Machine Learning Contracts with Work from Home Options

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 226 172
Rank change year-on-year +85 -54 -32
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 233 269 694
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.56% 1.08% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.20% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 181 495
10th Percentile £413 £425 £413
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £688
90th Percentile £784 £888 £800
UK median daily rate £580 £595 £600
% change year-on-year -2.52% -0.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 6
10th Percentile £55.23 £20.00 £37.88
25th Percentile £67.94 - £56.50
Median hourly rate £76.25 £22.16 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +244.09% -64.26% +7.83%
75th Percentile £79.06 £53.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £79.63 £84.00 £75.63
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,102 22,417 40,338
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.99% 89.73% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,786 15,844 29,294
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 517 543
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £14.30
25th Percentile £25.25 £28.62 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £37.78
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +38.98% +54.18%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.60
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Machine Learning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Machine Learning trend for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Machine Learning.

Machine Learning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Machine Learning over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Machine Learning daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Machine Learning.

Machine Learning hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Machine Learning over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Machine Learning hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 13 (5.58%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.29%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.86%) Apache
3 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.86%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.43%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (2.15%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.72%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (29.18%) AWS
2 63 (27.04%) Azure
3 37 (15.88%) GCP
4 23 (9.87%) Power Platform
5 18 (7.73%) Serverless
6 14 (6.01%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (5.58%) Amazon S3
8 12 (5.15%) Amazon SageMaker
9 9 (3.86%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (3.86%) GitHub
10 7 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.15%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (2.15%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (2.15%) Google Analytics
12 5 (2.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (2.15%) SaaS
12 5 (2.15%) Vertex AI
13 4 (1.72%) Rekognition
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.15%) LAN
1 5 (2.15%) WAN
2 3 (1.29%) HTTP
2 3 (1.29%) Network Security
3 2 (0.86%) Firewall
4 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.87%) Big Data
2 19 (8.15%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (7.73%) Power BI
4 11 (4.72%) Tableau
5 9 (3.86%) BigQuery
5 9 (3.86%) Data Lake
5 9 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.00%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.15%) Data Mining
7 5 (2.15%) Looker
7 5 (2.15%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.29%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.86%) Redis
10 2 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (6.44%) Git
2 12 (5.15%) JIRA
3 11 (4.72%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.00%) GitLab
5 4 (1.72%) Postman
6 3 (1.29%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.43%) CMake
7 1 (0.43%) MLflow
7 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (24.03%) Finance
2 52 (22.32%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.87%) Front Office
5 19 (8.15%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.44%) Pharmaceutical
7 14 (6.01%) Marketing
8 13 (5.58%) Banking
9 10 (4.29%) Retail
10 6 (2.58%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.15%) Advertising
11 5 (2.15%) Electronics
11 5 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.15%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.72%) Czech Language
13 3 (1.29%) Health Technology
13 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.86%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 41 (17.60%) Developer
2 34 (14.59%) Architect
2 34 (14.59%) Data Scientist
3 25 (10.73%) Analyst
4 24 (10.30%) Senior
5 18 (7.73%) Business Analyst
6 16 (6.87%) Lead
6 16 (6.87%) Product Owner
7 14 (6.01%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 13 (5.58%) Business Manager
8 13 (5.58%) Data Engineer
8 13 (5.58%) Finance Business Analyst
8 13 (5.58%) Finance Manager
8 13 (5.58%) Financial Analyst
8 13 (5.58%) Product Analyst
8 13 (5.58%) Product Business Analyst
8 13 (5.58%) Product Manager
9 12 (5.15%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.72%) Data Architect
10 11 (4.72%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.30%) PyTorch
1 17 (7.30%) TensorFlow
2 14 (6.01%) React
3 12 (5.15%) CSS
3 12 (5.15%) HTML
4 11 (4.72%) scikit-learn
5 10 (4.29%) AWS CDK
5 10 (4.29%) Pandas
6 9 (3.86%) RESTful
7 8 (3.43%) Kafka
7 8 (3.43%) PySpark
8 7 (3.00%) Node.js
9 6 (2.58%) Django
9 6 (2.58%) Middleware
9 6 (2.58%) Spring
10 5 (2.15%) .NET
10 5 (2.15%) JSON
10 5 (2.15%) LangChain
10 5 (2.15%) Swagger
10 5 (2.15%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.88%) Algorithms
2 18 (7.73%) Product Ownership
3 17 (7.30%) Equities
4 15 (6.44%) Data Structures
4 15 (6.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (5.58%) Derivative
5 13 (5.58%) Fixed Income
5 13 (5.58%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (5.58%) Hedge funds
6 7 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.00%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.15%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (1.72%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.72%) Genomics
9 3 (1.29%) IVR
9 3 (1.29%) Multi-touch
9 3 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.86%) Contactless
10 2 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.43%) Linux
2 6 (2.58%) Windows
3 3 (1.29%) Android
4 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (60.09%) Artificial Intelligence
2 86 (36.91%) Agile
3 80 (34.33%) Data Science
4 69 (29.61%) Analytics
5 45 (19.31%) Computer Science
6 44 (18.88%) DevOps
7 39 (16.74%) CI/CD
8 35 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (13.73%) Natural Language Processing
10 29 (12.45%) Data Analysis
11 28 (12.02%) Business Intelligence
11 28 (12.02%) Data Modelling
11 28 (12.02%) Visualisation
12 26 (11.16%) Decision-Making
13 24 (10.30%) Mathematics
14 22 (9.44%) Data Visualisation
15 21 (9.01%) Data Engineering
16 20 (8.58%) Data Governance
16 20 (8.58%) ETL
16 20 (8.58%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (54.51%) Python
2 75 (32.19%) SQL
3 26 (11.16%) Java
4 16 (6.87%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.15%) R
5 12 (5.15%) Scala
5 12 (5.15%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.43%) C#
7 5 (2.15%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.72%) C++
8 4 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (1.72%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.86%) Bicep
9 2 (0.86%) Rust
10 1 (0.43%) C
10 1 (0.43%) Clojure
10 1 (0.43%) Haskell
10 1 (0.43%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 40 (17.17%) Degree
2 22 (9.44%) Master's Degree
3 19 (8.15%) Security Cleared
4 18 (7.73%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.87%) PhD
6 14 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.29%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.29%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.29%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.29%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.43%) CISSP
8 1 (0.43%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.15%) QA
2 9 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.15%) GDPR
4 4 (1.72%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (1.72%) MiFID
5 3 (1.29%) NCSC
5 3 (1.29%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.86%) GxP
6 2 (0.86%) PSD2
7 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
7 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 23 (9.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (10.73%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.44%) Terraform
3 5 (2.15%) Grafana
4 1 (0.43%) Argo
Vendors
1 25 (10.73%) Databricks
2 20 (8.58%) Microsoft
3 19 (8.15%) Google
4 6 (2.58%) Oracle
5 5 (2.15%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.15%) SAP
6 4 (1.72%) Adobe
6 4 (1.72%) Ensighten
6 4 (1.72%) Monetate
6 4 (1.72%) Omniture
6 4 (1.72%) Optimizely
6 4 (1.72%) Tealium
7 3 (1.29%) IBM
7 3 (1.29%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.29%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.29%) Sparx
8 2 (0.86%) Foundry
8 2 (0.86%) Palantir
8 2 (0.86%) PayPal
8 2 (0.86%) UiPath