Image Processing Contracts

Image Processing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Image Processing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Image Processing over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 688 836
Rank change year-on-year +116 +148 -144
Contract jobs citing Image Processing 12 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.014% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.016% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - £444
25th Percentile £575 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £475 £569
90th Percentile - - £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.50 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +173.81% -50.59%
75th Percentile £57.50 £58.75 £37.69
90th Percentile - - £47.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -4.35% +173.81% -50.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Image Processing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,644 51,414 79,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,622 55,798
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,693 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -5.27%

Image Processing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Image Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Image Processing in the UK

Image Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Image Processing.

Daily rate trend for Image Processing in the UK

Image Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Image Processing.

Hourly rate trend for Image Processing in the UK

Image Processing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Image Processing over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Image Processing in the UK

Image Processing
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Image Processing within the UK over the 6 months to 19 May 2024. 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 +111 11 £600 +33.33% 19
UK excluding London +61 11 £600 +33.33% 13
East of England +17 5 - - 4
North of England - 3 - - 1
Yorkshire - 3 - -
South East - 2 £600 - 3
Work from Home +112 1 - - 8
South West +12 1 - - 2

Image Processing
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 (25.00%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (25.00%) MicroStation
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Geospatial Data
1 3 (25.00%) GIS
1 3 (25.00%) Metadata
1 3 (25.00%) QGIS
1 3 (25.00%) Spatial Data
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Electronics
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Computer Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Computer Vision Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) GIS Technician
3 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Development Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Programmer
4 1 (8.33%) Research Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Research Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Development Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Development Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) DirectX
1 2 (16.67%) OpenGL
1 2 (16.67%) OpenGL ES
1 2 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (16.67%) TensorFlow
1 2 (16.67%) Vulkan
2 1 (8.33%) NumPy
2 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Algorithms
2 4 (33.33%) Clustering
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (25.00%) Lidar
4 2 (16.67%) Photography
5 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Android
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 4 (33.33%) Model Validation
1 4 (33.33%) Signal Processing
1 4 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (25.00%) Computer Vision
2 3 (25.00%) Data Management
2 3 (25.00%) Deep Learning
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) User Experience
3 2 (16.67%) Android Development
3 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) Generative AI
4 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) Observability
4 1 (8.33%) Product Backlog
4 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) C++
1 4 (33.33%) MATLAB
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) C
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) Rust
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (25.00%) PhD
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) ESRI
2 1 (8.33%) SAP