Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Machine Learning (ML)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 74 71
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 8 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.10% 0.43% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.52% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 10
10th Percentile £206 £458 -
25th Percentile £433 £469 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% +13.99%
75th Percentile £588 £588 -
90th Percentile £670 - £560
South West median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +0.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 669 764 931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.28% 82.95% 86.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 410 633
10th Percentile £252 £292 £308
25th Percentile £375 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.44% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £595 £597 £650
90th Percentile £746 £701 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 141 114
10th Percentile £12.82 £50.00 £21.98
25th Percentile £18.87 £65.00 £48.13
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.38 £77.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +3.85% +12.17%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Bristol

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Bristol over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Bristol

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Machine Learning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) CMake
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GoogleTest
2 1 (12.50%) Gradle
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Electronics
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Build Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Chief Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (12.50%) Bazel
1 1 (12.50%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) OpenCV
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) CUDA
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Raspberry Pi
2 1 (12.50%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Robot Operating System
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Budget Management
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Data Governance Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Data Management
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (25.00%) Open Source
4 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C++
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Kibana
2 1 (12.50%) logstash
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (12.50%) Foundry
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) NVIDIA