OpenCV Contracts

Intel OpenCV
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OpenCV skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenCV 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 506 576 710
Rank change year-on-year +70 +134 +142
Contract jobs citing OpenCV 14 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.014% 0.013%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.067% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 5
10th Percentile - £453 -
25th Percentile £510 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +10.58% +1.46%
75th Percentile £566 £588 £813
90th Percentile £606 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +22.22% -13.46% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +138.10%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +138.10%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OpenCV 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%

OpenCV
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenCV in the UK

OpenCV
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OpenCV in the UK

OpenCV
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for OpenCV in the UK

OpenCV
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OpenCV in the UK

OpenCV
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenCV 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 +66 13 £520 -9.57% 19
London +44 9 £520 -9.57% 8
UK excluding London +64 4 £550 +22.22% 14
Work from Home +44 4 £520 +15.56% 9
North of England +21 3 £550 +22.22% 3
North West +19 3 £550 +22.22%
South West - 1 £875 - 2

OpenCV
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 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 10 (71.43%) Amazon S3
2 10 (71.43%) Amazon SageMaker
2 10 (71.43%) AWS CodeCommit
2 10 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (71.43%) Cloud9 IDE
2 10 (71.43%) Serverless
2 10 (71.43%) Textract
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (64.29%) Oracle Database
3 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
General
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Data Scientist
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) iOS Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Vision Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (85.71%) PyTorch
1 12 (85.71%) TensorFlow
2 11 (78.57%) scikit-learn
3 10 (71.43%) NumPy
3 10 (71.43%) Pandas
3 10 (71.43%) pydantic
3 10 (71.43%) SciPy
4 2 (14.29%) .NET
4 2 (14.29%) AVFoundation
4 2 (14.29%) iOS SDK
4 2 (14.29%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Algorithms
1 3 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (85.71%) Computer Vision
3 11 (78.57%) Deep Learning
4 10 (71.43%) Data Munging
4 10 (71.43%) Data Science
4 10 (71.43%) Natural Language Processing
4 10 (71.43%) Statistical Inference
4 10 (71.43%) Visualisation
5 9 (64.29%) Data Visualisation
6 7 (50.00%) Machine Learning
7 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
8 2 (14.29%) Agile
8 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (14.29%) Image Processing
8 2 (14.29%) iOS Development
8 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (14.29%) Product Requirements
8 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 2 (14.29%) SOLID
8 2 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 10 (71.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Oracle