Machine Learning Contracts in Berkshire

Machine Learning (ML)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 66 116 92
Rank change year-on-year +50 -24 +23
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 27 8 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.30% 0.40% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 0.45% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 19
10th Percentile £353 £308 £426
25th Percentile £500 £376 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -15.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £598 £493 £613
90th Percentile £625 £498 £643
South East median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Berkshire

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Berkshire

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Berkshire

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in Berkshire

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire 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
Reading +37 12 £575 +21.05% 29
Wokingham - 7 £550 -
Maidenhead +8 4 - - 4
Windsor -8 1 £500 -
Machine Learning
South East

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 9 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 5 (18.52%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) Azure Machine Learning
3 6 (22.22%) AWS
4 4 (14.81%) GCP
4 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
6 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.70%) Azure AI
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.70%) Figma
7 1 (3.70%) Serverless
7 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Big Data
2 4 (14.81%) Hadoop
3 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
3 2 (7.41%) Power BI
3 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.70%) HBase
4 1 (3.70%) HDInsight
4 1 (3.70%) Impala
4 1 (3.70%) Metadata
4 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) CMake
2 1 (3.70%) ERwin
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 13 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Data Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Data Scientist
3 4 (14.81%) Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.70%) SAP Architect
6 1 (3.70%) SAP Enterprise Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Trainer
6 1 (3.70%) UI Developer
6 1 (3.70%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) PySpark
1 4 (14.81%) scikit-learn
1 4 (14.81%) TensorFlow
2 3 (11.11%) PyTorch
3 2 (7.41%) .NET
3 2 (7.41%) CSS
3 2 (7.41%) HTML
3 2 (7.41%) Kafka
3 2 (7.41%) NumPy
3 2 (7.41%) Pandas
4 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.70%) CNTK
4 1 (3.70%) FHIR
4 1 (3.70%) Hugging Face
4 1 (3.70%) Middleware
4 1 (3.70%) OpenVINO
4 1 (3.70%) Prophet
4 1 (3.70%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Algorithms
1 4 (14.81%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.41%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (7.41%) IoT
2 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.70%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) NHS
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Android
2 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (33.33%) LLM
3 7 (25.93%) Data Engineering
3 7 (25.93%) Data Science
4 6 (22.22%) Agile
4 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (18.52%) Analytics
6 4 (14.81%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (14.81%) Data Governance
6 4 (14.81%) ETL
6 4 (14.81%) Generative AI
6 4 (14.81%) MLOps
7 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
7 3 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Python
2 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 6 (22.22%) SQL
3 4 (14.81%) TypeScript
4 3 (11.11%) C#
5 2 (7.41%) R
6 1 (3.70%) C++
6 1 (3.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
2 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.70%) CISA
3 1 (3.70%) CISM
3 1 (3.70%) CISSP
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) GCIA
3 1 (3.70%) GCIH
3 1 (3.70%) GIAC
3 1 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) GDPR
1 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.70%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Flume
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Foundry
2 4 (14.81%) Google
2 4 (14.81%) Palantir
3 3 (11.11%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.70%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) StreamSets
4 1 (3.70%) Virgin Media