TensorFlow Contracts

Google TensorFlow
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring TensorFlow skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TensorFlow over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 501 647
Rank change year-on-year +68 +146 +37
Contract jobs citing TensorFlow 93 82 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.19% 0.098%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.39% 0.92% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 52 29
10th Percentile £448 £425 £424
25th Percentile £510 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £750
90th Percentile £785 £720 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +27.50% +5.26% -7.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £52.19 £48.00
25th Percentile - £61.22 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £77.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +47.62% -14.63%
75th Percentile - £79.38 £56.25
90th Percentile - £79.75 £57.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £63.09 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +20.17% -

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 6,668 8,930 13,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.76% 20.57% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,572 6,198 10,066
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 £787 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 235 153
10th Percentile £27.18 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +31.31%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.79 £74.78 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%

TensorFlow
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for TensorFlow in the UK

TensorFlow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for TensorFlow in the UK

TensorFlow
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TensorFlow over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TensorFlow in the UK

TensorFlow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TensorFlow.

Hourly rate trend for TensorFlow in the UK

TensorFlow
Top 12 Contract 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 3 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 +77 83 £575 +9.52% 341
London +44 49 £550 +4.76% 229
UK excluding London +72 33 £638 +27.50% 168
Work from Home +46 26 £575 +2.45% 153
East of England +53 16 £650 +23.81% 32
North of England +12 9 £483 +75.45% 16
North West +15 8 £483 +75.45% 13
South East +31 3 £358 -24.74% 72
South West +29 2 £825 +65.00% 21
Wales - 2 £575 - 2
Scotland +11 1 £575 -9.80% 12
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2

TensorFlow
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:

Application Platforms
1 29 (31.18%) Apache Spark
2 8 (8.60%) Jupyter
3 6 (6.45%) Apache
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (1.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.08%) Siemens NX
2 1 (1.08%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (54.84%) AWS
2 44 (47.31%) Azure
3 22 (23.66%) GCP
4 20 (21.51%) Amazon SageMaker
5 14 (15.05%) Serverless
6 11 (11.83%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (10.75%) Amazon S3
7 10 (10.75%) AWS CodeCommit
7 10 (10.75%) Cloud9 IDE
7 10 (10.75%) Textract
8 7 (7.53%) GitHub
9 6 (6.45%) Azure AI
9 6 (6.45%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (6.45%) Power Platform
10 5 (5.38%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.30%) Google Gemini
12 3 (3.23%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 3 (3.23%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) Modbus
1 1 (1.08%) MQTT
1 1 (1.08%) NAS
1 1 (1.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (29.03%) Hadoop
2 23 (24.73%) Big Data
2 23 (24.73%) Tableau
3 15 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (9.68%) Oracle Database
5 6 (6.45%) Apache Hive
5 6 (6.45%) Power BI
6 5 (5.38%) Data Lake
6 5 (5.38%) Neo4j
7 3 (3.23%) Data Mining
7 3 (3.23%) MySQL
7 3 (3.23%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.08%) Flink
9 1 (1.08%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.08%) Redis
9 1 (1.08%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 18 (19.35%) Git
2 11 (11.83%) MLflow
3 1 (1.08%) CMake
3 1 (1.08%) GitLab
3 1 (1.08%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.08%) JIRA
3 1 (1.08%) Qt Creator
General
1 40 (43.01%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (20.43%) Finance
3 18 (19.35%) Social Skills
4 14 (15.05%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.60%) Banking
6 6 (6.45%) Manufacturing
7 5 (5.38%) Financial Institution
7 5 (5.38%) Legal
7 5 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.30%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.23%) Military
9 3 (3.23%) Police
10 2 (2.15%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.15%) Publishing
11 1 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.08%) Games
11 1 (1.08%) Marketing
11 1 (1.08%) Retail
11 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (26.88%) Developer
2 23 (24.73%) Data Scientist
3 21 (22.58%) Senior
4 15 (16.13%) Data Science Developer
5 10 (10.75%) Senior Developer
6 9 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (8.60%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 7 (7.53%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Data Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) Gen AI Specialist
11 4 (4.30%) Lead
11 4 (4.30%) Python Developer
11 4 (4.30%) Senior Data Scientist
12 3 (3.23%) Architect
12 3 (3.23%) Lead Data Scientist
12 3 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
12 3 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
13 2 (2.15%) Consultant
13 2 (2.15%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (79.57%) PyTorch
2 47 (50.54%) scikit-learn
3 38 (40.86%) Pandas
4 33 (35.48%) NumPy
5 18 (19.35%) Matplotlib
6 16 (17.20%) Seaborn
7 13 (13.98%) pydantic
8 12 (12.90%) OpenCV
9 11 (11.83%) SciPy
10 9 (9.68%) Hugging Face
11 7 (7.53%) PySpark
12 6 (6.45%) FastAPI
12 6 (6.45%) LangChain
12 6 (6.45%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (5.38%) Kafka
13 5 (5.38%) SQLAlchemy
14 4 (4.30%) pytest
14 4 (4.30%) XGBoost
15 3 (3.23%) Keras
15 3 (3.23%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 41 (44.09%) Algorithms
2 7 (7.53%) Distributed Computing
3 6 (6.45%) Credit Risk
4 4 (4.30%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.15%) Data Fabric
6 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.15%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.08%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (1.08%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.08%) CUDA
7 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.08%) FMCG
7 1 (1.08%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.08%) IoT
7 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.15%) Linux
1 2 (2.15%) Windows
2 1 (1.08%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (89.25%) Machine Learning
2 82 (88.17%) Artificial Intelligence
3 67 (72.04%) Data Science
4 45 (48.39%) Generative AI
5 42 (45.16%) LLM
6 38 (40.86%) Visualisation
7 31 (33.33%) Decision-Making
8 30 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (27.96%) Data Munging
10 25 (26.88%) Analytics
10 25 (26.88%) Natural Language Processing
11 23 (24.73%) Computer Science
11 23 (24.73%) Computer Vision
12 20 (21.51%) Data Analysis
12 20 (21.51%) Deep Learning
12 20 (21.51%) Statistical Modelling
13 18 (19.35%) Agile
13 18 (19.35%) Data Visualisation
13 18 (19.35%) Feature Engineering
13 18 (19.35%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 88 (94.62%) Python
2 36 (38.71%) SQL
3 28 (30.11%) R
4 4 (4.30%) Java
5 3 (3.23%) C++
5 3 (3.23%) Scala
6 2 (2.15%) Bash
6 2 (2.15%) Go
7 1 (1.08%) C
7 1 (1.08%) C#
7 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.08%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.08%) Perl
7 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (31.18%) Degree
2 24 (25.81%) Master's Degree
3 20 (21.51%) PhD
4 17 (18.28%) Security Cleared
5 13 (13.98%) SC Cleared
6 7 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (5.38%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.08%) MCITP
9 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (24.73%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.23%) GDPR
2 3 (3.23%) QA
3 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.08%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.08%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.08%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (24.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (21.51%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.53%) Terraform
3 4 (4.30%) Kubeflow
3 4 (4.30%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.15%) Grafana
5 1 (1.08%) Istio
5 1 (1.08%) linkerd
5 1 (1.08%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 11 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.75%) Oracle
3 7 (7.53%) Databricks
3 7 (7.53%) Google
3 7 (7.53%) OpenAI
4 5 (5.38%) Dataiku
5 4 (4.30%) DataRobot
6 1 (1.08%) Ariba
6 1 (1.08%) IBM
6 1 (1.08%) SAP
6 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.08%) Splunk