Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

Machine Learning (ML)
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 25 52
Rank change year-on-year -16 +27 -14
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 0.58% 0.75% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.84% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £560 - -
25th Percentile £575 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
75th Percentile £625 £538 -
90th Percentile £640 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £533 £525 £641
% change year-on-year +1.43% -18.06% +12.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.75
Median hourly rate - - £23.50
75th Percentile - - £24.25
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £96.00 - £23.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basingstoke

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 Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 280 119 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 81.87% 88.81% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 101 146
10th Percentile £500 £419 £400
25th Percentile £500 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £725 £618 £700
90th Percentile - £638 £825
Hampshire median daily rate £530 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -3.64% -3.51% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 14
10th Percentile £12.18 - £17.82
25th Percentile - £27.50 £27.50
Median hourly rate £17.00 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% -41.05% +126.19%
75th Percentile - £28.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £17.37 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £56.38 £53.75
% change year-on-year -63.26% +4.88% +21.13%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Machine Learning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Product Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python