Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Machine Learning (ML)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 33 48
Rank change year-on-year -42 +15 +29
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 4 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.46% 3.34% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 3.61% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 1
10th Percentile £435 £393 -
25th Percentile £488 £400 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £700
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -39.29% +21.74%
75th Percentile £625 £438 £750
90th Percentile - £523 -
South East median daily rate £600 £563 £525
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 690 277 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 78.86% 92.64% 80.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 163 236
10th Percentile £321 £286 £250
25th Percentile £431 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £438 £470
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.94% -5.98%
75th Percentile £600 £555 £556
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 42 21
10th Percentile £15.05 - £15.85
25th Percentile - £14.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.21% -44.55% +83.52%
75th Percentile £18.32 £24.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.87 £50.89 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £57.25 £23.25 £54.62
% change year-on-year +146.24% -57.43% +9.24%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Buckinghamshire

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 17 July 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -34 4 £600 +41.18% 8
Machine Learning
South East

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) vLLM
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) Text Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Feature Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) SAP