensorFlow
2 62 (55.86%) PyTorch
3 31 (27.93%) Hugging Face
4 27 (24.32%) Pandas
4 27 (24.32%) scikit-learn
5 18 (16.22%) NumPy
6 17 (15.32%) RESTful
7 15 (13.51%) .NET
8 14 (12.61%) LangChain
9 12 (10.81%) OpenCV
9 12 (10.81%) XGBoost
10 11 (9.91%) Semantic Kernel
11 10 (9.01%) FastAPI
11 10 (9.01%) Google JAX
11 10 (9.01%) JAX
12 9 (8.11%) Dask
12 9 (8.11%) Matplotlib
13 8 (7.21%) LangGraph
14 7 (6.31%) Keras
14 7 (6.31%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 44 (39.64%) Algorithms
2 24 (21.62%) AI Agents
3 22 (19.82%) Cloud Native
4 11 (9.91%) Data Structures
4 11 (9.91%) Distributed Computing
5 9 (8.11%) Derivative
6 8 (7.21%) Onboarding
7 6 (5.41%) Equities
7 6 (5.41%) Fixed Income
7 6 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (5.41%) Hedge funds
8 4 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (3.60%) Clustering
8 4 (3.60%) Online Banking
9 3 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.70%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.80%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (93.69%) Machine Learning
2 100 (90.09%) AI
3 72 (64.86%) LLM
4 51 (45.95%) Natural Language Processing
5 48 (43.24%) Data Science
6 39 (35.14%) Agile
7 35 (31.53%) Software Engineering
8 34 (30.63%) Generative AI
9 30 (27.03%) Computer Science
10 24 (21.62%) Data Pipeline
10 24 (21.62%) DevOps
11 23 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (18.92%) MLOps
13 19 (17.12%) CI/CD
13 19 (17.12%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 18 (16.22%) Containerisation
15 17 (15.32%) Use Case
16 16 (14.41%) API Management
16 16 (14.41%) Data Privacy
16 16 (14.41%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (83.78%) Python
2 21 (18.92%) SQL
3 9 (8.11%) Java
4 7 (6.31%) C#
4 7 (6.31%) C++
5 5 (4.50%) Bicep
5 5 (4.50%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.60%) R
6 4 (3.60%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.70%) C
8 1 (0.90%) Ada
8 1 (0.90%) Go
8 1 (0.90%) PHP
8 1 (0.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (22.52%) Degree
2 18 (16.22%) Master's Degree
2 18 (16.22%) MCP
3 14 (12.61%) PhD
4 11 (9.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (9.01%) Security Cleared
6 8 (7.21%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.12%) EU AI Act
2 13 (11.71%) NIST
3 4 (3.60%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.60%) GDPR
4 3 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.70%) QA
5 2 (1.80%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.90%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (13.51%) Docker
2 5 (4.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.90%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (23.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.41%) Grafana
3 5 (4.50%) Terraform
4 3 (2.70%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.70%) Kustomize
4 3 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (25.23%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.71%) Databricks
2 13 (11.71%) Google
3 12 (10.81%) Foundry
4 9 (8.11%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.80%) Cognos
5 2 (1.80%) IBM
5 2 (1.80%) Sage
6 1 (0.90%) Dynatrace