Deepfake Contract Job Trends

Deepfakes
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Deepfake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 680 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Deepfake 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Deepfake 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 46,343 29,774 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.43% 90.67% 85.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,026 18,502 19,486
10th Percentile £325 £296 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,222 1,849 1,345
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.29 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.19 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.86 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.51% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.27 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +75.98% -48.10% +1.18%

Deepfake
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Deepfake job vacancy trend in the UK

Deepfake
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Deepfake

Deepfake
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Deepfake within the UK over the 6 months to 30 September 2026. 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
Work from Home - 2 - - 10
London - 2 - - 13
England - 2 - - 13
Scotland - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - - 1

Deepfake
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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Akamai
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 3 (100.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Identity
1 3 (100.00%) Epics
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (66.67%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Change
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ForgeRock
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Okta
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Ping Identity