Machine Learning Contracts

Machine Learning (ML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 209 192
Rank change year-on-year +54 -17 -38
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 683 745 1,327
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 1.24% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 1.38% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 517 906
10th Percentile £413 £436 £419
25th Percentile £488 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £888 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 17
10th Percentile £41.24 £21.51 £18.95
25th Percentile £45.26 £25.37 £32.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -6.67% -13.44%
75th Percentile £66.38 £53.75 £61.50
90th Percentile £75.38 £78.13 £70.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.25 £35.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year +75.00% -40.68% +17.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in the UK

Machine Learning
Top 15 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +50 589 £580 -3.33% 902
London +74 424 £615 -1.60% 467
Work from Home +74 225 £600 +4.35% 500
UK excluding London +6 167 £525 -8.70% 443
North of England +24 46 £550 -6.38% 81
Scotland +44 40 £463 -3.44% 32
South East -18 25 £600 - 134
Midlands +40 24 £580 +16.00% 42
North West +12 24 £525 -10.64% 51
East of England +19 23 £450 -25.00% 97
West Midlands +40 20 £580 +16.00% 29
Yorkshire +20 16 £554 -9.55% 25
South West -32 11 £550 -4.35% 56
North East +28 8 - - 5
East Midlands +25 4 £675 +58.82% 13

Machine Learning
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 60 (8.78%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (7.76%) Apache
3 34 (4.98%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.73%) Confluence
6 4 (0.59%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.44%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.29%) SAS
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) GeoServer
Applications
1 12 (1.76%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.17%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.59%) Simulink
4 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.15%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (2.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 12 (1.76%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 243 (35.58%) AWS
2 202 (29.58%) Azure
3 180 (26.35%) GCP
4 53 (7.76%) Power Platform
5 37 (5.42%) Serverless
6 30 (4.39%) Vertex AI
7 29 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
9 25 (3.66%) Amazon S3
9 25 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (3.51%) Amazon SageMaker
11 23 (3.37%) Snowflake
12 22 (3.22%) Azure Machine Learning
13 19 (2.78%) GitHub
14 15 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (2.20%) OCI
15 14 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 10 (1.46%) ChatGPT
16 10 (1.46%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.66%) HTTP
2 5 (0.73%) LAN
2 5 (0.73%) WAN
3 4 (0.59%) Network Security
4 3 (0.44%) SSL
5 2 (0.29%) Firewall
5 2 (0.29%) Wireless
6 1 (0.15%) DVB
6 1 (0.15%) Internet
6 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.57%) Big Data
2 68 (9.96%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (7.76%) Tableau
5 47 (6.88%) Power BI
6 42 (6.15%) Apache Ignite
6 42 (6.15%) Data Lake
7 34 (4.98%) BigQuery
8 28 (4.10%) Hadoop
9 25 (3.66%) Apache Cassandra
9 25 (3.66%) Data Mining
10 19 (2.78%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.90%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.46%) Apache Hive
13 10 (1.46%) Metadata
14 9 (1.32%) SQL Server
15 8 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (1.17%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (7.61%) Git
2 29 (4.25%) Cypress.io
2 29 (4.25%) JIRA
3 22 (3.22%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.05%) ER Studio
4 14 (2.05%) ERwin
5 10 (1.46%) GitLab
5 10 (1.46%) MLflow
6 8 (1.17%) Mercurial
7 6 (0.88%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.73%) Maven
8 5 (0.73%) Postman
8 5 (0.73%) Subversion
9 4 (0.59%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.44%) Poetry
10 3 (0.44%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.29%) RStudio
11 2 (0.29%) Selenium
12 1 (0.15%) CMake
General
1 154 (22.55%) Finance
2 117 (17.13%) Social Skills
3 82 (12.01%) Banking
4 80 (11.71%) Front Office
5 78 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 28 (4.10%) Marketing
8 26 (3.81%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (2.20%) Electronics
9 15 (2.20%) Retail
10 14 (2.05%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.32%) Multimedia
13 9 (1.32%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.02%) Police
14 7 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.88%) Advertising
15 6 (0.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 140 (20.50%) Developer
2 106 (15.52%) Architect
3 79 (11.57%) Data Scientist
4 69 (10.10%) Software Engineer
5 58 (8.49%) Python Developer
6 56 (8.20%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 55 (8.05%) Python Engineer
8 48 (7.03%) Analyst
9 47 (6.88%) Python Software Engineer
10 44 (6.44%) Data Engineer
11 42 (6.15%) Senior
12 41 (6.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 41 (6.00%) Lead
13 40 (5.86%) React Developer
14 35 (5.12%) Business Analyst
15 34 (4.98%) Data Architect
16 33 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
17 30 (4.39%) Full Stack Engineer
18 27 (3.95%) Full Stack Developer
18 27 (3.95%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (10.69%) TensorFlow
2 69 (10.10%) React
3 60 (8.78%) PyTorch
4 46 (6.73%) Kafka
4 46 (6.73%) Pandas
5 41 (6.00%) gRPC
5 41 (6.00%) Material-UI
5 41 (6.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 41 (6.00%) Redux
5 41 (6.00%) RESTful
5 41 (6.00%) scikit-learn
6 29 (4.25%) CSS
7 28 (4.10%) HTML
8 27 (3.95%) NumPy
9 25 (3.66%) Akka
10 19 (2.78%) REST
11 18 (2.64%) Node.js
12 16 (2.34%) PySpark
12 16 (2.34%) Spring
13 15 (2.20%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 117 (17.13%) Algorithms
2 68 (9.96%) Fixed Income
2 68 (9.96%) Hedge funds
3 44 (6.44%) Equities
4 41 (6.00%) Product Ownership
5 29 (4.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 27 (3.95%) Derivative
7 25 (3.66%) Public Cloud
8 24 (3.51%) Data Structures
9 20 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (2.93%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (2.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 11 (1.61%) Social Media
12 10 (1.46%) Cloud Native
12 10 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.32%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (1.02%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.95%) Linux
2 13 (1.90%) Windows
3 8 (1.17%) Android
4 7 (1.02%) Unix
5 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (55.93%) Artificial Intelligence
2 238 (34.85%) Agile
3 221 (32.36%) Data Science
4 151 (22.11%) Analytics
5 134 (19.62%) DevOps
6 126 (18.45%) Software Engineering
7 122 (17.86%) Computer Science
8 98 (14.35%) CI/CD
9 93 (13.62%) Data Modelling
10 84 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
11 78 (11.42%) Visualisation
12 73 (10.69%) Asset Management
13 70 (10.25%) Full Stack Development
14 69 (10.10%) Investment Management
15 67 (9.81%) Business Intelligence
15 67 (9.81%) Natural Language Processing
16 65 (9.52%) Data Analysis
16 65 (9.52%) Data Governance
17 64 (9.37%) Data Pipeline
18 61 (8.93%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 384 (56.22%) Python
2 206 (30.16%) SQL
3 85 (12.45%) Java
4 78 (11.42%) TypeScript
5 47 (6.88%) Scala
6 43 (6.30%) JavaScript
6 43 (6.30%) R
7 35 (5.12%) C#
8 24 (3.51%) C++
9 23 (3.37%) Shell Script
10 22 (3.22%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.90%) Bash
12 9 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.02%) Search Processing Language
14 6 (0.88%) C
14 6 (0.88%) Clojure
14 6 (0.88%) Haskell
14 6 (0.88%) Rust
15 4 (0.59%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 136 (19.91%) Degree
2 69 (10.10%) Computer Science Degree
2 69 (10.10%) Security Cleared
3 65 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 56 (8.20%) Master's Degree
5 30 (4.39%) PhD
6 19 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.34%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.46%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
10 6 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.88%) CISSP
11 4 (0.59%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.59%) PMP
12 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.29%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.25%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.51%) QA
3 8 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.59%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.59%) MiFID
5 3 (0.44%) GDPR
5 3 (0.44%) NCSC
5 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.44%) PMO
6 2 (0.29%) Basel III
6 2 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.29%) GxP
6 2 (0.29%) PSD2
7 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.15%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.15%) SLA
7 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (7.61%) Docker
2 7 (1.02%) HDFS
3 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) KVM
4 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 80 (11.71%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.17%) Terraform
3 18 (2.64%) Ansible
4 13 (1.90%) Puppet
5 11 (1.61%) Grafana
6 8 (1.17%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.73%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (0.73%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.15%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.15%) Nagios
8 1 (0.15%) OPNET
8 1 (0.15%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 87 (12.74%) Google
2 48 (7.03%) Microsoft
3 38 (5.56%) Databricks
4 27 (3.95%) Oracle
5 18 (2.64%) Typelevel
6 17 (2.49%) Sparx
7 12 (1.76%) Bloomberg
8 11 (1.61%) BISAM
8 11 (1.61%) SAP
9 8 (1.17%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.17%) Splunk
10 7 (1.02%) Adobe
11 6 (0.88%) Foundry
11 6 (0.88%) Optimizely
11 6 (0.88%) Palantir
11 6 (0.88%) Sage
11 6 (0.88%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.73%) Monetate
12 5 (0.73%) Omniture
12 5 (0.73%) Tealium