Machine Learning Contracts in England

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 214 208
Rank change year-on-year +80 -6 -39
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 643 594 1,008
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.71% 1.26% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.40% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 437 692
10th Percentile £413 £425 £425
25th Percentile £500 £513 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £750 £760 £713
90th Percentile £788 £925 £825
UK median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 21
10th Percentile £41.25 £22.16 £18.50
25th Percentile £46.22 £35.00 £32.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -10.00% +55.98%
75th Percentile £66.25 £55.63 £61.75
90th Percentile £75.75 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.22% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Machine 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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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 +95 465 £600 -4.00% 485
North of England +20 50 £550 -6.38% 77
South East -15 30 £525 -6.67% 94
Midlands +27 27 £580 +16.00% 49
North West +12 25 £525 -10.64% 48
West Midlands +28 22 £580 +10.48% 34
East of England +10 20 £375 -37.50% 62
South West -34 19 £563 +2.27% 52
Yorkshire +16 18 £554 -17.93% 22
North East +15 10 - - 8
East Midlands +7 5 £675 +42.11% 15
Machine Learning
UK

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 79 (12.29%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (12.13%) Apache
3 39 (6.07%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.71%) Jupyter
5 7 (1.09%) Confluence
6 4 (0.62%) SAS
6 4 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.47%) CMS
8 2 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (2.33%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.47%) Simulink
4 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.87%) Aladdin
2 8 (1.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 262 (40.75%) AWS
2 234 (36.39%) Azure
3 203 (31.57%) GCP
4 37 (5.75%) Power Platform
5 33 (5.13%) Azure Machine Learning
6 29 (4.51%) Cloud Computing
7 26 (4.04%) Serverless
8 24 (3.73%) Vertex AI
9 22 (3.42%) Snowflake
10 20 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.02%) Amazon SageMaker
13 13 (2.02%) GitHub
14 12 (1.87%) Azure AI
15 11 (1.71%) Amazon S3
16 10 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (1.56%) Google Compute Engine
17 9 (1.40%) ChatGPT
17 9 (1.40%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.35%) HTTP
2 6 (0.93%) LAN
2 6 (0.93%) WAN
3 5 (0.78%) VPN
4 3 (0.47%) SSL
5 2 (0.31%) Firewall
5 2 (0.31%) Wireless
6 1 (0.16%) 5G
6 1 (0.16%) DHCP
6 1 (0.16%) DNS
6 1 (0.16%) DVB
6 1 (0.16%) Internet
6 1 (0.16%) LTE
6 1 (0.16%) Network Security
6 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (11.51%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (10.26%) Apache Ignite
3 61 (9.49%) Big Data
4 52 (8.09%) Data Warehouse
5 46 (7.15%) Data Lake
6 45 (7.00%) Tableau
7 34 (5.29%) Power BI
8 31 (4.82%) BigQuery
9 29 (4.51%) Hadoop
10 28 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
11 23 (3.58%) NoSQL
12 22 (3.42%) Data Mining
13 14 (2.18%) Relational Database
14 11 (1.71%) Apache Hive
15 8 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.24%) Metadata
16 7 (1.09%) SQL Server
17 6 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
17 6 (0.93%) MySQL
18 5 (0.78%) Looker
Development Applications
1 59 (9.18%) Git
2 47 (7.31%) Cypress.io
3 23 (3.58%) JIRA
4 18 (2.80%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.24%) ER Studio
5 8 (1.24%) ERwin
5 8 (1.24%) GitLab
5 8 (1.24%) MLflow
6 7 (1.09%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.93%) Mercurial
8 5 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.78%) Maven
8 5 (0.78%) Postman
8 5 (0.78%) Subversion
9 3 (0.47%) RStudio
10 2 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.31%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.31%) Selenium
11 1 (0.16%) CMake
11 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 175 (27.22%) Finance
2 128 (19.91%) Social Skills
3 107 (16.64%) Banking
4 106 (16.49%) Front Office
5 72 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (4.35%) Marketing
6 28 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 21 (3.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (2.64%) Retail
9 14 (2.18%) Electronics
10 13 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.02%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.87%) Legal
12 11 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.56%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.09%) Advertising
14 7 (1.09%) Multimedia
14 7 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.78%) Czech Language
15 5 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (23.17%) Developer
2 102 (15.86%) Architect
3 95 (14.77%) Software Engineer
4 79 (12.29%) Python Engineer
5 77 (11.98%) Python Developer
6 72 (11.20%) Python Software Engineer
7 69 (10.73%) Data Scientist
8 65 (10.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 65 (10.11%) React Developer
9 46 (7.15%) Senior
10 44 (6.84%) Analyst
10 44 (6.84%) Lead
11 43 (6.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 39 (6.07%) Data Engineer
13 37 (5.75%) Full Stack Developer
14 34 (5.29%) Full Stack Engineer
15 33 (5.13%) Full Stack Python Developer
15 33 (5.13%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 32 (4.98%) Business Analyst
17 28 (4.35%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (14.93%) React
2 65 (10.11%) gRPC
2 65 (10.11%) Material-UI
2 65 (10.11%) Protocol Buffers
2 65 (10.11%) Redux
3 62 (9.64%) TensorFlow
4 53 (8.24%) Kafka
4 53 (8.24%) PyTorch
5 39 (6.07%) scikit-learn
6 36 (5.60%) RESTful
7 29 (4.51%) Pandas
8 28 (4.35%) Akka
8 28 (4.35%) CSS
9 26 (4.04%) .NET
10 19 (2.95%) HTML
11 15 (2.33%) NumPy
12 13 (2.02%) Node.js
12 13 (2.02%) PySpark
13 11 (1.71%) .NET Core
14 8 (1.24%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 102 (15.86%) Algorithms
2 94 (14.62%) Fixed Income
2 94 (14.62%) Hedge funds
3 67 (10.42%) Equities
4 41 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 29 (4.51%) Derivative
5 29 (4.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 23 (3.58%) Data Structures
7 20 (3.11%) Public Cloud
8 14 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 11 (1.71%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.71%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.40%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.09%) Blockchain
12 7 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.51%) Linux
2 11 (1.71%) Windows
3 8 (1.24%) Android
4 6 (0.93%) Unix
5 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (58.32%) Artificial Intelligence
2 217 (33.75%) Agile
3 216 (33.59%) Data Science
4 162 (25.19%) Analytics
5 148 (23.02%) Software Engineering
6 121 (18.82%) DevOps
7 118 (18.35%) Computer Science
8 97 (15.09%) Asset Management
9 94 (14.62%) Investment Management
10 90 (14.00%) CI/CD
11 85 (13.22%) Full Stack Development
12 82 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
13 75 (11.66%) Data Modelling
14 69 (10.73%) Data Pipeline
15 66 (10.26%) Automated Trading
16 64 (9.95%) LLM
17 61 (9.49%) Visualisation
18 60 (9.33%) Natural Language Processing
19 56 (8.71%) Data Governance
20 55 (8.55%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 378 (58.79%) Python
2 179 (27.84%) SQL
3 92 (14.31%) TypeScript
4 72 (11.20%) Java
5 51 (7.93%) JavaScript
6 46 (7.15%) Scala
7 42 (6.53%) C#
8 35 (5.44%) R
9 28 (4.35%) C++
10 20 (3.11%) PowerShell
11 19 (2.95%) Shell Script
12 17 (2.64%) Bash
13 11 (1.71%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.56%) C
15 7 (1.09%) Rust
15 7 (1.09%) Search Processing Language
16 6 (0.93%) Clojure
16 6 (0.93%) Haskell
17 5 (0.78%) Go
17 5 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 126 (19.60%) Degree
2 65 (10.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 65 (10.11%) Security Cleared
3 58 (9.02%) SC Cleared
4 48 (7.47%) Master's Degree
5 22 (3.42%) PhD
6 18 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.56%) Numerate Degree
9 8 (1.24%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.09%) CISSP
11 4 (0.62%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.62%) PMP
12 3 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.31%) CISM
14 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.16%) CSSLP
14 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.73%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.27%) QA
3 10 (1.56%) GDPR
4 4 (0.62%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (0.62%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.62%) MiFID
4 4 (0.62%) NIST
5 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.47%) PMO
5 3 (0.47%) WCAG
6 2 (0.31%) Basel III
6 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.16%) GRC
7 1 (0.16%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (7.93%) Docker
2 10 (1.56%) HDFS
3 4 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.62%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 90 (14.00%) Kubernetes
2 51 (7.93%) Terraform
3 20 (3.11%) Ansible
4 10 (1.56%) Puppet
5 5 (0.78%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (0.78%) Kubeflow
6 4 (0.62%) OPNET
6 4 (0.62%) PowerCLI
6 4 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.47%) Grafana
8 1 (0.16%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 104 (16.17%) Google
2 48 (7.47%) Microsoft
3 47 (7.31%) Databricks
4 22 (3.42%) Typelevel
5 15 (2.33%) Oracle
6 13 (2.02%) Bloomberg
7 12 (1.87%) BISAM
8 10 (1.56%) Splunk
9 8 (1.24%) Sparx
10 7 (1.09%) Adobe
10 7 (1.09%) Foundry
10 7 (1.09%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.09%) Palantir
10 7 (1.09%) SAP
11 6 (0.93%) Optimizely
11 6 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.93%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.78%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.78%) Monetate
12 5 (0.78%) Tealium