Hugging Face Contracts

Hugging Face
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Hugging Face skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hugging Face 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 503 571 -
Rank change year-on-year +68 - -
Contract jobs citing Hugging Face 17 11 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.025% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.26% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 0
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £464 £263 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% - -
75th Percentile £700 £575 -
90th Percentile £753 £733 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £275 -
% change year-on-year +87.27% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Hugging Face falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Hugging Face
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Hugging Face as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Hugging Face in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hugging Face.

Daily rate trend for Hugging Face in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hugging Face over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hugging Face in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hugging Face 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 +63 16 £619 +23.75% 41
London +44 11 £700 +33.33% 37
Work from Home +42 5 £556 +5.95% 18
UK excluding London +64 3 £515 +87.27% 14
South West - 2 £515 - 1
South East +46 1 £350 - 7

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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 3 (17.65%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) GCP
3 6 (35.29%) Amazon SageMaker
3 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 6 (35.29%) GitHub
4 5 (29.41%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (17.65%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (17.65%) Serverless
6 3 (17.65%) Vertex AI
7 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (11.76%) Azure Functions
7 2 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (5.88%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (5.88%) Azure AI
8 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (5.88%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (17.65%) Redis
3 2 (11.76%) Big Data
3 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Pinecone
4 1 (5.88%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) MLflow
2 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Games
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Data Scientist
2 4 (23.53%) Python Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Backend Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Gen AI Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) LangChain
2 8 (47.06%) PyTorch
3 7 (41.18%) TensorFlow
4 5 (29.41%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (23.53%) FastAPI
5 4 (23.53%) pytest
5 4 (23.53%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (17.65%) NumPy
6 3 (17.65%) Pandas
6 3 (17.65%) pydantic
6 3 (17.65%) scikit-learn
7 2 (11.76%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (11.76%) REST
7 2 (11.76%) SpaCy
8 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (5.88%) FHIR
8 1 (5.88%) JWT
8 1 (5.88%) Kafka
8 1 (5.88%) OAuth
8 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.88%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Artificial Intelligence
2 14 (82.35%) LLM
3 12 (70.59%) Machine Learning
4 9 (52.94%) Generative AI
5 8 (47.06%) Data Science
6 6 (35.29%) Prototyping
7 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
7 5 (29.41%) DevOps
7 5 (29.41%) Prompt Engineering
7 5 (29.41%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 4 (23.53%) Microservices
8 4 (23.53%) MLOps
8 4 (23.53%) Natural Language Processing
8 4 (23.53%) Rapid Prototyping
9 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (17.65%) OO
10 2 (11.76%) Data Security
10 2 (11.76%) Use Case
10 2 (11.76%) Validation
10 2 (11.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Go
3 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Grafana
4 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) OpenAI
2 3 (17.65%) Google
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Dataiku
3 2 (11.76%) DataRobot
3 2 (11.76%) NVIDIA