SpaCy Contracts

SpaCy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SpaCy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SpaCy 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 518 581 717
Rank change year-on-year +63 +136 +133
Contract jobs citing SpaCy 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.002% 0.002%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.030% 0.011% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £607 - -
25th Percentile £608 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.41%
75th Percentile £633 - £475
90th Percentile £636 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £450
% change year-on-year - - +1.41%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

SpaCy 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%

SpaCy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SpaCy in the UK

SpaCy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SpaCy in the UK

SpaCy
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SpaCy 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 +58 2 £619 - 21
Work from Home - 2 £619 - 9

SpaCy
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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI