Computer Vision Job Trends

Computer Vision
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Computer Vision skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 600 566 647
Rank change year-on-year -34 +81 +137
Permanent jobs citing Computer Vision 44 152 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.27% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% 0.30% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 23 39 35
10th Percentile £32,400 £51,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,661 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.63% - -
75th Percentile £79,375 £78,750 £96,875
90th Percentile £98,500 £95,750 £130,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £66,019 £55,000
% change year-on-year -35.62% +20.03% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,537 49,891 46,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.05% 89.96% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 28,419 24,819 35,711
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,532 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%

Computer Vision
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Computer Vision job vacancy trend in the UK

Computer Vision
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Computer Vision.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Computer Vision

Computer Vision
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Vision over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Vision in the UK

Computer Vision
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Vision within the UK over the 6 months to 31 December 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
England -25 43 £57,661 -20.47% 513
UK excluding London -30 23 £42,500 -35.62% 430
London +38 19 £75,000 +0.67% 111
Work from Home -19 14 £60,000 -7.69% 337
East of England +31 10 £42,500 - 67
South West +12 6 - - 46
North West +25 3 £31,500 - 50
North of England +11 3 £31,500 -53.01% 99
South East -32 2 £50,000 -31.03% 114
West Midlands +26 1 £45,000 - 36
Midlands +19 1 £45,000 - 77
Northern Ireland - 1 £40,000 - 5

Computer Vision
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (13.64%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (11.36%) Apache Spark
3 3 (6.82%) Jupyter
4 2 (4.55%) nginx
5 1 (2.27%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 17 (38.64%) AWS
2 15 (34.09%) Azure
2 15 (34.09%) GCP
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (6.82%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (6.82%) Prefect
4 2 (4.55%) Dagster
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.27%) SaaS
5 1 (2.27%) Serverless
5 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.27%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) BGP
1 2 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (4.55%) Firewall
1 2 (4.55%) MQTT
1 2 (4.55%) OSPF
1 2 (4.55%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (4.55%) RTMP
1 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.55%) VLAN
1 2 (4.55%) VPN
1 2 (4.55%) WAN
1 2 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) Big Data
1 3 (6.82%) Data Lake
1 3 (6.82%) Tableau
2 2 (4.55%) Metadata
2 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.55%) MySQL
2 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.27%) Power BI
3 1 (2.27%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (20.45%) MLflow
2 5 (11.36%) Git
2 5 (11.36%) GitLab
3 2 (4.55%) Jaeger
3 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Aerospace
2 8 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Finance
4 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Agriculture
5 2 (4.55%) Automotive
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Electronics
6 1 (2.27%) Law
6 1 (2.27%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (18.18%) Consultant
2 7 (15.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Senior
3 6 (13.64%) Machine Learning Consultant
4 3 (6.82%) Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Data Scientist
4 3 (6.82%) Developer
4 3 (6.82%) Head of AI
4 3 (6.82%) Test Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (4.55%) Automation Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Computer Scientist
5 2 (4.55%) Data Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Image Processing Scientist
5 2 (4.55%) Lead
5 2 (4.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (43.18%) PyTorch
2 17 (38.64%) TensorFlow
3 9 (20.45%) Google JAX
3 9 (20.45%) JAX
3 9 (20.45%) scikit-learn
4 5 (11.36%) Hugging Face
4 5 (11.36%) Kafka
5 2 (4.55%) FastAPI
5 2 (4.55%) Keras
5 2 (4.55%) Keycloak
5 2 (4.55%) WebRTC
6 1 (2.27%) Django
6 1 (2.27%) LangChain
6 1 (2.27%) ONNX
6 1 (2.27%) Open3D
6 1 (2.27%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Algorithms
2 6 (13.64%) CUDA
3 4 (9.09%) Robotics
4 3 (6.82%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.55%) 3D Graphics
5 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.55%) IoT
5 2 (4.55%) Life Science
5 2 (4.55%) MPEG
6 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.27%) GNSS
6 1 (2.27%) Lidar
6 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (84.09%) AI
2 34 (77.27%) Machine Learning
3 22 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 18 (40.91%) Data Science
5 17 (38.64%) Deep Learning
6 15 (34.09%) Natural Language Processing
7 14 (31.82%) Mathematics
7 14 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (29.55%) MLOps
9 12 (27.27%) LLM
9 12 (27.27%) Physics
10 10 (22.73%) Analytics
11 9 (20.45%) Prototyping
11 9 (20.45%) Rapid Prototyping
11 9 (20.45%) Software Engineering
12 7 (15.91%) Innovative Thinking
12 7 (15.91%) Statistics
13 5 (11.36%) DevOps
13 5 (11.36%) High Availability
13 5 (11.36%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 33 (75.00%) Python
2 7 (15.91%) SQL
3 3 (6.82%) Java
4 2 (4.55%) Bash
4 2 (4.55%) C++
4 2 (4.55%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (61.36%) Degree
2 12 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 11 (25.00%) Master's Degree
4 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
5 8 (18.18%) PhD
6 6 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (6.82%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) EU AI Act
1 2 (4.55%) ISO 26262
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (15.91%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.36%) Kubeflow
3 3 (6.82%) Terraform
4 2 (4.55%) Ansible
4 2 (4.55%) Argo
4 2 (4.55%) Grafana
4 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) Google
2 2 (4.55%) Cisco
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) MikroTik
2 2 (4.55%) NETGEAR
2 2 (4.55%) Sonatype
2 2 (4.55%) Starlink
2 2 (4.55%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (2.27%) Databricks
3 1 (2.27%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle
3 1 (2.27%) OutSystems
3 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.27%) SAP