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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 31 35
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 +26
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 32 8 14
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 8.36% 2.20% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.61% 2.62% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 12
10th Percentile £343 £299 £441
25th Percentile £391 £354 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -0.65% -8.50%
75th Percentile £558 £568 £675
90th Percentile £693 £616 £698
East of England median daily rate £550 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.28% -7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £41.35 - -
25th Percentile £41.50 - £64.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 - £65.50
75th Percentile £44.50 - £66.75
90th Percentile £44.65 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.25
% change year-on-year - - +24.29%

All Process and 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 333 305 440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.95% 83.79% 90.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 107 155
10th Percentile £303 £279 £206
25th Percentile £406 £340 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £625 £553 £561
90th Percentile £700 £618 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 86 193
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.31 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.58 £21.46 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £42.88 £29.95
East of England median hourly rate £21.14 £26.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -19.47% +31.25% -4.76%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 +12 30 £475 -5.00% 31
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 (3.13%) Apache
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
1 1 (3.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) Azure
2 12 (37.50%) Azure AKS
2 12 (37.50%) PaaS
3 10 (31.25%) AWS
3 10 (31.25%) GitHub
3 10 (31.25%) GitHub Copilot
3 10 (31.25%) Serverless
4 9 (28.13%) Azure Functions
5 5 (15.63%) Amazon S3
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (9.38%) GCP
8 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (3.13%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (3.13%) Azure API Management
9 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
9 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.13%) Big Data
3 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.13%) MS Access
3 1 (3.13%) MySQL
3 1 (3.13%) Pentaho
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) JMeter
1 2 (6.25%) Postman
1 2 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) MLflow
General
1 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
3 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Senior
3 6 (18.75%) Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) .NET Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Data Scientist
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Automation Consultant
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Data Coordinator
7 1 (3.13%) Data Science Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Hardware Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Ontologist
7 1 (3.13%) Project Coordinator
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Leader
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 15 (46.88%) .NET
3 14 (43.75%) TensorFlow
4 13 (40.63%) RESTful
5 10 (31.25%) Semantic Kernel
6 6 (18.75%) scikit-learn
7 3 (9.38%) Pandas
7 3 (9.38%) pytest
8 2 (6.25%) PySpark
9 1 (3.13%) JSON
9 1 (3.13%) JSON-LD
9 1 (3.13%) Node.js
9 1 (3.13%) NumPy
9 1 (3.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (53.13%) Cloud Native
2 12 (37.50%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (9.38%) Life Science
4 1 (3.13%) Acoustics
4 1 (3.13%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Genomics
4 1 (3.13%) Linked Data
4 1 (3.13%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (87.50%) AI
2 18 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (53.13%) Agile
3 17 (53.13%) LLM
3 17 (53.13%) Test Automation
4 16 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (50.00%) Data Privacy
5 15 (46.88%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 14 (43.75%) Prompt Engineering
7 13 (40.63%) Software Engineering
8 12 (37.50%) API Management
9 10 (31.25%) Data Science
9 10 (31.25%) Deep Learning
10 9 (28.13%) API Design
10 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
11 8 (25.00%) Scrum
11 8 (25.00%) Validation
12 5 (15.63%) Data Engineering
12 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
12 5 (15.63%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 24 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (3.13%) C
2 1 (3.13%) C++
2 1 (3.13%) Java
2 1 (3.13%) MATLAB
2 1 (3.13%) Scala
2 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) MCP
2 5 (15.63%) Degree
3 3 (9.38%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) PhD
5 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (37.50%) EU AI Act
2 11 (34.38%) NIST
3 5 (15.63%) QA
4 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.13%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 10 (31.25%) Foundry
3 2 (6.25%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) Vertica