Machine Learning Contracts in England

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Machine Learning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Machine Learning over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 203 193
Rank change year-on-year +65 -10 -32
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 616 642 1,063
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.68% 1.31% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.46% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 458 729
10th Percentile £413 £450 £424
25th Percentile £500 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £700
90th Percentile £788 £913 £813
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 19
10th Percentile £41.25 £21.30 £18.50
25th Percentile £46.47 £22.16 £31.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £66.25 £53.75 £63.25
90th Percentile £75.75 £78.75 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -6.67% -11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Machine Learning 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,798 44,069 63,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 30,926 45,337
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,559 1,731
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +88 448 £608 -2.80% 521
North of England +29 46 £550 -6.38% 95
Midlands +44 26 £580 +16.00% 43
South East -22 26 £600 +2.13% 139
North West +6 23 £525 -10.64% 56
West Midlands +27 21 £580 +16.00% 31
East of England +15 20 £388 -35.42% 80
Yorkshire +19 17 £552 -9.88% 29
South West -38 12 £550 - 59
North East +22 8 - - 10
East Midlands +24 5 £675 +58.82% 12
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 73 (11.85%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (10.55%) Apache
3 26 (4.22%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.81%) Confluence
4 5 (0.81%) Jupyter
4 5 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.49%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.32%) SAS
7 1 (0.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
Applications
1 12 (1.95%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.65%) Simulink
3 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 13 (2.11%) Aladdin
2 12 (1.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 220 (35.71%) AWS
2 187 (30.36%) Azure
3 182 (29.55%) GCP
4 37 (6.01%) Power Platform
5 29 (4.71%) Vertex AI
6 25 (4.06%) Serverless
7 22 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
7 22 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
8 19 (3.08%) Snowflake
9 17 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
11 14 (2.27%) GitHub
12 13 (2.11%) OCI
13 10 (1.62%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (1.62%) Google Compute Engine
14 9 (1.46%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.46%) SaaS
15 8 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 7 (1.14%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.90%) HTTP
2 3 (0.49%) LAN
2 3 (0.49%) SSL
2 3 (0.49%) WAN
3 2 (0.32%) Firewall
3 2 (0.32%) VPN
3 2 (0.32%) Wireless
4 1 (0.16%) DVB
4 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.20%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (9.90%) Big Data
3 58 (9.42%) Apache Ignite
4 49 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (7.14%) Tableau
6 35 (5.68%) Data Lake
7 34 (5.52%) Power BI
8 32 (5.19%) BigQuery
9 26 (4.22%) Hadoop
10 25 (4.06%) Data Mining
11 24 (3.90%) Apache Cassandra
12 18 (2.92%) NoSQL
13 12 (1.95%) Relational Database
14 11 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (1.30%) Apache Hive
16 7 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
16 7 (1.14%) Metadata
16 7 (1.14%) SQL Server
17 6 (0.97%) Looker
18 5 (0.81%) HBase
Development Applications
1 46 (7.47%) Git
2 39 (6.33%) Cypress.io
3 24 (3.90%) JIRA
4 18 (2.92%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.95%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.95%) ERwin
6 8 (1.30%) MLflow
7 7 (1.14%) GitLab
8 6 (0.97%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.81%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.81%) Maven
9 5 (0.81%) Mercurial
9 5 (0.81%) Postman
9 5 (0.81%) Subversion
10 2 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.32%) Poetry
10 2 (0.32%) RStudio
10 2 (0.32%) Selenium
10 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.16%) GoCD
General
1 159 (25.81%) Finance
2 108 (17.53%) Social Skills
3 100 (16.23%) Front Office
4 98 (15.91%) Banking
5 68 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.87%) Public Sector
7 25 (4.06%) Pharmaceutical
8 20 (3.25%) Marketing
9 17 (2.76%) Retail
10 15 (2.44%) Electronics
10 15 (2.44%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.62%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.14%) Legal
13 7 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.97%) Advertising
14 6 (0.97%) Multimedia
15 5 (0.81%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.81%) Police
Job Titles
1 136 (22.08%) Developer
2 87 (14.12%) Architect
3 81 (13.15%) Software Engineer
4 73 (11.85%) Python Developer
5 71 (11.53%) Data Scientist
6 70 (11.36%) Python Engineer
7 62 (10.06%) Python Software Engineer
8 57 (9.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 57 (9.25%) React Developer
9 51 (8.28%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 48 (7.79%) Analyst
11 39 (6.33%) Lead
11 39 (6.33%) Senior
12 37 (6.01%) Data Engineer
13 35 (5.68%) Business Analyst
14 33 (5.36%) Full Stack Developer
15 30 (4.87%) Full Stack Engineer
16 29 (4.71%) Full Stack Python Developer
16 29 (4.71%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 28 (4.55%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (13.64%) React
2 63 (10.23%) TensorFlow
3 57 (9.25%) gRPC
3 57 (9.25%) Material-UI
3 57 (9.25%) Protocol Buffers
3 57 (9.25%) Redux
4 51 (8.28%) PyTorch
5 41 (6.66%) Kafka
6 36 (5.84%) scikit-learn
7 34 (5.52%) Pandas
8 33 (5.36%) RESTful
9 24 (3.90%) Akka
10 23 (3.73%) CSS
11 21 (3.41%) NumPy
12 19 (3.08%) .NET
13 18 (2.92%) HTML
14 15 (2.44%) Node.js
14 15 (2.44%) PySpark
15 7 (1.14%) .NET Core
15 7 (1.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 108 (17.53%) Algorithms
2 87 (14.12%) Fixed Income
2 87 (14.12%) Hedge funds
3 60 (9.74%) Equities
4 41 (6.66%) Product Ownership
5 32 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 30 (4.87%) Derivative
7 22 (3.57%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.44%) Public Cloud
9 11 (1.79%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 10 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.46%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.46%) Social Media
12 7 (1.14%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.73%) Linux
2 8 (1.30%) Android
2 8 (1.30%) Windows
3 6 (0.97%) Unix
4 4 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (58.77%) Artificial Intelligence
2 210 (34.09%) Agile
3 196 (31.82%) Data Science
4 134 (21.75%) Analytics
5 125 (20.29%) Software Engineering
6 113 (18.34%) DevOps
7 107 (17.37%) Computer Science
8 92 (14.94%) Asset Management
9 88 (14.29%) Investment Management
10 78 (12.66%) CI/CD
11 77 (12.50%) Data Modelling
12 75 (12.18%) Full Stack Development
13 72 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
14 60 (9.74%) Automated Trading
14 60 (9.74%) Visualisation
15 58 (9.42%) Data Pipeline
15 58 (9.42%) Natural Language Processing
16 57 (9.25%) Data Analysis
17 55 (8.93%) Data Governance
18 53 (8.60%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 365 (59.25%) Python
2 174 (28.25%) SQL
3 80 (12.99%) TypeScript
4 64 (10.39%) Java
5 44 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 41 (6.66%) Scala
7 38 (6.17%) C#
8 31 (5.03%) R
9 24 (3.90%) C++
10 21 (3.41%) Shell Script
11 19 (3.08%) PowerShell
12 13 (2.11%) Bash
13 7 (1.14%) Search Processing Language
13 7 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.97%) C
14 6 (0.97%) Clojure
14 6 (0.97%) Haskell
14 6 (0.97%) Rust
15 5 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.65%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 116 (18.83%) Degree
2 62 (10.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 57 (9.25%) Security Cleared
4 53 (8.60%) SC Cleared
5 47 (7.63%) Master's Degree
6 26 (4.22%) PhD
7 16 (2.60%) AWS Certification
8 15 (2.44%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.14%) CISSP
10 5 (0.81%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.65%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.65%) PMP
12 3 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.32%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.90%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.41%) QA
3 6 (0.97%) GDPR
4 4 (0.65%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.65%) MiFID
5 3 (0.49%) PMO
6 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.32%) Basel III
7 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.16%) GRC
7 1 (0.16%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.16%) NIST
7 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.16%) SLA
7 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (6.49%) Docker
2 7 (1.14%) HDFS
3 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 68 (11.04%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.95%) Terraform
3 17 (2.76%) Ansible
4 11 (1.79%) Puppet
5 7 (1.14%) Kubeflow
6 5 (0.81%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.32%) OPNET
8 2 (0.32%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.16%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.16%) Grafana
Vendors
1 93 (15.10%) Google
2 37 (6.01%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.52%) Databricks
4 20 (3.25%) Oracle
5 19 (3.08%) Typelevel
6 13 (2.11%) Bloomberg
7 12 (1.95%) BISAM
7 12 (1.95%) Sparx
8 8 (1.30%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.30%) Splunk
9 7 (1.14%) Sage
9 7 (1.14%) SAP
10 6 (0.97%) Adobe
10 6 (0.97%) Foundry
10 6 (0.97%) Optimizely
10 6 (0.97%) Palantir
10 6 (0.97%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.81%) Monetate
11 5 (0.81%) Omniture
11 5 (0.81%) Tealium