TensorFlow Contract Job Trends

Google TensorFlow
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring TensorFlow skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 476 481
Rank change year-on-year +76 +5 +217
Contract jobs citing TensorFlow 184 67 128
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.26% 0.86% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 41 79
10th Percentile £400 £356 £325
25th Percentile £451 £448 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +11.11% -13.60%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £659
90th Percentile £738 £725 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £471 £525
% change year-on-year +9.72% -10.38% +25.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 19
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year - - -7.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

TensorFlow 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 8,136 7,791 10,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.43% 21.82% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 4,931 7,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 110 182
10th Percentile £30.08 £21.93 £32.30
25th Percentile £42.88 £37.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.04 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +23.81% -19.23%

TensorFlow
Job Vacancy Trend

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

TensorFlow job vacancy trend in the UK

TensorFlow
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

TensorFlow
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TensorFlow over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TensorFlow in the UK

TensorFlow
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

TensorFlow
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TensorFlow within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 +48 147 £525 -12.50% 163
London +46 83 £525 -12.50% 46
UK excluding London +5 66 £516 +9.72% 140
Work from Home +30 54 £588 -3.09% 124
East of England +7 23 £550 -15.38% 28
North of England -31 19 £489 +3.93% 23
Yorkshire - 16 £500 - 8
South East -3 14 £525 -4.55% 49
Scotland +11 7 £402 +2.88% 6
North West -20 3 £438 -7.01% 14
East Midlands -20 2 £375 +5.34% 6
Midlands -36 2 £375 +5.34% 17
South West -12 1 £550 -29.03% 13

TensorFlow
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 19 (10.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.17%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.09%) Apache
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (3.26%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.09%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 112 (60.87%) Azure
2 61 (33.15%) AWS
3 52 (28.26%) GCP
4 37 (20.11%) Azure AKS
5 33 (17.93%) GitHub
6 27 (14.67%) Azure Machine Learning
7 21 (11.41%) Serverless
8 20 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (9.78%) Vertex AI
10 17 (9.24%) Amazon SageMaker
10 17 (9.24%) Azure AI
11 14 (7.61%) Azure Functions
11 14 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (7.07%) GitHub Copilot
12 13 (7.07%) Snowflake
13 12 (6.52%) Azure Cognitive Services
14 11 (5.98%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (5.98%) PaaS
15 9 (4.89%) Power Platform
16 8 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.72%) Network Security
2 4 (2.17%) Internet
3 1 (0.54%) HTTP
3 1 (0.54%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.96%) NoSQL
2 17 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.15%) Big Data
4 10 (5.43%) Data Lake
5 9 (4.89%) BigQuery
5 9 (4.89%) Power BI
6 8 (4.35%) Tableau
7 6 (3.26%) MySQL
7 6 (3.26%) RDBMS
7 6 (3.26%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.72%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.17%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.17%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.17%) Pinecone
9 4 (2.17%) Redis
10 3 (1.63%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.63%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.63%) Metadata
11 2 (1.09%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 28 (15.22%) Git
2 16 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 16 (8.70%) MLflow
3 7 (3.80%) GitLab
4 6 (3.26%) PyCharm
5 5 (2.72%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.17%) Gatling
6 4 (2.17%) JMeter
6 4 (2.17%) JUnit
6 4 (2.17%) Mockito
6 4 (2.17%) Snyk
7 3 (1.63%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.09%) JIRA
9 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.54%) Postman
9 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.54%) TensorBoard
General
1 69 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.02%) Finance
3 26 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.15%) Banking
5 10 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.72%) Legal
8 3 (1.63%) Retail
8 3 (1.63%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.09%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.54%) Electronics
10 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Law
10 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.54%) Marketing
10 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.54%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 29 (15.76%) Developer
3 28 (15.22%) Data Scientist
4 19 (10.33%) Senior
5 17 (9.24%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 16 (8.70%) Architect
6 16 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 15 (8.15%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 11 (5.98%) Gen AI Engineer
9 10 (5.43%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.35%) Python Engineer
11 5 (2.72%) Azure Developer
11 5 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.72%) Python Data Engineer
11 5 (2.72%) Security Architect
12 4 (2.17%) Backend Developer
12 4 (2.17%) Data Science Developer
12 4 (2.17%) Java Developer
12 4 (2.17%) Senior Architect
12 4 (2.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (90.22%) PyTorch
2 78 (42.39%) scikit-learn
3 38 (20.65%) Pandas
4 37 (20.11%) Hugging Face
5 27 (14.67%) LangChain
6 25 (13.59%) NumPy
6 25 (13.59%) RESTful
7 19 (10.33%) .NET
8 15 (8.15%) REST
9 14 (7.61%) LangGraph
10 12 (6.52%) Google JAX
10 12 (6.52%) JAX
10 12 (6.52%) Node.js
10 12 (6.52%) Semantic Kernel
11 11 (5.98%) FastAPI
11 11 (5.98%) SpaCy
12 9 (4.89%) AngularJS
12 9 (4.89%) OpenCV
12 9 (4.89%) React
12 9 (4.89%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 53 (28.80%) Algorithms
2 26 (14.13%) AI Agents
3 23 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.43%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.72%) Clustering
7 5 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.17%) CUDA
8 4 (2.17%) Online Banking
9 3 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.63%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.63%) Synthetic Data
10 2 (1.09%) Autonomous Agent
10 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.09%) Derivative
10 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.09%) Robotics
10 2 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.09%) Windows
2 1 (0.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (95.11%) Machine Learning
2 163 (88.59%) AI
3 96 (52.17%) Data Science
3 96 (52.17%) LLM
4 67 (36.41%) CI/CD
5 65 (35.33%) MLOps
6 63 (34.24%) Deep Learning
7 60 (32.61%) Generative AI
8 50 (27.17%) Containerisation
8 50 (27.17%) Data Pipeline
9 49 (26.63%) DevOps
10 48 (26.09%) Agile
10 48 (26.09%) Natural Language Processing
11 46 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (22.28%) Data Engineering
13 40 (21.74%) Analytics
13 40 (21.74%) Prompt Engineering
14 39 (21.20%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 37 (20.11%) Software Engineering
16 35 (19.02%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 169 (91.85%) Python
2 45 (24.46%) SQL
3 20 (10.87%) Java
4 18 (9.78%) R
5 13 (7.07%) C++
6 10 (5.43%) C#
7 8 (4.35%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.80%) Bicep
9 4 (2.17%) C
9 4 (2.17%) Scala
10 3 (1.63%) Bash
11 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.54%) Go
12 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 39 (21.20%) Degree
2 23 (12.50%) MCP
3 19 (10.33%) Master's Degree
4 17 (9.24%) Security Cleared
5 11 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.98%) SC Cleared
6 9 (4.89%) PhD
7 3 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.09%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.54%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.54%) CISM
9 1 (0.54%) CISSP
9 1 (0.54%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.24%) EU AI Act
1 17 (9.24%) NIST
2 9 (4.89%) QA
3 8 (4.35%) GDPR
4 5 (2.72%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.63%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.54%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.54%) GxP
8 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.54%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 58 (31.52%) Docker
2 7 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.54%) GPFS
3 1 (0.54%) Lustre
3 1 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 65 (35.33%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.78%) Terraform
3 6 (3.26%) Grafana
3 6 (3.26%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.72%) Kubeflow
5 4 (2.17%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.09%) Ansible
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.54%) SCCM
7 1 (0.54%) SELinux
Vendors
1 41 (22.28%) Microsoft
2 31 (16.85%) Databricks
3 28 (15.22%) Google
4 23 (12.50%) OpenAI
5 18 (9.78%) Foundry
6 8 (4.35%) SAP
7 5 (2.72%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.54%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.54%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.54%) Progress
8 1 (0.54%) Splunk
8 1 (0.54%) Workday