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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 34 38
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +10
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 6 11 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.63% 3.10% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 3.49% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £485 £295 £345
25th Percentile £519 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £625 £763 £554
90th Percentile - £808 £571
East of England median daily rate £463 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -17.78% +7.14% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £38.75 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £85.24 £72.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +17.57% +38.10% -19.23%

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 313 315 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 85.29% 88.73% 81.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 110 116
10th Percentile £183 £250 £225
25th Percentile £363 £402 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +15.56% -2.96%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £557
90th Percentile £633 £700 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 94 134
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.94 £14.36
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% -1.42% +11.93%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.75 £16.85
90th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £45.23
East of England median hourly rate £48.84 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +115.82% -46.75% +114.54%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -3 6 £600 +26.32% 162
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 3 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) ChatGPT
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Acoustics
1 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) AI
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
3 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Service Management
4 2 (33.33%) AI Transformation
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Data Collection
5 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) LLM
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) MATLAB
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow