Machine Learning Contracts in the East of England

Machine Learning (ML)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 47 88 105
Rank change year-on-year +41 +17 -10
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 35 24 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.73% 1.26% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.18% 1.46% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 11
10th Percentile £444 - £450
25th Percentile £575 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -25.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £675 £509 -
90th Percentile - £550 -
England median daily rate £600 £580 £600
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 2
10th Percentile £68.59 - -
25th Percentile £80.34 £51.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £80.68 £61.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.71% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £88.00 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile - £67.20 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.81% +50.00% -22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Machine Learning in the East of England

Machine Learning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Machine Learning in the East of England

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Machine Learning in the East of England

Machine Learning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Machine Learning in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Machine Learning in the East of England

Machine Learning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Machine Learning in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Machine Learning in the East of England

Machine Learning
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Hertfordshire +48 26 £650 +73.33% 25
Bedfordshire +7 6 £800 - 17
Essex +14 3 £318 -15.08% 21
Machine Learning
England

Machine Learning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 14 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) AWS
1 14 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (5.71%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) dbt
4 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.86%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) DNS
1 7 (20.00%) FTP
1 7 (20.00%) HTTP
1 7 (20.00%) Network Security
1 7 (20.00%) SMTP
1 7 (20.00%) SSL
2 3 (8.57%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (48.57%) Tableau
2 14 (40.00%) Big Data
2 14 (40.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (8.57%) Metadata
4 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.86%) Looker
4 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Git
1 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (62.86%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Telecoms
4 3 (8.57%) Electronics
4 3 (8.57%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Games
4 3 (8.57%) Law
5 2 (5.71%) Automotive
6 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (54.29%) Developer
2 14 (40.00%) Data Science Developer
3 12 (34.29%) Senior
4 10 (28.57%) Senior Developer
5 7 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 6 (17.14%) Analyst
6 6 (17.14%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) FPGA Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Gen AI Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Workday Manager
8 1 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 1 (2.86%) DBA
8 1 (2.86%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.86%) Security Analyst
8 1 (2.86%) Security Specialist
8 1 (2.86%) SOC Specialist
8 1 (2.86%) SQL DBA
8 1 (2.86%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (48.57%) NumPy
1 17 (48.57%) Pandas
2 16 (45.71%) Matplotlib
2 16 (45.71%) PyTorch
2 16 (45.71%) scikit-learn
2 16 (45.71%) Seaborn
2 16 (45.71%) TensorFlow
3 7 (20.00%) LDAP
4 3 (8.57%) PySpark
5 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.86%) Kafka
5 1 (2.86%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (62.86%) Algorithms
2 7 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 7 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (17.14%) CSOC
3 6 (17.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (8.57%) FPGA
4 3 (8.57%) PCIe
4 3 (8.57%) Verilog
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.86%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 23 (65.71%) Analytics
3 20 (57.14%) Data Science
4 19 (54.29%) Generative AI
4 19 (54.29%) LLM
5 18 (51.43%) Data Analysis
6 17 (48.57%) Reinforcement Learning
6 17 (48.57%) Visualisation
7 16 (45.71%) Data Munging
8 15 (42.86%) Computer Science
8 15 (42.86%) Feature Engineering
9 14 (40.00%) Data Analytics
9 14 (40.00%) Decision-Making
9 14 (40.00%) Predictive Analytics
9 14 (40.00%) Statistical Modelling
9 14 (40.00%) Time Series Forecasting
10 7 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (20.00%) Information Management
10 7 (20.00%) Network Packet Capture
10 7 (20.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 19 (54.29%) Python
2 16 (45.71%) R
3 3 (8.57%) MATLAB
3 3 (8.57%) SQL
3 3 (8.57%) SystemVerilog
3 3 (8.57%) Tcl
4 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) Degree
2 12 (34.29%) Master's Degree
2 12 (34.29%) PhD
3 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
4 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 5 (14.29%) DV Cleared
6 3 (8.57%) HNC
6 3 (8.57%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (62.86%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.57%) DO-254
3 2 (5.71%) QA
4 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Actel
1 3 (8.57%) Altera
1 3 (8.57%) Intel
1 3 (8.57%) Microsemi
1 3 (8.57%) Xilinx
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Workday
3 1 (2.86%) Ariba
3 1 (2.86%) Checkmarx
3 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.86%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.86%) SAP