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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 38 44
Rank change year-on-year +17 +6 +11
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 26 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 7.03% 1.47% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.81% 1.78% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 6
10th Percentile £355 £345 £438
25th Percentile £400 £394 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.50% -9.55%
75th Percentile £565 £554 £531
90th Percentile £707 £571 £537
East of England median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £41.35 - -
25th Percentile £41.50 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% - -
75th Percentile £44.50 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £44.65 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.81% -19.23% +23.81%

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 333 337 463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 90.00% 82.40% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 117 176
10th Percentile £265 £249 £219
25th Percentile £400 £340 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.44% -4.42% -
75th Percentile £625 £569 £554
90th Percentile £700 £630 £613
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 108 196
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.95 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.44 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%
75th Percentile £21.50 £18.06 £20.33
90th Percentile £43.75 £49.88 £25.38
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £29.17 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.01% +45.85% -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 October 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 October 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 +15 25 £475 -5.00% 32
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 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) Azure AKS
2 10 (38.46%) PaaS
3 9 (34.62%) Azure Functions
3 9 (34.62%) Serverless
4 8 (30.77%) AWS
4 8 (30.77%) GitHub
4 8 (30.77%) GitHub Copilot
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.69%) GCP
8 1 (3.85%) Azure API Management
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Big Data
3 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.85%) MS Access
3 1 (3.85%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JMeter
1 2 (7.69%) Postman
1 2 (7.69%) Selenium
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) MLflow
General
1 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Finance
2 1 (3.85%) Health Technology
2 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Data Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) .NET Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Data Scientist
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Automation Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) Data Coordinator
7 1 (3.85%) Data Science Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) .NET
1 13 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 11 (42.31%) RESTful
2 11 (42.31%) TensorFlow
3 8 (30.77%) Semantic Kernel
4 5 (19.23%) scikit-learn
5 3 (11.54%) Pandas
6 2 (7.69%) PySpark
6 2 (7.69%) pytest
7 1 (3.85%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (57.69%) Cloud Native
2 9 (34.62%) Algorithms
3 3 (11.54%) Life Science
4 1 (3.85%) Acoustics
4 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Genomics
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (88.46%) AI
2 14 (53.85%) Agile
2 14 (53.85%) LLM
2 14 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (50.00%) Data Privacy
3 13 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 13 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 11 (42.31%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (42.31%) Prompt Engineering
5 10 (38.46%) API Management
5 10 (38.46%) Software Engineering
6 9 (34.62%) Data Science
7 8 (30.77%) Deep Learning
7 8 (30.77%) Scrum
8 7 (26.92%) API Design
8 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
8 7 (26.92%) Validation
9 5 (19.23%) Prototyping
10 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (15.38%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (73.08%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) C
2 1 (3.85%) C++
2 1 (3.85%) Java
2 1 (3.85%) MATLAB
2 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) MCP
2 4 (15.38%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) PhD
4 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) EU AI Act
2 9 (34.62%) NIST
3 3 (11.54%) QA
4 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.85%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 8 (30.77%) Foundry
3 2 (7.69%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Vertica