Computer Vision Job Trends in England

Computer Vision
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Computer Vision skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 519 626
Rank change year-on-year -38 +107 +190
Permanent jobs citing Computer Vision 45 143 57
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.085% 0.30% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.33% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 21 33 38
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,750 £34,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,297 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,661 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.47% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £103,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £127,000
UK median annual salary £57,661 £68,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.13% -1.79% -1.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Computer Vision falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,077 43,814 44,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.14% 90.86% 89.76%
Number of salaries quoted 25,929 21,493 34,060
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £79,563
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Computer Vision
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Computer Vision relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Computer Vision job vacancy trend in England

Computer Vision
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Computer Vision.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Computer Vision

Computer Vision
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Vision in England over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Vision in England

Computer Vision
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Vision within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +38 20 £57,661 -23.63% 40
East of England +34 10 £42,500 - 14
South West -5 6 - - 17
South East -32 6 £55,000 -24.14% 52
West Midlands +16 1 £45,000 - 4
Midlands +13 1 £45,000 - 12
Computer Vision
UK

Computer Vision
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 7 (15.56%) Jupyter
2 3 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.44%) nginx
4 1 (2.22%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.11%) AWS
2 11 (24.44%) Azure
2 11 (24.44%) GCP
3 2 (4.44%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (4.44%) Dagster
3 2 (4.44%) SaaS
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.22%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) BGP
1 2 (4.44%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (4.44%) Firewall
1 2 (4.44%) MQTT
1 2 (4.44%) OSPF
1 2 (4.44%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (4.44%) RTMP
1 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.44%) VLAN
1 2 (4.44%) VPN
1 2 (4.44%) WAN
1 2 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (4.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Big Data
2 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.44%) Metadata
2 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.44%) MySQL
2 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) MLflow
2 5 (11.11%) GitLab
3 3 (6.67%) Git
4 2 (4.44%) Jaeger
4 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.22%) Storybook
General
1 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Aerospace
3 7 (15.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.89%) Manufacturing
6 3 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.44%) Agriculture
7 2 (4.44%) Automotive
8 1 (2.22%) Finance
8 1 (2.22%) Law
8 1 (2.22%) Legal
8 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Senior
2 9 (20.00%) Consultant
3 7 (15.56%) Machine Learning Consultant
4 6 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Developer
6 3 (6.67%) C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Computer Scientist
7 2 (4.44%) Image Processing Scientist
7 2 (4.44%) Lead
7 2 (4.44%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) React Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Head of AI
8 1 (2.22%) Machine Learning Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (44.44%) PyTorch
2 13 (28.89%) TensorFlow
3 7 (15.56%) Google JAX
3 7 (15.56%) JAX
4 4 (8.89%) scikit-learn
5 2 (4.44%) FastAPI
5 2 (4.44%) Kafka
5 2 (4.44%) Keras
5 2 (4.44%) Keycloak
5 2 (4.44%) React Native
5 2 (4.44%) WebRTC
6 1 (2.22%) CSS
6 1 (2.22%) Hugging Face
6 1 (2.22%) LangChain
6 1 (2.22%) Material-UI
6 1 (2.22%) NumPy
6 1 (2.22%) Open3D
6 1 (2.22%) Pandas
6 1 (2.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Algorithms
2 7 (15.56%) CUDA
3 4 (8.89%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.67%) Robotics
5 2 (4.44%) 3D Graphics
5 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.44%) IoT
5 2 (4.44%) Life Science
5 2 (4.44%) MPEG
6 1 (2.22%) GNSS
6 1 (2.22%) Lidar
6 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (73.33%) AI
1 33 (73.33%) Machine Learning
2 26 (57.78%) Computer Science
3 18 (40.00%) Data Science
3 18 (40.00%) Deep Learning
3 18 (40.00%) Mathematics
4 17 (37.78%) Physics
5 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (26.67%) LLM
7 10 (22.22%) MLOps
7 10 (22.22%) Natural Language Processing
7 10 (22.22%) Statistics
8 8 (17.78%) Software Engineering
8 8 (17.78%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (15.56%) Issue Tracking
9 7 (15.56%) Prototyping
9 7 (15.56%) Rapid Prototyping
9 7 (15.56%) Test Automation
10 6 (13.33%) Innovative Thinking
11 5 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 32 (71.11%) Python
2 5 (11.11%) C++
3 3 (6.67%) Java
4 2 (4.44%) R
4 2 (4.44%) SQL
5 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (64.44%) Degree
2 16 (35.56%) Security Cleared
3 13 (28.89%) SC Cleared
4 11 (24.44%) PhD
5 9 (20.00%) Master's Degree
6 6 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (8.89%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) EU AI Act
1 2 (4.44%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.67%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) Ansible
2 2 (4.44%) Argo
2 2 (4.44%) Grafana
2 2 (4.44%) Kubeflow
2 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (6.67%) Google
2 2 (4.44%) Cisco
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) MikroTik
2 2 (4.44%) NETGEAR
2 2 (4.44%) Sonatype
2 2 (4.44%) Starlink
2 2 (4.44%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (2.22%) Apple
3 1 (2.22%) Databricks
3 1 (2.22%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle
3 1 (2.22%) OutSystems
3 1 (2.22%) Red Hat