JAX Contracts

JAX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring JAX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JAX over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 559 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing JAX 8 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.018% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.082% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £503 £615 -
25th Percentile £506 £638 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £800 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% - -
75th Percentile £556 £963 -
90th Percentile £568 £985 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JAX 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 7,410 8,581 11,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.47% 22.04% 22.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,983 5,799 8,462
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £412 £428 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 241 158
10th Percentile £30.00 £22.50 £30.53
25th Percentile £41.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.44 £78.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £58.91 £58.81
% change year-on-year -2.39% +0.16% -1.98%

JAX
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JAX in the UK

JAX
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JAX within the UK over the 6 months to 11 August 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 +29 6 £525 -34.38% 39
South East +31 4 £550 -
UK excluding London -2 4 £550 - 10
Work from Home +23 3 - - 14
London +16 2 £500 -37.50% 30

JAX
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Vertex AI
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (12.50%) Dialogflow
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Pinecone
1 2 (25.00%) Redis
1 2 (25.00%) Weaviate
2 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) TensorBoard
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Games
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (12.50%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Google JAX
1 8 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 8 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 4 (50.00%) scikit-learn
3 3 (37.50%) Faiss
3 3 (37.50%) Hugging Face
3 3 (37.50%) LangChain
4 2 (25.00%) CrewAI
4 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (25.00%) Kafka
4 2 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (37.50%) AI Agents
3 2 (25.00%) Autonomous Agent
3 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 7 (87.50%) LLM
3 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Data Science
4 4 (50.00%) Deep Learning
4 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Security Architecture
4 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
5 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
5 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
5 3 (37.50%) MLOps
5 3 (37.50%) Neural Network
5 3 (37.50%) SDLC
5 3 (37.50%) Secure Coding
5 3 (37.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) Java
3 5 (62.50%) C++
4 4 (50.00%) C
4 4 (50.00%) R
5 2 (25.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) GDPR
2 4 (50.00%) EU AI Act
2 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) OpenAI