Machine Learning Contracts in Cambridge

Machine Learning (ML)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 19 31
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 -4
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 4 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 2.21% 5.29% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 5.75% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £434 £340 -
25th Percentile £484 £380 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.66% +3.33% +8.43%
75th Percentile £672 £533 -
90th Percentile £726 £563 -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £575 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +23.66% +3.33% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 174 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 89.50% 92.06% 87.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 75 135
10th Percentile £296 £245 £218
25th Percentile £400 £359 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.41% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £536
90th Percentile £700 £645 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £442 £450
% change year-on-year +7.47% -1.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 29 18
10th Percentile £15.45 £17.74 £16.70
25th Percentile £18.10 £25.00 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +196.28% -68.91%
75th Percentile £66.88 £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £75.00 £61.63
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £17.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year +4.74% +11.93% -

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Cambridge

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Cambridge

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Cambridge over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Cambridge

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in Cambridge

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Pentaho
General
1 1 (25.00%) Health Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Life Science
2 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Conceptual Models
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) Vertica