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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 433 516
Rank change year-on-year -100 +83 +77
Contract jobs citing TensorFlow 121 110 77
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.34% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.17% 1.49% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 72 43
10th Percentile £433 £427 £426
25th Percentile £484 £495 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £706 £675 £650
90th Percentile £825 £763 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.18
Median hourly rate - - £61.84
75th Percentile - - £79.06
90th Percentile - - £79.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £46.18

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 10,319 7,380 9,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.49% 22.60% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,765 4,983 6,312
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% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £655
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 160 278
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.23 £22.68
25th Percentile £50.00 £38.89 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% +3.18% -14.06%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £72.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £58.30
% change year-on-year +3.17% +8.06% -2.83%

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 12 July 2026.

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 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 TensorFlow within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 -94 106 £588 +6.82% 107
London -40 68 £625 +13.64% 74
UK excluding London -101 40 £550 - 45
Work from Home -43 39 £550 -4.35% 40
South East -63 11 £588 +17.50% 11
South West -30 7 £575 -19.30% 7
North of England -86 7 £488 - 7
Midlands - 7 £500 - 6
Scotland -11 6 £428 -25.57% 3
Yorkshire -51 5 £475 -2.06%
West Midlands - 5 £525 - 6
East of England -35 2 £550 -15.38% 7
East Midlands - 2 £425 -
North West -54 1 £575 +17.35% 5
North East - 1 £593 - 2

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 13 (10.74%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.31%) Apache
3 4 (3.31%) Appian
4 1 (0.83%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 61 (50.41%) Azure
2 56 (46.28%) AWS
3 46 (38.02%) GCP
4 11 (9.09%) Vertex AI
5 10 (8.26%) GitHub
6 8 (6.61%) Amazon SageMaker
6 8 (6.61%) Google Gemini
7 7 (5.79%) Azure AI
7 7 (5.79%) Azure Machine Learning
7 7 (5.79%) Snowflake
8 6 (4.96%) Anthropic Claude
8 6 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.96%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (4.13%) LangSmith
10 4 (3.31%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.31%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (3.31%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.57%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.26%) Big Data
2 10 (8.26%) Pinecone
3 8 (6.61%) BigQuery
4 7 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.96%) Hadoop
5 6 (4.96%) Weaviate
6 5 (4.13%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.13%) Power BI
7 4 (3.31%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.31%) Tableau
8 3 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.48%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.48%) Db2
8 3 (2.48%) Neo4j
8 3 (2.48%) Redis
9 2 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.65%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (11.57%) MLflow
2 12 (9.92%) Git
3 5 (4.13%) GitLab
3 5 (4.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) Ant
4 1 (0.83%) JUnit
4 1 (0.83%) Maven
4 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (16.53%) Finance
4 10 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.44%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (5.79%) Aviation
7 4 (3.31%) Banking
7 4 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.48%) Legal
8 3 (2.48%) Military
8 3 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.48%) Retail
9 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Law
9 2 (1.65%) Marketing
10 1 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (29.75%) Data Scientist
2 30 (24.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 12 (9.92%) Developer
4 10 (8.26%) Senior
5 8 (6.61%) Architect
5 8 (6.61%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 6 (4.96%) Lead
6 6 (4.96%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 6 (4.96%) Python Developer
6 6 (4.96%) Python Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Machine Learning Developer
7 5 (4.13%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.31%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Gen AI Engineer
9 3 (2.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (2.48%) Senior Python Developer
9 3 (2.48%) Software Engineer
10 2 (1.65%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (96.69%) PyTorch
2 50 (41.32%) scikit-learn
3 33 (27.27%) Hugging Face
4 22 (18.18%) Pandas
5 21 (17.36%) LangChain
6 20 (16.53%) NumPy
7 12 (9.92%) Keras
8 10 (8.26%) REST
9 8 (6.61%) RESTful
10 7 (5.79%) OAuth
11 6 (4.96%) Faiss
11 6 (4.96%) Google JAX
11 6 (4.96%) JAX
11 6 (4.96%) Kafka
12 5 (4.13%) Django
12 5 (4.13%) FastAPI
12 5 (4.13%) Flask
12 5 (4.13%) React
12 5 (4.13%) Web Services
13 4 (3.31%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 29 (23.97%) Algorithms
2 10 (8.26%) AI Agents
2 10 (8.26%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.31%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (3.31%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.31%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.65%) Autonomous Agent
6 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.65%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.65%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.65%) SCADA
6 2 (1.65%) Social Media
6 2 (1.65%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.13%) Linux
1 5 (4.13%) Windows
2 3 (2.48%) Android
2 3 (2.48%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (96.69%) Machine Learning
2 93 (76.86%) AI
3 64 (52.89%) Data Science
4 57 (47.11%) Generative AI
5 53 (43.80%) CI/CD
5 53 (43.80%) LLM
6 51 (42.15%) MLOps
7 43 (35.54%) Data Pipeline
8 35 (28.93%) Analytics
8 35 (28.93%) Feature Engineering
9 29 (23.97%) Containerisation
10 27 (22.31%) Natural Language Processing
11 25 (20.66%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 23 (19.01%) Data Engineering
12 23 (19.01%) Software Engineering
13 22 (18.18%) Statistics
14 19 (15.70%) Agile
14 19 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (15.70%) Prompt Engineering
15 18 (14.88%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 109 (90.08%) Python
2 30 (24.79%) SQL
3 13 (10.74%) Java
4 12 (9.92%) R
5 4 (3.31%) C#
6 3 (2.48%) C++
7 2 (1.65%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.65%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.83%) C
8 1 (0.83%) Go
8 1 (0.83%) Scala
8 1 (0.83%) SHACL
8 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.83%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 19 (15.70%) Degree
1 19 (15.70%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.26%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (6.61%) Master's Degree
5 7 (5.79%) PhD
6 4 (3.31%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.48%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.65%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.44%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.48%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.48%) NIST
3 2 (1.65%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 45 (37.19%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (1.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (34.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.96%) Terraform
3 4 (3.31%) Kubeflow
3 4 (3.31%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.83%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.83%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (16.53%) OpenAI
2 13 (10.74%) Databricks
3 12 (9.92%) Google
4 6 (4.96%) UiPath
5 4 (3.31%) Automation Anywhere
5 4 (3.31%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.48%) Foundry
7 2 (1.65%) IBM
7 2 (1.65%) NVIDIA
7 2 (1.65%) SAP
7 2 (1.65%) Siemens
8 1 (0.83%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.83%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow