Machine Learning Contracts in Cardiff

Machine Learning (ML)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Machine Learning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Machine Learning over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.33% - 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% - 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £553 - £350
25th Percentile £556 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £463
75th Percentile £588 - £525
90th Percentile - - £555
South Wales median daily rate £575 - £463
% change year-on-year - - -15.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 158 166 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.86% 71.24% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 133 163
10th Percentile £230 £143 £190
25th Percentile £305 £331 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.82% +3.16% -
75th Percentile £498 £551 £581
90th Percentile £650 £600 £625
South Wales median daily rate £405 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 6
10th Percentile £12.21 £13.61 £14.61
25th Percentile £12.43 £15.48 £17.48
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% -17.47% +18.42%
75th Percentile £21.08 £21.67 £24.69
90th Percentile £23.75 - £25.50
South Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £20.24 £19.49
% change year-on-year -20.93% +3.82% -2.55%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Cardiff

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Cardiff

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (25.00%) Anaconda
2 1 (25.00%) Express.js
2 1 (25.00%) NestJS
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) NumPy
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Data Munging
4 1 (25.00%) Deep Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Feature Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft