Machine Learning Contracts in the East Midlands

Machine Learning (ML)
England > East Midlands

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 63 79
Rank change year-on-year +8 +16 +11
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 6 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.97% 0.62% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.79% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £176 £623 £463
25th Percentile £328 £638 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -34.26% - +45.95%
75th Percentile £473 £688 £688
90th Percentile £482 - -
England median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.73 -
England median hourly rate £77.50 £52.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +47.62% +39.07% -16.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 542 633 872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 87.99% 78.05% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 432 678
10th Percentile £229 £200 £223
25th Percentile £333 £275 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% +7.95%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £591
90th Percentile £588 £623 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 57 48
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.41 £11.80
25th Percentile £14.42 £12.75 £15.19
Median hourly rate £17.87 £17.00 £23.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% -26.88% +16.25%
75th Percentile £21.79 £26.15 £51.50
90th Percentile £34.91 £42.35 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.85% - +50.00%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Machine Learning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the East Midlands

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the East Midlands

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the East Midlands

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Leicestershire +5 3 £450 -33.33% 184
Nottinghamshire +3 2 £75 - 201
Derbyshire - 1 £463 - 366
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) GIS
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 1 (16.67%) NetBeans
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Contracts Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Data Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Data Science Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) GIS Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Lead
1 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) POSIX
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) ETL Development
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) A/B Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Data Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
3 1 (16.67%) Personalization
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) IEC 61508
1 1 (16.67%) MISRA
1 1 (16.67%) MISRA C
1 1 (16.67%) QA
1 1 (16.67%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) QNX