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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 33 33
Rank change year-on-year +25 0 +24
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 39 4 18
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 10.51% 1.46% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.04% 1.59% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 3 12
10th Percentile - £323 £441
25th Percentile £335 £380 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -0.65% -19.48%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £675
90th Percentile £578 £625 £698
East of England median daily rate £550 £600 £483
% change year-on-year -8.33% +24.35% -19.58%
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 £84.34 £62.50
% change year-on-year -22.93% +34.94% +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 299 252 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 80.59% 91.97% 84.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 137 156
10th Percentile £209 £296 £225
25th Percentile £335 £400 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £477
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.36% +0.32%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £563
90th Percentile £675 £643 £681
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 36 181
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.44 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.94 £16.74 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +11.60% -3.23%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.53 £21.46
90th Percentile £36.99 £34.63 £48.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.80 £55.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -60.36% +44.28% +15.52%

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 March 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 March 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 +15 29 £488 -2.50% 13
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 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 20 (51.28%) Azure
2 12 (30.77%) Azure AKS
2 12 (30.77%) PaaS
3 10 (25.64%) GitHub
3 10 (25.64%) GitHub Copilot
3 10 (25.64%) Serverless
4 9 (23.08%) Azure Functions
5 4 (10.26%) AWS
6 3 (7.69%) GCP
7 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.56%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.56%) ChatGPT
8 1 (2.56%) Google Gemini
8 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (2.56%) MS Access
1 1 (2.56%) MySQL
1 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.56%) Power BI
1 1 (2.56%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) JMeter
1 2 (5.13%) Postman
1 2 (5.13%) Selenium
2 1 (2.56%) GitLab
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) MLflow
General
1 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Finance
3 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 9 (23.08%) Robotics Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Senior
3 6 (15.38%) Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Data Scientist
5 3 (7.69%) .NET Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Automation Consultant
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Coordinator
7 1 (2.56%) Ontologist
7 1 (2.56%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (41.03%) PyTorch
2 15 (38.46%) .NET
2 15 (38.46%) TensorFlow
3 13 (33.33%) RESTful
4 11 (28.21%) A2A Protocol
4 11 (28.21%) Model Context Protocol
5 10 (25.64%) Semantic Kernel
6 5 (12.82%) scikit-learn
7 3 (7.69%) pytest
8 2 (5.13%) Pandas
9 1 (2.56%) JSON
9 1 (2.56%) JSON-LD
9 1 (2.56%) Node.js
9 1 (2.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (51.28%) Algorithms
2 18 (46.15%) Cloud Native
3 9 (23.08%) Robotics
4 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.56%) Acoustics
5 1 (2.56%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.56%) Linked Data
5 1 (2.56%) NHS
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Robot Operating System
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) AI
2 19 (48.72%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (41.03%) Agile
3 16 (41.03%) Data Privacy
3 16 (41.03%) Test Automation
4 15 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
4 15 (38.46%) LLM
4 15 (38.46%) Prompt Engineering
5 14 (35.90%) Software Engineering
6 13 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 12 (30.77%) API Management
7 12 (30.77%) Data Science
8 11 (28.21%) Deep Learning
9 9 (23.08%) API Design
9 9 (23.08%) CI/CD
9 9 (23.08%) Computer Vision
10 8 (20.51%) Scrum
11 7 (17.95%) Validation
12 5 (12.82%) Model Validation
13 4 (10.26%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 27 (69.23%) Python
2 2 (5.13%) SQL
3 1 (2.56%) C
3 1 (2.56%) C++
3 1 (2.56%) MATLAB
3 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 5 (12.82%) Degree
3 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (30.77%) EU AI Act
2 11 (28.21%) NIST
3 5 (12.82%) QA
4 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.56%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.64%) Foundry
3 1 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow