Pattern Recognition Contracts

Pattern Recognition
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Pattern Recognition skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Pattern Recognition over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 687 837
Rank change year-on-year +106 +150 -130
Contract jobs citing Pattern Recognition 6 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.004% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.004% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 13
10th Percentile £763 £560 £345
25th Percentile £784 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £863 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% +2.13% +2.35%
75th Percentile £947 £625 £613
90th Percentile £950 £640 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate - £650 £425
% change year-on-year - +52.94% -23.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Pattern Recognition 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 36,603 50,558 80,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.40% 89.70% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,483 35,017 56,266
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,521 1,671 1,882
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Pattern Recognition
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Pattern Recognition in the UK

Pattern Recognition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Pattern Recognition in the UK

Pattern Recognition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pattern Recognition.

Hourly rate trend for Pattern Recognition in the UK

Pattern Recognition
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 Pattern Recognition within the UK over the 6 months to 3 June 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 +103 6 £863 +56.82% 6
England +95 6 £863 +43.75% 8
Work from Home - 1 £875 - 4

Pattern Recognition
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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Data Mining
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Google JAX
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (83.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (83.33%) Parallel Computing
2 5 (83.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (50.00%) Fintech
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Debt
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (16.67%) Benchmarking
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
5 1 (16.67%) Ideation Sessions
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) LLM
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) MLOps
5 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) C
2 5 (83.33%) C++
2 5 (83.33%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) Julia
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 3 (50.00%) PhD
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree