Image Processing Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Image Processing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Image Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 104 -
Rank change year-on-year -34 - -
Contract jobs citing Image Processing 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.043% 0.064% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.073% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
England median daily rate £516 £500 -
% change year-on-year +3.25% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Image Processing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,990 1,368 1,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.55% 87.36% 85.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,267 856 1,005
10th Percentile £263 £216 £275
25th Percentile £404 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 47 76
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.82
25th Percentile £16.19 £16.51 £17.67
Median hourly rate £20.50 £21.59 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -12.32% +39.12%
75th Percentile £26.18 £33.65 £48.75
90th Percentile £35.60 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

Image Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Image Processing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Image Processing job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Image Processing
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Image Processing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Image Processing

Image Processing
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Image Processing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Image Processing

Image Processing
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Image Processing within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 January 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
Birmingham - 1 £500 - 1
Image Processing
England

Image Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) OCR
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes