Hybrid/Remote Deep Learning Contract Job Trends

Deep Learning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Deep Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 300 355
Rank change year-on-year +25 +55 +182
Contract jobs citing Deep Learning 33 25 18
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.32% 0.21% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.24% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 15
10th Percentile £473 £391 £405
25th Percentile £532 £539 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £750
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -6.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £775
90th Percentile - - £825
UK median daily rate £543 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -19.54% +22.73% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
UK median hourly rate £56.12 £26.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year +115.85% +10.64% -55.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Deep Learning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,254 10,475 15,370
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.04% 88.94% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,117 6,583 10,495
10th Percentile £330 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 216 369
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.43 £22.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.14 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -29.92% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.07
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

Deep Learning
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Deep Learning and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Deep Learning job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Deep Learning
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Deep Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Deep Learning

Deep Learning
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Deep Learning over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Deep Learning daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Deep Learning
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Deep Learning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Deep Learning

Deep Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 5 (15.15%) Jupyter
2 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.03%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.03%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (21.21%) Vertex AI
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon SageMaker
4 3 (9.09%) Azure
4 3 (9.09%) GitHub
4 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.06%) Azure AI
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.06%) GCP
5 2 (6.06%) IBM Watson
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.03%) Dagster
6 1 (3.03%) dbt
6 1 (3.03%) Dialogflow
6 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Internet
2 1 (3.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) MySQL
1 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (9.09%) Power BI
1 3 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 3 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 3 (9.09%) PyCharm
3 1 (3.03%) MLflow
General
1 12 (36.36%) Finance
2 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Banking
3 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.12%) Retail
5 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Analyst
3 6 (18.18%) Risk Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (6.06%) Senior
6 1 (3.03%) Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Machine Learning Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Security Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Security Risk Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Data Scientist
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (36.36%) Pandas
2 11 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 11 (33.33%) scikit-learn
2 11 (33.33%) TensorFlow
3 10 (30.30%) NumPy
4 7 (21.21%) Matplotlib
5 6 (18.18%) Hugging Face
6 5 (15.15%) XGBoost
7 3 (9.09%) AWS CDK
7 3 (9.09%) boto
7 3 (9.09%) OpenCV
7 3 (9.09%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (6.06%) FastAPI
8 2 (6.06%) LangChain
8 2 (6.06%) REST
8 2 (6.06%) Seaborn
9 1 (3.03%) Google JAX
9 1 (3.03%) JAX
9 1 (3.03%) JWT
9 1 (3.03%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 16 (48.48%) Algorithms
2 7 (21.21%) Data Structures
3 6 (18.18%) AI Agents
4 2 (6.06%) Clustering
4 2 (6.06%) Online Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (84.85%) AI
1 28 (84.85%) Machine Learning
2 23 (69.70%) LLM
3 19 (57.58%) Natural Language Processing
4 17 (51.52%) Data Science
5 10 (30.30%) Generative AI
6 9 (27.27%) Computer Science
6 9 (27.27%) Use Case
7 7 (21.21%) Agile
7 7 (21.21%) Data Modelling
7 7 (21.21%) Risk Management
8 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
8 6 (18.18%) Data Analysis
8 6 (18.18%) MLOps
8 6 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
8 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 6 (18.18%) Time Series Forecasting
9 5 (15.15%) Decision-Making
9 5 (15.15%) LSTM
9 5 (15.15%) Random Forest
Programming Languages
1 23 (69.70%) Python
2 6 (18.18%) SQL
3 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.06%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) C
5 1 (3.03%) C++
5 1 (3.03%) R
5 1 (3.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 3 (9.09%) PhD
3 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) EU AI Act
2 3 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.06%) NIST
4 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.03%) GDPR
4 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.03%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Grafana
2 1 (3.03%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Google
2 2 (6.06%) Cognos
2 2 (6.06%) IBM
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Sage
3 1 (3.03%) Databricks
3 1 (3.03%) OpenAI