Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Machine Learning (ML)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 33 30
Rank change year-on-year +24 -3 +33
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 39 5 16
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 10.74% 1.61% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.66% 1.89% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 4 13
10th Percentile - £342 £442
25th Percentile £335 £428 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% -1.28% -18.96%
75th Percentile £522 £556 £675
90th Percentile £610 £613 £695
East of England median daily rate £520 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +20.00% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £41.35 - £63.80
25th Percentile £41.50 - £63.88
Median hourly rate £43.00 - £66.50
75th Percentile £44.50 - £70.13
90th Percentile £44.65 - £70.80
East of England median hourly rate £60.25 - £65.50
% change year-on-year - - +24.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 308 265 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.85% 85.48% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 118 144
10th Percentile £213 £313 £200
25th Percentile £335 £402 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -2.70% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £559 £582
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
East of England median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.58% -4.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 58 172
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.68 £21.46 -
90th Percentile £39.50 £28.93 £21.46
East of England median hourly rate £20.27 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.10% +59.09% -

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Cambridgeshire

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Cambridge +15 29 £475 -5.00% 34
Machine Learning
East of England

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.56%) Apache
1 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.56%) Confluence
1 1 (2.56%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (51.28%) Azure
2 12 (30.77%) Azure AKS
2 12 (30.77%) PaaS
3 10 (25.64%) GitHub
3 10 (25.64%) GitHub Copilot
3 10 (25.64%) Serverless
4 9 (23.08%) AWS
4 9 (23.08%) Azure Functions
5 5 (12.82%) Amazon S3
6 4 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (7.69%) GCP
8 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.56%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.56%) Big Data
3 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.56%) MS Access
3 1 (2.56%) MySQL
3 1 (2.56%) Pentaho
3 1 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) JMeter
1 2 (5.13%) Postman
1 2 (5.13%) Selenium
2 1 (2.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) MLflow
General
1 3 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.13%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Finance
3 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Robotics Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Senior
4 6 (15.38%) Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) .NET Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Data Scientist
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Test Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Automation Consultant
8 1 (2.56%) Coordinator
8 1 (2.56%) Data Coordinator
8 1 (2.56%) Data Science Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Lead
8 1 (2.56%) Process Consultant
8 1 (2.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (41.03%) PyTorch
2 15 (38.46%) .NET
3 14 (35.90%) TensorFlow
4 13 (33.33%) RESTful
5 10 (25.64%) Semantic Kernel
6 6 (15.38%) scikit-learn
7 3 (7.69%) Pandas
7 3 (7.69%) pytest
8 2 (5.13%) PySpark
9 1 (2.56%) JSON
9 1 (2.56%) JSON-LD
9 1 (2.56%) Node.js
9 1 (2.56%) NumPy
9 1 (2.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (51.28%) Algorithms
2 17 (43.59%) Cloud Native
3 9 (23.08%) Robotics
4 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.13%) Life Science
5 1 (2.56%) Acoustics
5 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.56%) Genomics
5 1 (2.56%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) AI
2 18 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (43.59%) Agile
3 17 (43.59%) Test Automation
4 16 (41.03%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (41.03%) Data Privacy
4 16 (41.03%) LLM
5 15 (38.46%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 14 (35.90%) Prompt Engineering
7 13 (33.33%) Software Engineering
8 12 (30.77%) API Management
9 10 (25.64%) Data Science
9 10 (25.64%) Deep Learning
10 9 (23.08%) API Design
10 9 (23.08%) CI/CD
10 9 (23.08%) Computer Vision
11 8 (20.51%) Scrum
11 8 (20.51%) Validation
12 5 (12.82%) Data Engineering
12 5 (12.82%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 24 (61.54%) Python
2 1 (2.56%) C
2 1 (2.56%) C++
2 1 (2.56%) MATLAB
2 1 (2.56%) Scala
2 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) MCP
2 5 (12.82%) Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) PhD
5 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (30.77%) EU AI Act
2 11 (28.21%) NIST
3 5 (12.82%) QA
4 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.56%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.64%) Foundry
3 2 (5.13%) Databricks
4 1 (2.56%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) Vertica