Neural Network Contracts

Neural Networks
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Neural Network skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Neural Network 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 507 571 697
Rank change year-on-year +64 +126 +136
Contract jobs citing Neural Network 13 11 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.025% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.049% 0.029% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £513 £605 £434
25th Percentile £522 £772 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £1,100 £481
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +128.57% -3.75%
75th Percentile £777 £1,150 £519
90th Percentile £872 - £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Neural Network 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Neural Network
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Neural Network in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Neural Network.

Daily rate trend for Neural Network in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Neural Network over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Neural Network in the UK

Neural Network
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Neural Network.

Hourly rate trend for Neural Network 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 Neural Network 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 12 £600 -45.45% 69
London +45 10 £669 -39.20% 53
Work from Home +41 8 £525 +2.44% 29
UK excluding London +61 1 £600 - 28
North of England - 1 £600 - 1
North West - 1 £600 - 1

Neural Network
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 5 (38.46%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon SageMaker
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (7.69%) Azure AI
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Data Mining
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) Pinecone
2 1 (7.69%) Redis
2 1 (7.69%) Text Mining
2 1 (7.69%) TimescaleDB
2 1 (7.69%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) MLflow
General
1 5 (38.46%) Marketing
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Games
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Data Scientist
2 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Data Science Leader
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Enterprise Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning Scientist
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) PyTorch
1 3 (23.08%) TensorFlow
2 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) Google JAX
2 1 (7.69%) Hugging Face
2 1 (7.69%) JAX
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) LangChain
2 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Algorithms
2 4 (30.77%) Multi-touch
3 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.69%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
3 1 (7.69%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 10 (76.92%) Data Science
3 8 (61.54%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (53.85%) Data Analysis
4 7 (53.85%) Predictive Modelling
4 7 (53.85%) Statistics
5 5 (38.46%) Bayesian Methods
5 5 (38.46%) Decision Tree
6 4 (30.77%) A/B Testing
6 4 (30.77%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (30.77%) Affinity Analysis
6 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (30.77%) LLM
6 4 (30.77%) Statistical Modelling
7 3 (23.08%) Agile
7 3 (23.08%) Analytics
7 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (23.08%) Reinforcement Learning
7 3 (23.08%) Statistical Analysis
8 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) C
3 2 (15.38%) C++
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
2 2 (15.38%) PhD
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) OpenAI