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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 496 511
Rank change year-on-year +120 +15 +232
Contract jobs citing PyTorch 209 68 101
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.55% 0.90% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 43 53
10th Percentile £400 £357 £263
25th Percentile £453 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -19.23%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £675 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £486 £513
% change year-on-year +8.02% -5.31% +22.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 20
10th Percentile £32.57 - -
25th Percentile £34.02 - -
Median hourly rate £37.48 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% - +8.66%
75th Percentile £41.14 - -
90th Percentile £42.70 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -7.97% - -7.64%

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 8,189 7,567 9,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.47% 21.88% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,414 4,793 6,998
10th Percentile £351 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 105 175
10th Percentile £30.40 £21.55 £31.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.40 £74.70 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -1.54% +25.26% -20.17%

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 14 December 2025.

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 10 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 14 December 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 +63 161 £525 -8.70% 211
London +70 99 £525 -10.64% 86
UK excluding London +3 75 £525 +8.02% 154
Work from Home +56 64 £543 -5.54% 84
East of England -3 26 £550 -13.73% 31
Scotland +20 19 £525 +34.27% 9
South East +18 19 £435 -10.77% 43
North of England -36 11 £489 +3.93% 29
Yorkshire - 9 £493 - 11
North West -26 2 £450 -4.36% 16

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 15 (7.18%) Apache Spark
2 11 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.35%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.91%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) Appian
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.96%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 130 (62.20%) Azure
2 89 (42.58%) AWS
3 51 (24.40%) GCP
4 41 (19.62%) Serverless
5 38 (18.18%) GitHub
6 37 (17.70%) Azure AKS
7 35 (16.75%) Azure Machine Learning
8 26 (12.44%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (11.00%) Vertex AI
10 22 (10.53%) Amazon SageMaker
10 22 (10.53%) Azure AI
11 20 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (9.09%) Amazon S3
12 19 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (8.13%) Azure Functions
13 17 (8.13%) GitHub Copilot
13 17 (8.13%) Snowflake
14 12 (5.74%) Amazon Bedrock
14 12 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (5.74%) Azure Cognitive Services
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.39%) Network Security
2 4 (1.91%) HTTP
3 1 (0.48%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 16 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.70%) Big Data
4 10 (4.78%) Data Lake
4 10 (4.78%) Pinecone
4 10 (4.78%) Power BI
5 8 (3.83%) BigQuery
5 8 (3.83%) Tableau
6 7 (3.35%) Redis
7 6 (2.87%) Weaviate
8 5 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (2.39%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.91%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.91%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.91%) Metadata
9 4 (1.91%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.44%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 30 (14.35%) Git
2 24 (11.48%) MLflow
3 9 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.35%) GitLab
4 7 (3.35%) JIRA
4 7 (3.35%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.91%) Gatling
5 4 (1.91%) JMeter
5 4 (1.91%) JUnit
5 4 (1.91%) Mockito
5 4 (1.91%) Snyk
6 2 (0.96%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.48%) Postman
7 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.48%) TensorBoard
General
1 69 (33.01%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.79%) Finance
3 23 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.05%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.26%) Banking
6 8 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.39%) Legal
7 5 (2.39%) Retail
8 4 (1.91%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.48%) Electronics
11 1 (0.48%) Law
11 1 (0.48%) Marketing
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (37.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 33 (15.79%) Developer
3 29 (13.88%) Data Scientist
4 20 (9.57%) Senior
5 17 (8.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 16 (7.66%) Architect
6 16 (7.66%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 15 (7.18%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 12 (5.74%) Gen AI Engineer
8 12 (5.74%) Python Engineer
9 11 (5.26%) Data Engineer
10 7 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.39%) Azure Developer
11 5 (2.39%) Security Architect
12 4 (1.91%) Data Science Developer
12 4 (1.91%) Evangelist
12 4 (1.91%) Java Developer
12 4 (1.91%) Operations Engineer
12 4 (1.91%) Senior Architect
12 4 (1.91%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (80.38%) TensorFlow
2 82 (39.23%) scikit-learn
3 54 (25.84%) Hugging Face
4 50 (23.92%) Pandas
5 37 (17.70%) LangChain
5 37 (17.70%) NumPy
6 25 (11.96%) FastAPI
7 24 (11.48%) RESTful
8 22 (10.53%) REST
9 19 (9.09%) .NET
9 19 (9.09%) OpenCV
10 15 (7.18%) LangGraph
10 15 (7.18%) Semantic Kernel
11 14 (6.70%) SpaCy
11 14 (6.70%) SQLAlchemy
12 13 (6.22%) Google JAX
12 13 (6.22%) JAX
12 13 (6.22%) Node.js
13 12 (5.74%) AWS CDK
14 10 (4.78%) Faiss
Miscellaneous
1 51 (24.40%) Algorithms
2 28 (13.40%) AI Agents
2 28 (13.40%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.31%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.83%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.87%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.91%) CUDA
7 4 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.44%) Autonomous Agent
8 3 (1.44%) Blog
8 3 (1.44%) Derivative
8 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.96%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.96%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.96%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.91%) Linux
2 2 (0.96%) Windows
3 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (96.17%) Machine Learning
2 186 (89.00%) AI
3 122 (58.37%) LLM
4 100 (47.85%) Data Science
5 73 (34.93%) Generative AI
6 72 (34.45%) MLOps
7 70 (33.49%) CI/CD
8 62 (29.67%) Agile
8 62 (29.67%) Deep Learning
9 60 (28.71%) Containerisation
10 52 (24.88%) DevOps
11 50 (23.92%) Data Pipeline
12 49 (23.44%) Data Engineering
13 48 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (22.49%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 44 (21.05%) Natural Language Processing
15 44 (21.05%) Prompt Engineering
16 39 (18.66%) Software Engineering
17 37 (17.70%) Analytics
18 36 (17.22%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 194 (92.82%) Python
2 49 (23.44%) SQL
3 23 (11.00%) Java
4 15 (7.18%) C++
4 15 (7.18%) R
5 11 (5.26%) C#
6 9 (4.31%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.83%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.35%) Bicep
9 6 (2.87%) Bash
10 5 (2.39%) C
11 3 (1.44%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.44%) Scala
12 2 (0.96%) Go
13 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 36 (17.22%) Degree
2 24 (11.48%) MCP
3 21 (10.05%) Master's Degree
3 21 (10.05%) Security Cleared
4 14 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.74%) SC Cleared
6 10 (4.78%) PhD
7 5 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.48%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.48%) CISM
8 1 (0.48%) CISSP
8 1 (0.48%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.13%) EU AI Act
1 17 (8.13%) NIST
2 11 (5.26%) QA
3 10 (4.78%) GDPR
4 6 (2.87%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.87%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.44%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.44%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.48%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.48%) GxP
7 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.48%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 71 (33.97%) Docker
2 7 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.48%) GPFS
4 1 (0.48%) Lustre
4 1 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 83 (39.71%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.05%) Terraform
3 17 (8.13%) Grafana
4 5 (2.39%) Kubeflow
4 5 (2.39%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.44%) Ansible
5 3 (1.44%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.96%) Knative
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.48%) SCCM
7 1 (0.48%) SELinux
Vendors
1 40 (19.14%) Microsoft
2 34 (16.27%) Databricks
3 31 (14.83%) Google
4 29 (13.88%) OpenAI
5 22 (10.53%) Foundry
6 8 (3.83%) SAP
7 5 (2.39%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.44%) Sage
9 2 (0.96%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.96%) New Relic
10 1 (0.48%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.48%) DataRobot
10 1 (0.48%) Progress
10 1 (0.48%) Splunk
10 1 (0.48%) Workday