Image Processing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Image Processing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Image Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Image Processing over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 708 730
Rank change year-on-year +150 +22 +101
Permanent jobs citing Image Processing 13 57 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.077% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.094% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 9 35 21
10th Percentile £53,600 £24,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £31,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £42,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.28% -26.52% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £65,750 - £82,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +22.11% -26.92% +9.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Image Processing 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Image Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Image Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Image Processing in the UK excluding London

Image Processing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Image Processing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Image Processing in the UK excluding London

Image Processing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Image Processing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +121 5 £57,500 +4.07% 6
South East +71 4 £65,000 +56.63% 49
East of England +28 3 £58,000 +37.28% 25
West Midlands +64 1 - - 8
Midlands +60 1 - - 16
Image Processing
UK

Image Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (15.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
1 2 (15.38%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Subversion
General
1 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (15.38%) Aerospace
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Automotive
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Lead
2 4 (30.77%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) C Developer
4 2 (15.38%) C/C++ Developer
4 2 (15.38%) C++ Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Test Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Test Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Computer Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Firmware Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) FPGA Developer
5 1 (7.69%) GUI Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) HTML
1 1 (7.69%) OpenCV
1 1 (7.69%) OpenVINO
1 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Algorithms
2 3 (23.08%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (15.38%) FPGA
3 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (7.69%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (7.69%) CCTV
4 1 (7.69%) Device Driver
4 1 (7.69%) Infotainment
4 1 (7.69%) Lidar
4 1 (7.69%) VHDL
4 1 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Android
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (7.69%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Computer Vision
2 4 (30.77%) Mathematics
2 4 (30.77%) Physics
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
3 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
3 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
4 2 (15.38%) DataOps
4 2 (15.38%) Defect Management
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Embedded Software Development
4 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) MLOps
4 2 (15.38%) Security Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
5 1 (7.69%) API Development
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) C++
2 7 (53.85%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) C
4 3 (23.08%) Bash
5 2 (15.38%) Java
5 2 (15.38%) MATLAB
6 1 (7.69%) C#
6 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
6 1 (7.69%) SQL
6 1 (7.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) Master's Degree
3 3 (23.08%) PhD
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Firmware
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Intel
1 1 (7.69%) QNX
1 1 (7.69%) Xilinx