Machine Learning Engineer Contracts

Machine Learning Engineer
UK

The median Machine Learning Engineer daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 644 742
Rank change year-on-year +88 +98 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Machine Learning Engineer 46 51 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.092% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.097% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 35 80
10th Percentile £450 £525 £495
25th Percentile £509 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £775 £609 £678
90th Percentile £925 £713 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £590
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% +36.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £66.25 - -
90th Percentile £73.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

Machine Learning Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Machine Learning Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning Engineer in the UK

Machine Learning Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +94 43 £575 - 73
London +91 29 £575 - 51
UK excluding London +38 14 £600 +4.35% 19
Work from Home +98 10 £750 +20.00% 30
East of England - 8 - - 6
South East +10 5 £600 +6.67% 6
Scotland +40 1 - -

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Machine Learning Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Machine Learning Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 36 (78.26%) Python
3 27 (58.70%) Artificial Intelligence
4 18 (39.13%) TensorFlow
5 17 (36.96%) Software Engineering
6 14 (30.43%) Java
7 13 (28.26%) AWS
7 13 (28.26%) Data Science
8 12 (26.09%) Deep Learning
9 11 (23.91%) DevOps
9 11 (23.91%) scikit-learn
9 11 (23.91%) C++
9 11 (23.91%) PyTorch
9 11 (23.91%) MLOps
10 10 (21.74%) Generative AI
10 10 (21.74%) Azure
10 10 (21.74%) NumPy
10 10 (21.74%) Degree
10 10 (21.74%) Computer Science
11 9 (19.57%) Kubernetes
11 9 (19.57%) Algorithms
11 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
12 8 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (15.22%) Azure Machine Learning
13 7 (15.22%) Docker
13 7 (15.22%) Pandas
13 7 (15.22%) Natural Language Processing
13 7 (15.22%) JavaScript
13 7 (15.22%) Electronics
13 7 (15.22%) Finance

Machine Learning Engineer Skill Set
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 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.52%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.35%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.17%) Apache
4 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) AWS
2 10 (21.74%) Azure
3 7 (15.22%) Azure Machine Learning
4 6 (13.04%) GCP
5 4 (8.70%) Vertex AI
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.35%) ChatGPT
8 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) Data Mining
2 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.35%) Big Data
4 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Git
1 4 (8.70%) MLflow
2 3 (6.52%) Mercurial
3 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.35%) GitLab
3 2 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 7 (15.22%) Electronics
1 7 (15.22%) Finance
2 3 (6.52%) Multimedia
2 3 (6.52%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.17%) Banking
4 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.17%) Publishing
4 1 (2.17%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (39.13%) TensorFlow
2 11 (23.91%) PyTorch
2 11 (23.91%) scikit-learn
3 10 (21.74%) NumPy
4 7 (15.22%) Pandas
5 3 (6.52%) LangChain
5 3 (6.52%) React
5 3 (6.52%) SciPy
6 2 (4.35%) DirectX
6 2 (4.35%) FastAPI
6 2 (4.35%) HTML
6 2 (4.35%) Kafka
6 2 (4.35%) OpenCV
6 2 (4.35%) OpenGL
6 2 (4.35%) OpenGL ES
6 2 (4.35%) Torch
6 2 (4.35%) Vulkan
6 2 (4.35%) XGBoost
7 1 (2.17%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Algorithms
2 5 (10.87%) Social Media
3 4 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (6.52%) Photography
5 2 (4.35%) Tandem
6 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) Digital Media
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Life Science
6 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Android
2 3 (6.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 27 (58.70%) Artificial Intelligence
3 17 (36.96%) Software Engineering
4 13 (28.26%) Data Science
5 12 (26.09%) Deep Learning
6 11 (23.91%) DevOps
6 11 (23.91%) MLOps
7 10 (21.74%) Computer Science
7 10 (21.74%) Generative AI
8 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
9 7 (15.22%) Natural Language Processing
10 6 (13.04%) LLM
10 6 (13.04%) Test Automation
11 5 (10.87%) Architectural Patterns
11 5 (10.87%) Computer Vision
11 5 (10.87%) Parallel Computing
11 5 (10.87%) Pattern Recognition
11 5 (10.87%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 5 (10.87%) Roadmaps
12 4 (8.70%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 36 (78.26%) Python
2 14 (30.43%) Java
3 11 (23.91%) C++
4 7 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.87%) C
5 5 (10.87%) C#
5 5 (10.87%) Shell Script
5 5 (10.87%) SQL
6 2 (4.35%) Go
7 1 (2.17%) Clojure
7 1 (2.17%) Haskell
7 1 (2.17%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.17%) Rust
7 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Degree
2 8 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.87%) Master's Degree
4 4 (8.70%) PhD
5 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 7 (15.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.70%) Kubeflow
3 3 (6.52%) Terraform
4 2 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (8.70%) Databricks
2 2 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.17%) OpenAI