PyTorch Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

PyTorch
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring PyTorch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 52 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing PyTorch 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.75% 0.46% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.62% 2.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £578 £492 -
25th Percentile £600 £501 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £516 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% - -
75th Percentile £623 £530 -
90th Percentile - £539 -
North West median daily rate £600 £486 £275
% change year-on-year +23.46% +76.73% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 138 68 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 20.78% 15.70% 8.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 53 35
10th Percentile £350 £303 £293
25th Percentile £358 £356 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £413 £487
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -15.30% -2.60%
75th Percentile £581 £580 £520
90th Percentile £690 £640 £556
North West median daily rate £464 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.37% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £71.25 -
25th Percentile £95.75 £73.13 £10.75
Median hourly rate £96.50 £77.50 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.52% +573.91% -
75th Percentile £97.25 £83.13 £12.25
90th Percentile - £85.75 -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £48.43
% change year-on-year +3.32% +39.89% +7.62%

PyTorch
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PyTorch relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

PyTorch job vacancy trend in Cheshire

PyTorch
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing PyTorch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing PyTorch

PyTorch
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PyTorch within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 8 March 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 4 £615 -
Warrington - 1 £600 - 2
PyTorch
North West

PyTorch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AI
3 2 (40.00%) IBM Watson
3 2 (40.00%) Vertex AI
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Gen AI Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) LangChain
2 4 (80.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Generative AI
2 4 (80.00%) OWASP
2 4 (80.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (80.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (60.00%) Data Security
3 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (60.00%) LLM
3 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Threat Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks