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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 580 675
Rank change year-on-year +62 +95 +164
Contract jobs citing Neural Network 12 12 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.028% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.032% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 4
10th Percentile £506 - £441
25th Percentile £513 £1,050 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £1,150 £619
Median % change year-on-year -45.65% +85.86% +37.50%
75th Percentile £798 £1,250 £741
90th Percentile £872 - £746
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
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 27,473 37,081 49,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.06% 85.12% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,374 23,644 34,319
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,294 2,582 1,699
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.65 £11.45
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £15.83
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £54.56 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £70.92 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.83 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.86% +17.29% +54.76%

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

Neural Network
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 25 June 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 3 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 25 June 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 +75 10 £625 -45.65% 94
London +49 10 £625 -45.65% 66
Work from Home +44 4 £525 - 46

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 1 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Vertex AI
3 2 (16.67%) Anthropic Claude
3 2 (16.67%) Azure AI
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Dialogflow
4 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Pinecone
1 2 (16.67%) Redis
1 2 (16.67%) Weaviate
2 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (8.33%) TimescaleDB
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Games
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Science Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (8.33%) GCP Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Enterprise Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) PyTorch
1 5 (41.67%) TensorFlow
2 3 (25.00%) Google JAX
2 3 (25.00%) Hugging Face
2 3 (25.00%) JAX
2 3 (25.00%) LangChain
3 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (16.67%) Kafka
3 2 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (8.33%) ONNX
4 1 (8.33%) OpenVINO
4 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 3 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (25.00%) Oculus
1 3 (25.00%) Virtual Reality
1 3 (25.00%) Wiki
2 2 (16.67%) Autonomous Agent
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Hedge funds
3 1 (8.33%) IoT
3 1 (8.33%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 7 (58.33%) LLM
3 6 (50.00%) Deep Learning
4 4 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
4 4 (33.33%) Reinforcement Learning
5 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (25.00%) Data Science
5 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (25.00%) MLOps
5 3 (25.00%) Mobile Optimisation
5 3 (25.00%) Open Source
5 3 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Prototyping
5 3 (25.00%) Storytelling
6 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Game Theory
6 2 (16.67%) Low Latency
6 2 (16.67%) Mathematics
6 2 (16.67%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) C#
2 3 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (16.67%) C++
3 2 (16.67%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) C
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) OpenAI