Hugging Face Job Trends

Hugging Face
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Hugging Face skills. It covers permanent 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 603 692 727
Rank change year-on-year +89 +35 +282
Permanent jobs citing Hugging Face 48 20 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.080% 0.037% 0.018%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.68% 0.17% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 24 17 9
10th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,938 £54,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £58,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -7.20% -10.71%
75th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £112,705 £111,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% -1.69% -21.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Hugging Face falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,029 11,479 13,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 21.52% 24.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,224 6,737 11,320
10th Percentile £35,575 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

Hugging Face
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Hugging Face job vacancy trend in the UK

Hugging Face
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hugging Face.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hugging Face

Hugging Face
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hugging Face over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Hugging Face in the UK

Hugging Face
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hugging Face within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +98 45 £90,000 +55.17% 100
London +76 32 £93,750 +5.50% 32
UK excluding London +73 12 £50,000 -13.79% 101
Work from Home +56 7 £42,500 -26.72% 45
South East +25 4 £46,250 -20.26% 24
East of England +25 4 £73,750 +27.16% 12
South West - 2 £66,250 - 7
North West - 1 £90,000 - 16
Scotland - 1 - - 7
North of England - 1 £90,000 - 30

Hugging Face
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 9 (18.75%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (50.00%) Azure
2 15 (31.25%) AWS
3 14 (29.17%) SaaS
4 10 (20.83%) Azure AI
5 9 (18.75%) Anthropic Claude
5 9 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (18.75%) GCP
5 9 (18.75%) Power Automate
6 8 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
7 6 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (10.42%) GitHub
8 5 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (10.42%) Snowflake
9 4 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (8.33%) dbt
9 4 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (8.33%) Fivetran
9 4 (8.33%) Google Data Studio
9 4 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) SQL Server
2 10 (20.83%) Pinecone
3 5 (10.42%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.42%) Tableau
4 4 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (8.33%) BigQuery
4 4 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.33%) Looker
4 4 (8.33%) Power BI
5 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.08%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) MLflow
2 5 (10.42%) Git
General
1 21 (43.75%) Finance
2 19 (39.58%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.67%) Retail
4 4 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.33%) Marketing
4 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 11 (22.92%) Lead
3 9 (18.75%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 6 (12.50%) SaaS Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Analyst
6 4 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 4 (8.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior
8 2 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Data Science Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Data Scientist
8 2 (4.17%) Principal Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 23 (47.92%) TensorFlow
3 16 (33.33%) scikit-learn
4 15 (31.25%) Pandas
5 14 (29.17%) NumPy
6 11 (22.92%) REST
6 11 (22.92%) RESTful
7 10 (20.83%) Django
7 10 (20.83%) Faiss
7 10 (20.83%) FastAPI
8 9 (18.75%) Flask
8 9 (18.75%) JWT
8 9 (18.75%) LangChain
8 9 (18.75%) OAuth
8 9 (18.75%) OpenAPI
8 9 (18.75%) pytest
8 9 (18.75%) Swagger
8 9 (18.75%) Web Services
9 6 (12.50%) Laravel
9 6 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (18.75%) Low-Code
3 5 (10.42%) AI Agents
4 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.25%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (97.92%) AI
2 39 (81.25%) Machine Learning
3 36 (75.00%) LLM
4 25 (52.08%) Generative AI
5 23 (47.92%) Prompt Engineering
6 22 (45.83%) Natural Language Processing
7 18 (37.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 16 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 16 (33.33%) Data Science
9 15 (31.25%) ETL
10 14 (29.17%) Data Pipeline
10 14 (29.17%) MLOps
11 13 (27.08%) A/B Testing
11 13 (27.08%) Analytics
11 13 (27.08%) Clean Code
11 13 (27.08%) Containerisation
12 12 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
12 12 (25.00%) Data Modelling
12 12 (25.00%) Open Source
12 12 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (70.83%) Python
2 23 (47.92%) SQL
3 4 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (8.33%) PHP
4 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.08%) R
4 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Degree
1 7 (14.58%) Master's Degree
2 4 (8.33%) MBA
3 3 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (4.17%) DBS Check
4 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) MCP
5 1 (2.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.17%) GDPR
2 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (64.58%) OpenAI
2 9 (18.75%) Automation Anywhere
2 9 (18.75%) UiPath
3 8 (16.67%) Google
4 4 (8.33%) Alteryx
4 4 (8.33%) HubSpot
4 4 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 4 (8.33%) Talend
4 4 (8.33%) Zoho
5 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.17%) Databricks
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle
7 1 (2.08%) OutSystems
7 1 (2.08%) Red Hat