Pattern Recognition Contracts

Pattern Recognition
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Pattern Recognition skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pattern Recognition 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 505 578 716
Rank change year-on-year +73 +138 +128
Contract jobs citing Pattern Recognition 15 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.009% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.011% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £456 £786 £560
25th Percentile £475 £803 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £863 £600
Median % change year-on-year -39.71% +43.75% -
75th Percentile £631 £941 £625
90th Percentile £688 £946 £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 - £650
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £22.59 - -
25th Percentile £22.72 - -
Median hourly rate £25.43 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile £29.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.43 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Pattern Recognition 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%

Pattern Recognition
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Pattern Recognition in the UK

Pattern Recognition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Pattern Recognition in the UK

Pattern Recognition
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Pattern Recognition in the UK

Pattern Recognition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Pattern Recognition in the UK

Pattern Recognition
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 Pattern Recognition 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 +68 15 £520 -39.71% 10
UK excluding London - 9 £520 - 7
North of England - 9 £520 - 1
North West - 9 £520 - 1
Work from Home +47 7 - - 11
London +40 6 £556 -35.51% 6

Pattern Recognition
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 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Anthropic Claude
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure AI
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
2 4 (26.67%) Google Gemini
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Big Data
1 5 (33.33%) Data Mining
1 5 (33.33%) Metadata
1 5 (33.33%) Tableau
2 4 (26.67%) Neo4j
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Legal
3 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
3 4 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Big Data Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) PyTorch
1 4 (26.67%) Ray
1 4 (26.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (6.67%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 4 (26.67%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (26.67%) Tandem
4 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 10 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 10 (66.67%) Statistics
3 9 (60.00%) Decision-Making
3 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (46.67%) Data Science
5 6 (40.00%) Data Engineering
5 6 (40.00%) Statistical Modelling
5 6 (40.00%) Visualisation
6 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (33.33%) Data Management
6 5 (33.33%) Information Retrieval
6 5 (33.33%) LLM
7 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
7 4 (26.67%) Computer Vision
7 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
7 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
7 4 (26.67%) SDLC
7 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) C
2 4 (26.67%) C++
2 4 (26.67%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
3 3 (20.00%) R
3 3 (20.00%) Scala
4 1 (6.67%) MATLAB
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Ariba
1 1 (6.67%) SAP
1 1 (6.67%) Spotify