OpenCV Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Intel OpenCV
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring OpenCV skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 106 -
Rank change year-on-year -35 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenCV 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.044% 0.064% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 0.34% -
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 £525 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +0.96% -9.57% +15.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

OpenCV 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 446 297 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.51% 19.04% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 173 170
10th Percentile £373 £380 £300
25th Percentile £450 £438 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £604 £638 £575
90th Percentile £700 £750 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.73% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £19.02 - £17.16
25th Percentile - £26.25 £17.22
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +58.27% +15.83%
75th Percentile £50.00 £28.75 £17.47
90th Percentile £77.30 - £17.49
England median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% +16.82% -17.69%

OpenCV
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

OpenCV job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

OpenCV
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 OpenCV within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
OpenCV
England

OpenCV
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%) 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%) Image Processing
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