Machine Learning Contracts in the North West

Machine Learning (ML)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 128 138
Rank change year-on-year +13 +10 -19
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 23 33 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.86% 1.06% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.17% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 26
10th Percentile £413 £424 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £569
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +3.30% +13.75%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £694
90th Percentile - £676 £756
England median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £22.58
25th Percentile - £20.00 £24.19
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +53.33%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £33.69
90th Percentile - - £35.53
England median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.22% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,301 2,811 3,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.89% 90.41% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,463 1,981 2,578
10th Percentile £308 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 137 170
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £23.38
Median % change year-on-year -33.89% +53.99% +26.91%
75th Percentile £46.11 £49.52 £49.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the North West

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the North West

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the North West over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the North West

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the North West

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Cheshire +15 12 £588 +6.82% 4
Manchester +2 6 £438 -25.53% 43
Lancashire +7 3 - - 3
Cumbria - 2 £520 -
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.35%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (8.70%) Miro
3 2 (8.70%) SaaS
3 2 (8.70%) Serverless
3 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (21.74%) Tableau
2 3 (13.04%) Big Data
3 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.70%) Metadata
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) GIS
4 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Power BI
4 1 (4.35%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 4 (17.39%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (17.39%) Manufacturing
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Banking
2 2 (8.70%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Architect
1 5 (21.74%) Data Architect
1 5 (21.74%) Splunk Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Data Modeller
3 2 (8.70%) Data Scientist
3 2 (8.70%) Information Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Digital Programme Manager
4 1 (4.35%) GIS Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Programme Manager
4 1 (4.35%) SAP Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Supply Chain Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) JSON
1 2 (8.70%) Lambda Expressions
1 2 (8.70%) PyTorch
1 2 (8.70%) REST
1 2 (8.70%) Swagger
1 2 (8.70%) TensorFlow
1 2 (8.70%) YAML
2 1 (4.35%) CSS
2 1 (4.35%) HTML
2 1 (4.35%) OpenLayers
2 1 (4.35%) PostGIS
2 1 (4.35%) React
2 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Onboarding
2 4 (17.39%) Industry 4.0
2 4 (17.39%) Taxonomies
3 3 (13.04%) Algorithms
4 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Insider Threat
5 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Analytics
2 10 (43.48%) DevOps
3 8 (34.78%) ETL
4 7 (30.43%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (30.43%) Data Mapping
4 7 (30.43%) Decision-Making
5 6 (26.09%) Data Analysis
5 6 (26.09%) Data Analytics
5 6 (26.09%) Data Strategy
6 5 (21.74%) Data Governance
6 5 (21.74%) Data Science
6 5 (21.74%) Digital Twin
6 5 (21.74%) Use Case
6 5 (21.74%) Visualisation
7 4 (17.39%) Data Integration
7 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
7 4 (17.39%) Ontologies
7 4 (17.39%) Predictive Analysis
7 4 (17.39%) Predictive Analytics
7 4 (17.39%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) Search Processing Language
3 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.70%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.35%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) Splunk
3 2 (8.70%) Sage
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) SAP