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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 34 27
Rank change year-on-year +27 -7 +34
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 38 5 19
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 10.33% 1.63% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.62% 1.87% 4.90%
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 £579 £613 £695
East of England median daily rate £550 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £41.35 - -
25th Percentile £41.50 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile £44.50 - £66.75
90th Percentile £44.65 - £69.45
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +19.05%

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 301 268 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 81.79% 87.58% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 126 151
10th Percentile £211 £325 £225
25th Percentile £335 £413 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year - -0.63% +0.63%
75th Percentile £582 £559 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 50 173
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.40 £14.00
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 £23.50 £21.46 £20.00
90th Percentile £34.83 £26.08 £36.55
East of England median hourly rate £20.16 £40.00 £31.80
% change year-on-year -49.60% +25.79% +44.55%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +14 28 £475 -5.00% 11
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 (2.63%) Apache
1 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.63%) Confluence
1 1 (2.63%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 20 (52.63%) Azure
2 12 (31.58%) Azure AKS
2 12 (31.58%) PaaS
3 10 (26.32%) GitHub
3 10 (26.32%) GitHub Copilot
3 10 (26.32%) Serverless
4 9 (23.68%) Azure Functions
5 6 (15.79%) AWS
6 3 (7.89%) GCP
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.63%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.63%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.63%) MS Access
2 1 (2.63%) MySQL
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) JMeter
1 2 (5.26%) Postman
1 2 (5.26%) Selenium
2 1 (2.63%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) MLflow
General
1 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Finance
3 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Robotics Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Senior
4 6 (15.79%) Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Data Scientist
6 3 (7.89%) .NET Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Test Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Hardware Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Ontologist
8 1 (2.63%) Python Software Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Technical Leader
8 1 (2.63%) Technical Manager
8 1 (2.63%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (44.74%) PyTorch
2 15 (39.47%) .NET
2 15 (39.47%) TensorFlow
3 13 (34.21%) RESTful
4 11 (28.95%) A2A Protocol
4 11 (28.95%) Model Context Protocol
5 10 (26.32%) Semantic Kernel
6 6 (15.79%) scikit-learn
7 3 (7.89%) Pandas
7 3 (7.89%) pytest
8 1 (2.63%) JSON
8 1 (2.63%) JSON-LD
8 1 (2.63%) Node.js
8 1 (2.63%) NumPy
8 1 (2.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (52.63%) Algorithms
2 17 (44.74%) Cloud Native
3 9 (23.68%) Robotics
4 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.63%) Acoustics
5 1 (2.63%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.63%) Genomics
5 1 (2.63%) Life Science
5 1 (2.63%) Linked Data
5 1 (2.63%) NHS
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Robot Operating System
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (71.05%) AI
2 19 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (44.74%) Agile
4 16 (42.11%) Data Privacy
4 16 (42.11%) LLM
4 16 (42.11%) Test Automation
5 15 (39.47%) Prompt Engineering
6 14 (36.84%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (36.84%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 14 (36.84%) Software Engineering
7 12 (31.58%) API Management
8 11 (28.95%) Data Science
8 11 (28.95%) Deep Learning
9 9 (23.68%) API Design
9 9 (23.68%) Computer Vision
10 8 (21.05%) Scrum
11 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
11 7 (18.42%) Validation
12 5 (13.16%) Model Validation
13 4 (10.53%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 25 (65.79%) Python
2 2 (5.26%) SQL
3 1 (2.63%) C
3 1 (2.63%) C++
3 1 (2.63%) MATLAB
3 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 5 (13.16%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) PhD
4 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (31.58%) EU AI Act
2 11 (28.95%) NIST
3 5 (13.16%) QA
4 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.63%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 10 (26.32%) Foundry
3 1 (2.63%) Google
3 1 (2.63%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow