Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for LSTM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LSTM over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 - 841
Rank change year-on-year - - -126
Contract jobs citing LSTM 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% - 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% - 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +47.73%
75th Percentile £775 - £725
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

LSTM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

LSTM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing LSTM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for LSTM in the UK

LSTM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LSTM.

Daily rate trend for LSTM in the UK

LSTM
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LSTM within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 5 £750 - 3
England - 5 £750 - 3
Work from Home - 5 £750 - 2

LSTM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Scientist
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Data Scientist
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) XGBoost
2 4 (80.00%) scikit-learn
3 3 (60.00%) Matplotlib
3 3 (60.00%) Pandas
4 2 (40.00%) NumPy
5 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
5 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (60.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 5 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 5 (100.00%) Logistic Regression
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 5 (100.00%) Random Forest
1 5 (100.00%) Transfer Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Data Science
3 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (60.00%) Software Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Demand Forecasting
4 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree