Deep Learning Contracts

Deep Learning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Deep Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Deep Learning over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 654 780
Rank change year-on-year +112 +126 -106
Contract jobs citing Deep Learning 52 43 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.077% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.086% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 30 59
10th Percentile £363 £398 £450
25th Percentile £450 £403 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £745 £630
90th Percentile £790 £763 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +32.35% -10.53% -8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £76.63 - £45.63
25th Percentile £77.19 - £46.56
Median hourly rate £78.75 - £48.75
75th Percentile £79.69 - £51.56
90th Percentile £79.88 - £52.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Deep Learning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,161 49,793 79,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.16% 89.64% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,765 34,463 55,606
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,583 1,678 1,849
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £33.14 £21.00
% change year-on-year +15.02% +57.82% -

Deep Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deep Learning over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deep Learning.

Hourly rate trend for Deep Learning in the UK

Deep Learning
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Deep Learning within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +117 45 £575 -6.12% 75
London +102 33 £575 - 54
Work from Home +106 23 £675 -3.57% 20
UK excluding London +37 10 £563 +32.35% 22
South East +23 8 £600 +86.05% 10
South West +5 2 £525 -28.25% 1

Deep Learning
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 5 (9.62%) Jupyter
2 2 (3.85%) Apache
2 2 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.85%) AWS
2 13 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (11.54%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (11.54%) GCP
4 4 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
4 4 (7.69%) Serverless
5 3 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.77%) Lucidchart
5 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) Network Security
2 1 (1.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) Big Data
2 2 (3.85%) Data Mining
2 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.92%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Git
General
1 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.69%) Retail
4 2 (3.85%) Czech Language
4 2 (3.85%) Electronics
4 2 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (1.92%) Advertising
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Games
5 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.92%) Marketing
5 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Architect
1 12 (23.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 9 (17.31%) Data Scientist
3 8 (15.38%) Lead
4 7 (13.46%) Computer Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Computer Vision Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Security Architect
5 6 (11.54%) Senior
6 5 (9.62%) Consultant
6 5 (9.62%) Senior Data Scientist
7 4 (7.69%) Lead Architect
7 4 (7.69%) Technical Architect
8 3 (5.77%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 3 (5.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) HR Consultant
8 3 (5.77%) Lead Security Architect
8 3 (5.77%) Technology Consultant
9 2 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 2 (3.85%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (40.38%) TensorFlow
2 20 (38.46%) PyTorch
3 10 (19.23%) scikit-learn
4 6 (11.54%) XGBoost
5 3 (5.77%) EDI
5 3 (5.77%) Google JAX
5 3 (5.77%) Matplotlib
5 3 (5.77%) OpenCV
5 3 (5.77%) Pandas
5 3 (5.77%) PySpark
6 2 (3.85%) DirectX
6 2 (3.85%) NumPy
6 2 (3.85%) OpenGL
6 2 (3.85%) OpenGL ES
6 2 (3.85%) Vulkan
7 1 (1.92%) Kafka
7 1 (1.92%) Node.js
7 1 (1.92%) Prisma
7 1 (1.92%) React
7 1 (1.92%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 23 (44.23%) Algorithms
2 6 (11.54%) Genomics
3 3 (5.77%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.77%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.77%) Photography
4 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.85%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.85%) Social Media
5 1 (1.92%) Blog
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.92%) CUDA
5 1 (1.92%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.92%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (82.69%) Machine Learning
2 32 (61.54%) Artificial Intelligence
3 25 (48.08%) Data Science
4 24 (46.15%) Natural Language Processing
5 17 (32.69%) Computer Science
6 14 (26.92%) Data Analysis
7 11 (21.15%) Computer Vision
8 9 (17.31%) LLM
8 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (15.38%) Analytics
9 8 (15.38%) Mathematics
10 7 (13.46%) Generative AI
11 6 (11.54%) Data Management
11 6 (11.54%) Mentoring
11 6 (11.54%) MLOps
11 6 (11.54%) Software Architecture
11 6 (11.54%) Software Engineering
11 6 (11.54%) Threat Modelling
12 5 (9.62%) Logistic Regression
12 5 (9.62%) Neural Network
Programming Languages
1 35 (67.31%) Python
2 14 (26.92%) SQL
3 10 (19.23%) C++
3 10 (19.23%) Java
4 4 (7.69%) C
5 3 (5.77%) R
6 1 (1.92%) C#
6 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.92%) Julia
6 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) Degree
2 11 (21.15%) Master's Degree
3 10 (19.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
5 5 (9.62%) PhD
6 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared
7 3 (5.77%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.92%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.77%) NCSC
3 2 (3.85%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Databricks
2 3 (5.77%) Genesys
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.77%) Oracle
2 3 (5.77%) Phenom
2 3 (5.77%) Sparx
3 1 (1.92%) Cadence
3 1 (1.92%) Google