Machine Learning Contracts in Bedfordshire

Machine Learning (ML)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 34 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 -11 +13
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 6 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 3.85% 0.41% 5.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 0.47% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile £590 - £570
25th Percentile £669 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £600
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £625 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +38.89% -25.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £66.20 - -
25th Percentile £74.38 - -
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £80.68 £61.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year +31.71% +16.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 213 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 94.23% 86.59% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 123 120
10th Percentile £463 £303 £207
25th Percentile £500 £406 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +10.53% -3.06%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £626
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 35 6
10th Percentile £20.26 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £28.21 £15.39 £29.31
Median hourly rate £60.75 £21.50 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +182.56% -66.27% +15.91%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.33 £87.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.75 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Bedfordshire

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Bedfordshire

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Bedfordshire

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in Bedfordshire

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in Bedfordshire

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Luton +5 4 £575 - 33
Machine Learning
East of England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Workday HCM
2 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Ethernet
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Electronics
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Games
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) FPGA Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Workday Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technology Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Workday Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (50.00%) FPGA
1 3 (50.00%) PCIe
1 3 (50.00%) Verilog
2 1 (16.67%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (50.00%) Physics
2 3 (50.00%) UVM
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Budgeting
3 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Compliance Management
3 2 (33.33%) Contract Management
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 2 (33.33%) Innovation Management
3 2 (33.33%) Major Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Measurement
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) MATLAB
1 3 (50.00%) SystemVerilog
1 3 (50.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
1 3 (50.00%) HNC
1 3 (50.00%) HND
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (50.00%) DO-254
2 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Actel
1 3 (50.00%) Altera
1 3 (50.00%) Intel
1 3 (50.00%) Microsemi
1 3 (50.00%) Xilinx
2 2 (33.33%) Workday
3 1 (16.67%) Ariba
3 1 (16.67%) SAP