Machine Learning Contracts in Cheshire

Machine Learning (ML)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 46 56
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 12 12 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.67% 2.38% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.82% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile £496 £458 £424
25th Percentile £556 £541 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £661 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% +6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £678 £606 £659
90th Percentile £714 £644 £676
North West median daily rate £600 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +14.29% -10.64% +4.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in Cheshire

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in Cheshire

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in Cheshire

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in Cheshire

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Macclesfield +13 5 £600 -2.04%
Knutsford -6 3 £671 +14.21% 1
Machine Learning
North West

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) GCP
3 4 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
3 4 (33.33%) Azure AI
3 4 (33.33%) Google Gemini
4 3 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Neo4j
2 2 (16.67%) Tableau
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (41.67%) Legal
4 4 (33.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (16.67%) Banking
6 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 4 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Blockchain
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Insider Threat
3 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (75.00%) Generative AI
3 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (58.33%) Agile
4 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
4 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
5 6 (50.00%) LLM
5 6 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 6 (50.00%) SDLC
6 5 (41.67%) Data Cleansing
6 5 (41.67%) Data Ingestion
6 5 (41.67%) Decision-Making
7 4 (33.33%) Business Analysis
7 4 (33.33%) Computer Vision
7 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (33.33%) Mathematics
7 4 (33.33%) Multi-Agent System
7 4 (33.33%) Pattern Recognition
7 4 (33.33%) RDF
7 4 (33.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Scala
3 2 (16.67%) R
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Ariba
1 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (8.33%) Infoblox
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (8.33%) SAP
1 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk
1 1 (8.33%) VMware