PyTorch Contract Job Trends

PyTorch
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring PyTorch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 434 527
Rank change year-on-year -51 +93 +69
Contract jobs citing PyTorch 168 103 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.32% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.64% 1.40% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 68 31
10th Percentile £449 £411 £400
25th Percentile £518 £476 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £638
90th Percentile £825 £679 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £553 £538 £485
% change year-on-year +2.84% +10.94% +7.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £32.52 - -
25th Percentile £34.76 - £46.18
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £61.84
75th Percentile £39.44 - £79.06
90th Percentile £45.63 - £79.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £46.18

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

PyTorch 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 10,266 7,335 9,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 22.58% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,717 4,951 6,252
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.70% -2.23%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 159 274
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.21 £22.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £38.52 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £74.63 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.76% -1.74%

PyTorch
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PyTorch relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

PyTorch job vacancy trend in the UK

PyTorch
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PyTorch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PyTorch

PyTorch
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PyTorch over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PyTorch in the UK

PyTorch
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PyTorch.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PyTorch

PyTorch
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PyTorch within the UK over the 6 months to 16 July 2026. 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 -53 142 £575 +5.75% 125
London -17 93 £600 +9.09% 90
UK excluding London -92 60 £553 +2.84% 48
Work from Home -58 46 £575 - 48
North of England -76 18 £575 +16.63% 3
Scotland -2 15 £550 -1.79% 2
South East -60 13 £581 +27.75% 15
North West -46 12 £590 +12.47% 2
South West -25 7 £575 +7.98% 10
Midlands - 6 £475 - 1
Yorkshire -52 5 £475 -2.86%
West Midlands - 4 £538 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £425 -
East of England -34 1 £475 -26.92% 11
North East - 1 £593 - 1

PyTorch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (7.74%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.17%) Apache
4 4 (2.38%) Appian
5 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.60%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 87 (51.79%) AWS
2 68 (40.48%) Azure
3 47 (27.98%) GCP
4 24 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 17 (10.12%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (10.12%) GitHub
5 17 (10.12%) Serverless
6 15 (8.93%) Vertex AI
7 14 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
8 12 (7.14%) Azure AI
9 11 (6.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (5.36%) Azure Machine Learning
10 9 (5.36%) Snowflake
11 8 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (4.76%) Google Gemini
11 8 (4.76%) LangSmith
12 7 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
12 7 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (3.57%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.36%) Firewall
2 4 (2.38%) HTTP
3 2 (1.19%) Internet
4 1 (0.60%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 11 (6.55%) Pinecone
3 10 (5.95%) Big Data
3 10 (5.95%) BigQuery
4 9 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.76%) MongoDB
6 7 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.17%) Tableau
6 7 (4.17%) Weaviate
7 6 (3.57%) Hadoop
7 6 (3.57%) Redis
8 5 (2.98%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.38%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.79%) Db2
10 3 (1.79%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.79%) Power BI
11 2 (1.19%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 21 (12.50%) MLflow
2 13 (7.74%) Git
3 5 (2.98%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.98%) JIRA
4 4 (2.38%) GitLab
5 1 (0.60%) Ant
5 1 (0.60%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.60%) JUnit
5 1 (0.60%) Maven
5 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.60%) SoapUI
General
1 45 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.26%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.69%) Finance
4 13 (7.74%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (4.17%) Aviation
7 5 (2.98%) Banking
7 5 (2.98%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.98%) Retail
8 4 (2.38%) Legal
9 3 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.79%) Military
10 2 (1.19%) Front Office
10 2 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.19%) Law
10 2 (1.19%) Marketing
11 1 (0.60%) Automotive
11 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (23.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 40 (23.81%) Data Scientist
2 18 (10.71%) Developer
3 15 (8.93%) Python Engineer
4 14 (8.33%) Senior
5 11 (6.55%) Architect
6 10 (5.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 8 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 8 (4.76%) Lead
8 7 (4.17%) Data Engineer
8 7 (4.17%) Python Developer
8 7 (4.17%) Software Engineer
9 6 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (3.57%) Security Engineer
10 5 (2.98%) Applications Developer
10 5 (2.98%) Gen AI Engineer
10 5 (2.98%) Machine Learning Developer
10 5 (2.98%) Security Architect
10 5 (2.98%) Senior Developer
11 4 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (67.86%) TensorFlow
2 63 (37.50%) scikit-learn
3 40 (23.81%) Hugging Face
4 36 (21.43%) LangChain
5 34 (20.24%) Pandas
6 28 (16.67%) NumPy
7 15 (8.93%) FastAPI
8 14 (8.33%) REST
9 13 (7.74%) Keras
10 11 (6.55%) OAuth
10 11 (6.55%) OpenCV
11 10 (5.95%) Google JAX
11 10 (5.95%) JAX
11 10 (5.95%) JWT
12 9 (5.36%) Kafka
13 8 (4.76%) RESTful
14 7 (4.17%) Faiss
14 7 (4.17%) LlamaIndex
14 7 (4.17%) Model Context Protocol
14 7 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.83%) Algorithms
2 25 (14.88%) Cloud Native
3 24 (14.29%) AI Agents
4 7 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.57%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.98%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.38%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.38%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.79%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.19%) Autonomous Agent
9 2 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.19%) Social Media
9 2 (1.19%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.55%) Linux
2 5 (2.98%) Windows
3 3 (1.79%) Android
3 3 (1.79%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.79%) VMS
4 2 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (97.62%) Machine Learning
2 135 (80.36%) AI
3 85 (50.60%) LLM
4 72 (42.86%) Data Science
5 71 (42.26%) Generative AI
6 68 (40.48%) CI/CD
7 55 (32.74%) MLOps
8 54 (32.14%) Data Pipeline
9 38 (22.62%) Containerisation
10 37 (22.02%) Natural Language Processing
11 36 (21.43%) Agile
11 36 (21.43%) Analytics
12 34 (20.24%) Feature Engineering
13 29 (17.26%) Data Engineering
13 29 (17.26%) Software Engineering
14 27 (16.07%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 24 (14.29%) Computer Science
16 23 (13.69%) ETL
17 22 (13.10%) Deep Learning
17 22 (13.10%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 159 (94.64%) Python
2 33 (19.64%) SQL
3 13 (7.74%) Java
4 12 (7.14%) R
5 4 (2.38%) C#
5 4 (2.38%) C++
5 4 (2.38%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.19%) Go
6 2 (1.19%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.60%) C
7 1 (0.60%) Haskell
7 1 (0.60%) Scala
7 1 (0.60%) SHACL
7 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.60%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 30 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.67%) Degree
3 16 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (8.93%) SC Cleared
5 14 (8.33%) Master's Degree
6 11 (6.55%) PhD
7 7 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 7 (4.17%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.38%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.38%) CISSP
9 3 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.19%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.55%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (1.79%) NIST
3 2 (1.19%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 55 (32.74%) Docker
2 2 (1.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (1.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (34.52%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.95%) Terraform
3 5 (2.98%) Kubeflow
4 4 (2.38%) Grafana
4 4 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.19%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.60%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (11.90%) Google
2 19 (11.31%) OpenAI
3 16 (9.52%) Databricks
4 8 (4.76%) IBM
5 6 (3.57%) UiPath
6 4 (2.38%) Automation Anywhere
6 4 (2.38%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.38%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.19%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.19%) Foundry
7 2 (1.19%) SAP
7 2 (1.19%) Siemens
8 1 (0.60%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.60%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.60%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow