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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 38 42
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +11
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 5 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.51% 1.54% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.73% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £478 £468 £336
25th Percentile £500 £569 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £454
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +65.38% +0.78%
75th Percentile £625 £800 £530
90th Percentile £655 £823 £561
East of England median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £82.00 £80.68 £52.50
% change year-on-year +1.64% +53.67% -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 289 289 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 87.31% 88.92% 81.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 120 108
10th Percentile £168 £211 £216
25th Percentile £361 £361 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £423
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +15.38% -6.11%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £550
90th Percentile £648 £689 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 68 153
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.38 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.30 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +0.43% +11.93%
75th Percentile £17.75 £24.40 £21.37
90th Percentile £35.91 £48.63 £48.60
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +26.67% -12.79% +117.06%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 0 5 £600 -20.00% 141
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 (60.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) MLOps
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) NetApp